My friends know me as one who preach the necessity of
education and while many who hear this from me do not understand exactly what I
mean. Here I give some meaning to this statement.
There are a few so called prep schools in the US that cater
to Black students. These schools are mostly ran and controlled by Black
educators supported by US grants, Black businesses and rich white men or Corporations.
From these schools a very large percentage graduate and go
on to college and earn a degree and become community contributors in some
manner.
Example see: http://diverseeducation.com/article/64731/
AS I stated my friends understand me when I say education is
the path to freedom, and control of our destiny.
What I mean by that is Blacks as a group have to know who
they are, how they got to be where they are here in the US and how to rise
above their current condition to become respected and treated as equal in the
economic and political structure here in the US. They also have to speak up and
not be afraid to discuss the difficult issues of racism and how they are
affected by it.
That cannot happen unless Blacks control who teach their
children (Blacks as a whole are the only group that do not teach their own
children) and ensure that they are taught as I have outlined above along with
clear understanding and concepts of science, math and other subjects. Taught to
not get caught up in the propaganda that they cannot rise above the menial
positions that those who own the jobs provide for them and that they can get to
own the corporations and then hire their own as others do, to work together to
gain a position to purchase businesses and grow income producing enterprises.
To know their rich history, respect each other and know who they are, family
pride, and be proud of their Blackness. To understand how important it is to be
a part of society and understand the moral codes that unite all people. (Could
be taught in a two hour Saturday or Sunday class)
As things exist today we, Blacks
are last to get hired and seldom in the higher paying positions, why?
We are targeted at an early age
for all kind of made crimes for blacks. Justice is perpetrated against blacks. See: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/16/3167371/racist-criminal-justice-destroying-democracy/
You could learn a lot by listening to Nell Bernstein (http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318801651/burning-down-the-house-makes-the-case-against-juvenile-incarceration )“A
black kid today is almost five times more likely to be locked up as a white kid
who committed the exact same crime. ... Eighty to 90 percent of all American
teenagers in confidential interviews will acknowledge that they have committed
an offense or offenses that under the law they could be locked up for. Most of
those kids, nothing happens. There are not police cruisers in my neighborhood.
If my son [who is white] happened to be standing on the corner, he's not going
to be stopped and frisked. And if he happened to have bag of marijuana in his
pocket, nobody is going to find it. Those kinds of differential treatment ...
permeate the system from arrest all the way through re-entry [into the
community].”
“Destroying the youth
cripples the adults.” GB
We the adults being
already crippled must teach our young so they will not be crippled and after
all of us die out they will have a better chance to accomplish the means to
succeed, “overcome” rise above the crippled conditions.
When we are portrayed
as nonproductive and criminal thinking in the media, and in the verbal language
by others we are doomed to our own means of defense. It than is up to us to change our lot and we
can’t do that by listening to those who have already been conditioned to
believe such nonsense.
Here is an example of
Black middle class work positions that those in power have attacked subtly and
most have not even noticed. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/20/us-post-office-job-cuts-black-middle-class_n_2514917.html
Now do you understand
why I say education is the key to arriving at a position where all the rest of
the world will respect us and we will gain a position of equality?
Don’t be
misunderstanding what I am saying here, I am not advocating separate societies
or separate schools. Nor am I saying that others are evil or not able to work
with Blacks. I am saying that Blacks have to see themselves as people of color,
Black people in this USA and strive to overcome the misdeeds and inequality
they have endured since coming to these shores.
The home of African
Americans, Blacks here, is AMERICA and African Americans have no other home and
are not wholly accepted anywhere else because of the stigma placed on them by
the rulers of the US.A and as such they, Blacks have to remove that stigma
themselves and stop depending on those who placed it on them to do so; it is
not to others advantage to do it. (That does not exclude Africa as our mother
land)
Education, position,
business, political might and means, means being ownership of property and
assets, is the only answer as I see it and it will never be given out right, we,
as a group, have to earn it by making it happen.
OK I rambled a bit,
but you get the meaning. So what do you think, give me your opinion and
comments.
