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David Hartful Jr.

This site will use Ego Development Theory to analysis various leaders and problems in the black community. Ego Development Theory is a value meme classification first invented by Clare W. Graves and expanded by Natasha Todorovic, Christopher Cowan, and Don Edward Beck.

Does Race Follow You Into a Room?

When I was in high school, I read Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery. I do not remember much of it after 20+ years. However, I do remember one phrase. “When you walk into a room, the entire race follows you.” The idea Washington was trying to get across was that your actions would reflect on your entire race. If you come in a room, and you are rude and disrespectful, then all the white people in the room will see the entire race that way. If you are polite and courteous that will win favor and help to change the opinion of white people.

I am not going to bash Washington on my site. I feel his ideas and viewpoints were appropriate for their historical context.  I do not consider Washington a sellout, I consider him a pragmatist that worked within the limits of the time. I do want to challenge this idea of the need to validate yourself to the world and show how this idea manifests itself on a macroscopic scale and a microscopic level.

I will begin with how it manifests itself on a microscopic level. I know, in my life, I have gone out of my way to work hard and behave in an ethical manner. I would like to say that my motivation was the high standards that I set for myself. I know deep down it is not. I realized that in this political and social system being black was already a disadvantage. If I was going to be successful, I could not give society any reason to halt my progress and label me as a stereotype.

This idea was detrimental to my personal relationships. The largest issue i had was to set myself apart from the stereotypical black man; I began to distance myself from all black people. I started to look down on spaces that were predominantly black. I went out of my way to assimilate. I considered living in predominantly all black neighborhoods as a symbol of low status. I prided myself on not being like THEM. I considered myself above other black people.

In addition to superiority to other black people, I needed to feel accepted by white people. The need to solidify by superiority led me to seek non-black friends. When I was around them, I felt that I was lucky to have any friends at all because I had low core confidence. I did not stand up for myself. There were many times I allowed them to say things to me that were horribly out of line.  I felt powerless in the relationship. I felt if they felt I was too much trouble they would simply stop dealing with me. I felt like I needed to entertain them to keep them around. These “friends” did not see the inherent value in me.

My inherent lack of self-worth colored my perceptions of these relationships. However, being black my feelings of negative self-worth were reinforced by the society around me. I understand many white men do not feel validated and are push overs. But for a white man to get to this place he had to undergo some trauma specific to his life. Black people go through this regardless of nurturing and loving personal relationships early in life.

I will say that other black people manifest these same insecurities in a need to show off wealth, sexual prowess, or strength. I would like for blacks to understand the root causes of their suffering. The thorough understanding of your pain will prevent people from labeling some as “Uncle Toms” and others as embarrassments to the race. Once we deeply understand how insecurity affects us, we will not have these dismissive labels anymore. If a person sees another black person exhibiting Tomish behavior, know that it is a form of his insecurities and that you have the same insecurities manifesting themselves in a different manner.

On a macroscopic scale, you see this need to please in John Lewis’s recent Twitter statement on the Dallas police shootings. “I was beaten bloody by police officers. But I never hated them. I said, ‘Thank you for your service.”  This tweet on top of being self-righteous is simply pandering to the white elite that wants stability above all else. It is similar to Washington’s ideal. He wants to show his benevolence.  He is an example of a “good black”. The same thing happened after the Charleston shooting. Black leaders ran out to forgive the Charleston shooter even though the shooter did not ask for forgiveness. The examples of this behavior are too numerous to count.

It is impossible to analyze this behavior without fully understanding the history of the black empowerment struggle. So many of our organizations have been infiltrated and undermined by the federal government. COINTELPRO destroyed our most radical organizations such as SNCC and Black Panthers. To prevent white backlash, many other organizations and leaders go out of their way to prove that they are harmless. There is a very practical aspect of this strategy.

The other reason to rush to forgiveness is to hold moral authority. The only power that black people have in their struggle is moral authority. We do not have money, political power, military strength, but we know we are right. Also, our opponents know that we are right. Moral authority is how Dr. King accomplished what he was able to accomplish. He won people to his cause because they knew that what he wanted was reasonable. Dr. King’s protester’s ability to stay peaceful in spite of the most hateful abuse proved their exceptional morality. Morality won the sympathy of whites and together with the white allies they were able to change laws.

The old strategy had its time and place, but today is a new day. It is important that we fully feel and express our anger. Also, the offending party needs to ask for forgiveness. The offending party asking for forgiveness will do two things, validate our anger and ensure the forgiveness is appreciated, and a change in behavior will then occur. The principle of requiring offending parties to ask forgiveness is true in personal relationships and race relations.  

If we are going to correct our behavior we have to understand forgiveness. Forgiveness is the act of releasing the need for retribution. It assumes that you were wronged, and it is morally acceptable to ask for retribution. The reason it is considered an extraordinary event is that in spite of retribution being justified the person relinquishes the right for an even greater good. Both the offender and offended need to realize this fact and mend the relationship.

If you are obligated to forgive to prove that you have the moral high ground, you will not fully endure the first stage of feeling the anger and expressing it. A person will also not fully realize that he is worthy and justified in his need to retribution. If a person does not go through this stage, then he can simply not grant forgiveness, just as a homeless person cannot give you $100, a man that has not fully felt his need for retribution cannot grant forgiveness. The offending party must also ask for forgiveness. The offending parties asking for forgiveness shows they understand the fact that they did something worthy of retribution and appreciate forgiveness.

When we rush to forgiveness, we only demonstrate that we have no power to act on our need for retribution. The rush to forgiveness reinforces inferiority complexes in black people. Once we overcome the idea at we need to prove our morality, we can start demanding treatment and recognition as equals. The real recognition of equality will have to be demanded by black people. Full equality will require a recognition of our rights by white people.

The idea that “Your race follows you into a room” is nothing more than an acknowledgment of your inferiority complex. Black people should be collectively working toward internally feeling equal to white people and externally showing their equality. To do this, a few individuals may speak violently or commit violent acts. We are not obligated to immediately denounce them or show how much we love our enemies. Black people must fully build our collective ego or as some call it the black “Nos”.

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Introduction to Shadow Work

Shadow work should always be coupled to meditation. Shadow work is the practice done after the meditation has completed. Shadow work will analyze the negative thoughts and integrate them into your consciousness. As most people have figured out, negative thoughts play in your subconscious and impair your decision-making ability. This phenomenon is called subconscious sabotage.

