Posted on 04/29/2017 4:14:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ve long observed the state of black children with deep concern. It seems that with all the billions of dollars being spent to educate children in urban areas, this money is going to waste. This waste appears to be a mixture of good old government inefficiency, apathetic parents, and teachers who don’t care much about our children. But spreading the blame doesn’t actually solve the problem. While we are sitting around trying to figure out who destroyed our children, the little ones are left to languish in the stench of inherited ignorance.
We live in an age of information, where opportunities are everywhere, but it’s the early and educated bird that typically gets the worm. That’s why I made this list, for parents who want to cut to the chase and get their kids what they need without having to spend a ton of money. This also allows you to figure out how to help them succeed without being overwhelmed by the process.
So, without further ado, here are the six things a child needs in order to be educated well enough to achieve nearly any professional objective:
Reading: Our kids don’t pick up enough books and it’s killing their possibilities. In today’s society, the smartest adults are the ones who get the biggest opportunities, that’s just a fact. Have your child read a book a month and talk to you about it. The first books they read should have black authors. They should consume the ideas of black people before they read work by anyone else. They need to know who they are.
Writing: Most of the young people who reach out to me in my inbox were never taught how to write. This destroys their ability to do business or present themselves in a way that will make others want to work with or hire them. Writing is not a matter of knowing every single rule of grammar known to man (I personally failed English class several times when I was in public school), it’s often a matter of practice. Kids aren’t practicing their writing skills by banging out text messages all day, they have to be positioned to do more formal writing to be able to communicate properly and not be stuck in America’s economic basement.
Math: If you can’t count your money, then someone is going to rip you off. Life is nothing but one big math problem, so problem-solving skills will come in handy as your child tries to navigate life. If they have a fear of math, make them do more of it. The best way to overcome a fear is to confront it. Running away will only make it seem that much more impossible.
Black History: We learn all the white history in the world, and that hurts us. We need to make sure our kids learn about themselves before they start honoring anybody else. A lack of self-love is the greatest problem in the African American community, and we should all be annoyed with our kids coming out of school idolizing their great great grandmother’s rapist slave master.
How to start a business: Black people have the highest unemployment rate in America. This will only be solved when our kids learn how to create their own jobs instead of begging white people to create jobs for us. When your grandchildren don’t have food to eat, you don’t want your child sitting around waiting for a someone else to feed them. Solid entrepreneurs know how to feed themselves and they aren’t begging anybody to take care of their families. Entrepreneurship training for black children should start from the day they learn how to say the words “Mama, can I have some money?”
Critical thinking skill: The inability to think critically about the world around us is one of the most limiting factors in the African American community. This is how music labels are able to feed us toxic hip-hop, mind-dumbing TV shows, poisoned food and harmful political propaganda on a daily basis. The development of critical thinking skill comes from playing games of strategy, such as chess, and questioning systems and processes. Critical thinking skill turns you into a leader, not a follower. Black kids need to learn to carve their own paths, not follow the ones that white supremacy has put in front of them. A critical thinker is an intellectual leader, someone who can differentiate common sense from a popular lie. They aren’t going to learn this from the school system, because conformity is rewarded in most white supremacist systems. Your child will get ahead if they know how to consistently buck current trends and set new ones
If a child practices these six things on a daily basis, they will have the foundation needed to succeed at the highest levels. Knowledge is not about what you already know. It’s about your ability to consume and process new information everyday in order to adjust to the changes around you.
We have a tool we’ve invented for kids of color called The Dr Boyce Watkins Financial Flash Cards for Children. The cards present a low-cost framework which allows you to drill your child on key financial concepts they will need to know in order to be successful. Any child who learns the concepts on these cards will have a financial literacy level which exceeds the average college-educated adult – I based the development of the cards on my 24 years of experience teaching college students at major universities.
The cards don’t cost more than a family trip to the movies and will have an impact on your child that lasts for 40 years. You can take a look by visiting FinancialFlashCards.com. Feel free to take a look, and perhaps this can be your first step toward educating your own children. Black children must be educated by black people, and we must stop handing our children over to the slaughterhouse.
