 |
| 100 percent of the 2010 senior class at Chicago's all male, all African-American Englewood Academy is accepted to universities |
When this story hit the news last spring Plantation Negros throughout the land rejoiced. The charming little tale of the handsome young black boys who wore ties and blazers to class and who were all accepted to college, was an overnight internet sensation. Aunts, cousins, church ladies, Bone-N-The-Nose pseudo-radicals and corporate negros alike shared emails, linked on Facebook and gave Hi-Fives like the black team just hit a three-pointer at the buzzer.
Not since Joe Louis kicked Max Schmelling's ass did so many black people share a warm fuzzy moment of victory.
Why?
What is the collective value of "100% of a class of black males" accepted to a college or university in 2010? What is the real value of this singular event?
These young men will pay thousands of dollars and go into debt in exchange for a piece of paper. Why?
Let's be honest. The perceived value of the integrationist fantasy we call college, transcends the tangible value of the so-called "education" one purchases from the degree industry.
Colleges and universities are businesses. They are not fountains of egalitarianism. They don't provide education, they sell a promise.
What is the promise? ... a job.
A job on the Plantation.
Funny thing is, they can't even promise that anymore.
A promise of a job is about as valuable as a promise of a ride on the Titanic.
Yet, Plantation Negros still over-value the sacred pilgrimage to the Secular Temples of Higher Learning because they see it as a civilizing ritual. A place where black boys can go and get tamed. Transformed from field Negros to house Negros.
The petit bourgeois incubate hope that this piece of paper will serve as permanent admission into a life of middle-classeddness. Another lie.
In 1960? Yes. In 1980? Maybe. In 2010? Hell No.
Garvey and Elijah Muhammad were right. Only fools send their sons to their oppressor to be "educated". Black people will be better off when we circulate an email about 100 young black boys successfully home-schooled.
"In 2006, the University of Connecticut set out to discover how much learning happens in a student between entering as freshmen and graduating as a senior. Five academic areas were selected to measure, using 14,000 students at 50 American colleges, including Yale, Brown and Georgetown. At 16 of those 50 - including Yale, Brown, and Georgetown - graduating seniors knew less than incoming freshmen. Negative growth had occurred. In the other 34, no measurable change had taken place.
11 comments:
Only 43% of Afrikan American males are graduating from high school. Dr. Bacon-Bey would like to see that percentage reduced to zero.
Handerchief Head NAACP Negro Makheru Bradley would like to perpetuate the illusion that "high school graduation" empowers black men.
Actually he doesn't.
He's not interested in empowerment.
Plantation Negros are afraid of empowerment.
If black men actually became educated and empowered Plantation Negros wouldn't have anything to blame on white men.
Garvey and Elijah Muhammad were right.
Negros have held black people back more than white people have deterred our progress.
While this story received a lot of coverage, what was underreported was the fact that Urban Prep is one of the few high schools in the country founded and operated by African-American men. I believe that's very positive. I also believe it's very positive that all of the graduates were admitted to college. What they learn in college will be up to them as will what they do with their lives after graduating from college.
Dv... you got a job base on your education, right?
Homeschooling is an excellent choice to educate todays young person. I wish more of us see that it is a better alternative to being educated in government schools.Oh wait minute, we can't do that, we will have to give up our mercedes and lavish lifestyle to do that, Nahhhhh we got to get ours!
I would love to conjure up an articulate rebuttal to your argument, but the only thing that comes to mind is: That's some ol bullshit you talkin. College cannot guarantee anyone success, and individuals with drive and motivation can certainly succeed without a degree... but what's your proposed alternative for that class of young black men? Stay at home and start a business? Come on man. Stop hatin.
If black men actually became educated and empowered Plantation Negros wouldn't have anything to blame on white men.—Dr. Bacon-Bey
Became educated how, where, and by whom? You’re proposing home schooling as a solution—LOL. Seventy-two percent of Afrikan American children are being born into a single-parent situation. Are you suggesting that these parents home school their children? The fact is, to the extent that you propose any solutions in the midst of your tsunami of criticism, they are always individually oriented. No solutions at all for the masses of our people.
The Honorable Booker T. Washington, a man clearly dedicated to the education of the masses of his people believed that Afrikan Americans who acquired skilled trades would be self-sufficient. He built an institution to facilitate that process. There is no doubt the anti-institution, individualistic Bacon-Bey would have opposed Washington with the same irrational arguments he’s proliferating today.
"Became educated how, where, and by whom? You’re proposing home schooling as a solution—LOL" - The Government Dependent Civil Rights Negro
Funny how Plantation Negros can't EVEN IMAGINE BLACK MEN GETTING AN EDUCATION unless they get it from the government.
Peep that?
To this brother ... the idea that a genuine education can be obtained from anyplace other than his master is patently absurd.
Explains much.
Makheru ... Bra ...
If the government has failed to educate black men for the past 100 years ... why do you expect them to educate them next year?
Makheru ... Bra ...
If 100% of black boys "graduated" from High School next year ... what difference would it make?
Schools do not Educate.
They indoctrinate.
Educated people are not dependent on the government.