To help illustrate this work, I will use and example from my life. I have always had trouble talking to people and making friends. My shadow work has revolved around improving this area of my life.

Many times I would sit down to meditate and the thought “No one likes me” or some variation would arise repeatedly. I could not shake the thought, and it would ruin my meditations. I realized if I do not actively analyze this thought I will never be able to meditate.

I first started working on my feelings of low self-worth in therapy. Therapy can be very helpful when a person begins shadow work. Frequently, logic can not outweigh and suppress negative thoughts. A third party can give an objective view of the situation.

Unfortunately, everyone cannot afford therapy. In the event, a person cannot afford therapy the internet can be a great tool. I would recommend websites such as Psychology Today, Actualized.com, and The school of life. Both are secular sites that base advice on psychology and philosophy. They all do an excellent job of giving a reader or listener enough information to do the further searching.

If a person is religious, they can use advice from their church, synagogue, or mosque.  However, make sure psychology and the religion are the bases for the teachings. Personal advice that only amounts to believe harder is not sufficient. There needs to be an actual action plan given to dig deeper into an issue and tangible solutions to fix the problem. An excellent resource for Christians that combines psychology and Christianity is Spiritual Living Center Atlanta. They have a youtube channel with plenty of free information for self-help.

For me, I realized through an in-depth study of psychology, that the cause of my issues with not feeling sufficient stems from being considered a nerd in school. I was a very smart child, but I could not make friends. People used to say I was stuck up and talked about things that were not interesting. I internalized these criticisms.

Most people would tell you to stop there, at understanding the cause. However, if you do, you will end up blaming your childhood or society for everything. You have to know an event or series of events from your past caused the thoughts. Since your past caused your thoughts, then they are not integral to you. You can release these thoughts and the behaviors caused by your thoughts and not fundamentally change who you are.

The next step is shadow work is to understand how a negative thought causes negative behavior. Decide that you want to improve your life in a particular manner and watch which behaviors advance or retard your agenda. You have to determine when you begin to act in a way that is not conducive to reaching a goal.

For me, I wanted to make more friends, specifically land a girlfriend. I started joining a ton of meetup groups. You will find this type of behavior in many self-improvers, compulsive, yet theoretically, helpful activity to solve a problem. I was going to a new meetup every night. If I did not go to a meetup, I felt guilty because I felt I was not working on my problem.

I also noticed even though I was going to numerous meetups; I was not making new friends. I realized that I am subconsciously sabotaging possible relationships. I also had unrealistic goals for my ideal social life.  I thought I should be Zack Morris, the fictional character from Saved by the Bell. I should have everyone in school giving my high-fives. Every girl you meet should be eating from my hand. These ideas I mostly got from fictional characters in movies.

I had to realize that due to my past I will never be the most popular person in the world. I am very guarded because the result of my life experiences led me to believe I would not be accepted. I sabotaged relationships because I did not feel those people were safe. It all began to make sense.

This realization was a huge step, yet it was not the end. If you stop there, you will just accept yourself with no changes. The goal is to integrate the negative aspects of your personality. You still want to achieve a goal you just have to make sure it is a realistic goal and fits with the person that you are natural.

I am still trying to build relationships, romantic and platonic. Now I concentrate on a few groups that I enjoy. I build my relationships over time now. Instead of putting on a mask that I think everyone will like, I am genuinely myself. When you expose yourself and become vulnerable, you will need to put small pieces out there to prove to yourself that you are safe. Once you feel comfortable, you will put more of yourself at risk. I had to accept that this will take time. My goal now is to have a few close friends, not being popular.

That is a real progression in shadow work. You accept who you are naturally and work with yourself. You can still improve; you just do it in a self-loving way. Also, you realize that you do not need to fit into an external ideal.

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Black Single Parent Households

I have been listening to many black empowerment pundits, such as Dr. Umar Johnson, and many of them talk about the importance of two-parent households.  Most of his rhetoric on family pushes the need for a two parent household. He conveys the message that single mother households are solely the result of black men leaving black women due to a lack of psychological development. I want to challenge the idea that a lot of single mother households are a problem or retard the growth of the black community.

   The first issue I take with Dr. Umar Johnson is that single mother households result from lack of psychological development of either the man or the woman. A single mother household can be the result of deep introspection. If a woman determines that she does not want a monogamous relationship and attempting to commit will cause enough emotional strain to detract from raising the child, then a co-parenting relationship maybe the best thing. Black people, just like all other races, are not longer sold on the idea of traditional relationships or the institute of marriage. It leads us to explore other parenting styles.

   The second issue I take with Dr. Umar Johnson is even if the relationship is the result of lack of psychological development, the most prudent course is to move from a single parent to a co-parenting relationship. If two people did not have the mental development to take precautions to prevent pregnancy, then it is not realistic to assume they can build a relationship and raise a child. It is much more realistic to concentrate on raising the child and work on the romantic relationship later.

Buddhism teaches that nothing is inherently good or bad, we arbitrarily put these labels on events to explain how we feel about them on an emotional level. With this understanding in mind, let us look at the advantages of a single parent household.

  1. Children learn independence at a young age.
  2. Attention from the parent will not change due to problems with a romantic relationship
  3. The relationship between the child and parent can become deeper due to a parent not being distracted.
  4. A single parent has total control over the rearing of the child.

The list above is just some of the possible advantages of a single parent relationship. A single parent household has the potential to be more stable than a two parent household provided the woman has a steady flow of income of support from the community or her family. A co-parent household and generate a similar list of pros, but the reader is smart enough to determine those advantages on their own.

   The most detrimental situation for a child is a single mother household in which the mother feels that she has to get a man for validation. In this case, a woman will engage in risky behavior and devalue herself in a relationship to gain a perceived advantage. The child will then see and mimic this behavior later in life. As a community, we must build each other’s confidence and encourage behavior made from a place of empowerment.

   Many of our black leader and the black church want black people to return to the way we were back during the Civil Rights Movement. They talk about a time in which we all worked together and had two parent households. The problem with this philosophy is that we are not the same people from the 1960’s. Our leaders must lead from where we are now. They must also see the good and the bad in who we are now. Yes, the crack cocaine epidemic ravaged the black community. At that same time, many black people benefited from government programs to educate black people and help us get jobs. Yes, we have black people that advance in society and lose connection to their people. At the same time, we have many people that work in the community with tools and skills they learned from the greater society. Admonishing people for not being as they were two generations ago only alienates people that could be a great help. We need to learn to love and accept each other the way we are now.  

