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The Honorable

Dr. Amos N. Wilson

(1941 - 1995)

Former Social Caseworker, Psychological Counselor,

Supervising Probation Officer, Training Administrator in the
New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, Assistant
Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York,
Master Teacher, Organizer, and Author

Dr. Amos Wilson - Consciousness

The late, Honorable Dr. Wilson was born in Hattiesburg,

One of Two RBG Blakademics
Required Textbooks
The RBG Blueprint Study Cell
Ice Breaker mp3s for Downloads
Play Dr. Amos Wilson- Histroy as an
Instrument of Power
Mississippi in 1941. Familiarly referred to as Brother Amos,
he provided the average person with an acute analysis of
where we are and the things that affect us. He served as a
council to energize our race and those in positions of
influence as to how to carry out their leadership
responsibilities. Dr. Wilson's activities transcended academia
into the fields of business, owning and operating various
enterprises in the greater New York area.

Play Dr. Amos Wilson-On The Fallicies Multi-

Culturalism

OTHER REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

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Amos Wilson - Education & Genetic Criminality
Professor Marimba Ani and
Yurugu Tutorial
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RBG Blueprint for Black Power Video Playlist

Blueprint is our school's required textbook. Please visit and join our study cell at RBG
Worldwide 1 Nation: There you will find our discussions. In this group we study in detail one of
RBGz required textbooks (Dr. Amos Wilson's Blueprint for Black Power) in both print and video
form. We comment on and discuss chapters/clips: then plan, develop and implement.

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic

Imperative for the Twenty-First Century

Blueprint for Black Power details a master plan for the power
revolution necessary for Black survival in the 21st century.
Blueprints posit that an African American/Caribbean/Pan-African
bloc would be most potent for the generation and delivery of Black
power in the United States and the World to counter White and
Asian power networks. Wilson frames this imperative by
deconstructing the U.S. elite power structure of government,
political parties, think tanks, corporations, foundations, media,
interest groups, banking and foreign investment particulars. Potentially strong Black institutions
as the church, media and think tanks; industry; collectives such as investment clubs and credit
unions; rotating credit associations such as Afrikan-originated esusu, tontine and partner are
analyzed. Pan-Afrikanism, Black Nationalism, ethnocentrism and reparation are assessed, often
misused and underused financial institutions as securities, mutual funds, stocks, bonds,
underwriting, and incubators advocated, thus elucidating oft-negated opportunities for economic
empowerment.

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Extracts from Textbook:

"The oppressed and downtrodden, having been

traumatized by the abuse of power by their powerful
oppressors, often comes to perceive power itself as
inherently evil, as by nature corrupting and therefore as
something to be eschewed, denied and renounced.

The pursuit of power is viewed as unworthy of virtuous

persons, and the desire to possess it as sinful. Therefore,
many among the powerless and poor feel compelled to find
in their powerlessness and poverty the emblematic signs of
their Godliness and redemptive salvation.

How convenient a precept for rationalizing and maintaining

the power of the haves over the have-nots! As the result of their ideological
manipulation by the powerful and their own reactionary misperception of reality, the
poor and powerless have been made to perceive the pursuit, possession and
application of power in their own behalf as unbecoming to themselves.

This is even more the case when through their naïve acceptance of the self-serving
deceptive propaganda perpetrated by the powers-that-be, their own reactionary self-
negation, and their nursing of their internalized inferiority complexes, the poor huddled
masses perceive the possession and exercise of power as the inherent and exclusive
prerogative of the ruling classes or races."

"To a significant degree Afrikan Americans accept and obey predominant White
American power and its authorities (at least from social-psychological standpoint)
because they agree with the rules of their establishment and expression as defined by
White Americans; share with White Americans the moral, legal, and other values and
perspectives which justify them; and to some extent (limited and of recent origin)
because they, i.e., Blacks, have been permitted by White Americans to participate in
political and social processes by which White power is given legitimacy.

To a limited degree, Afrikan Americans have been permitted access to certain positions
of competent and legitimate authority. These factors contribute mightily to their
acceptance of White American power (domination) and the White American monopoly
of positions of authority as legitimate.

These forms of giving consent to the social power status quo on the part of Blacks help
to obscure as well as deny the fact that they are in fact a dominated and severely
exploited group (regardless of class); and helps to obscure the fact that their uncritical
acceptance of the 'rules,' moral beliefs, perspectives, and their customary-traditional
participation in the 'American (White) political-economic process and system is

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tantamount to the legitimating of their own oppression and to the consensual ensurance
of their own powerlessness.

Rules, beliefs and consent are manufactured by those in power to justify, legitimate and
serve their interests. In its origins White American power was not legitimated (i.e.,
voluntarily or contractually consented to, morally justified or politically-socially ratified)
by Afrikan Americans who at the time of its origination were held in captivity (slavery)
and to this point in time have been largely excluded from significantly participating in
American legitimating processes.

