Igniting The Fire, Brings The Light, From Invisibility to Academic Viability & Excellence

R. E. Vincent Daniels

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A young African American man had a vision to bring forth an education system that he himself had never experienced. The existing education institutional system never addressed his self esteem, nor encouraged his quest for academic excellence. People of color were never looked upon or considered note worthy of recognition in or out of the classroom setting; for that matter, society in large part erased the acknowledgement of people of African origin, along with all others peoples of color. They, along with the majority of people of color, have been fundamentally omitted from historical text, therefore declared invisible in the annals of time and thereby denied their rightful and deserved greatness. What was assigned to them in historical studies has been minuscule in nature and often demeaning.

He recalled this disparity having begun to take hold/surface around the third grade in his public school lesson plan. What was often highlighted was Slavery; the Civil War; Emancipation by President Lincoln; Jim Crow and the Civil Right Movement. Africans were deemed never to have any history of any significance nor importance, for that matter, prior to their contact and eventual enslavement by Europeans. That is quite the contrary as Renaldo would subsequently come to realize, as he sort to educate himself on whom were the true African peoples of the world. It was his past educational encounters, which were to later ignite this dream to create a Charter School platform in honor of the African University known as Sankore, located in the town Timbuktu of the Mali Empire. Declared to be the world’s first university of higher educational learning.  

