Why did Jim Crow-era whites want blacks to only get a technical/vocational education?

[sakano]

I suspect that it was one way to control/manipulate black people.

I also think that fear had something to do with it

 

[Chris.B]

knowledge is power.
An educated black man is the most dangerous man in corporate America.

Trust me

 

[kp404]

Because it was a means to transfer racial oppression to a separate but similar mode of production: slave labor becomes wage labor, white capitalist hegemony eats lust like bondage times. We work trades for their companies and we get pennies worth of our hard work that goes right to them...the minute we challenge that socioeconomic order, Nadir state sponsored terrorism like lynchings and private violence quell our fervor. That's the only reason they wanted it; they had to find a new way to continue racial oppression since the mode of production shifted from agriculture to expanding industry.

 

[5010]

knowledge is power.
An educated black man is the most dangerous man in corporate America.

Trust me

Spoiler

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[Handsback]

Same reason they still do. Education "riles us up."

Was taking a look at a conservative forum yesterday and these dudes were talking about how bad the movie '12 Years a Slave' is for America. Hurts race relations and all that.

You know someone really feels guilty or scared when they don't want you to know your own history.

 

[kp404]

Same reason they still do. Education "riles us up."

Was taking a look at a conservative forum yesterday and these dudes were talking about how bad the movie '12 Years a Slave' is for America. Hurts race relations and all that.

You know someone really feels guilty or scared when they don't want you to know your own history.

Plus whites don't want a depiction of how murderous, violent, and corrupt they acted back then and also today...they know they do it, but its not easy looking into the mirror after all that repugnant shyt we know about

 

[sakano]

The kind of education that such whites were most worried about blacks getting was a liberal education.

Yet, they got such an education for themselves.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I suspect that it was one way to control/manipulate black people.

I also think that fear had something to do with it

the same reason the KKK started.

to secure the economic welfare of poor(er) whites.

see, if you're poor and white, but racism is still prevalent, the last thing you want is to not have ANYTHING...but at the end of the day, you'll at least be better than a black person.

So when you see blacks WINNING, it makes you feel like they've broken the "natural order"

 

[Thegospel]

There's nothing wrong with knowing a trade. It's bad that they wanted us to only have that but we shouldn't just force all kids to go to conventional college. We need to diversify.

 

[Wild self]

That was when the white collar was important. Now in the digital era, most white collar jobs disappeared.

 

[mortuus est]

the world is fuked up when you think about it

 

[Blackout]

Nothing is wrong with trade jobs its just that if we all went to that it would limit us.

Lack of diversity keeps us below the limit they set on us that's why.

 

[mortuus est]

That was when the white collar was important. Now in the digital era, most white collar jobs disappeared.

whats your thoughts on men not wanting to do blue collar jobs?

 

[Wild self]

whats your thoughts on men not wanting to do blue collar jobs?

If they have a specific goal (Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, Engineer) the more power to them for pursuing it. Now in this economy, you have to be entrepreneurial and well rounded. Blue collar jobs that require skill ay be the best way to go.

 

[mortuus est]

If they have a specific goal (Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, Engineer) the more power to them for pursuing it. Now in this economy, you have to be entrepreneurial and well rounded. Blue collar jobs that require skill ay be the best way to go.

ah yeah well thats true tbh.