A VIEW OF KATRINA By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

A VIEW OF KATRINA: "The works of one of our great African in America scholars, researchers, lecturers, educators, and teachers, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III, must be read, studied, and discussed as we continue to organize in the Black Liberation Movement.

We must study materials that will heighten our African consciousness in pursuit of the Reparations Movement demands for reparations from the United States Government. Our Reparations Movement reading list must include Dr. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us. Dr. Hilliard’s book reminds us of a major problem that we as African people in America are besieged by.

Dr. Hilliard described this problem as cultural surrender. In explaining the problem, Dr. Hilliard wrote, “African Americans remain one of the very few groups in the United States who do not honor their own cultural traditions, sometimes even when they are honored by others.”

Continuing on this point, Dr. Hilliard states that, “If there is a major illness among African American people it is that we unceasingly honor and utilize our culture less. All great nations and people do the opposite.”"