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.
WORK ETHICS !
The Three Rs. Get those to perfection before anything else.
If you listen carefully to the lyrics there can be no doubt that today's "typical" minority child would benefit hugely....HUGELY...if the those communities were to universally recognize that this story is pivotal to the well being of their kids.
PIVOTAL!
The slaughterhouse is the Democrat political party. Blacks are voting for their own destruction.
Wrong.
These are six important qualities to develop, but ATTITUDE needs to be included. As long as black kids are taught that “ our kids coming out of school idolizing their great great grandmother’s rapist slave master,” they will never have what it takes to succeed.
Please stop teaching these kids hatred. Slavery was ended hundreds of years ago. Quit dragging it around, you don’t look very businesslike dragging that carcass.
Should I show up at business meetings with a GIANT POTATO in my fist? In commemoration of the potato famine, no doubt the Brits’ fault, and my poor downtrodden Irish forebears had to move off their lands, cross oceans in creaking ships with barely enough food to survive, with nothing waiting for them in a hostile new land where Irish Need Not Apply signs were everywhere. NOT FAIR.
IRISH LIVES MATTER, and all you British jerks can move the bleep over because ...well, because I SAID SO and I get to kill you if you get in my way.
Have a nice day.
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“Black children must be educated by black people”
I thought that was settled back on May 17, 1954.
Brown Vs Board of Education.
His need for black children to study a specific type of reading or history limits them and will destroy their place in the world
My parents read to me early and often. I still love reading aloud with my adult daughter
My dad would tell us the history of the area we lived in. It was rich and deep and gave an authentic feel to the place. It taught me how to appreciate oral histories so when I heard the stories from my math teacher about how time in a POW camp in Manchuria during WWII, I paid great attention
Other than that the six things are good
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. True Dat.
Life is nothing but one big math problem, so problem-solving skills will come in handy as your child tries to navigate life. True Dat 2. Math B not White...
We need to make sure our kids learn about themselves before they start honoring anybody else. 'Frica doesn't have a great history. Some African-Americans = GREAT!
"Entrepreneurship training for black children should start from the day they learn how to say the words “Mama, can I have some money?” " Drug dealing is not a good business in the long run...
"The inability to think critically about the world around us is one of the most limiting factors" True for all.
A-As need to get with Western Culture before Islam overwhelms them...
1/2 assed barely decent advice....but some would help.
This article explains many of the reasons blacks are doing so poorly.
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. True Dat.
Life is nothing but one big math problem, so problem-solving skills will come in handy as your child tries to navigate life. True Dat 2. Math B not White...
We need to make sure our kids learn about themselves before they start honoring anybody else. 'Frica doesn't have a great history. Some African-Americans = GREAT!
"Entrepreneurship training for black children should start from the day they learn how to say the words “Mama, can I have some money?” " Drug dealing is not a good business in the long run...
"The inability to think critically about the world around us is one of the most limiting factors" True for all.
A-As need to get with Western Culture before Islam overwhelms them...
Looks like this author is a little short in the critical thinking skills area. He only sees black.
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.
There-in lies your problem. I refer you to any Asian in the USA, they learned early to follow the rules and excel at them. Now they are at the top of many organizations. See and learn. Oh and whites, you are losing to the Asians, wake up!
What a racist.
Maybe the problem is too much self-love.
Lots of self-esteem, no self-respect.
This guy wants us to think he really cares and has the intelligence to make this argument. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s obvious he’s as deficient in thinking skills as those he purports to be leading to a better place.
- Reading: Advocating for reading only black authors in order to be “authentic” is ludicrous on its face. Nothing wrong with including black authors in a list of age-appropriate reading that advances clear-headed thinking and good morals. For that matter, the McGuffey Reader series from ages ago would be a great start, IMO.
- Writing: Here’s where his thinking really shows inconsistency because grammar is what separates those who can write clearly and those who cannot organize a cogent argument.
- Math: Yes, it is a problem-solving process that creates logic and follows a process. However, it is not the only approach. Learn math for its own reasons and the doors it opens to improve yourself.
- Black History: Total BS argument with the usual slavemaster crap. Just one step from advocating for reparations.
- Start a business: No concept of how to capitalize is presented yet the author represents himself as a consultant and expert on black finance.
- Critical thinking: An argument area I can mostly agree with as hip-hop has led the black community to the abyss in my opinion. Too bad the author doesn’t know the difference between mind-numbing and “mind-dumbing”. Guess he’s listened to too much hip-hop...
Well that right there is a bigger problem than not reading at all. Reading racist crap is worse than remaining ignorant.
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