Another Excerpt from Reawakening The African Mind by Dr. Asa Hilliard.

To understand our present condition in the world, we must also understand genocide . The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention in 1948 (Patterson, 1970). Article II of the Convention defines "genocide" as Any of the following acts comitted with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such:
A) Killing members of the group
B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
E) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another (Patterson, p. xii).

.....By this definition, African people are clearly victims of genocide. The genocidal practices of slavery, lynching, colonization, etc. are easy to identify, but the more recent institutionalized and covert forms of genocide produced by legal systems, educational systems, public health systems, etc., are difficult to distinguish. There is no public outcry over these latter forms of genocide for two primary reason:

(1) active propaganda disseminated through the media keeps the masses of people ignorant of, and agents in, their own genocide;and
(2) lack of media access slows those who are knowledgeable about genocidal practices from sharing that knowledge with and empowering others.

Genocide, as defined above, is both physical and cultural. Both forms of genocide are visited on Africans. Physical genocide tends to be practiced most often by the so-called 'ultra right.' This largely involves well-known processes of segregation physical oppression that have historically led to the elimination of many Africans. Cultural genocide is practiced mainly by the left. Historically, it was referred to as "whitening," and was practiced most frequently in Latin American countries where it continues to be used today (Hilliard & Martin, 1995).

Cultral genocide is in some ways, the ultimate vehicle for the elimination of a people because its goal, unlike that of the physical form of genocide, remains hidden.
Both physical and cultural genocide of Africans involve decisions by non-African elites to dominate and destroy the African community (Hilliard & Martin). White policymakers, whether from the right or the left, liberals or conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, view the very existence of Africans as a problem.
Thus only African themselves can wake up, prepare, and insure that Africans remain present and fully able to maintian a quality standard of life"
SBA to SIA: Earning
"Every member of the community should participate in SBA. SBA means teaching,learning,wisdom and study or collectively, deep thought.

Deep thought is universal among Africans. Respect for deep thought is reflected in African languages and especially in terminology about words (i.e. Nommo in Bantu, "So" in Dogon, Cinni in Sonjay {kwame note: Songhai/Songhoi} A study of proverbs, metaphors, and stories in African societies shows that deep thought was the rule. SBA is thus, one way of naming African deep thought. It is both a noun and verb; it is deep thought and deep thinking. It is the word for teach and study with a slight change in 'determinative,' for clarification of meaning.