I wish that more black people would read "The Miseducation of the Negro"
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Book is full of gems:
pg 74.
"In the training for professions other than the ministry and teaching the negro has not had full sway. any extensive comment on professional education by the negro, then, must be mainly negative. We have not had sufficient professional schools upon which we can base an estimate of what the Negro educator can do in this sphere. If mistakes have been made in mis-educating the Negro professionally it must be charged not so much to the account of the negroes themselves as to that of their friends who have performed this task. We are dealing here, then, mainly with information obtained from the study of negroes who have been professionally trained by whites in their own schools and mixed institutions.
The largest number of Negroes in professions other than the ministry or education are physicians, dentists, pharmacists, lawyers and actors. The numbers in these and other lines have not adequately increased because of the economic status of the Negroes and probably because of a false conception of the role of the professional man in the community and its relation to him"............
pg 74.
"In the training for professions other than the ministry and teaching the negro has not had full sway. any extensive comment on professional education by the negro, then, must be mainly negative. We have not had sufficient professional schools upon which we can base an estimate of what the Negro educator can do in this sphere. If mistakes have been made in mis-educating the Negro professionally it must be charged not so much to the account of the negroes themselves as to that of their friends who have performed this task. We are dealing here, then, mainly with information obtained from the study of negroes who have been professionally trained by whites in their own schools and mixed institutions.
The largest number of Negroes in professions other than the ministry or education are physicians, dentists, pharmacists, lawyers and actors. The numbers in these and other lines have not adequately increased because of the economic status of the Negroes and probably because of a false conception of the role of the professional man in the community and its relation to him"............
Remy Danton
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this thread imo needs to be sticky in TLR
All of Woodson's post 1920s work is relevant today...his unpublished manuscript, "The Case for the Negro" is better than Miseducation...he wrote it before Miseducation and it was recently found and released and is much more harsh than his other works...Woodson, the historian! Recognize the greatness :bronerohmygod:
I read my advisor's copy and I'm having trouble finding a copy online breh...I will ask my advisor if he can find me one and I'll send it to you...here's a link describing it and how they found it:
http://historymusings.wordpress.com...-historian-finds-carter-g-woodson-manuscript/
I should add that many of Woodson's books are now in the public domain. So, you could read them for free online:
Link to a few of Woodson's other books
observe
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Have you read it? I don't like mafukkas telling me what to do, giving me rules and regulations on how I should live my life as a black man..I know who I am..I know what I must do..