tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.comments2023-11-03T08:24:58.157-04:00Black EducatorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-39483550496373364582018-04-06T00:43:21.639-04:002018-04-06T00:43:21.639-04:00Wow. I agree 1000% but I never can share my though...Wow. I agree 1000% but I never can share my thoughts without being accused of self hate which is not true. In fact I love that I am black and because I love black people, I want the best for us. The mind is so powerful and and the tongue is powerful as well. When I hear people constantly claim this “oppression”-I’m not a fool, I realize oppression is real, BUT, what I won’t do is declare myself to be less than. Ever. I hear so often “well white people see it as this...” People don’t realize the power they give someone by accepting that believe. If a white called me right now and told me I was worthless and called me names, does that make it true? Because he’s white? I know who I am and who I am in Christ. I’m so thankful that my parents helped me understand this as a child, I was never told by anyone in my family that I should behave a certain way or operate a certain way (walk on eggshells) around and for white people. It’s because of this mindset that I’ve accomplished what I have and what I’ve experienced simply because I never accepted that I couldn’t. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” knowledge of self. Stop believing what someone tells you that you are, regardless of the circumstances. Jesus was beaten and called a false prophet, crucified, does that make Him any less the Lord?<br /><br />Please excuse any grammatical errors. Loving myselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05472663488564571545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-85538831487776339902016-12-08T15:27:32.670-05:002016-12-08T15:27:32.670-05:00Excellent and insightful piece. Everyone should re...Excellent and insightful piece. Everyone should read Dr. Horne's works.Michael Terronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176924595941701136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-44155548667026500842016-11-28T22:39:59.173-05:002016-11-28T22:39:59.173-05:00I have some classic photos I took of Kwame Toure ...I have some classic photos I took of Kwame Toure during a debate at the university of cincinnati.I also have an original book written by him without a barcode on itSoul60https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055482876267188240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-48564173731753434582016-10-19T21:35:46.001-04:002016-10-19T21:35:46.001-04:00Love this article and the title of the blog!Love this article and the title of the blog!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00546629642548029783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-26675321965966283102016-05-31T01:27:45.992-04:002016-05-31T01:27:45.992-04:00Since the Dufuna canoe was discovered by a local F...Since the Dufuna canoe was discovered by a local Fulani herdsman in 1987 archaeologists have been in a frenzy about the discovery. Dufuna is a village along the Komodugu Gana River, in Fune local government area of Yobe State, Nigeria. The age of the boat has been put at about 8000 years old (6000 B.C.E.), thus, becoming the oldest boat in Africa and third oldest on earth. It predates the Egyptian Solar Boat by over 2000 years.<br />Please check the article with image of the boat on my blog linked below. http://ancientblackhistory.blogspot.co.uk/Ramissishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797840964200197799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-72693271054158572212016-05-12T00:53:46.605-04:002016-05-12T00:53:46.605-04:00This person is using information to critique the l...This person is using information to critique the letter that is really not sound. The white media uses speculation daily when trying to articulate what transpired in any given situation. He is doing the exact same thing. No once can climb into a persons mind and figure out why they said or did something. He makes a statement about grammatical errors. Hell, I guess that he hasn't read too many documents from the founding fathers, they are full of grammatical errors. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09724980853245437571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-9637218670521248302016-03-31T11:21:32.994-04:002016-03-31T11:21:32.994-04:00Powerful work. Thanks for posting.
