.”By exploring and analyzing the interdependence of the various institutions within the society (e.g., educational, legal, religious, and political), we can see how the status quo is maintained, social realities are fostered, and the development of potential for human growth is negatively influenced” (1)
“Both Boateng (1990) and Spring (1997) identified the public school as a major agent of African American deculturalization (brain-washing). I agree; however, I would add that nearly all American educational institutions –
Black, White, public, private, day care to college – must be placed along side the public schools as agents of deculturalization. In fact, no aspect of American education is free of this curse except the African centered independent school whose sole mission, if it is functioning properly, is to decolonize or re-Africanize Black students and their families.” (2)
“By embracing European perspectives exclusively, Africans cut themselves off from self-knowledge. And when that occurs, deculturalization claims another victim. Fortunately, Black conceptual incarceration in large measure is self-imposed.” (3)
“Africans in "America" can choose to expand their cultural frames of reference and consciously embrace their African and Native "American" heritages. And when this happens, their conceptual incarceration ends.” (4)
(1) Myers, Linda James, Ph.D. & Speight, Suzette L., Ph.D., "Reframing Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Persons of African Descent: Africana/Black Psychology Meeting the Challenges of Fractured Social and Cultural Realities,"The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2010, June), vol.3, no.8, p. 68.
(2) Hotep, Dr. Uhuru, "Decolonizing the African Mind-Further Analysis and Strategy," Accessed 04/10/15, p. 4, http://www.scribd.com/doc/99562978/Decolonizing-the-African-Mind-Further-Analysis-and-Strategy-by-Dr-Uhuru-Hotep
(3) Ibid., p. 5
(4) Ibid.
