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Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls di...
The Colour of Beauty by Elizabeth St. Philip - NFB
DR . AMOS N. WILSON , an Afrocentric Psychologist once said 'When we get into social amnesia - into forgetting our history - we also forget or misinterpret the history and motives of others as well as our motives. The way to learn of our own creation , how we came to be what we are, is getting to know ourselves . It is through getting to know the self intimately that we get to know the forces that shapes us as a self. Therefore knowing the self becomes a knowledge of the world. A study of Black History is the most profound way to learn about psychology of Europeans and understand the psychology that flows from their history '
So after a while we wont be able to sale our labor at any price!!!! and we will be then totally deprived, as a people' And therefor we are caught,in a similar position. And just as there is social disorganization in the African nations,there is social disorganization in the American nation. You can not have your wealth flowing out of your nation,you can not enrich other people at the expense of yourself, and not have social disorganization. And that mean than if we look at ourselves as a nation,the African America Nation must do what all African Nations must do, We must capture our own internal resources'.
We must gain control of our own internal markets. We must trade within ourselves, as a people and a group,and generate wealth,within our own nation. As a means of counter balancing our dependence up on Europeans, and up o the white nations itself, But in order to do this,(WE MUST HAVE A NATION CONSCIOUSNESS) We must now organize and relate to ourselves, )AS A NATION OF PEOPLE)
http://www.nfb.ca/film/colour_of_beauty
DR . AMOS N. WILSON , an Afrocentric Psychologist once said 'When we get into social amnesia - into forgetting our history - we also forget or misinterpret the history and motives of others as well as our motives. The way to learn of our own creation , how we came to be what we are, is getting to know ourselves . It is through getting to know the self intimately that we get to know the forces that shapes us as a self. Therefore knowing the self becomes a knowledge of the world. A study of Black History is the most profound way to learn about psychology of Europeans and understand the psychology that flows from their history '
So after a while we wont be able to sale our labor at any price!!!! and we will be then totally deprived, as a people' And therefor we are caught,in a similar position. And just as there is social disorganization in the African nations,there is social disorganization in the American nation. You can not have your wealth flowing out of your nation,you can not enrich other people at the expense of yourself, and not have social disorganization. And that mean than if we look at ourselves as a nation,the African America Nation must do what all African Nations must do, We must capture our own internal resources'.
We must gain control of our own internal markets. We must trade within ourselves, as a people and a group,and generate wealth,within our own nation. As a means of counter balancing our dependence up on Europeans, and up o the white nations itself, But in order to do this,(WE MUST HAVE A NATION CONSCIOUSNESS) We must now organize and relate to ourselves, )AS A NATION OF PEOPLE)
http://www.nfb.ca/film/col
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