   As a community, we should also look at the damage caused by admonishing single parent households. When leaders such as pastors, stand-up and say not having a man in the house will cause sons to be homosexual and daughters to become promiscuous they reduce the self-confidence of the followers in this situation. This mentality is especially unfortunate in the case of Dr. Umar Johnson, as a clinical psychologist, he does not reference any scientific data to prove any of these assumptions. There is no reason he could not conduct a clinical study himself to show single parent households are damaging to children. All his assumptions are anecdotal from his personal experience as a psychologist. Dr. Johnson harms people by putting in their consciousness that their relationship is in some way inferior. As a community, we must be more careful about what we say and how we say it.

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The problem with Law of Attraction

Bill Harris, Creator of Holosync® on The Secret

 The video above is of Bill Harris talking about the power of Law of Attraction (LOA). Bill Harris tell the story of his bullied gay student. The man catches hell from almost everyone he knows. Harris suggests that positive thinking, such as Law of Attraction, can change his life. The man tries it and VIOLA…. All the bullies leave his life is roses, and he is off to become a great stand-up comedian.

   I will say that the Law of Attraction and positive thinking can have a profound effect on your life. I never experienced anything as bad as what I saw in the video. However, I did have many problems dealing with people, and I had more confrontations with other people than other people I knew. Positive thinking and consciously controlling my body language had profound effects on how people interacted with me. Modifying my behavior and thinking, otherwise known as evolving in the I-Space was a huge help, but was not the total solution.    

   One has to wonder how the unnamed man in the video came to the conclusion that being gay would lead to physical and mental abuse. We all know how he came to the conclusion, physical and psychological abuse is a very real for gay people. This abuse is an IT-Space problem. There is no way to make people not homophobic. However, you can limit their abuse by sternly enforcing laws and creating protections for gay people.

   The other question is what made this unnamed man want to spill his guts to a man teaching an internet course. It is possible that something Harris said or did trigger him in a cathartic manner. It is also possible the unnamed man did not have a good support group of other gay individuals that could give him advice. Lack of support is a WE-Space problem. The solution would be to find or start a support group of LGBT people that can provide a safe space to vent frustrations.

   The danger of this video is the suggestion that an individual is in total control of his world. I have heard many people make the argument that your world can change with positive thinking or trying your very best. The idea an individual is in total control is an assumption so naive that it barely necessitates a response. However, if one is needed, I will provide it. I-Space solutions will only take you so far. I-Space ultimately allows a person to take advantage of opportunities created by IT-Space solutions and support created by WE-Space solutions.

   Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain is one of the best books on positive thinking. It explains how positive thinking helps a person get over mental blocks that prevent a person from having success.  Creative Visualization can remedy a mental block such as feeling unloved. Saying the affirmation “I love” over and over again in your head will erase those thoughts. That is the extent of I-Space solutions; the I-Space solutions help a person get out of their way.

   In summary, it is incorrect, insensitive, and dangerous to suggest that a person can totally change their reality by positive thinking. It is very unlikely that the unnamed man’s life changed that quickly or drastically. Anytime there’s a problem, I, WE, and IT Space solutions need to be evaluated and implemented. Each type of solution in isolation will be limited and only work on a small scale.

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Do our leaders respect us?

Recently, Trump surrogate, Darrell Scott was quoted as saying “Black people are too dumb to understand Trump’s Wisdom.” In the interview, he went on to detail a story about a black man he knew that believe an article that says Trump wants to deport black people back to Africa. The conclusion was that blacks are not analytical enough to determine if information is correct. Therefore, their opinion and impression of Trump are incorrect.

Michael Eric Dyson was debating Eddie Glaude on what voting strategies Black people should use in the 2016 election. Glaude proposed that blacks should vote for the third party candidate, Jill Stein, in states that were solidly blue or red. However, in swing states, black people should vote for Hillary Clinton. Glaude’s strategy will ensure Trump loses and that the Democratic party gets the message that the party should move to the left. Dyson responded: “I’m telling you, at the end of the day, the black people you’re concerned about, the vulnerable people you’re concerned about, can’t make distinctions—if you’re in a blue state or a red state—they can’t color-book like that.” Dyson went on to explain that his determination came from daily interactions with people in his church. Dyson felt he understood Black people better than Glaude because Dyson pastors a church and interacts with the vulnerable people every Sunday. Glaude is a professor at Princeton University.

The parallel in both these interviews is that most black people are not capable of interpreting information and making a determination. There are a few black people that are fully capable of making these decisions, elite blacks. Both these leaders feel that they are members of this elite class. They are here to direct the masses. I refer to this paradigm as the Elite vs. Masses paradigm.

The Elite vs. Masses paradigm is the root of many pathologies within the black community. Darrell Scott uses this paradigm to explains why he has a positive impression of Trump and most black people have a negative impression. Because Scott believes himself to be elite, he does not re-evaluate his stance or analyse what gave black people this negative impression. Scott then becomes ineffective at converting black people to Trump’s side. If a person is not confident in the ability of blacks to interpret information and make decisions, then the person will communicate and lead in an ineffective manner.

Dyson has a different pathology rooted in the same paradigm. Dyson feels that he is elite, therefore he could understand and implement Glaude’s plan, however, most black people could not. Dyson’s belief in his superiority leads to advocating for a simpler plan. Dyson’s criticism was not that Glaude’s plan was incorrect or would result in a Trump presidency. The criticism was that the plan was too complicated for the average black person. If this pathology affects Dyson’s leadership, it will lead to oversimplification of complex issues causing his audience to be misinformed. The lack of full understanding by his followers will cause zealot-like conformity and demonization of opposing views. Dyson is more dangerous than Scott because Dyson shows he loves black people and is interested in our advancement. Black people will be slow to criticise Dyson because we know we have few allies and leaders.

Black People should commend Glaude for advocating a complicated plan on behalf of blacks. The probability of the plan working and the risk of a Trump presidency are outside of the scope of this analysis. However, utilizing third parties and not being afraid to challenge the Democratic party are things Black people must do to increase our political power. Glaude, in this instance, sees himself as equal to other black people and fully respects our ability to implement a complicated plan. Glaude’s respect for the black community leads to effective communication and a plan that can represent the interests of black people.

