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Cultural surrender or cultural destruction leads inevitably to the loss of any possibility for a group to mobilize on its own behalf. There can be no African American family in the absence of a cultural base. There is no culture of minority numbers, nor is there a culture of an oppressed group, or a culture of poverty. Those who accept the attributed identity of “minority,” “poor” or “oppressed,” have not only surrendered culture, they have surrendered history as well, leaving only the present political socioeconomic condition as the base for a deformed identity.

-Asa Hilliard, The Maroon Within Us