For me, that was the occasion when I encountered the real Amos Wilson, "Afrikan Warrior Extraordinaire." Although I wasn't able to meet him directly at that time since he was only in attendance for his presentation, I knew intuitively that our coming together was inevitable given that our ideological spirits resonated so naturally. It was a powerful presentation and the most compelling one that I heard on that particular day. He gave a riveting speech about the realities of White Supremacy Domination (WSD) over Africans and how it affected the everyday lives of African children in America and throughout the continent of Africa. My first personal encounter with him did not occur until 6-7 years later around 1986 at the 3rd or 4th Annual ASCAC Conference in Harlem, NYC. I first became aware of Amos Wilson when his book "The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child" was published in 1979. He was a workaholic, keenly focused on the task at hand, and a deep Afrikan-Centered Critical Thinker (ACCT). I have known only a very few psychological visionaries in my lifetime those who have tried to grasp the whole picture of Afrikan existence from a psychological point of view or perspective.
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