To restate this problem using different terminology, our leaders need to love and respect us. Love is the belief our welfare is important. Respect is the belief Black people have the ability to act in their best interest, on a consistent basis, in spite of obstacles. Love is a prerequisite for respect, but a person can love Black people without fully respecting them. We must require our leaders to both love and respect us.

 

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My Personal Spiritual Journey

Many of you reading this blog are interested in forms of faith other than the tradition of your family. Most people interested in Spiral Dynamics or Integral Theory themselves practice multiple religions. Below is the story of my personal faith journey. I will talk about the beliefs that I have spent time studying and my personal take on each. This blog will help people evaluate what faiths or combination of faiths suit them best.

My family began my spiritual journey by going to a Missionary Baptist Church in downtown Murfreesboro, TN. In this church, people did not “catch the ghost”.  It was very modest service. The preacher had a very monotone style. I began to first understand Bible stories through the children’s bible study at this church. Because I showed a genuine interest, my parents bought me a children’s Bible. My first nightly Bible study began.

My family changed churches after a few years. My father initiated the family going to Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church. Mount Zion was a very traditional black church and the church in which my father was baptized. People regularly “caught the holy ghost” or “got happy”. Dancing would ensue in the aisles. Mount Zion was the place I first felt the presence of G-d.The preacher would have passionate sermons.  I asked my mother to be Baptized just after my 13th birthday.

The Primitive Baptist Church was the church of my father. My mother never really felt comfortable there. The services were too charismatic for her. Also, Primitive Baptists have a foot washing ceremony in which the feet of a person would wash the feet of the person next to them. Her tradition was Missionary Baptist in which there was no such ceremony.

My parents quit going to church for a few years. My mother found an integrated megachurch recently planted in Murfreesboro, TN. World Outreach Church was non-denominational and had no set theology. The church had modern sounding praise music. They had coffee and donuts. They had a huge church with a youth auxiliary. The sermons were non-controversial and middle of the road. The church covered self-help topics with a Christian bent and avoided serious political and social issues. It was an appropriate church for my high school years due to my lack of spiritual development.

My parents were in the process of splitting up at this point. My father began going to a new church also. At that time I was much closer to my mother than my father. I continued to go to church with my Mom to the chagrin of my Dad.

My upbringing showed me the importance of spirituality in a relationship. Religion and spirituality shape a large part of your worldview. I would recommend couples seriously discuss their views on G-d before getting into a committed relationship. Religion provides moral grounding and community. Both things are critical in building a family. If two people have drastically different worldviews and are not spiritually growing together, they are destined to break-up. Also, the communal support will provide encouragement and perspective on a relationship.  

In college, I began to take a more proactive view of my spiritual journey. I had heard about Eastern philosophy, and I wanted to explore it more. My motivation was to gain perspective on my religion by studying another. The teachings of Confucius caught my attention. Experiences and hard evidence were the basis of the philosophy. The teachings were also fluid and practical. I began to meditate as part of this practice.

I attempted to follow the teachings. The two books I read on the subject said that all followers of Confucius did not eat meat. I became a vegetarian later that year. Due to having no fellow members to give me guidance, I attempted to stop meat cold turkey. In two weeks, the sensation of lightheadedness fell upon me. Finals were approaching, and I realized that I had to keep my strength up to pass. The vegetarian diet had to go along with the following of the path of Confucius.

In retrospect, I should not have given up due to the inability to follow a path exactly. If it was helping me, I should have continued to study and learn more. Another problem I had was a lack of fellow followers to encourage me. Any system of belief will take a lifetime to integrate fully. If I had a community of believers, I could have been encouraged to continue the path to the best of my ability. I wished I had continued with meditation. I was doing around 20 minutes a day for four months. If I had continued, I could have developed so much while in college.

After my experience with Confucianism, I began to study Christianity. One day at the library I stumbled upon a book called When Jesus Became G-d by Richard Rubenstein. I highly recommend this book to any Christian. It talks about alternative forms of early Christianity in which Jesus was not G-d. The main one was called Arianism. This line of thought created by an early church father Arius stated that Jesus was a conduit between man and G-d. This view was far more logical than the idea of the Trinity. I felt the concept of Jesus being one of three persons of G-d did not make sense. If it doesn’t make sense, then a person can not say they believe it.

During my later years of college and a few years after graduation I began to go to church sparingly. I went to church as primarily a vehicle to meet people that were attempting to become more spiritual. I considered myself more of a deist. I believed in G-d in a general sense, but I just tried not to think about the details. I was a polite church member that went to most of the functions.

After being in the workforce for six months, I began to battle bouts of depression. I realized spiritual grounding could help to reduce my stress. I discovered a black church in South Carolina that was very similar to World Outreach Church. The name was Valley Brook Outreach Baptist Church. The building was spacious and well kept. The building aesthetics were important to me at the time. I saw many people there from a similar or higher economic background. I felt far more at home here than at other churches.

Valley Brook was instrumental in making Dr. Martin Luther King Day a recognized holiday in Greenville, SC. This effort was something I was very proud to witness. The pastor of the church was one of the most influential black leaders in the area. Curtis Johnson had many appearances on television and radio. He became an inspiration and a role model.

Unfortunately, I could not keep my depression in check. At work, I had many angry outbursts and eventually got terminated from employment. I spoke to the church men’s pastor on the issue. The men’s pastor was not Curtis Johnson; it was an associate pastor. The setting may not have been right for my question. I told the associate pastor during our men’s group of maybe 20 people about my termination. Some of the men there were dealing with the pains of not having a father or getting over a drug addiction. Many people had larger problems than me. However, I thought this would be a good place to get feedback on what was going on in my life.

I can not remember the exact words said by my pastor, but I can remember one phrase, “Cut the crap.” He was one of those men’s pastors that felt men respond best to a no-nonsense approach. The reply from him was not very loving. In his worldview, problems are born from poverty, fatherlessness, and crime. If your “problem” did not involve those elements, it was not a real issue. I felt the entire time I was talking that he just wanted me to shut up so he can get back to the real problems of the group. After that, I never spoke up in men’s group again.

In retrospect, I should have brought the issue up in a more private setting. Other people in the group did have more pressing issues. Also, the associate pastor may not have had a similar life experience and may not have been equipped to help me. However, I felt hurt and alone.

Valley Brook as most other black churches is designed to bring people that are in an unhealthy Red Meme state to healthy Blue or Orange. They do not have the tools to move from unhealthy Orange to healthy Orange or Green. Very few black people are in the Orange Meme, and there is not much guidance for us when we get to that Meme. Many black people feel Orange is the ultimate in personal development. Getting the house, car, and the family is the mark of healthy emotional development for most black people.

