GUEST POST: TIME TO UNLEARN THE NEGATIVES THE WHITE MEDIA HAS TAUGHT US

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

This is the first Black History month of a New Decade - and we've got a lot on our plate - Voter Registration, Economic and Financial power, Health and Wellness, Wealth and Prosperity, Spritual Fulfillment, and Educational and Intellectual empowerment.

We have been under assault from the time the white invaders/slave monsters set foot on the shores of Africa, to their bringing us, dragging, kicking and screaming to the US.  Dr. Carter G. Woodson said that American education was a form of brainwashing and propaganda used as weapons against us.  His book, the MisEducation of the Negro was written to address and correct this, however not enough of our Black educational systems have adopted his wisdom in stemming some of the damage done to us and our children over the decades.

We were not the only victims - they did it with us as chattel slaves, our Native American brothers and sisters, our East and West Indian brothers and sisters, as well as our Japanese, Chinese and Korean brothers and sisters.  In America it was called detribalization when it came to Native Americans.  The methodology was to forbid us to communicate in our own language, not to practice any of our culture, to learn their heroes as though they were ours, as well as making us the repository of all the negative stereotypes in order to break down our self esteem.  

I'm sharing an interesting post that I came across that speaks to this issue:

Hope + Outrage

Let’s Help Our Young People Unlearn What White Supremacy Taught Them

Posted Feb. 7, 2020 in Better Conversation

Tanesha Peeples is the Deputy Director of Outreach for Education Post. Her mission is to use her education, passion and experience to empower marginalized populations. Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side, she is a Chicago Public Schools alumna and proud Englewoodian. Check out her blogging about “Hope and Outrage.” Full profile →

https://educationpost.org/lets-help-our-young-people-unlearn-what-white-supremacy-taught-them/?utm_campaign=EP&utm_content=1581117744&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR23LTfwJu9Uzn2NwbJEIfPB5Xgwq1MVLWqF_sFP2-J0Bl7iGv18KZZGZ-o

We have the responsibility to make sure our children get the best education possible - and education is more than just learning to read, write and do mathematics.  I am happy to see someone addressing this issue, as opposed to just focusing on STEM or STEAM - we have to understand that our children (and a goodly many of our adults), are under siege - from pre-K to College/Graduate School.

More and more families are turning to home schooling after realizing that we are trying to learn from a country whose educational system is somewhere at the bottom 25% internationally.  There has been an uptick of Black children ages 12 - 14 qualifying for college after their parents pulled them out the mediocre school systems and providing them with superior level education.

Our children deserve the best.  
It's up to us to make sure they receive it.

Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK 

Gloria Dulan-Wilson

 

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