Dr. Claude Anderson On Racism

Dr. Claud Anderson is president of PowerNomics Corporation of America, a company that publishes his books and produces multimedia presentations, and The Harvest Institute, a non-profit dedicated to developing policies and programs and conducting research to advocate for and engage in activities that will help make Black America "self-sufficient economically, politically and ... competitive as a group."

• Anderson is the author of PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, "as soon as possible about restoring the black community."
• Black Labor, White Wealth: A Search for Power and Economic Justice, the 1997 book Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Heroes & Other Troublemakers and its 2005 sequel.
• Anderson received his doctorate in education from Wayne State University according to the Washington Post, and where he may have lectured in a professional or educational capacity.
• However, according to his website, he was the State Coordinator of Education under Florida Governor Reubin Askew during the 1970s and lead President Jimmy Carter's Florida campaign.
• Carter then named him assistant secretary of commerce, according to the Post.
• Anderson is president of The Harvest Institute, a think tank focused on Black issues.
• Anderson says Black Americans made extraordinary contributions to American society despite the astonishing, unusual, and unconscionable treatment they have endured in America. 
• Blacks were the engines that drove the political-economic development of this nation for centuries. 
• They should, therefore, value their exceptionality, and let that sense of worth, guide their group behavior. 
• They should require that any business, political party, or political candidate who seeks or benefits from Black support, always identify Blacks by name, commit and in reciprocity, deliver tangible, measurable benefits to Black Americans. 
• They should never allow themselves to be grouped with or equated to broad and ambiguous classes such as minorities, immigrants, people of color, diversity, poor people, or similar defining terms. 
• The nation is indebted to Blacks and equating them to fabricated classes adds insult to injury, hides their special history, and promotes the myth that all people have been created and treated equally and that all groups have contributed equally to the building of the nation. 
• Nothing is further from the truth.

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Sources Cited

Villarreal D. (2020, August 14). Who Is Dr. Claud Anderson? Kanye Urges Trump and Biden to Talk to Author