We must be about the business of liberating the minds of Black children. In order for that to occur, the minds of all Blacks who interact with them must also be liberated. There is no other way. It is relatively easy to educate Black children, even about their Africanity. But, it is extremely difficult to reinforce the education. Therefore, even sitting in the same classroom, white children will be educated and Black children will be trained. The white child will be taught how to rule and the Black child trained to be ruled. Training is defined as teaching a group what to think rather than how to think, making them dependent rather than assisting in developing skills which could be used for independent activity, rewarding behavior that operates against their groups interest, promoting individual rather than group achievement, and instilling negative self-concepts and low self-esteem. The opposite of the above mentacidal process (training) is education in which the learning process becomes a liberating force. Black independent schools are important not only for how they teach but for what is taught. Their purpose of instilling within Black children an Afrikan Worldview is the most important activity those children will ever experience. Black parents whose children are not in independent schools should at a minimum expose them to a well-structured supplemental Black educational program. Some of the most dangerous Blacks in the world are many of those brothers and sisters who finished graduate school with honors and yet operate against the interest of Blacks because of their eurocentric orientation. The writer does not mean to imply that Blacks should not attempt to achieve high levels of training in white institutions, but should be aware that it is not education they are receiving. Bobby E. Wright The Black Child -- A Destiny in Jeopardy
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:56:24 +0000
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