Education and the Future of Afrikan Peoples

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The world's economic system is moving into a whole new phase and needs this period to restructure the industrial situation, to break the power of unions, to weaken them so that they can replace men and women with robots thus moving in computerized production facilities. More can be produced with fewer people, some industries producing twice as much with much smaller numbers. I remember reading some time ago about a Japanese factory that turned out 1,300 cars a day with a total employment roll of 67 people.

We are facing a future that requires that we get serious about education. Very serious! And not equal education. Brothers and sisters, the White man's education is not up to par. If our goal is to have our children read on level with White children, and to attain achievement test scores equal to White children, we are headed for destruction because their best is not good enough.

New York Times article about, ''The Commission on Education." I'm sure some of you are familiar with it. "The tide of mediocrity," they call it, "imperils the U.S. - economically, culturally and spiritually. In an open letter to the American people, the eighteen member National Education Commission on Excellence in Education, said that " America's economic, cultural and spiritual role in the world is being threatened by lax standards and misguided priorities in the schools." The Commission further intimated that, "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity." So you can see why equality should not be your goal. It has got to be superiority. The Black child has got to do better than the White child. Not, as good as. Better! Because what they call their best is not good enough. And this is what threatens our very future. You see the article here is talking about what? - - not jobs! It is talking about what? - Their very future as a nation and as a people.

The Commission went on to assert, "If an unfriendly nation had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Understand what is being said here.

It's hard to make our people understand that we as a people have been in a state of war with Europeans for the last two or three thousand years. We are here as a result of war. We are prisoners of war.

The Sociopolitical Context Of Black Education

Our foreparents were brought here as prisoners of war; and we are still subject to psychological warfare. There is still a major struggle going on between us in this world today. Get what the article says here. "If another country had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war." Then what do you think about the mediocre education that is laid upon us? Why is it that I am seen, when I say that we are in a state of war, as being a radical? Education is a form of war. We must understand that every discipline and every institution in this society is a part of its imperialism. Every one! Each is a part of the means by which the European-American intends to maintain dominance over the rest of the world. This includes the churches, the schools, the family, the welfare system, the economic system. You can't name one that isn't. They are all in tandem. Every discipline in our universities is geared towards one end - that of maintaining the dominance of this country. Each is just as much a part of maintaining the dominance of this country, as are its troops and the nuclear weaponry that they have at their hands.

The Board of Education is solely not concerned with education. Education is a The same thing is true of Corrections. Its principal function seems to be to make criminals out of our imprisoned people. It is an industry. Its millions upon millions of dollars go to the people who sell it the food, to the people that build the prisons, go to the people that sell it electricity, etc. And the raw material of the system are our boys, and our sisters, and our brothers. It [the system] takes the politically weakest groups and processes them so that everyone else gets a piece of them. The cop gets them and he makes his living off of them; then the lawyer gets them, and gets his piece of the action; then the judge gets them; the court officers get them and they hack their piece; they work them right on through the correction system and everybody gets their piece - and the parole officer gets them in the end.

By that time they are no good and have got a career going, and they recycle them through it again. It is an industry. It is not about correction. They don't have the philosophy nor the psychology to correct Black people: Nor is it in their interest.

White racists must criminalize and destroy Black men.

The Black man must not be permitted to live fully free. Therefore, there are a series of steps that are set up to destroy him along the way. Any system that treats old like any regular adult criminal has admitted that it has failed. And it admits it is going to take your 13-year old right off the street and put him in prison!

This system depends upon the Black man being down-and out. Look at the South African situation! It is but an extreme form of what goes on right here. The immigrant South Afrikan man who must live in an all-male compound outside of the city, and who can see his family but once a year; his wife located somewhere living in a shack with their children. That is a system that in order for it to exist must disorganize the Afrikan family. It is the disorganization of the Black family that serves to maintain the South Afrikan system: it is the disorganization of the Black family that serves to maintain this American system.

I was reading a very interesting little book called Ethnic Enterprises In America, which compares the economic development of the Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. And it deals with the issue of - Why haven't Blacks developed a large or a sizable business class? Why is it that with over 300 billion dollars in consumer dollars Black people who, if you looked at their income, represent the 9th or 10th richest nation on earth - why is it that they haven't developed a business class? Why is it that they have Asians running their business communities? Why is it that they have other ethnic groups serving their needs? Why is it that they enrich other people and then beg for jobs?" That's an issue we should concern ourselves with.

That's an issue at the center of what Black economic education should be about. Not the issue of how do you move up in IBM; a wholly different thing. How do we gain control of those billion of dollars that are available to us and use them for our own interests and for our own advancement?

But, as long as we are in the school trying to learn how to move up in IBM, the Asians are is going to move right in and suck every bit of our nickels and dimes out of our pockets and use them to advance their own interests. At the very point Blacks are getting the most degrees in business we're losing business territory - which tells us that there is something wrong with them. Obviously, these degrees are degrees for servants, which only prepare us to serve the interests of others and not our own. But that is true of any degree. It does not matter what it is. But it must be that way. Do you think the dominant Whites are going to prepare us to fully compete with them?

This is what our education is all about. It's about serious decisions. And this generation of children, must be the one that makes these decisions. Therefore, they must be prepared mentally and their character must be developed so that they can make these major decisions, so that they can lead our people in a way that we can survive in the future. We can seek equal gains and equal jobs and equal opportunity; we can elect all the mayors and governors we want to; and that's good. Go for them. I'm not fighting that. Please do not read this as a discouragement. We should vote everyone of them in when we get a chance. But let's not see that as the end-all or the be-all of where we are going, but as a major step to where we are going. Getting in and getting the money that the city represents, getting in and getting the power, getting access to the information and knowledge and transferring that information and knowledge, using it for the advancement of our people so that in the future we'll be in a position to protect our interests throughout the world should be among our ultimate goals.

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