From the historical point of view of Native and Afrikan Americans, White power, in
whatever form, is illegitimate. This is because such power rests essentially on the near
physical and genocidal decimation of Native Americans, the theft of their properties, on
the exploitation or forced labor (enslavement) of Afrikans, and on the systematic
exclusion by Whites of both Black and Native Americans from the influential exercise of
practically all forms of 'legitimate' power and authority in the United States.

The rules and beliefs which provide the means for legitimating White power were in fact
pre-established, preordained and imposed on Blacks against their will by Whites from
the beginning. The illegitimacy of White American power is founded on the illegitimacy
of its original sins--genocide, theft of property, and enslavement."

"For social power to be exercised effectively the power holder must possess or control
some important or valued material and/or social resource(s) which is the basis of his
power. By strategically rewarding or depriving others of these resources, he may use
them to influence behavior in ways compatible with his interests.

Resources when used for such ends are referred to as power bases or resources.

Power bases or resources may include physical safety, health and well-being, wealth
and material possessions; jobs and means to a livelihood; knowledge and social skills;
social recognition, status and prestige; love, affection, social acceptability; a satisfactory
self-image and self-respect…

We have no intentions to review the quite sizable number of possible power bases here.
We shall constrain ourselves to brief, but pertinent, discussions of those power
resources which are of important relevance to Afrikan Americans and the power
relations between them and European Americans. These power resources include
property, organization, race consciousness and ideology.

We do not include state politics in our discussion at this juncture because in the context
of contemporary Afrikan American social, political and economic culture and the more
basic issues it must resolve, state politics is of secondary importance to the Black
community. Black politics and activism without the Black ownership of and control over
primary forms and bases of power such as property, wealth, organization, etc., is the
recipe for Black political and non-political powerlessness.

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The rather obtuse pursuit of political office and the ballot box as primary sources of
power by the Black community and its politicians without its concomitant ownership of
and control over important resources has actually hindered the development of real
Black power in America. More ominously, there appears to be a paradoxical and
positive correlation between the number of Blacks elected and appointed to high office
and retrogressions in the civil and human rights extended to Black Americans during the
past twenty years.

Increases in homelessness, poverty, unemployment, criminality and violence in the

Black community; disorganization of the traditional Black family, inadequacies in
education, increases in health problems of all types, and a host of other social and
political ills have all attended increases in the number of Black elected and appointed
officials. That is, the more elected and appointed Black politicians, the more social-
economic problems the Black community has suffered.

While we are not implying a causal relationship between the increase of the number of
Black appointed and elected officials and the increased misery indices of the Black
community, we are implying or asserting that their increase obscures those things which
are responsible for and do little to ameliorate or uproot the increasing prevalence of
social and economic problems in the Black community.

The community's concern with the election and appointment of Black political figures
helps it to maintain false hopes that their attainment of office will significantly resolve its
problems. The activities of Black politicians, given the current inadequacy of social
organization and economic resources, harmfully distract the Black community's
attention from recognizing and eradicating the true causes of its problems and the
remediation of its powerlessness."

"The responsibility of the Afrikan American community [is to ensure] Afrika's economic
development. The ignoring of Afrika by the Western nations provide windows of
opportunity open to native Afrikans to drastically reduce the massive outflow or flight of
capital, which has been estimated to exceed 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product,
and to reinvest it in their own countries.

Afrikan peoples and nations across the Diaspora must apprise themselves of a full,
ongoing knowledge of the social, economic and cultural history of Afrikan nations as
well as their contemporary status and reorganize their sociocultural and economic
structures so as to initiate and fuel continental Afrika's growth and development.

The Afrikan American community, especially, should vastly overhaul and reconstruct its
educational orientation toward knowledge of the Motherland. It must realize that its own
economic salvation is coterminous with or tied to that of Afrika's. It must invest money
and human resources in Afrika's development and perceive its economic prosperity as
its special responsibility and mission…

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The Afrikan American community must become vigilantly and jealously interested in
U.S. and European policies toward Afrika and seek to influence those policies in both its
own and Afrika's favor."

Other Books by Dr. Amos Wilson

http://www.africawithin.com/wilson/wilson_books.htm

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the

Politics of White Supremacy

Price: $18.00 - Paperback

Description
This book presents two ground-breaking lectures by Amos Wilson. The first, European
Historiography and Oppression Exposed: An Afrikan Perspective and Analysis, was among the
first contemporary analyses which delineated the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in
rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan consciousness. It explicates why we should study
history, how history-writing shapes the psychology of peoples and individuals, how Eurocentric
history as mythology creates historical amnesia in Afrikans in order to rob them of the material,
mental, social and spiritual wherewithal for overcoming poverty and oppression. Moreover, this
engrossing lectures the relationship between the rediscovery and rewriting of Afrikan history and
achievement of liberation and prosperity by Afrikan peoples. The second lecture, Eurocentric
Political Dogmatism: Its Relationship to the Mental Health Diagnosis of Afrikan People,
advances the contention that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed
Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and
imperialism. Furthermore, it indicts the Eurocentric mental health establishment for entering into
collusion with the Eurocentric political establishment to oppress and exploit Afrikan peoples by
officially sanctioning these egregious practices through its misdiagnosing, mislabeling, and
mistreating of Afrikan peoples’ behavioral reactions to their oppression and their efforts to win
their freedom and independence.