Powerful work. Thanks for posting.<br />Christella D. Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520572530501992404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-43483518690107652016-03-28T20:34:54.417-04:002016-03-28T20:34:54.417-04:00Bravo mother!!!Bravo mother!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-9523884315491973402015-10-31T20:03:25.008-04:002015-10-31T20:03:25.008-04:00Hi, great post! I came across your site while sear...Hi, great post! I came across your site while searching for English Language Arts curriculum resources that were designed by African-Americans. Do you know of any resources? I'm coming up with nothing tangible that I can actually use. I see lessons and suggestions, but I'm actually looking for a curriculum that can be used like the textbooks teachers are given. <br /><br />Thanks! BGMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09515922323009383563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-63464583105659123302015-07-31T11:44:47.439-04:002015-07-31T11:44:47.439-04:00First of all I applaud the W.E.B. DuBois program. ...First of all I applaud the W.E.B. DuBois program. I was impressed by one of its Mission Statements: Not by attacking the problem, but by strengthening the solution. Right now, in 2015, this makes perfect sense. They ARE killing our people because, for right now, they can. Obviously our attacking them back is not working. What I got from reading about the W.E.B. DuBois program is we need to use our intellect by training our young people to find a doable solution and make it strong. I humbly bow down to this program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-23282326170092420662015-01-05T14:03:13.157-05:002015-01-05T14:03:13.157-05:00This is a fabulous summary. excellent sources. C...This is a fabulous summary. excellent sources. Can I make a plug for my book? Lessons from Freedom Summer (from Common Courage Press, with foreword by Howard Zinn)<br />I also want to highlight the two sources, crmvet.org and Hands on the Freedom Plow. <br />thank you! Kathy EmeryKathy Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038518567566419311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-12067120505643606672015-01-02T14:30:36.469-05:002015-01-02T14:30:36.469-05:00Sad reality. Instead of acting as the natural huma...Sad reality. Instead of acting as the natural human beings we are, whenever in "risqué" situations we're forced to lighten the tone of our voices, put on a fake smile, and act polite in hopes of NOT being targeted. <br /><br />- @JontheurbangetAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00063160411959500918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-156669741056755342014-09-30T01:10:54.036-04:002014-09-30T01:10:54.036-04:00HI Jay,
Interesting comment. Quite a severe atta...HI Jay, <br /><br />Interesting comment. Quite a severe attack there and in line with everything I have ever been taught about Israel's rightful place in Palestine. <br /><br />I think your education system, wherever you were unfortunate enough to go to school, has wholly underserved you. Or perhaps you are just lazy. <br /><br />"Jews comprised a majority of the poulatio in the land originally partitioned as Israel before a single Arab was ever displaced by the 1948 war."<br /><br />I'm no historian. Probably all the better.<br /><br />However, it doesn't take one to pull directly from the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine Report to the General Assembly, September 3, 1947, to see it is clear the Jews were absolutely positively NOT the majority in Palestine.<br /><br />To use your own words, whoever you are (your profile no longer exists so I am assuming you are another Israeli Hasbara Troll) you are in fact the one "warped and devoid of facts."<br /><br />Save the dull cries of anti-Semitism. The Holocaust was terrible, but I will not support another one with my US tax dollars to allow the victim to become the victimizer. Especially after the Gaza War.<br /><br />Again, The Jews were definitely, positively and absolutely NOT a majority in Mandated Palestine, at least in 1947.<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br />14. It will have been noticed that not only has there been a remarkably rapid increase in the total population of Palestine but also the proportion of Jews in the total has greatly increased, from 12.91 -per cent in 1922 to 32.96 per cent in 1946. Conversely, of course, the Arab proportion has fallen since 1922. The Moslem proportion of the population (almost entirely Arab) has fallen from about 75 per cent of the total to 60 per cent, and the Christian proportion (very largely Arab) from 11 per cent to 8 per cent. Thus, at the present time about one-third of the total settled population is Jewish.<br /><br />Arabs, 1,203,000; Jews, 608,000; others, 35,000; Total, 1,846,000.<br /><br />United Nations Special Committee on Palestine Report to the General Assembly, September 3, 1947, http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/07175de9fa2de563852568d3006e10f3?OpenDocument.