Black Mecca for the Sold Brother (excerpt)

....A climate of activism, a sense of community and a commitment to social change continues to thrive in some quarters of Black Atlanta. However, Blacks in this city like all others across this nation have fallen prey to an attitude of apathy and find themselves in a state of impotence. As the problems that face our people become more complex and our sense of community diminishes, economic ideals have become the most convenient and easily understood issues to focus our attention. In search of the American dream, many of us have jettisoned the spiritual and social legacies of our forebears as useless cargo for this leg of the Middle Passage.....