Emory Douglas
Black Panther Minister of Culture 1967–1980
That’s a gradual process. If it does happen it will take a lot of people with a lot of passion and commitment a lot of time to achieve.
Oh yeah.
To wrap it up, touching on what you were saying about young people and the advances in the consciousness of young people today. You’ve seen a lot in your life, and a lot of things that must make you feel pessimistic or angry about the way that people treat each over. But what are some of the things you see today that leave you feeling positive about where this planet and it’s people are going to be twenty or thirty years from now. What are some of the real advances you see occurring around you.
Well, the most recent meltdown of the housing industry… people not buying into corporate America’s lies anymore. You have people trying to convince them to go back into this market saying everything’s ok. But people are starting to see… There’s a change within the self. People are starting to question government and government misdeeds. So that is a positive within itself, even though there’s a lot of pain and suffering that goes with that. And then you see young people, it’s young people who are going to make change. When I go around the country and speak to young people they are really inspired. They want to do something. It’s just that you have individuals and a collective here and a collective there, you have little collective groups doing things and evolving out of the experiences that they’re involved in and the history that they read and how they interpret history. And the history that they read is sometimes misguided. You got a lot of young people who listen and a lot of young people who want to grandstand. But you have that group, there is a group there wanting to change and working together to do things. Of course how that works will be dictated by the conditions, and how people respond to the conditions and situations that exist.
Thank You Emory
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