Email from National Center Word of the Week: Attitude. Word of the Week: Attitude. Attitudes, when they harden become beliefs. From beliefs, we get laws. A prevailing attitude among whites says that Black people are inferior, doomed to be servants of theirs. From that attitude, there is a belief system: “I believe that God created them to serve us...I believe that I am superior.” Based upon these beliefs a constitution is developed that embodies them. "I believe they are subhuman. I am codifying my belief into a law that say[s] they are 3/5 of a person, which will forever determine the way in which we deal with them…. ~The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Self Improvement: The Basis For Community Development Four Great Impediments To Self-Development National Center | 7351 South Stony Island Ave. | Chicago, IL 60649 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice