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RBG STREET SCHOLAR: MAXIMUM CULTURALDEVELOPMENT: Revolutionary Mentality

REVOLUTIONARY ICONS/OUR PROFESSORS

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1. Study-Oriented: reads, evaluates and debatesbooks, newspapers, magazines and scholarly

journals. Accepts the challenge of education.

2. Worker: looks 4 wayz in which 2 actively work 4self; may hold a job outside in order to sustain selfand family. Self-Reliant.

3. Organized and Systematic - efficient and diligent.

4. Progressively Collective; conscious of others;Cooperative.

5. Family Oriented: regards mate as partner instruggle; luvz children. Values trust in relationships.

6. Land Conscious: realizes that the only thing thatnobody is making any more of is land.

7. Disciplined: strong, unyielding and energetic.

8. Serious. Practices fair play, order andpunctuality. Honest and dependable.

9. Analytical and critical.

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10. Frugal: buyz mainly on NEED basis; saves.

11. Social life is developmental and involveschildren.

12. Creatively Aggressive: will dare the impossibleif it is possible.

13. Respects Elders.

14. Dislikes incompetence and mediocrity.

15. Fights against Black on Black crime andunderstands that its root is white on Black crime.

16. Luvz Afrikan art, music and literature.

17. Can give and follow instructions. Encouragesexperimentation and criticism.

18. Committed 2 Afrikan Liberation - local, nationaland international.

19. Does not use drugs.

20. Politically Active. Not crisis-oriented; acts oninformation rather than reacts. Plans ahead for thelong term; alert; prepared for change.

21. Self-Confident. Respects others regardless ofrace or culture.

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22. Understandz the economic forces that controlour lives on a local, national and international level.

23. Rational in decisionz and actionz.

24. Rewardz merit and achievement.

Excerpted from Madhubuti, H. R. (1991) Black Men:obsolete, single and dangerous? The AfrikanAmerican Family in transition. Pgs8-9 Chicago:

Third World Press.