 

I eventually found a new job in Maryland and made the move later that year. This time, I would totally focus on being the best engineer possible. I cut everything out of my life other than work. This total focus on work did not help me control my depression. Fortunately, the depression did not cause problems on my job. I just internalized the pain and hurt. I felt depressed this time because I did not see where I could find any help. I also felt guilty. As my last men’s pastor said many people have worse problems and are not experiencing the same angst.

My depression went on for about five years. Then I finally got sick of being depressed. I decided to go to therapy. My prior experience with treatment had not been very fulfilling, due to my lack of commitment. Now I seriously wanted to change. This time, I asked my therapist for a reading list. I read many books on Transactional Analysis (TA). TA is psychology specifically designed for conflict resolution. It helps me to understand why I had a difficult time dealing with some people and why they had trouble with me.

I began to indulge in psychology. I studied Sigmund Freud extensively because the teachings of Freud are the basis of TA. I started to understand the way people, including myself, think. Originally the motivation was to control myself and others. Eventually, I moved from the need to control to the desire to understand. This dichotomy is very prevalent in psychology. If a person begins to study this subject, I recommend fully understanding their motivation and evaluating the motivation behind the psychology they are learning.

I also began research on the internet for all the different causes of depression and discovered there are many physical causes of depression. One is an unbalanced endocrine system. I encourage people to do their research. However, these are the three things I found most crucial for a healthy endocrine system.

Vitamin D Supplement

Omega 3 Supplement

Regular Exercise (20 mins x 3 days a week)

I had not lost my understanding for the need for faith. I began going to Southpoint Church in Leonardtown, Maryland. This church offered a two-year theology course called The Theology Program by Michael Patton. The bible.org has all the information on his course, and most of the books are available on Amazon. I highly recommend this product. It gives the user a thorough understanding of theology without having to go through 4 years of seminary.

The Theology Program was very eye opening for me. It showed me how Christianity encompasses many views. Michael Patton is obviously from a southern conservative Christians tradition, and it shows in his teaching. However, he gives the user enough information to research on contrary views outside of the program. If the user can objectively take in the information, the program can be extremely informative. I will go through one of my personal struggles with understanding church doctrine, the idea of young earth creationism. Most of the information comes from The Theology Program and its support materials.

 

There are three main views of creationism in Christianity. Young earth creationism, Old earth creationism, and G-d centered evolution. Young earth creationism is the idea the earth was created in six 24 hour days 6,000 years ago and has been the same from inception. Old earth creationism is that the earth’s creation happened in six epochs, millions of years ago, yet there was no evolution. G-d centered evolution is the idea the world is millions of years old and that evolution is a real phenomenon and G-d is in control of it.

The argument presented by TTP roughly goes as follows. There are no bible verses that can be construed to support evolution. Most the verses these people present will need a very liberal interpretation to support evolution. The Bible doesn’t support old earth creationism because the Hebrew word used in Genesis translated into day means a 24 hour period. There is another Hebrew word that means epoch, and it is used later in Genesis. That leaves the most literal biblical interpretation as the world is 6,000 years old and has been the same since inception. The preceding is a very brief summary of the argument, and I encourage the reader to verify the statements by going through TPP themselves.

I realized after the lesson on creationism that this logic is used to justify everything in the Bible. There is no way to know or any logical reason to think that Moses parted a sea, or Jesus turned water into wine. Even if you prove that all the kings reigned in the years proved in the bible and that all the cities in the bible existed you can never prove a miracle. The Bible does use metaphor and hyperbole, and when this happens, the Bible also makes clear when this happens. However, the miraculous stories of the Bible are meant literally.

If a person does not believe in the miracles of the Bible, then an individual may not be considered a believer. No different than a person can’t be a Democrat and be pro-life, against affirmative action, and deny climate change. It is true that no one will believe every part of any philosophy, but there is a point in which you see too much discrepancy. A person must be brave enough to admit that he has finally crossed the line of disbelief and is no longer a follower.

I had other issues with the church as well. I do not believe that everyone needs to be celibate until marriage and stay in a monogamous relationship until death. I think that some relationships need to end, and other people need to explore before getting into a relationship. I believe the church does more damage by demanding everyone fit into one relationship style. I also do not think that everyone needs to follow the same religion. It does not make sense for G-d to send most of the world to hell for not agreeing with Jerry Falwell. Religion, ethnicity, and culture are highly integrated for most people, and they are difficult for people to separate.  G-d would have to understand this a judge everyone accordingly.

The particular church I was going to was also not fulfilling all of my spiritual needs. I will make this section about most racially integrated Orange Meme churches. I noticed most do not indulge or take a stance on social and political issues that do not directly relate to the Bible or Christianity. The goal of these churches is to have the largest congregation possible. I will not go as far as saying that they are money making institutions, even though some are. I will say that the success of the church is measured by the size of the sanctuary and how often it is full. This “strive-drive” mentality leads to sermons that concentrate on middle-of-the-road self-help subjects. There was not much talk on political and social issues because that would cause people to take sides and reduce the size of the congregation.

Also,  the modern church does not talk about spiritual experience of any type at all. I am not speaking about a personal testimony; I am talking about existential experiences with the divine. Everyone gets uncomfortable during discussions of existential experience is discussed. Many people have questions on these topics and want to experience the divine first hand. In modern society, psychedelic drugs are the tool for first-hand experience.  Members of the church could avoid drug use if the church taught how to have these experiences through natural means.

As I began to reduce my depression, I wanted to work on building quality relationships, especially romantic. Through various relationship sites on the internet, I found tantric. Tantric is an eastern practice for sex and relationships. I found a wealth of information on the Podcast “ The Tantric Lounge by Jacqueline Hellyer. The first 12 episodes are an adult sex education class. It will change how a person views sex and a healthy sex life. The main take away from me were the progression of sex paradigms.

Paradigm 1: Sex is bad outside of strict religious.

Paradigm 2: Sex is bad but I am going to do it to rebel against the system of repression.

 Paradigm 3: Sex is neither good or bad. It is a part of life, and I am going to fully understand sex to have the healthiest sex life possible.

