What if there was a drug that could chemically induce feelings of upper-classness? It would be a lot like crack. Our society actively cultivates, encourages, and promotes self-actualization, immediate gratification, and ubabashed self-indulgence. Even the most minor pains are quickly, even casually, dismissed with pills and other aids to produce an easy lifestyle absent from struggle.

Addiction is widespread in the African American community. Crack is a very addictve an lethal drug and it  is deceptive in the way that it lures unsuspecting people into the use and participation in the drug culture. Black culture as it is presented in the Afrocentric format is a formidable ally to the Black man and woman who is using drugs to the point of addiction

Advertising campaigns specifically targeted at the African American communities in an attempt to delude them into thinking that smoking or drinking will make them more prestigious, smart, attractive, or popular. Research has shown that African Americans spend an inordinate amounts of time in front of the television set.Therefore, they are disproportionately exposed to television's grandiose, yet false, and ultimately harmful message that grave personal problems can be effectively and efficiently resolved in thirty minutes or less. All these dynamics contribute to the presence of what is unmistakable, "A Drug Culture". Consequently, the provision of recovery and rehabilitation services to drug dependent African American men and women are "stuck" in an environment undeniably influenced by the prevailing drug culture.

Through "God", spirituality, African American Culture base and the community involvement, they can save themselves and their children that are at risk. The need for an Afrocentric philosophy is so great that it is impossible for me not to insist that you turn to a remedy within the treatment community. Families are being destroyed, people no longer resemble live vibrant human beings. Crack addiction has a stranglehold on the Black man or woman who has fell victim to this rock called crack.

The question most often encountered is "why"? Why the need for an Afrocentric philosophy? Why should Africa be at the center? And my question is, why not? Who else would you want to have your center? Africa belongs to Africans or African Americans or African Brazilians. It does not take away from the universality or humanity of man to have a particular culture or history to stand as one's center since all cultures share certain universal traits: but they do not necessarily resemble each other. Afrocentricity resembles the Black man, speaks to him, looks like him, and wants for him what he wants for himself.

In response to the overpowering drug culture and for a safe journey through the Americas. Come to your own center and become free of the westernized culture of self-destruction