At the moment I am currently reading The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson he was a historian, author, founder of Association for the Study of African American Life and History , member of Omega Psi Pi Fraternity Inc., Father of Black History Month, etc. his accomplishments are as long as my arm. The book is powerful and text is relevant to the life of African Americans today. I truly recommend this book to anyone but especially to African Americans. I am learning so much I have been taking extensive notes.
The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African Americans of his time were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were taught:
"History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning."Carter G Woodson
Excerpt: "The diffculty is that the "educated negro" is compelled to live and move among his own people whom he has been taught to despise. As a rule, therefore, the "educated Negro" prefers to buy his food from a white grocer because he has been taught that Negro is not clean."
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