<br />Folke Murnodottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18018111875555195737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-84179439367818883922014-09-18T22:31:49.679-04:002014-09-18T22:31:49.679-04:00It is terrifying to me that you are a history prof...It is terrifying to me that you are a history professor at an American university. Your description of the population in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1940s is so warped and devoid of facts that it makes me wonder whether you've ever actually read a history book about it. It would take you all of about 10 minutes of actual historical studying to realize that Jews comprised a majority of the population in the land originally partitioned as Israel before a single Arab was ever displaced by the 1948 war. A real historian would also know that Jews of Middle Eastern origin comprised over half of the Jewish population of Israel by the end of the 1948 war. <br /><br />I could go on and on, but you really give up the goat when you cite anti-Semitic rags like Mondoweiss and Electronic Intifada. That says it all. Jay Dubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16958380640847641201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-85907139162282000792014-08-11T02:17:30.937-04:002014-08-11T02:17:30.937-04:00Thank you for this article, it was very enlighteni...Thank you for this article, it was very enlightening. I would like to know if by what you meant as Fibonnicci's "arab Tutor" you were referencing the Moors in Europe?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17581481892183521586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-72680111020959280402014-06-24T15:42:09.487-04:002014-06-24T15:42:09.487-04:00Congrats on publication of your article. Good des...Congrats on publication of your article. Good description of what is going on and good job connecting the dots between standardization, value added assessment, deskilling of teachers with the corporate deform. Very clear jargon free writing. Thanks for this, but I think your reliance on Braverman leads us away from considering how we got to this point and how we might turn the tables.<br /><br />I read Monopoly Capital over 20 years ago and can't even find my old copy but I recall that I thought at the time that Braverman romanticized craft production a bit and never paid much attention to how monopoly capitalists established political hegemony in the second half of the 19th century.<br /><br /> His focus on changes at the point of production was an important contribution but what other factors contributed to the defeat of the Homestead strikers in 1892 and more generally, blocked the working class from becoming a class for itself after the Civil War and Reconstruction, NLU, 8 hour movement, Populism? Was 1892 really the most significant defeat here? I was much more drawn to the explanation offered by of Theodore Allen on the role of white supremacy in US history. <br /><br />Similarly today, yes the corporate reform aims at the deskilling and transformation of work in the consciousness industry for control and profit, just as was done with steel production but what is the political economic context that has concentrated wealth and power to an unprecedented degree in the past 40 years and has turned back the clock on positive reforms made in curriculum and school governance as a result of the civil rights and Black liberation movements, anti war, student movements, opening of higher ed to working class students, etc. <br /><br />With regards to education prior to the corporate reform, I don't think we want to characterize it as primarily teacher directed, because it wasn't. Even in the 19th century curriculum was determined by what was in the "primers" and textbooks. In the early 20th century the factory model for schooling was already in place. Way back then Dewey raised up the model of student centered education in opposition and was forced out of Chicago before WWI. The best reforms we can point to prior to the corporate deform came from the mass struggles of the 60's and 70's. How the Unity Caucus came to be a leading opponent of many of these and divided the membership from the communities we serve is in my view the starting point for understanding the rise of neo liberalism and the corporate ed deform and how to fight back.<br />Peace,<br />Sean<br />Sean Ahernnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-77998180054318802014-05-16T12:11:47.202-04:002014-05-16T12:11:47.202-04:00Hmmm....this is eye openingHmmm....this is eye openingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-2767152747638295232014-05-13T10:35:16.994-04:002014-05-13T10:35:16.994-04:00The confusion this has wrought on the education of...The confusion this has wrought on the education of our children cannot be retrieved. As well, even simple research is hindered, not only concerning Egypt and Africa in General, but also ancient Shemitic, Hebrew and Israelites who share physical features. <br /><br />It is the most profound cover-up in the history of mankind. If not for the Bible I probably would question such an obvious fact about Egyptians and the nations of the world as well.<br /><br />Much more needs to be discussed about this particularly in the school system. It is criminal we have learned so little over the centuries about the origin of dark skinned people and have been subject to a European mis-education for their own selfish agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-30895653912788066492014-05-12T08:44:58.216-04:002014-05-12T08:44:58.216-04:00Dude,
You just opened my eyes. You are so right, I...Dude,<br />You just opened my eyes. You are so right, I mean some how, suddenly, terrorists group always are formed where we discover new resources. You didn't al-shahab forming in somalia or boko haram in nigeria b4 oil was discovered. Even al-qaida seems to do whatever the USA wanted, and they choose iraq to hide (never mind, lebonon, iran, and syria were muh better places to hide than Iraq!