“In regards to integration, we went wrong because we assumed an oppressor can afford to educate us. No one can afford to educate us on how to take their power away from them.” * (1)So we need to quit proudly claiming we're educated when we possess an education foreign to our African nature. To be proud of such education is to be proud of being dumbed down. It makes us sound, act and look like clowns.We, as an African people, must stop going to their schools and sending our kids to their schools thinking we can get degrees and live successfully in their economic, political and societal systems. This has always only been true for a few-just enough to make the lie believable. The climate has significantly changed again. If we do not have access to African-centered schools (not HBCU's), we must go into their schools, which includes HBCU's, with singular focus. That is to get what we need in order to establish independence of our basic needs. Most of us can do this once we've learned to read, write and do math.American dreams are African nightmares. We know this. How much more of their idea of what intelligence means must we swallow and follow and stumble around trying to fill up what's hollow, before realizing it's all part of their plan to help them and to keep us right where we are or worse as an African people worldwide.
* Truth is, no country that operates the way many in the world do, can afford to educate its citizens to be the best they can be. Even among the citizens who are the preferred group in these countries, most of them are educated minimally with a few who rise to keep everyone else striving and conniving focused on surviving forgetting about but not feeling without thriving. (1) Dr. John Henrik Clarke - Education: The Highest Form of Struggle (Video)
