Preface to
Pedagogy of The Oppressed
Paulo Freire
pp.23-24 1973
The radical, committed to human liberation, does not
become the prisoner of a "circle of certainty" within which
he(/she) also imprisons reality. On the contrary, the more radical
he(/she) is, the more fully he(/she) enters into reality so that,
knowing it better, he(/she) can better transform it.
He(/she) is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the
world unveiled. He(/she) is not afraid to meet the people or to
enter into dialogue with them." He(/she) does not consider
him(her)self the proprietor of history or of
men,(humanity) or the liberator of the oppressed; but he(/she)
does commit him(her)self, within history, to fight at their side.
Letter to Bob Lucas:
Bob Lucas led the l966 March into Cicero, Illinois. Chapter 6 of Grace’s autobiography, Living for Change (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), is entitled "Beyond Rebellion."
Michigan Citizen Nerwspaper May 10-May 16, l998
Why Black Radical Politics Has Failed
Stirrings in the Jug
by Adolph Reed Jr.
University of Minnesota Press, l999
This is a collection of hard-hitting critiques of black liberal and radical politics in the post-segregation era by Adolph Reed Jr., a Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research. Reed is not an easy read. But he is worth careful study because he had a good grasp of how reality has changed since the l960s and his writings go a long way towards explaining why there has been no radical opposition to today’s black elites and why last year’s Black Radical Congress was far from radical.