WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

With whom, with what can he, a man, identify? As a child he had no permanent male figure with whom to identify; as a man he sees nothing in society with which he can identify; as a man , he sees nothing in society with which he can identify as an extension of himself.  His life is built on mistrust, shame, doubt, guilt, inferiority, role confusion, isolation and despair.  He feels that he is something less than a man and it is evident in his conversation:  "The White man is 'THE MAN,' he got everything, and he knows everything, and a nigger ant nothing."  In society where a man is valued according to occupation and material possessions, he is without possessions.  He is unskilled and more often than not, either without possessions.  He is unskilled and more often than not, either marginally employed or unemployed.  Often his wife (who is able to secure a job as a maid, cleaning for White People) is the breadwinner.  He is therefore viewed quite worthless by his wife and children. He is ineffectual both in and out of his home me.  He cannot provide for, or protect his family. He is invisible, a nonentity.  Society will not acknowledge him as a man. He is a consumer and not a producer.  He is dependent upon the White man ("THE MAN") to feed his family and give him a job, educate his children, serve as a model that he tries to emulate. He is dependent and he hates "THE MAN" and he hates himself.  Who is he?is he a very old adolescent or is he the Slave he used to be?  "What did he do to be so Black and blue?" CHAPTER VI SLAVES CAN POSSESS NOTHING THE AMERICAN SLAVE CODE …. Man  was created proprietor of the earth, with dominion over the beasts of the field.  The humanity of the slave is denied, by denying to him any share in this original right of human nnature or capability of its exercise.