WARRIOR ETHOS
- By Curtis Anthony Hervey
- Published 12/5/2009
Curtis Anthony Hervey
My 18,000 word thesis earned me a Masters of Biblical Studies degree (a wholistic plan to empower low-income black America). I'm here to network for publication and to seek out like-minded African Americans (curtis.hervey@yahoo.com). As a Distinguished Graduate of OCS, I seek to apply battle-tested military principles to solving black pathology by issuing a national warning order. I'm an iconoclast, my doctrine is Washingtonian (as in Booker T.) and my role is that of Socratic Gadfly.
I joined the Army at age 16 (Delayed Entry Program) and went to Basic right after High School graduation, so I've spent most of my life immersed in the Soldier culture. This is why the black culture of victimization is so alien to me; it violates the Warrior Ethos we Soldiers live by ("never accept defeat" and "never quit").
As an officer, I am trained to devise plans to win battles. Therefore, you must understand that in my mind, this defeatist attitude pervasive in black society is anathema.
The enemy isn't whites either. The enemy is in our hearts. It's in our stinking thinking. The enemy is not this wicked world-system or the people in it. The enemy is supernatural. But, we must engage in three-dimensional warfare: the flesh (the Id or Primal Urge), the world-system and the devil (supernatural). It must be a wholistic approach (salvation, prayer and faith-based activism).
Black society is anarchistic and must be rebuilt from the ground-up. We need a new foundation and must apply leasson learned from past mistakes.
We must reappraise our pessimistic outlook and learn to see that the glass is actually half-full nowadays. Times have changed! We are yet applying civil-rights era strategies and tactics to a 21st century situation where a poor, fatherless black boy can now become the President of the US and the most powerful man in the world.
The times dictate agenda, strategies and tactics. If the situation (racial climiate) has improved since the 1960s (and it has), logic demands that we now adjust our doctrine, strategies and tactics. Siege tactics like those employed by the civil rights movement (agitation, integration, etc.) may have been right for their time, but not for today when we now have an African American President.
This is the gist of what I want to get across. I am enraged over the wasted potential in blacks and intend to provide the necessary purpose, direction and motivation to get us where we deserve to be.
