The Million Man March: What’s Next

The Million Man March: What’s Next

Well, we did it; we came together in massive numbers, ignoring the differences in religious and cultural affiliation. We stood on what the blood of our ancestors have made to be hollowed ground to initiate a process of empowerment for the black collective. Prior to, and afterward, I have been asked to weigh in on the Justice or Else march on the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March. First of all, I make it a point not to criticize efforts to unify and mobilize blacks on a collective level, so there is only so much I would say, one way or the other.

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As far as the event, anytime you can bring that many black people together for the purpose of achieving something positive, it deserves respect and honor, and I extend both. As the above video states, I believe that we will not really be able to measure the impact and success of this event until we are able to look back on it months and years from now. If we look back five years from now and blacks are still functioning through the same historical paradigms that initially trapped us in this socioeconomic nightmare, in the word of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, yesterday’s event will simply have been an act of vanity, and an exercise in futility.

However, if we are able to look back five years from now, and we have reclaimed our communities, financed our own businesses, created our own financial institutions, built educational programs to holistically educate our youth, escaped our dependence upon White America to survive and broken the chains of our own self-hatred, then yesterday’s event will go down in history as one of the most influential events in the history of the black struggle.

While we continue to engage the black struggle on a micro and macro level through programs, such as the Black Community Empowerment Initiative and Project One, it is important that blacks develop a mindset that is geared toward economic empowerment. We must stop investing in anything that does not produce a return. When we invest in the White, Asian and Arab economies, we are, in essence, financing our own demise. We must recognize the power of focused spending and the recirculation of the black dollar.

Yes, I celebrate what was accomplished on yesterday, but today, the real work begins. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace, Ph.D.

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