One of the podcasts in this series was on mindfulness. It was the idea of taking time to engross yourself in an activity. Mindfulness will require a person to clear their minds of all things from the past and the future. By allowing an activity to be all consuming, you can begin to enjoy the activity. Mindfulness will also aid a person in stopping negative thoughts that are completely consuming.

I began to google mindfulness and find more information. My motivation was dual; I wanted to know more about mindfulness and find a new faith community. I found the Washington Mindfulness Community. WMC are all followers of Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist Zen master that came to the West from Vietnam. His goal was to heal the West to ensure others would not have to endure issues similar to the Vietnam War. The community was very welcoming and began to teach me the various aspects of Buddhism.

The Thich Nhat Hanh tradition is one of the best traditions of Buddhism to study. It has a self-help and social activism aspect. Meditation is a way to improve your inner mental state. This internal shift will affect a person’s perceptions of reality and ultimately his actions. The awareness acquired during meditation can truly be transformative.  The change is not superficial, as it would be if a person takes a course in how to improve body language or how to handle a breakup. These changes go down to your core.

One of the central tenets of Buddhism is that you do not practice only for your enlightenment, you practice for the enlightenment of all living beings. The documentation of social activism of Thich Nhat Hanh’s social activism is extensive. One blog could never do it justice. His legacy of activism is also attracted many activists. It is very common for monasteries to hold retreats for activists. The religion was never meant to create isolationist. Followers were never intended to pray in a closet.

Every follower of Thich Nhat Hanh has to accept the Five Mindfulness Trainings. The third training is on how our actions create global warming. As a nation we consume too much therefore companies exploit the earth’s resources to fill our insatiable appetites. Passing clean air laws and protesting will only improve the conditions to a certain point. There needs to be a shift in consciousness.

The need for a change in consciousness can apply to any large-scale issue. Race relations, poverty initiatives, gender equality all of these problems will require a shift in consciousness. I do not see a way to truly change the way people think without a Buddhist personal growth path. That is the problem with political correctness. It forces people to use the second and fourth quadrant behavior through language without the first and third quadrant change in worldview. Thich Nhat Hanh has found the marriage between personal development and social action.

Another modern day guru I found in my online search in personal development was Clare Graves. Clare Graves is the father of Spiral Dynamics, a method to classify and analyze personal growth. The system of development could be used to describe individual people or entire nations. I had never seen a system of thought that was so all inclusive. Graves was able to describe how all of the great psychologists were describing mental disease in specific value memes.

At this moment, I study both Spiral Dynamics and Buddhism. I feel the two philosophies complement each other.  In the future, I could find a method to incorporate Christianity. Many people in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition rediscover their first religion with new eyes. I am uncertain how that will occur at the moment, but I have not ruled this possibility out.

I wrote this entry to give my readers some perspective on how I think and how I got to this point. The reader will now understand some of my biases and can evaluate my work accordingly. I never expected my analysis to be without bias; I do not think it is possible not to have biases. The reader will now have a good understanding of what inspired the blog and its potential issues.

 

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Leader Analysis

Leader Analysis judges the philosophy of many Black Leaders through the lens of Spiral Dynamics. The leaders will be assigned a value meme according to the areas of focus in their rhetoric. It is important to remember in my analysis Red, Blue, Orange, and Green memes are equal. The memes are still sequential, but a Green meme leader is not better than a Red meme individual. Second tier are the only advanced memes.

The leader analysis will detail what the leader has right and what the leader has wrong. Feasible solutions that the leader presents will be detailed and solutions that are incomplete or unfeasible will be chastised.

The reader is encouraged to comment. The analysis method will change and grow over time.

Red Meme

Blue Meme

Orange Meme

Green Meme

Yellow Meme

Why Wilber’s views on the Incas and Mayans are offensive

This post was written after reading Boomeritis. In this book, Wilber expounds on many issues in academia that detract from furthering intellectual pursuits. He sees this issues collectively as an unhealthy manifestation of the green meme. This unhealthy manifestation is termed “Boomeritis.” My analysis of the book concludes that Wilber is just a neo-conservative that is sick of women and brown people complaining about things that happened before they were born.

In the book, Wilber concludes that liberal boomers artificially exalt pre-colonial cultures. The reason this is done,  according to Wilber, is to find non-violent or socialist utopias in the past. In the book, he details issues human sacrifice done by both these cultures. The descriptions are unnecessarily brutal to combat the reader’s idealist views of this culture. The result is a very superficial understanding and explanation of why understanding and finding the positive aspects of pre-colonial culture is so important for some people.

I think it is important that he does not reference any Black or Hispanic authors in this section. He is only evaluating the possible motives of White anthropologist. The larger thesis in this section of the book is that all fields of study are a covert attempt to make children liberal. The boomers failed to enact an actual political revolution. Therefore they settled for brainwashing our young people into being left-wing.

While his conclusion on the motives of some white anthropologists may be true, he is not seeing the larger picture of why people have studied and exalted ancient and pre-colonial cultures. He also does not put these views within a historical context.

Before that Civil Rights movement, history as taught the inhabitants of Africa and America were simply savages that existed at a level of consciousness barely above animals. The colonist came in and civilized the savages and gave them Christianity. The colonist did use force in this effort, and many natives died. However, the result was the integration of black and brown people our new capitalist system.

Starting in the 1920’s with people like Zora Neale Hurston the truth about pre-colonial Africa was revealed. It turns out that people in pre-colonial Africa and America had a high level of civilization. As more research poured in people of all races became fascinated. Black and Brown people were able to take pride in the ancestors and stop thinking that they are indebted to oppressors. Many white people, such as Sigmund Freud, studied societies untouched by Western influence to determine how people would act without social conditioning. These studies and the ideas unearthed by the research became a huge boon for intellectual thought.

My main problem with this part of the book was he did not warn the audience not to regress into the racist view of all Non-European societies were only brutal and savage (pre-conventional). The audience is given the information on the brutal human sacrifices without knowledge of the true depth of these indigenous religions. The audience needs a full picture of what was happening in the pre-colonial societies.

At the risk of speculating, I will assume his motivation is that he does not want his ancestors seen as people that solely raped, pillaged, and plundered the pre-colonial societies. It is true that a cross-cultural exchanged happened through the colonial wars and all people involved benefited. It is also true cross-cultural exchange can take place through commerce and non-violent communication. It is also true that Non-European cultures spread ideology through war, but what is now of paramount concern is healing the wounds of colonialism in all people.