Sujets

• Teaching
• Histoire
• Study
• History

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• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 30 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781977263445
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Foreword
W ORDS OF E NCOURAGEMENT
" Engaging to Make It So, Cosmic Shift, a Quantum Leap, from Academic Ignorance & Bigotry to a World of Literacy of Enlightenment & Respect. The Nexus of education VS indoctrination, Eurocentric curriculum and syllabus VS (DEI) Diversity Equity and Inclusion = Fair representation that build the esteem of all students. The doubling down on specific Eurocentric education is the nexus of White Supremacy/Privilege that is the incubator for Institutional Racial Bias/Racism in the vulnerable minds of young children in a subliminally and covertly manner. The prevailing culture, movies and literary works also play a role in propitiating the theory of racial superiority over all others. This scenario can only be corrected when true DEI is fully implemented across the broad dynamic of society world wide.
B IO
R. E. Vincent Daniels B.S. and M.S. college degrees
Born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant community in Bklyn. NYC in the times of segregation/American Apartheid that in large part persists in these United States of American even thought it manifest itself in different fashion over the years, book banning and Critical Race Theory (CRT). I. E. Concerns that American is stuck in the racial muck, but want to now make it Quick Sand so things will revert to its ugly radical racist past.
I am a parent of three and a grandparent of three, four boys and two girls of African decent. The adult children all are products of a public school system with standardized curriculum and syllabus which is geared toward a Eurocentric inferences. The theme of this book projects a possible future to perhaps resolve, if not respond to this trend of racial eraser, appropriate and denial that haunt the western culture, society and religion at so many levels for centuries by design in order to maintain control/supremacy. Scientific facts and data support this without any doubt and it is being reinforced, however truth shall raise no matter the lies being propagated. Much of the story is drawn from first hand experiences in a public school classroom environments that showed little to no respect for any people of color, rather they be Native American, Asian Pacific, Hispanic or from the African diaspora. The false lessons that the educational system indoctrinates the student body with is that those of European heritage are inherently superior to all peoples of color and therefore can regard those peoples of color as less then human beings of any worth. America in particular is the current incubator for such thinking and export this mind set around the world. My works of " See Us, From Whence We Come" (2020) & "Truth Awaken, Darling to Dream of Past Glory in order to Envision Future Greatness" (2021) both were designed to contradict this false narrative from the prospective of youthful minds when they are helped to do the due diligence to research their true history of their family homeland of origin. The resulting self esteem explosion translates into a life changing thirst for all world knowledge and the students then reach for their personnel academic pinnacle. This work hopes to provide a vision of a method of pushback that presents a path to correct this pandemic of racial bias that dominates America’s fiber from culture and throughout society in general. The suggested approach, if implemented, might possibly began to heal the US and the world of this power paradigm that permeat our everyday lives in our country and the globe, no matter who we are, because it is built on hate and that people are afraid of each other, thereby a lack of respect for other’s humanity and their true contributions to the world we all share.
D EDICATION
This book is dedicated to my mother, Edna Vincent and father, Philip G. Daniels Jr. who’s principals and teaching help shaped and guided me, which in turn afforded me the chance to be the best I could be. They set up the support network, along with other family members like my grandmother, Bertha Oates Daniels; it is a established structure that is always required by all young children to develop the required prerequisite of a strong self esteem, which is so very critical to a path leading to a successful life. My mother was a pioneer who was on the frontlines to fight for my brother Nat (Norman) and I, along with other students of color in our community, to be exposed to the superior academic education we deserved and the busing required to attend an predominantly European American primary school setting that was designed to be so much more advance when compared to my deprived segregated neighborhood academic construct. My father, in turn, taught me to look to those African superstars that historical shaped the world as role models. This was my winning formula to a life path forward.
In the 21st Century, 2022, we still remain stuck in a Eurocentric school curriculum and syllabus that many in the public insist on doubling down on with the false narrative of so call Critical Race Theory (CRT). The positive response is the reclaiming of our humanity by telling our stories that western society, culture and religion refuses to recognize and often appropriates for itself or omits completely in order to maintain their traditional projected false historical superiority.
B OOK I NTRODUCTION
" Igniting The Fire, Brings The Light, From Invisibility to Academic Viability & Excellence"
A young African American man had a dream to bring forth an education system that he himself had never experienced. The existing education institutional system never really addressed his self esteem nor encouraged his quest for academic excellence. People of color were never looked upon or considered note worthy of recognition in and out of the classroom setting; for that matter society in large part erased the acknowledgement of people of African origin, along with others peoples of color. They, along with the majority of people of color, were intentionally omitted from historical text, therefore declared invisible in the annals of time and thereby denied their truly rightful and deserved greatness. What was assigned to them in historical studies was minuscule in nature and often demeaning.
He recalled this disparity took hold around the third grade in the public school he attended in New York City; the borough of Brooklyn to be exact. What was often highlighted was slavery; the Civil War; Emancipation by President Lincoln; Jim Crow and the Civil Right Movement. Africans were deemed never to have any historical significance prior to their contact and subsequent enslavement by Europeans. That was quite the contrary, as Renaldo came to realize when he sort to educate himself on who were the true African peoples of the world. Bedford Stuyvesant was the community he was raised in. His parents and extended family embedded in him the philosophy of never accepting the narrative that doesn’t feel comfortable because it excludes some while elevating certain others. If you don’t know, then seek the knowledge and if you do know, impart your knowledge to others who don’t know; speak your narrative which must be verifiable "Truth to Power". Much of what is accepted knowledge, is no more than a false narrative designed to empower some, while subjecting the other to a state of mind of inferiority.
It is the doubling down on historical eraser, appropriate and banning of truth in culture, religion and education, which is nothing new. We all must gain our power and be encouraged to express our truth whenever and wherever the opportunity present itself; inform the uninformed! The nexus of knowledge is the "Truth to Power", a push back to the often accepted false narrative that mis-states and/or appropriates the historical facts used to elevate racial bias.
His Dream charter school academy aim was to become a beacon of light that would illuminate the portal to the greatness so often denied to the world’s people of color. This beacon of light would become to be known as the Sankofa Academy, as it was the derivative of his family upbringing which he never forgot. He sort the assistance of others to bring his dream to life, always seeking the input from the community he sort to serve. Closing the vast gap in the loop of intellectual knowledge was to him a winning formula he came to trust as a trained Electronic Engineer and person who fell in love with STEM early in life. In science, the burden is set on verifiable proof of facts and traceability; this is what he sort to bring to the forefront in an academic setting. Knowing what pushback to expected, established the solid foundation for the work required to therefore incapsulate his journey along the way in order to have this dream ever to become a reality.
Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that translates to "Go back and get it" ( san to return; ko to go; fa to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Asante Adinkrasymbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned