The Real-Holocaust

In The Real-Holocaust-a title adapted from the well-known phrase the real McCoy-the basic premise of the author is that Americans have underestimated the damage inflicted upon the nation especially African people since the beginning with the European-Arab slave trade in 1441 and continuing to the present era. Simultaneously we have underestimated the level of commitment required in both financial and human resources to solve our perennial often ugly race problem that has created a great racial divide in America. Accordingly the author documents a guesstimated 300 million deaths of African people during this nearly 500-year period of history a figure that may be contrasted to the well known and much better publicized holocaust of World War II the latter a major tragic event involving deaths of a guesstimated six million Jews. In essence the author argues that the chronic race problem dividing America will never be resolved until most Americans realize and successfully confront this unprecedented ethnic damage-physical mental and emotional-that oppression has imposed upon African people and their progeny in America. He argues further that oppression under three distinct s stages in America-slavery segregation and sedimentation--has created a fundamental schism between Black and White Americans. And this schism reflects a denial of genuine nationhood to Africans in America who constitute psycho-spiritually a population without a country-a challenge to the Two Nations (1993) concept of Professor Andrew Hacker. Indeed the author's arguments are based upon over 50 years of experience in the Black liberation struggle painstaking research and spiritually profound intuition. Accordingly he recommends wholism-specific measures to make us whole-through the promotion of spirit mind and body for all American citizens including contingency reparations for African Americans on both a group and individual basis. He al