The school system is put in place TO KEEP Negros dependent.
Don't you get that?
Funny how Plantation Negros can't EVEN IMAGINE BLACK MEN GETTING AN EDUCATION unless they get it from the government.—Dr. Bacon-Bey
Funny how the High Priest of Moorish Science, who seeks unity with Po White Folks, can’t stay on task and respond to a challenge (No solutions at all for the masses of our people). You talk about independent Black education. I’ve experienced it, as a student at Malcolm X Liberation University, and as a volunteer at the Pan African Work Center, an elementary school in ATL.
The quest for Black Studies in the university in the 1960s was expectantly met with resistance. That resistance led to the formation of a number of independent Black educational institutions in the 1970s: The Center for Black Education in DC; the Chad School in NewArk; MXLU in Durham/Greensboro; the Pan African Work Center in ATL; the Institute for Positive Education—New Concept School in Chicago. The IPE/NCS is the only one of these institutions still in existence. The thrust of independent Black education continues today, largely via charter schools. These were and are real people actually trying to solve an enormous problem, rather than jacking their jaws in the peace and comfort of a suburban enclave in Cali.
Two of the major cultural issues affecting the education of Afrikan American children are low need motivation and low need achievement. As Dr. Amos Wilson points out in The Developmental Psychology of The Black Child: “achievement motivation must exist in the culture of before there are schools which primarily serve principally means by which certain achievement motives attain their ends.” In my opinion that’s the real story at Urban Prep—the fact that these young Afrikan American males overcame low need achievement and low need motivation. That alone has enhanced their possibilities in life, naysayers be damned.
"Funny how the High Priest of Moorish Science, who seeks unity with Po White Folks, can’t stay on task and respond to a challenge (No solutions at all for the masses of our people)" Mr. Wi Need A. Progwam
Solution?
For "all the masses"?
Yeah.
I've got one.
It is: "Get A Chick. Marry Her. Make A Baby. Everything Else Is Talk."
That's all "the masses" need.
Families educate children. Not governments. Not "communities". Not "ghetto volunteers".
Fathers educate.
Mothers educate.
Schools create employees and soldiers.
Self-righteous Goody Two-Shoe Muhfuggas always talking about saving millions of people simultaneously are just talking shit.
You can pop that "We Are The World" meme if you want Makheru.
I'm talking to the people who want to save themselves.
If you want to save yourself ... eat natural food.
If you want to save yourself ... use natural medicine.
If you want to save yourself ... don't mistake Plantation Schooling for education.
"Two of the major cultural issues affecting the education of Afrikan American children are low need motivation and low need achievement. " MB
Bullshit.
Black children lack neither motivation nor need for achievement.
They are endowed with ample supplies of both.
The mind-numbing dumbing down process of Plantation schools causes the problems.
Bone-N-The-Nose Negros ran off and formed little Negro versions of Plantation schools that did not work either.
So instead of blaming themselves for failing to provide black children adequate avenues to education, they create little conspiracy theories that ultimately blame black children for "failing to achieve" or possessing "low-motivation".
Get An Education. Fuck School.
...and again, would you please tell the audience why your kids continue to ATTEND SCHOOL?
Families educate children. Not governments. Not "communities". Not "ghetto volunteers". – Dr. Bacon-Bey
Yes sir, and what splendid example of family “education” you are.
Not communities???? That’s brilliant. Every intelligent person knows that socialization has no impact on education
Not “ghetto volunteers.” It does not matter if you’re referring to the person or the Summerhill community, how would you know? How many homes of the families you’re calling upon to educate their children have you been in? How many books have you purchased for children who live in homes with no books and no one to read to them? How many children have you taught, and exposed via field trips to things they had never experienced. ZERO!!!!! That’s your number, because you have your mind stuck between your ass in the comfort of your suburban enclave in Cali.
“Fathers educate.” Yeah—via the lessons of abandonment their children learn.
“Mothers educate.” Research the demographics on home-schooled children and tell us how many are being educated by single mothers.
“Black children lack neither motivation nor need for achievement.” That stroke of ignorance must be a product of your family education. It’s guaranteed that you’re never read a single word of brilliant scholars like our Esteemed Ancestor Dr. Amos Wilson and Dr. Jwanza Kunjufu, but you’re clearly qualified to refute their scholarship because your family educated you. Who needs scholars when you have parents like Bacon-Bey?
“They are endowed with ample supplies of both.” By whom, and where are the manifestations of this claim?
“Bone-N-The-Nose Negros ran off and formed little Negro versions of Plantation schools that did not work either.” Oh, so that’s why I have a COINTELPRO file. We had “little Negro versions of Plantation schools.” LOL
“So instead of blaming themselves for failing to provide black children adequate avenues to education, they create little conspiracy theories that ultimately blame black children for failing to achieve or possessing low-motivation.” Slow your roll pimp. How many adequate avenues of education have you attempted to provide? Must be that family education which leads one to confuse sociological data (which clearly does not blame Black children, but it does identify root causes and propose solutions) with conspiracy theories—which OBTW are the realm of you and your little imps, not anyone I’ve ever been associated with.
Post a Comment