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-79492688732771163792014-04-22T11:40:04.433-04:002014-04-22T11:40:04.433-04:00Economic disparity? Then why do whites, asians, an...Economic disparity? Then why do whites, asians, and others who are of similar origins still seem to find a way to score high on these tests. How long can a group of people cry "poor me"? The Irish in the early 20th century suffered from economic disparity, now they've integrated into society, and score just as high as whites/asians. Why cant blacks do the same? Don't cry "economic disparity", read a bit about genetics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-9884357733624264762014-04-11T14:45:33.958-04:002014-04-11T14:45:33.958-04:00Abolitionist attended the meetings. Abolitionist attended the meetings. Jonnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799010973678553924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-67694587071255407992014-03-18T09:48:30.623-04:002014-03-18T09:48:30.623-04:00Many children’s books about African American Histo...Many children’s books about African American History puts the focus on the “white man’s” power; thereby overshadowing our true strength and accomplishments. Wow, that’s a big statement to make. It is! As a preschool teacher and Director and Founder of an African Heritage preschool this statement has repeatedly rung true during story time. <br /><br />I have searched far and wide to use story time a magical place where my students can learn about history and themselves. All of the kids are curled in their beds waiting to hear the story begin. I see their sleepy faces and drooping eyelids slowly shut as I read, but open up quickly when they hear an exciting moment. After the story the Question and Answer period begins. We have to remember the most magical part is their interpretation of the story. And boy do that have good questions to ask. I was reading Kadir Nelson’s “Heart and Soul”, a beautifully illustrated book. In fact, I have the book placed out of the reach of the children because the pictures are like painted masterpieces. As Nelson explains the history of Africans while in America he shows a picture of George Washington on a horse and an enslaved African standing next to him. <br /><br />One of my beautiful students proceeds to ask me, “is that God standing next to the man?” To be sure I know which man he is referring to I ask, “Is which person God?” He says the man on the horse, (George Washington). I respond by saying, “No, he was the first president of the United States.” My precocious four-year-old student asked again, “Well is he like God?” I was happy we were having this discussion. Not so much to talk about religion, but more so the imagery our children see and how they interpret the world around them. Furthermore, how they interpret themselves in this world. I respond to his question by comparing him to President Obama. And it seemed that satisfied his my mind. Thank God for the Obamas! But this still does not really answer the true question of how children of African Heritage understand their place in the world around them. <br /><br />In the Rosa Parks story a white man tells her to get up from her seat. A white man threw a brick at Dr. Martin Luther King. We were enslaved by white master’s. The Civil Rights Movement was about taking down the signs of White Only and Colored. These are all stories we continue to tell our children. While these stories allow our children to see people of African Heritage fight for justice and equality. It is very hard to tell a four-year-old sitting in your seat when a white man tells you to get up is an act of defiance without placing the power on the white man. Even though we are actually fighting to make a positive difference, the person with all the power is this “white man.” Thereby creating this power dynamic as godly. Based upon how we tell our stories this “white man” has all the control and power.<br /><br /> One of the things we have to do is use story time as this magical moment to create a new world. And in this world we take the phrase, “white man” out of it and just say “man.” In reality, we want our children to stand up for themselves regardless of who is trying exercise power or control over their being. This does not diminish the stories like Rosa Parks, it better illuminates their strength and power. <br />Moyahttp://www.innerchildartistry.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-7481058638530763532014-02-23T18:48:11.482-05:002014-02-23T18:48:11.482-05:00In celebration of Black History Month please check...In celebration of Black History Month please check out an updated version of my poem Jesus is Black. It’s on YouTube. Let me know what you think. If you like it, feel free to share it.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br /> http://youtu.be/TyrP-ZWZSCkTamam Tracy Moncurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387096001865950110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-56321539416145218962014-02-01T19:37:35.974-05:002014-02-01T19:37:35.974-05:00Excellent exposure revealing the hypocrisy of so-c...Excellent exposure revealing the hypocrisy of so-called scholars who hide under a rock of the present day realities of human exploitation, violence, racism in the name of freedom and democracy. Real academic freedom is under attack, the basic Human Rights resolutions established by the UN are ignored and/or violated, either by direct physical force or by academic acrobatics as expressed by Roth president of Wesleyan University, a university that is known for its so-called "liberalism."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365667.post-24344170206060698982014-01-12T16:09:37.016-05:002014-01-12T16:09:37.016-05:00Thanks a lot for this edition on the Willie Lynch ...Thanks a lot for this edition on the Willie Lynch Story. I'm not too familiar with it. In fake I was directed to this page by 1 of my fb friends. I myself educates on "Black Power". But Dividing of Our Own race. Will never get Us to the place We belong. We should not be suffering nor wanting 4 nothing! If We have been Slave driven all of those years? Wat did my ancestors do it all for??? (Nothing)???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com