If you think about it, white folks have always loved to control the narrative out here when it comes to talking about how they treat black folks. The WPA interviews were done by white folks; imagine if we started collecting the interviews of hundreds of thousands of black folks, documenting their grievances against the government. How they government has wronged them, how the government has colluded against them. As a scholar of Black studies, I don't want our generation to get lost in the midst of white America.
Im already working on shedding light on how our educational system is the main conduit of white supremacy. I do not want to dissolve public education, but rather fix the curriculum's and ensure that our schools have the means AND the heart to teach our kids and let them grow.
By and far, integration failed us. We integrated into a system where denigration is the norm; we sacrificed our educational values, and instead of H Rap Brown's, we get Stephen A Smith's. We accepted integration of a few, for the suppression of the masses; integration happened at the same time that the interstates started popping (Robert Moses laid the blueprint in NY and the rest of the US followed in the 50-60's), our students went from from being educated by black teachers to being stuck in white classrooms, classrooms constructed for discipline and not academic growth.
Community Revolution In Progress. I wish I could go to my family fora grant instead of the fukking Ford Foundation and I still will not sell out for that cracker money. I tried to put together a fundraiser at my school for the hurricane Harvey, but I ran into so much red tape that I was not able to complete my goal. But I learned that white folks love to use red tape as barriers. I need to find another way.
My professor is from the Houston area, and I showed him how we raised 1502.00 for the SHAPE Community Center. He used to work for them; but the lesson that I learned, is that it is hard to organize a peoples movement institutionally, but we can work together in various novel modes like this and create waves out here.
Which brings me to my next point. If we could create a database of black folks telling their experiences out here, INTERVIEWED by black folks, we can start to control our narrative of our history. I want this empirical data to be used to tear down stereotypes, and also build new narratives. We have the resources to make this happen.
What y'all think?
Im already working on shedding light on how our educational system is the main conduit of white supremacy. I do not want to dissolve public education, but rather fix the curriculum's and ensure that our schools have the means AND the heart to teach our kids and let them grow.
By and far, integration failed us. We integrated into a system where denigration is the norm; we sacrificed our educational values, and instead of H Rap Brown's, we get Stephen A Smith's. We accepted integration of a few, for the suppression of the masses; integration happened at the same time that the interstates started popping (Robert Moses laid the blueprint in NY and the rest of the US followed in the 50-60's), our students went from from being educated by black teachers to being stuck in white classrooms, classrooms constructed for discipline and not academic growth.
Community Revolution In Progress. I wish I could go to my family fora grant instead of the fukking Ford Foundation and I still will not sell out for that cracker money. I tried to put together a fundraiser at my school for the hurricane Harvey, but I ran into so much red tape that I was not able to complete my goal. But I learned that white folks love to use red tape as barriers. I need to find another way.
My professor is from the Houston area, and I showed him how we raised 1502.00 for the SHAPE Community Center. He used to work for them; but the lesson that I learned, is that it is hard to organize a peoples movement institutionally, but we can work together in various novel modes like this and create waves out here.
Which brings me to my next point. If we could create a database of black folks telling their experiences out here, INTERVIEWED by black folks, we can start to control our narrative of our history. I want this empirical data to be used to tear down stereotypes, and also build new narratives. We have the resources to make this happen.
What y'all think?