I was willing to take him seriously UNTIL...
“Black History: We learn all the white history in the world, and that hurts us...and we should all be annoyed with our kids coming out of school idolizing their great great grandmother’s rapist slave master.”
1) They DO NOT LEARN much history in general - white, black or otherwise.
2) If you have to learn how to read (the white man’s language) and write (the white man’s language) and think (the white man’s “critical thinking”), then you should probably learn HIS history since you’re in HIS country. That is, if you want to succeed.
I’ve taught in some predominantly black schools as a roving math-science teacher. The kids in grades 3 -5 reached out to me a little more than other kids in suburban schools and rural schools. They were very cute, but they need a stable home with a married mother and a father. After grade 5, attitudes start to change, and not for the better.
They are not taught that education is important. Only the black community can resolve this. How can they let go of resentment and a feeling of inferiority towards white people? Maybe that’s why the author was trying to focus on black authors. Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglas are a good start, both espousing a more conservative philosophy, but overall, they need leaders who preach forgiveness.
Some of the finest people I’ve ever met are African American Christians, and the kids who are taken to church have a better chance than the other kids, because they have a church family.
There are 1,250 to 2,100 and by some counts over 3,000 languages spoken natively in Africa.
Which one should be chosen to study “Black History”? Literature?
Maybe DNA analysis to determine predominant tribal roots and then study that history such that one achieves being “real”.
Author looks through a glass darkly and sees....?
Darkies?
sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry
Broken families, end of story.
7. Stop using “axe” unless you are chopping wood.
Maybe it was odd, but not once in all my years of education did I ever consider the color of all the famous people in history, the race of the greatest authors, the national origin of the scientists, the creed of the philosophers. It never occurred to me to ask. All we knew is that they were great men and women of spectacular achievement. Not one teacher ever said “You need to learn about this scientist/leader/mathematician/composer because he is WHITE.” We really grew up in a colorblind educational system.
What this author is proposing is sad, an educational apartheid..
Per “Black history”, are they going to teach them that the history of Africa is mainly of one tribe of blacks killing and enslaving other tribes of blacks?
Per jobs, at one time in the past, many of the skilled brick and stone masons were hard working black men.
These babies aren’t immaculate conceptions, you know. They all have fathers who refuse to be fathers.
There’s a reason for that old joke about Father’s Day being the most confusing day in Harlem.
Quit letting the fathers run off and avoid THEIR responsibility, and you’ll have fewer welfare babies.
What about fathers, family life, truth, honor, etc? There is more to learning than books!
What about fathers, family life, truth, honor, etc? There is more to learning than books!
The six points are good, but his presentation is very racist.
“we should all be annoyed with our kids coming out of school idolizing their great great grandmother’s rapist slave master.”
it has long been understood that a good education stems from a healthy world view...this bigot promotes the perpetuation of the angry black kid stereotype.
Black entrepreneurs were in greater number BEFORE the so called great society than after. Just sayin’.
what happened to the integration of the public school system that courageous black students stood up for in the 60’s......how does that square with this bigots view that segregation is essential to a wholesome black education.....
typical Liberal B.S....SUCKING AND BLOWING AT THE SAME TIME
Only 8% of black kids with married parents are living in poverty. That might be a nice fact to share.
I am getting to the point that it would be best to temporarily blind them for 18 years and tell them their asians. Skin color is irrelevant except to American blacks.
The Roman poet Terence, who was from Africa, said, "I am a human being. I consider nothing human to be alien to me." That's a better attitude. Why not learn and appreciate anything of value from anywhere on earth? Why restrict yourself to one-seventh (perhaps) of the human race? When it comes to reading books worth reading, probably a lot less than one-seventh are by black authors, considering that most of Africa was illiterate until recently and it was only about 1900 or so that the literacy rate among black Americans got up to 50%.
Racist author with a persecution complex. But has some points that would be good for anyone.
Their parents could teach them all of the above.
Home school.
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