PARADIGMS FOR OUR PEOPLE

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aapaddr.html ONE PARADIGM, THAT OF THE "SELF-DETERMINATION" OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND OF MARCUS GARVEY, PREVAILED DURING THE PERIOD OF POST-CIVIL WAR, OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL NON-RECOGNITION OF, BLACKS' LEGAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS, AS SET FORTH IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, 1877-1927, AND RACIST TERRORISM AGAINST SAME. THE OTHER PARADIGM, THAT OF THE "INTEGRATION" OF W.E.B. DuBOIS AND FELLOW NAACP-TYPE COMRADES, PREVAILS NOW DURING THIS POST-WORLD WAR II PERIOD, OF THE INTERNATIONAL DISAPPROVAL RACIST OPPRESSION, AS EMBODIED IN THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, IN THE WAKE OF THE BROWN V.BOARD DECISION, AND IN DESTABILIZING, DESTRUCTIVE SCHOOL PRACTICES/POLICIES IN PURSUANCE OF SAME. WHAT NOW IS OUR, PARADIGM, AS AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE, IS THE QUESTION, IN LIGHT OF THE CONFLUENCE OF BOTH PRIOR PARADIGMS, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTION OF OBAMA?