One positive solution to the group think indoctrination hurled at children every school day of the year is homeschooling.
A simple Google search turns up many links to support groups and organizations for families in the African American community who are homeschooling or who want to learn about homeschooling. Here are just a few:
1. According to African American Homeschoolers Network
their children -- and we're growing!"
2. National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance
3. FAMILIES OF COLOR USING HOMESCHOOLING
5. African-American Unschooling Resources
6. From the website Homeschool Zone.com in their section "Faces of Homeschooling Profiles" there is an interview and discussion:
African-American Homeschooling
An interview with Judi Thomas
of HERITAGE Homeschoolers
hosted by Joe Spataro
"Former middle school teacher Judi Thomas of Marietta, Georgia, started HERITAGE Homeschoolers, a support group for minorities, after finding other organizations included few, if any, black families.
She has been homeschooling her daughter Juliet (age 9) and her daughter Jacqueline (age 4). Judi in many ways is like any homeschooling mom but with some unique perspectives. As a former middle school teacher she has an intimate inside knowledge of how the "system" works.
As an African-American homeschooler, she has developed a support group for this community of homeschoolers, adding to the diversity of the homeschooling movement. She was recently featured in a Time Magazine article, and I thought it might be fun to chat with Judi a bit and have her tell us more about herself, her family and her support group..."
Continues at: Faces of Homeschooling Profiles