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Developmental Psychology of the

Black Child
From: $16.95 - Paperback
Understanding Black Adolescent
Are Black and White Children the
Male Violence: Its Remediation
same? Is the Black Child merely a
and Prevention
White Child who 'happens' to be
'painted' Black? Are there any significant
Price: $37.95 - Paperback
differences in the mental and physical growth
Description
and development of Black and White Children?
In this ground-breaking volume, Amos Wilson
What effects does race awareness have on the
shows in brilliant detail how American society
mental and personality development of Black
creates and sustains Black-on-Black
Children? Are such leisure time activities as
adolescent criminality in its inner-cities across
the playing of certain games, watching TV,
the United States. He boldly asserts that
going to the movies, listening to the radio,
Black-on-Black adolescent violence is rooted
hazardous to the mental health of Black
in historical and contemporary White-on-Black
Children? Is the use of Black English a sign of
violence. He further argues that White-on-
mental inferiority? Why do Black Children
Black violence induces in the Afrikan American
generally score lower than White Children on
community a pervasive false consciousness,
I.Q. tests? Do Black parents socialize their
one which interacts with the adolescent crises
children to be inferior to White Children? Why
of Black males and the socioeconomic
have integrated schools and busing failed so
conditions which typify inner-city communities
many Black Children? If you have been looking
to spawn criminality and violence. More than
for a single source which deals with these and
an explanatory analysis of Black male
related controversial questions from a black
adolescent criminality, Understanding Black
perspective, then this book may be the book
Adolescent Male Violence provides very
for you. For between its covers, The
practical and workable remedial and
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child,
preventative approaches to this problem which
the first of a UBCS series of books dealing with
threatens the vitality of the Afrikan American
the growth, development, and education of the
community.
black child, in a scholarly but readily
understandable way, forthrightly confronts
these and other issues.

Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in

Service of White Domination

By Dr. Amos N. Wilson

Price: $17.00 - Paperback - Afrikan World Infosystems (November 1991)

Description
The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination represents a
distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikan Studies. Its explanatory perspectives on the
sociopsychological and politicoeconomic causes of Black-on-Black Violence are exceptionally
insightful, incisive and iconoclastic. The Psychodynamics of the Black-on-Black criminal are
presented here with a depth and clarity rarely seen before.

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The main thesis of this book is that the operational existence of Black-on-Black in the United
States is psychologically and economically mandated by the White American-dominated status
quo. The criminalization of the Black American male is a psychopolitically engineered process
designed to maintain the dependency and relative powerlessness of the Afrikan American and
Pan-African communities.

Black-on-Black Violence, however, moves far beyond blaming the victimizer. Its meticulous and
painstaking exposure of the psycho-social and intrapsychical dynamics of Black-on-Black
criminality is startlingly revealing. Its analyses of the collective psyches of both the White
American and Black American communities are unsparingly and powerfully instructive. The
reader will not be left unmoved.

Although Professor Wilson argues that Black-on-Black Violence is orchestrated by White

America’s need to maintain its oppressive domination of Black America, and of Western
Europe’s need to continue-without end-its economic exploitation of Africa, he also contends that
the ending of Black-on-Black violence is the primary, if not sole, responsibility of African people
in America and abroad. This book, in revealing the anatomy of Black-on-Black violence,
simultaneously lays the practical, intellectual and political foundations for its social eradication.

Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children

By Dr. Amos N. Wilson

Price: $15.00 - Paperback - Afrikan World Infosystems 1st edition (December 1992)

Description
Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a 'natural head start.'
However, their natural genius it too frequently underdeveloped and misdirected by (1) the fact
that the racist and imperialist status quo politically mandates their intellectual under-
achievement and social mal-adaptiveness; (2) belief in the myth that intelligence is fixed at birth
and that Afrikans are innately less intelligent than Europeans; (3) a lack of knowledge of their
positively unique developmental psychology; (4) a lack of confidence in their ability to equal or
surpass the intellectual performance of any other ethnic group; and (5) the general lack of infant
and early childhood educational experiences which stimulate, sustain and actualize their
abundant human potential. Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children provides effective
means by which these political and social maladies may be fully remedies. Intelligence is not
fixed at birth. The quality of children’s educational experiences during infancy and early
childhood are substantially related to their measured intelligence, academic achievement and
prosocial behavior. In this volume, Amos N. Wilson, author of the bestseller, The Developmental
Psychology of the Black Child, surveys the daily routines, child-rearing practices, parent-child
interactions, games and play materials, parent-training and pre-school programs which have
made demonstrably outstanding and lasting differences in the intellectual, academic and social
performance of Black children.

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