Race must therefore be a cultural construct, and the racial tensions that now take place around the globe must be similarly artificially constructed. We cannot think that our thought is wrong. To make this point we look to historian Carter G. Woodson, who, upon examining the lynching movement in America, observed that such anti-black behaviors could be traced directly to the way Americans were taught to regard blacks, given the misrepresentation of their role in American history. This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the classroom. We are still not dealing with the fact that the behaviors we have all been taught to embody are destroying the earth as we know it.
Liberation is much more than a quest for our piece of the American pie.
True freedom requires liberation from a system of thought which has us destroying ourselves. This is a battle which must be fought in the classroom, the laboratory of thought in this society. Institute N.H.I. is dedicated to that battle. Institute N.H.I. hosts bi-weekly discussion groups to develop strategies for putting knowledge on trial. Copyright 1996, The Thinker All rights reserved.