ABSTRACT
Like their unenlightened white female counterparts who supported feminist movement until white males allowed them a piece of the action, a cut of the monetary power pie, unenlightened black men supported black liberation until they were offered their cut. After the slaughter of radical black men, the emotional devastation of soul murder and actual murder, many black people became cynical about freedom. They wanted something more tangible, a goal that could be attained. Historically, the goal black men had defined as needed for the restoration of their patriarchal masculinity was equal pay for equal work. Prior to the black power movement most black men wanted jobs-equal pay for equal work-which was the vision of basic civil rights. They wanted the economic power to provide for themselves and family.