To bring this discussion back to the integral method, the preconventional, conventional, and postconventional view need to be defined. This is my proposal:

Preconventional: Precolonial societies in America and Africa were savage and brutal. The colonist came used force to advance the societies to what they are today.

Conventional: Precolonial societies were utopias. The colonist came in destroyed everything and ruined the lives of black and brown people.

Postconventional: Precolonial societies had positive and negative elements. The colonist did use unnecessary force and did irreparable harm to the people that lived at that time and to the descendants. However, the cross-cultural exchange has benefited both sides. Our goal now is to heal past wounds to the best of our ability and move toward a more inclusive society.

Wilber needs to understand that many people are trying to heal emotional wounds and rebuild their egos from the damage done by white supremacy. If that means he has to sit and feel uncomfortable while minorities expose their feelings, then that is what needs to happen.

I will say Wilber has expanded my awareness on how a white person can feel in a conversation about race. One line in the book that stuck with me was him saying “ It is like only a native American can understand a native American. It needs to be acknowledged that some suffering is universal and can be understood by everyone.” I will agree with that and keep that in mind in when I am discussing race.

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Analysis Dr. Claud Anderson

Analysis: Dr. Claud Anderson

Orange Meme Separatist

 

Dr. Claud Anderson is a black empowerment leader that focuses on economic development. Currently, he is head of the Harvest Institute, a black think tank, focusing on reparations to descents of slaves owned by natives. His primary goals are to force the government to give monetary reparations to black people that will lead to black people having capital to build black-owned businesses and vertical supply chains.

The problem:

The plight of black people was caused by systematic economic disenfranchisement as explained by Dr. Anderson. Whites perpetrated the disenfranchisement, but all races had a hand in it. The government is currently on a path to have black people “Locked and Boxed” as a permanent obsolete worker class.  The government is now moving power into the hands of companies through privatization. The redistribution of authority to the private sector will remove the federal government as an institution strong enough for black people to appeal to receive rights. His research showed that blacks had to build a vertically integrated economy by the year 2013, or there would never be enough capital in the black community for us to be competitive.

The economic disenfranchisement began in the 1600’s. Maryland was the first state to make a Black Exclusion Edict in 1665. The Black Exclusion Edict codified the treatment of blacks as second-class citizens and made it illegal for blacks to participate in the economy. Slave Codes of 1705 further codified the system. The Slave Codes made aiding black people in any way punishable by death. The final nail in the coffin was Meritorious Manumission. Meritorious Manumission formalized a system to reward blacks for subverting slave rebellion and organization.

Native Americans were instrumental to the institution of slavery. After the French-Indian war, the treaty of 1750 allowed Indians to own slaves. After this, Indians became leaders in capturing fugitive slaves. The Five Civilized Tribes were prolific slaveholders and some of the fiercest Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Also, Indians were the only group of people to have slaves after the Civil War. A second treaty was signed to allow for the freeing of the slaves and their inclusion in reparations.

The Civil War was fought to extract wealth from the South and put it in the North. Slavery was not the primary issue in The Civil War. Lincoln did not even make slavery an issue until two years into the war. The strategy was to cause confusion in the South and attack the labor pool. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free anyone. It only applied to places that had already succeeded from the Union and left enslaved people in the Union under bondage.  

After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery unless a preceded by a criminal conviction. The South set out to reestablish a system of forced labor and stay within the constitution. White people created farmer alliances that vertically integrated the supply chain of tobacco and cotton. The Farmer Alliance was a co-op of white farmers that controlled access to a distributor and a factory. Black farmers were not allowed to join and had no place to sell their crop. The South then passed a law that said a black man must have a steady stream of employment. Since a black man could not start his farm, he had to work on a white man’s farm. They made work on the farm contingent on signing a year long contract. If a black person had not signed a contract with a white farmer, he would be in violation of Idle Worker Laws. The lack of a work contract would land him a conviction and forced labor on a southern chain gang.

Blacks that moved to the North did not fare any better. The government increased quotas allowing immigrants in from Southern and Eastern Europe to reduce the relative number of black people in the North. Unions were formed to exclude black people, and laws were passed to force companies to hire from the unions. Blacks were then relegated to the ghettos because that was the only place in town black people could afford to live.

In the economic sphere, the Civil Rights movement resulted in Affirmative Action. Dr. Anderson wrote many of the original Affirmative Action laws as part of the Carter Administration. Since inception Affirmative Action has grown to include more people. Currently, white women get 70% of the Affirmative Action jobs and Hispanics get 20% of the Affirmative Action jobs. Black receive around 1% of the benefit from Affirmative Action. Dr. Anderson hopes the speedy end of Affirmative Action. The influx of immigrants has also caused the relative pay between whites and blacks to stay at 54%. Jobs can be given to immigrants to fill AA quotas, and the disenfranchisement of blacks will continue.

Continued immigration from Latin America and Asia deludes the voting power of black people. Currently, Hispanics outnumber black people nationally.  Black people are also beginning to move out of predominantly black neighborhoods. The exodus of blacks from predominantly black neighborhoods reduces the number of places with a majority black population and dilutes the power of black people in local elections. Black people are no longer a political force.

Is the state of Black America Improving?

The percent of national wealth owned by black people in 1860 was 0.5%. In 1960 the number went up to 1.5%. Currently, we still have less than 2% of national wealth. We are not doing any better as a group.

The lack of wealth in the black community is not the result of any inferiority on the part black people. In 1860 98% of the black population was illiterate by 1900 only 40% were illiterate. The rapid growth of literacy in the black community is one of the greatest achievements in education history. At this moment black women are the most educated demographic in America. However, this does not translate into wealth or even income due to discrimination in the marketplace.

What is the solution?

Dr. Anderson has a two part solution. First is to infuse black America with wealth through reparations. The second is to create black businesses in a vertically integrated supply structure.

Because black people were the only ones that endured slavery black people have an exclusive claim to reparations from the Federal Government. The first order of business is to secure reparation promised in Indian treaties. Treaties trump even federal law and most of the treaties explicitly state a portion of the reparations are due to black people that descend from the tribe’s slaves. If those court cases are victorious, a precedent can be set to demand reparations from America as a whole.

The reparations will not be given to black people individually. A National Black Bank will be established to provide business grants and educational grants. Black people will wholly own the businesses or schools. Reparations will allow our Historically Black Colleges and Universities to independent and not subsidized by the government or white institutions.

