The White Man's Education

Informations

• Publié par: rootsoda9
• Publié le: 04 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• Licence : En savoir +
  Paternité, partage des conditions initiales à l'identique
• Langue: English

Extrait

the white mans education The kids were questioning why they had to venture to school to obtain the "white man's education." In both cases I never reached give a solution, since they weren't talking to me, though I desperately wished to. Afterwards I remember convinced that this attitude was probably a growing one among young African Americans. From my own, personal experiences I really could discover how such nonsense could be attractive, particularly among youngsters mesmerized by street lifestyles and trying to find a slick sounding reason to develop up illiterate and parasitical. Bill Mullen Inasmuch as Forty Million Along With A Tool's primary thrust is to secure our birthright of wealth, it can be equally necessary to confront the countless other obstacles standing in the way of our comprehensive advancement; one of which is this obvious psychologically crippling notion that this basic literacy public schools offer our little ones is somehow harmful, evil or irrelevant. Clearly, this misguided rebellion has its roots during the legitimate protest against long-standing bias in educational testing as well as the virtual absence of African and African American brilliance in textbooks, to say the least. Yet, somehow our little ones took it to a level of lunacy that points our future toward nothing more than defiant self-destruction. Some of them truly believe that they have to rebel from the "white man's education." Once I attended elementary school for almost all of the 1960's the one blacks I remember researching were Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver and Constance Baker Motley. In the home I knew about other famous blacks like Willie Mays, Nat King Cole and Lena Horne, but didn't quite obtain the sense that whatever they did was vitally important. It was actually simply the three dead ones and Ms. Motley that this teachers seemed to hold in virtually any esteem. Crispus died for freedom; George did many things with peanuts; Benjamin drew plans for constructing the nation's capitol and made a clock, while Ms. Motley became a federal judge. Which was it! Anybody else who did anything great or important was white. As for reading, writing, arithmetic and regular school subjects it was taught which the Greeks started everything, and that's the way it stood for me personally before the mid-seventies. It turned out then i discovered that the Greeks started very little of anything; certainly not reading, writing, mathematics, biology, literature, history, philosophy or mythology. In reality, I learned there is no such thing since the "white man's education." While this is common knowledge now, picture the mix of emotions I experienced as i found that the Greeks were educated, and others, by Africans; that Plato, Aristotle among others attested to Greece's indebtedness to Egypt; that Greece's greatest historian, Herodotus, described these Egyptians as people with "burnt skin and woolly hair." It turned out essentially the most freeing and astonishing feeling I'd ever experienced. It had been also the angriest I'd ever felt; a similar anger, I suspect, our the younger generation feel because they encounter the debilitating negative effects of an educational system that assigns in their eyes inferior status, both historically and from now on.