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
Susan Rice In 1986 Book: Make White Students Learn Black History>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The true history of the fall of the Black Freedom Movement is that it fell, into the cess pit of black nationalism/socialism will it ever be truly told? The freedom movement has given rise to a fascist movement of natuionalist socialists, who will destroy America for that old European fascist cry of “historic justice.” where innocent decendants of the wronged must pay for the alleged sins of their forefathers. That is where true “Black History” has led people like Rice and Obama and their fascist movement.
I think every white kid in America should learn that history.
And for Xmas we should sing:
Try this: ( sung to the tune of walkin in a winter wonderland)
Walkin in a Winter Wonderland.
Leftists sing, are you listening,
In Bohner’s brain, Reid is pi$$ing
A beautiful sight,
We’re happy tonight.
Walking in Obama’s wonderland.
Gone away is the budget,
All we can do, is try to nudge it
Obama sings a love song,
As we go along,
Walking in Obama’s wonderland.
In the meadow we can build Rice’s snowman,
Then pretend that she is Secretary State
She’ll say: Are you married?
We’ll say: No man,
But you can do the job
If thats your fate.
Later on, we’ll conspire,
As we dream by Reichstag fire
To face unafraid,
The treason we’ve made,
Walking in Obama’s wonderland.
In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he’s Obama’s clown
We’ll have lots of fun with mister snowman,
Until the Constitution knocks Obama down.
When in debt, ain’t it thrilling,
Though your wallet gets a chilling
We’ll frolic and play,in the fascist way,
Walking in Obama’s wonderland.
Hi.
No, whilst British sarcasm is partly genetic, it is also a learned art, developed through years of rigorous training. LOL.
Ironically, I am a Hamilton on my father’s side, whose ancient land is Lanarkshire. There is the famous old town called Hamilton there, as you mentioned.
Occasional ‘bank’ lecturer at local colleges. Which means you are on a list of back up lecturers for minor adult education courses on a week night or a Saturday morning, if the lecturer is too sick to make it in.
Actually havent done it in a long time. Not since 2008. I think I made £25 for two hours lecturing the last YEAR i did it. Two whole hours that year. One Saturday morning teaching an adult class a bit of Scottish history (the 1600’s to be exact).
I have mainly worked in the private sector, and have only done some p/t lecturing like the above, earning what we Brits call ‘pin money’, slang for an extra few quid in your pocket, enough to buy yourself something nice or pay a small bill, but not enough to pay your mortgage.
Rice’s husband made a lot off of Iranian oil through Dutch Shell, I heard.
>>um.... long long ago we made huts and spears to throw at each other and the animals.
And we are proud to say that 20,000 years later, we still do it the exact same way—unless we can get our hands on some good European or Asian steel machetes or firearms.
Been there. Done that. Read Frederick Douglas’ autobio, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Alex Healy’s fake geneology, Roots. Plenty more that I can’t remember. Lots of great figures in American history were black. But honestly, a “white interpretation of reality” vs. a black? Reality is reality is reality. American history is American history, including whites and blacks, and puts the lie to the racist bromide: “Two states for two peoples.”
Name one one invention of a black person in American history?
Not saying they don’t exist. But I just don’t recall any.
She’s an AmbASSador to the Useless Nations. How about Ass Gore? Never held a job that paid more than $230k a year yet he’s worth $100 million.
Not saying they don’t exist. But I just don’t recall any.
C'mon. Look it up. Try to educate yourself before posting dumb ____ like that.
Name me one. Just one.
There’s not much to black history that anyone would care to learn about it. As individuals they’re charming; as a group they’re about as pathetic as human beings can be.
If the past four years have demonstrated anything to anyone with half an ounce of intellectual integrity, it is that blacks are the biggest racists in America.
The blacks in this country are being enslaved by both the welfare state and a socialist regime that will guarantee they can never leave that DNC-created “plantation.”
The rest of us are being enslaved by debt.
When the tyrants/communists/socialists succeed in destroying America economically and default on all their debt and lead us into WWIII, they will play the patriotism game and enslave our children to war and all its horrors.
Have you seen the documentary, The Secret of Oz, by Bill Still? He provides an astonishing story about European banks interfering in U.S. monetary matters.
It won an award as the best documetary of 2010 and is very interesting as it details the monetary history of the United States up to about 1900.
“I think most kids would be cool with that. What would it take, all of 24 minutes?”
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I think they should learn white history first, as it stands they don’t seem to learn much of any kind of history other than fake history. I say again that the recent graduates of our local university here who majored in history could not pass an eighth grade history final from my public school days. I know this from talking to some of them. How on Earth can someone hold a degree with a history major and never have heard of the battle of Hastings or the Magna Charta, not know when the American civil war was fought, not know anything about the revolutionary war, not even what country we revolted against, know virtually nothing about WWI, WWII etc.? They spend years attending classes and forgo years of earnings while running up student loan debt and don’t know the first thing about their major. What on Earth is all this about? When I who never went to a college or university remember more of history from grade school classes than these graduates even know how to look up (how could you look up information on a subject like the battle of Hastings if you have never heard of it) something is woefully wrong in this country.
Leave her alone you racists!! Can't you see how much she has suffered at the hands of "the man". /s
The reason I found your post so irritating and offensive is that I had to hear almost every day in school about Jan Matzeliger and his shoemaking machine, Charles Drew and blood transfusions, Benjamin Banneker and his wooden clock and surveying Washington DC. Even you've probably heard of George Washington Carver and his uses for the peanut. If you didn't, you probably just weren't paying attention.
I guess the teacher was afraid we'd all turn into racists if we didn't know about that stuff. It's easy to attack or satirize that sort of thing, and I suppose if we really got to know that teacher we'd find her preachiness and political correctness offensive -- she wasn't one of the best or most likeable teachers I had -- but at least it made it hard to simply dismiss a whole ethnic group.
If the argument is that none of these inventors was a Bell or an Edison, well, Carver came pretty close, Drew's work with blood can't simply be dismissed as insignificant, and one Black technician worked with both Bell and Edison. But beyond all that, none of us is a Bell or an Edison, so far as I know of -- or for that matter a Carver or a Drew. Black or white, most of us are in the same boat so far as great achievements are concerned.
So somebody died and left you judge of human worth and value, condemning whole groups without bothering to learn their history? Contemptible.
History is my guide. And at this juncture I’m in a particularly ugly mood. If you don’t like it you can bugger off.
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