Posted on 11/29/2012 4:27:36 PM PST by drewh
In a 1986 book by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, the future diplomat argued for the aggressive inclusion of a black history curriculum in American schools, claiming that its omission had “crippling effects” by “providing a child with no more than … a white interpretation of reality.”
The 86-page book, “A History Deferred,” served as a guide for secondary and elementary school teachers wanting to teach “Black Studies,” and was published by the Black Student Fund, an advocacy group where Rice had an internship.
“Susan’s interest in the study of Black history evolved from her desire to learn more about the experiences and achievements of her own people,” notes the preface.
This was necessary, Rice noted in her book’s foreword, because most students were “taught American history, literature, art, drama, and music largely from a white, western European perspective. As a result, their grasp of the truth, of reality, is tainted by a myopia of sorts.”
“American history cannot be understood fully or evaluated critically without ample study of Black history,” Rice added.
Rice wrote her undergraduate senior thesis under Clayborne Carson, a Stanford history professor who teaches “Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity,” about the experiences of black southerners who worked in Oakland’s shipyards during World War II.
Like Carson, Rice saw a political component in Black Studies, writing that the “absence or cursory coverage of Black history, literature, and culture reinforces pernicious and pervasive social perceptions of Black Americans.”
And failing to teach Black Studies in school, she argued, had negative consequences for the self-esteem of black children.
“Ultimately, what is more important than the white or majority perception of black Americans is the black man, woman, and child’s perception of themselves,” Rice wrote. “The greatest evil in omitting or misrepresenting Black history, literature, and culture in elementary or secondary education is the unmistakable message it sends to the black child. The message is ‘your history, your culture, your language and your literature are insignificant. And so are you.’”
Despite lacking an Afrocentric curriculum at the tony National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C., Rice’s options were many and impressive.
Her father was a governor of the Federal Reserve and a World Bank official, and her mother was a senior vice president of Control Data Processing. Rice won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship in December 1985. “I think it is very important for other black students to be aware of the scholarship program and see it as a good opportunity for them,” she told The Washington Post at the time.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/29/susan-rice-in-1986-book-make-white-students-learn-black-history/#ixzz2Df1MRNRv
I don’t think he considered himself to be a Fabian but he was just the same. No doubt he did some good things but he also had some crazy ideas like bringing the whole world back under British control so war could be outlawed.
1986? In 1970 I won an award for a paper on Lew Alcindor (aka Kareem Abdul Jabar) while doing “black studies” in American History.
Hey, Ms. Rice, how about concentrating on Benghazi history?
“her mother was a senior vice president of Control Data “
Don’t even get me started about that crooked company! They had a great “education” scam going that ripped off the govt (taxpayers) for millions and millions of dollars! I’m happy to say that I shut that scam down for a few hours as Dr. Hysteresis!
History study has to be streamlined somehow, and that is why it is important to learn about Greece, and not the aboriginals of Australia.
Studying the ancient history of Sub-Saharan Africa just isn’t important to nations of the planet in a general sense for common knowledge, if something gets cut, that is one of those things that are expendable.
Idiocy Ping
From DCs upper crust. Wealth from banker father. She seems not to have ever had a real job. Husband works for ABC news.
Great point!
What black history? (Recognizing there is an attempt to create a history- which would be better classified as fiction.)
Would there even be a recorded Black history were it not for Western Civilization?
That’s what I was thinking. Half that 24 minutes would be the trip over here and the other half would be bitching about not getting a free ride since.
Susan should be REQUIRED to read the casualty reports from every day’s activity of every Union Military Unit, large or small throughout the entire Civil War. To view all the Matthew Brady and other photographers’ iphotos of post-battle scenes, especially those containing corpses of WHITE FOLKS who gave their lives in the struggle to win freedom and liberty; even for ungrateful smartmouthed vacuum heads such as her.
AND she should be required to memorize the numbers of killed and wounded U.S. Military personnel from several major battles. 1st & 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Lookout Mountain, The Wilderness, Antietem and Gettysburg would probably suffice; and to put the cherry on top, she should be required to write a 5000 word dissertation revealing to all the world that it was the REPUBLICANS who initiated that war to win her freedom, and it was REPUBLICANS who pushed The Civil Rights Act of 1964 through congress, OVER THE OPPOSITION AND FILIBUSTERING of MOST DEMOCRATS. That it was a Republican POTUS who INTEGRATED Little Rock High School and who stood with James Meredith and others who broke the color barrier.
After she does those few simple tasks to indicate that she understands the true FACTS of American history; then and only then will she be qualified to pontificate on what WHITE or any other color students should be required to do! Other than that, I don’t have an opinion on the matter.
I have no problem with Black History being taught, I just wish someone would teach kids American history
So history comes in color!
I did study black history in school, in the city, a significant number of years ago. I grew up thinking that people like George Washington Carver were amazing and accomplished. Now we have inner city drop-out rates so high that it’s disgraceful - robbing the world of people like Carver, and robbing black youth of their future. If Obama went to the inner city with a plan for stopping drop-outs, for stopping teenage pregnancies (beyond abortion), and a plan for promoting the formation and independence of private black businesses, I’d be willing to contribute as much as I could. But he hasn’t, and he’s not. That’s because in his infantile and deluded world view everyone in the inner city is a victim. i don’t look at them as victims. I look at those who are living lives of dependency as a sad waste of talent and potential.
I wonder if Susan is aware of the Black History of
Black Genocide with her support of abortion ?
Or Scottish history.
The "Highland" and the "Lowland" Clearances.
Fook the Brits....yeah...I'm still bitter aboot it.
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