PAWNED SOVEREIGNTY: Will be a collector's item, alongside Welsing's "Isis Papers" and Woodson's "Mis-Education of the Negro" - Rolling Out Magazine
Pawned Sovereignty presents an evolutionary political and
philosophical outlook on America, Africa, and world affairs. Regardless of what you presently think, the
challenges it poses to societal norms will either enhance or make you rethink
your views. It carves straight through
the heart of mainstream thoughts and positions, and deals with issues facing
Black America from a strict standpoint of political and economic self-preservation.
Compelling arguments are developed through insightful
analyses of history, statistical data, and current affairs, in ways that will
add new dimensions to progressive Black dialogue. The language and concepts express deeper-most truths and
sentiments that speak straight to the soul of Black America.
Most of all, it’s solution-oriented. Since many of Black America’s problems lie beyond
conventional democratic remedies, Pawned
Sovereignty identifies latent sources of Black strength
and blueprints how to leverage them into bona fide vehicles of progress and
power.
Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Passaic, Ezrah Aharone earned a BS in business from Hampton University in 1980. He has lived and worked in West Africa, where his relationships span from presidents and government officials, to people in remote villages. His international experiences offer a valuable frame of reference that is shared throughout this work.
ezrahaharone@juno.com
This book comes at an uneasy time in history when the world
is plagued with problems related to poverty, disease, racism, ideology,
terrorism and war. The inflamed
nature of these issues leads to the inevitable conclusion that conditions will
worsen before improving. Rather than
respecting the array of humanity’s cultural, religious, and ethnic differences,
some people and governments are more motivated by skewed forms of nationalism that superimpose particular “ways of life” on others. In today’s world, might often makes right.
The one word that best links all the subjects of this book
is “thoughts.” Like every other nation,
America is the
result of thoughts. Its customs,
traditions, laws and constitution are all products of thought. Americanization can be summed up as constellations of thoughts that people have
learned to accept and apply as a “way of life.” As valuable and benevolent as this “way of life” may seem to Americans,
some people in other countries will always embrace “thoughts” and “ways” of
their own.
The central message that runs through all the subjects is
that Black America lives in a “world of thoughts” and has adopted a “way of life” that
do not incorporate enough input of our own “thoughts” and “ways.” By the 1960’s when the establishment thought it was finally time to concede
to integration, the political and
ideological design of America was already well thought out.
Hence, we did not participate in casting the actual mold of
Americanization. And since our specific political and economic interests as a
sub-culture did not always fit, we were forced in many instances to painfully
adjust to the prefabricated contour and contents of the mold.
Pawned Sovereignty is therefore written from a strictly Black
perspective, to “shuffle the deck” of American democracy, so as to put some different
political and ideological factors into play, and to provide a keener awareness
of international affairs. Although some
subjects undertaken may perhaps be considered “politically incorrect,” these are
the very subjects that need more examination and discussion. I say this because history presents enough
examples for us to know that legitimate Black interests have not always been in
conciliation with “political correctness.”
The title, “Pawned Sovereignty,” is not to suggest that
Black America