These new institutions will be vertically integrated to create and entire supply chain controlled by black people. Black people must determine industries in which we are the primary consumer. If we are the main customers, we must begin to build black businesses and only buy from our producers. The money can then be used to integrate up the chain. Dr. Anderson began his work on this objective in the fish industry.

The plan in practice

Africa Town was an initiative started by Dr. Claud Anderson to build a black business district in inner city Detroit. He was in charge of the feasibility study to determine if Africa Town would be economically viable. According to an article in the Washington Times, a city council member said that she was “ extremely taken aback” that the study Mr. Anderson delivered appeared to be “a cut-and-paste” from his book and included no information on costs, construction, and investment possibilities. The bottom line is, she said, “There is no plan. There is no land. There is no money.”

The proposal to the city council stipulated that the $40 million dollars used to create Africa Town a district of only black-owned businesses. The measure passed and then was vetoed by Mayor Kilpatrick. The city council then overrode the veto with a 7-2 vote. Many immigrant groups banded together in protest and threatened legal action. The council realized they had made themselves vulnerable to many lawsuits. The council eventually dropped the measure.

Dr. Anderson attempted to establish a vertically integrated fish producer. If the venture were successful, he would have controlled the fish farms, distribution, sales, and restaurants. He was able to establish the Waterland Fish Factory in Hurlock, Md in the mid-2000’s. Fish City Restaurant, a fast-food chain, was also created around that time. An internet search for “Fish City Dr. Claud Anderson” and “Waterland Fish Factory” pulled up only one relevant result. The on the article on the subject explained how the roof on the Waterland Fish Factory caved in killing many fish. The roof had been damaged for a long time before the collapse. The company is no longer in business.

What he has right

Dr. Anderson does have a more advanced, orange meme view of racism. He says in one of his talks, “Racism is not the ability to get along with someone of a different race. Racism is systematically disenfranchisement from the economic system”. Systematic disenfranchisement is a point missed by many people and some leaders. A person’s ability to get along with a diverse group of individuals has no effect on systemic injustice.  

Black business will be a crucial part of black empowerment. There is extensive documentation of systematic disenfranchisement of black workers and black professionals. Black business will allow black people to nurture and train their employees. We can also provide a fair and even playing field for our workers to get promoted. Black business will also serve as a haven to protect black people from racism and discrimination on the job.

What he has wrong

Black business is critical to empowerment, but they will take many generations to build. According to Dr. Anderson himself, black people have less than 2% of the nation’s wealth. Most black businesses go under in less than two years due to lack of capital according to Dr. Anderson himself. He also states that most black businesses have less than two employees.

Dr. Anderson says that black money must bounce 10 to 12 times in the black community. However, he does not take into account there are very few black businesses to bounce that money. The average salary for a black person is around $39,000. Also, most black people live in the major metropolitan areas where the cost of living is very high.  That means most of the money is going to pay rent and utilities. The amount of disposable income is almost non-existent. A white person has an easier time “bouncing” his money because all the businesses in his community in which his people own most of the businesses including his mortgage company. If the white man buys low-cost goods at Walmart, he is bouncing his money in his community. A black man does the same thing to his detriment.

Many people compare black people to various immigrants that come to the country. The immigrant and black comparison are not a fair because many immigrants come to the USA with money and business experience from their countries of origin. The entrepreneurial immigrants start an economy, and the poor immigrants join. There are a few anecdotal stories of immigrants that start with nothing and become wealthy. But these stories are few and far between.   

He also has an unfair indictment of black political leadership as being inept. He says that black people are the only group of people that try to represent everyone. He forgets that black people are only 10% of the population, and a person needs 50% of the vote to win elections. You can’t have an initiative that only help black people because only 10% of the population will support the effort. That is how Affirmative Action got diluted, and other “disenfranchised” groups got included. That is something that will never change. A black politician knows this and builds a coalition accordingly.

Dr. Anderson believes black people living in communities in which they are the majority population will aid in giving black people more political power. He says to the only vote in elections in which you are the majority population. Again at 10% of the population, we will have to huddle into a few large cities. The concentration of the black population will give us power to a city government, but it will not help in state and federal elections. At this point, state elections are the most crucial. The state can override city initiatives and, as we have seen with Obamacare, can stop federal efforts in their state. It will be virtually impossible to get all black people to move into a few cities much less one state. We will always need to build coalitions for any election.

The Africa Town initiative shows how not building a coalition will destroy a project. In “Negro Leadership has failed black people” he claims the black politicians did not fully support him. However, the city council overrode their beloved mayor’s veto. A coalition of non-black immigrants with lawyers stopped the initiative. It is also difficult to believe Anderson’s hateful speech on his radio show “Powernomics” did not help to motivate the immigrant groups.

The fish and leather markets are two areas black people can become economically independent according to Dr. Anderson. Black people provide the bulk of customers in these industries according to Dr. Anderson’s research.  A small capital investment can be used to start a business in one of these sectors. Ideally, they can be an avenue for empowerment.

Unfortunately, in a mature capitalist economy the labor intensive, low capital industries have been outsourced to foreign countries. The difficulty in sustaining a viable business in one of these industries was what Anderson discovered with his fish business. Foreign competitors with an inferior product flood the market with cheap goods and reduce profit margins. His business could not last in spite of producing healthier, fresher fish.

The Foreign competition also hurt skilled worker jobs. Dr. Anderson implores blacks to choose trade school over college. In trade school, a person can make money instead of spending money while they are learning.  Even if a person cannot get a job in a factory they can do skilled work under a sole proprietorship. Trade school is good in theory, but with fewer products manufactured in the USA skilled worker jobs will never employ a lot of people. There is currently a shortage of jobs. However, it will not be sufficient to employ a large percentage of blacks. Even in the market for freelance work, black people will face the same discrimination they face in the corporate marketplace.

Where he fits on the Spiral

He chiefly focuses on economic development making him “goal-centric” or orange meme. I would obviously consider him a separatist and not an integrationist. He also views the racial problem regarding racial competition for resources. Orange value meme individuals see race issues as a subset of economic issues

Some may classify him as “ego-centric” or red value meme. However, I would not agree because for Dr. Anderson wants to reverse integration to make black people more economically viable. Because the disintegration is to aid in the goal of economic empowerment.

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The page above is a personal blog that is not an official Spiral Dynamics Blog. The work of Clare Graves and Don Beck is the basis for this article. For more information on Spiral Dynamics, please go to the website below.
http://www.spiraldynamics.net/dr-don-beck.html

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