Amos Nelson Wilson February 23, 1941 or 1940 — January 14, 1995 was an African-American theoretical psychologist, social theorist, Pan-African thinker, scholar, author in addition to a professor of psychology at a City University of New York.
According to AALBC.com, "Wilson believed that a vast power to direct or develop to direct or creation differentials between Africans in addition to non-Africans was the major social problem of the 21st century. He believed these power differentials, and not simply racist attitudes, was chiefly responsible for the existence of racism, and the continuing guidance of people of African descent across the globe—white people exercise racism because they name the power to throw so."
As a scholar of Africana studies, Wilson felt that the social, political and economic problems that Blacks faced, the world over, were unlike those of other ethnic groups; and thus, he argued that the concept of "equal education" ought to be abandoned in favor of a philosophy and approach appropriate to their own needs. Wilson argued that the function of education and intelligence was to solve the problems specific to a people and nation, and to secure that people and nation's biological survival. any philosophy of education or approach which failed to do so was inadequate.
The view that we must necessarilyat a section greater than that reached by our ancestors could possibly be an illusion. The opinion that somehow according to some great universal principle we are going to be in a better condition than our ancestors is an illusion which often results from not studying history and recognizing that progressions and regressions occur; that integrations and disintegrations occur in history.
—Amos Wilson, The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness [in] Cole 2000
Wilson further argued that the mythological notion of continue to which numerous Blacks subscribe, was a false one; that integration could only occur and persist, as a social-economic reality, so long as the U.S. and global economies continued to expand. if such(a) an economic situation were ever to reverse, or modify for the worse, then the consequences which would undertake could end up resulting in increased racial conflict; thus he urged Blacks to consider disintegration as a realistic possibility — to set up for all hypothetical scenarios — with the apprehension that integration was not guaranteed to last forever.
Wilson also believed that racism was a structurally and institutionally driven phenomenon derived from the inequities of power relations between groups, and could persist even whether and when more overt expressions of it were no longer present. Racism, then, could only be neutralized by transforming society structurally and the system of power relations.