So a prestigious educational institution, the University of North Carolina was falsely issuing student athletes passing grades for classes they never set foot in, to keep them eligible so they could remain on the court or playing field. In other words, those who hatched and carried out this conspiracy cheated the student athletes, their parents, the tax payers, and those who showed up and performed their best or the best they could. But what I am incensed about is that of all the departments they couldve chosen to commit this fraud; it was someone’s idea that the African and African-American studies departments would be the place to pull this sham. What message does that send about a people and subjects that have as much or more validity as any other department, e. g. Engineering, Business, Human and Natural sciences, Law, etc. African and African-American history is Human History, not a “pass-through course. And these are probably the same people who have for Centuries, lied, manipulated, and withheld the truth about our history, and worked hard to create in us a disinterest about our own past. They resisted “integrating” or weaving African and African-American history alongside other subjects, from K-12 grade to Ph. d. If you are old enough, you know those courses did not come without a fight, mostly during the “Civil Rights” era. So if you are not from European ancestry, or if you happen to be American of African descent, you don’t get the same degree of importance when it comes to your history. This is one of the reasons “Signification” and “Identity”, e. g. naming or renaming ourselves away from the names and culture of our former Slave Masters is part of the central ethos of many indigenous African-Americans and also why we as African-Americans will, and have appropriated other cultures, names, dress, food, e. g. perms/curls, Mohawk, Dred-locks, a French beret, etc. It is also one of the reasons Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick, of Toronto, Canada said in a lecture, “When you travel overseas, you can always tell an African-American Muslim brother, he will be wearing a turban from Pakistan or India, a Thobe/Jalibiyyah from Saudi Arabia or Egypt, a kifiyyah (checkered scarf) from Palestine, and Sandals from the Sudan or Yemen” and the walk will also give him away, because we are just cool like that.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:10:17 +0000
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