Tag Archive | Racial Socialization
Why must I Hate Whites to Prove Blackness
I have never vision Whites as being smarter or Blacks as being less intelligent. This is another reason I do not hate Whites. You see, often to maintain hate, you must prescribe to a sort of mythology. In other words, you must buy into a false social construct like race as a DNA marker. Sadly, when we become marry to that mythos, we become stuck in time. Literally, we’re unable to forward our consciousness one bit in the area of discourse or unity. If you use racial hate as a motivating factor, you’re stuck as an individual or organization. Progress in racial stratification will be chained to failure. For when one has an enemy, they ultimately have themselves to measure.
Should We Fight the Power?
Hi Rob. Do you really not see learners as agents for change? You’ve spoken often about changing the landscape of education for African American males, surely your approach is empowering and does have the potential to bring about change. I think all students are agents for change. Every life we touch brings about change!
James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”
All this enters the child’s consciousness much sooner than we as adults would like to think it does. As adults, we are easily fooled because we are so anxious to be fooled. But children are very different. Children, not yet aware that it is dangerous to look too deeply at anything, look at everything, look at each other, and draw their own conclusions….
