Posted on 01/14/2002 9:31:42 AM PST by MindBender26
This is their pledge to the BLACK flag, not American flag, but BLACK flag, said by children of one Oklahoma City innercity school district, the Millwood School District.
Think I am kidding? Here is their webpage: http://www.millwood.k12.ok.us/MPS%20Students.htm
Notice it calls for honor to the Black flag, not the US flag. It also calls for separation of Black people onto their own land, given to them by the US. In addition, it calls for students to have Black love, Black freedom, and Black determination. Quite different from "... liberty and justice for ALL."
Your tax dollars are paying for this!!!! No wonder so many innercity kids can't read or write when this is what our educational dollars are being spent on!
"You want black children to pledge allegence to their white masters? That's even worse than this black flag BS."
No Hans, the South predicted this type of activity after the Un-Civil War. Here we go with the Southern bigot yadda-yadda, blase-blase-blah. You really need to get a life.
I would assume most of the info is spread throughout the as before mention thread. It would be helpful in spreading the truth.
Glad you asked.... Basically it was an old newsies nosy news nose. Know how a good cop can just "know" a car is stolen? It's about the same thing.
Here's how it started. Was having a FR discussion about the South Carolia NAACP head who called for a boycot on travel in SC. Met the clown once. It was at an NAACP meeting I was covering. (Blonde, blue eyed reporter at an NAACP meeting. Now that was fun..... Actually the locals, many of whom I knew, went out of way to make me feel welcome.)
Anyway, before the Carolina NAACP clown spoke, group recited the Pledge to the Black Flag and sang the Black National Anthem. Somesone on FR said there were no such things, so I did a Google search..... and Bingo!
Was surprized to see it was connected to a public school. I know that area of Oklahoma City, so did a little digging, and Bingo again.
Posted it on FR, because I knew this story had legs and FReepers would move story nationally.... and they did.
Way to go FReepers!
"When the school day nears an end, there is a rustle of books, then the recitation of the end-of-day anthem: ''We pledge to think black, act black, buy black, pray black, love black and live black. We pledge to do black things today to assure us of a black tomorrow.''"
Note that this was in a charter school, Aisha Shule, that received public funds.
Also found an interesting Tony Snow column on this from a couple of years ago. Enjoy.
The TRUTH about Kwanzaa
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa.
Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.
According to the official Kwanzaa Web site -- as opposed, say, to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site -- the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the masses of Black Americans" and provide a "reassessment, reclaiming, recommitment, remembrance, retrieval, resumption, resurrection and rejuvenation of those principles (Way of Life) utilized by Black Americans' ancestors."
Karenga postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week. He and his votaries also crafted a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination."
Now, the point: There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent. Begin with the name. The celebration comes from the Swahili term "matunda yakwanza," or "first fruit," and the festival's trappings have Swahili names -- such as "ujima" for "collective work and responsibility" or "muhindi," which are ears of corn celebrants set aside for each child in a family.
Unfortunately, Swahili has little relevance for American blacks. Most slaves were ripped from the shores of West Africa. Swahili is an East African tongue.
To put that in perspective, the cultural gap between Senegal and Kenya is as dramatic as the chasm that separates, say, London and Tehran. Imagine singing "G-d Save the Queen" in Farsi, and you grasp the enormity of the gaffe.
Worse, Kwanzaa ceremonies have no discernible African roots. No culture on earth celebrates a harvesting ritual in December, for instance, and the implicit pledges about human dignity don't necessarily jibe with such still-common practices as female circumcision and polygamy. The inventors of Kwanzaa weren't promoting a return to roots; they were shilling for Marxism. They even appropriated the term "ujima," which Julius Nyrere cited when he uprooted tens of thousands of Tanzanians and shipped them forcibly to collective farms, where they proved more adept at cultivating misery than banishing hunger.
Even the rituals using corn don't fit. Corn isn't indigenous to Africa. Mexican Indians developed it, and the crop was carried worldwide by white colonialists.
The fact is, there is no Ur-African culture. The continent remains stubbornly tribal. Hutus and Tutsis still slaughter one another for sport.
Go to Kenya, where I taught briefly as a young man, and you'll see endless hostility between Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya and Masai. Even South African politics these days have more to do with tribal animosities than ideological differences.
Moreover, chaos too often prevails over order. Warlords hold sway in Somalia, Eritrea, Liberia and Zaire. Genocidal maniacs have wiped out millions in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia. The once-shining hopes for Kenya have vanished.
Detroit native Keith Richburg writes in his extraordinary book, "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa," that "this strange place defies even the staunchest of optimists; it drains you of hope ..."
Richburg, who served for three years as the African bureau chief for The Washington Post, offers a challenge for the likes of Karenga: "Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I'll throw it back in your face, and then I'll rub your nose in the images of rotting flesh."
His book concludes: "I have been here, and I have seen -- and frankly, I want no part of it. .... By an accident of birth, I am a black man born in America, and everything I am today -- my culture and my attitudes, my sensibilities, loves and desires -- derives from that one simple and irrefutable fact."
Nobody ever ennobled a people with a lie or restored stolen dignity through fraud. Kwanzaa is the ultimate chump holiday -- Jim Crow with a false and festive wardrobe. It praises practices -- "cooperative economics, and collective work and responsibility" -- that have succeeded nowhere on earth and would mire American blacks in endless backwardness.
Our treatment of Kwanzaa provides a revealing sign of how far we have yet to travel on the road to reconciliation. The white establishment has thrown in with it, not just to cash in on the business, but to patronize black activists and shut them up.
This year, President Clinton signed his fourth Kwanzaa proclamation. He crooned: "The symbols and ceremony of Kwanzaa, evoking the rich history and heritage of African Americans, remind us that our nation draws much of its strength from our diversity."
But our strength, as Richburg points out, comes from real principles: tolerance, brotherhood, hard work, personal responsibility, equality before the law. If Americans really cared about racial healing, they would focus on those ideas -- and not on a made-up rite that mistakes segregationism for spirituality and fiction for history.
Tony Snow Archives
On schools, many blacks return to roots
By Wil Haygood, Globe Staff, 11/16/97
DETROIT - In learning their ABCs and in studying about geography, faraway flood plains, and the saints and sinners of history, students at the Aisha Shule-W.E.B. DuBois Preparatory Academy on the gritty northwest side of this city march to a different drummer.
Actually, the drums are African, and they're being slapped furiously just now to bring a school morning to order. The beats are accompanied by both African chants and English verse:
''We will live as models to provide new direction for our people.'' It sounds like a moral crusade. ''We will be free and self-determining.'' The strong voices lift the tiny voices up. ''We are an African people.''
They are standing in the center of the one-floor school and reciting one of their daily self-empowering messages as morning dark lifts from the windows. ''Together, we will win.''
In one of the more striking phenomenons in US education, African-centered secondary schools - also called Afrocentric schools - are experiencing stunning growth, testing America's idea of integrated schooling and catching some officials and educators by surprise.
According to Molefi Asante, who is chairman of the African-American Studies Program at Temple University and has trained many of the educators involved in the movement, there are about 400 African-centered schools in the United States. In the past five years alone, he says, the schools have grown by 30 percent.
Click on link above to read full article.
Quotes from body of article:
"Nowhere have the black schools taken hold as strongly as here in Detroit, where 12 of the public schools are now African-centered..."
"When the school day nears an end, there is a rustle of books, then the recitation of the end-of-day anthem: ''We pledge to think black, act black, buy black, pray black, love black and live black. We pledge to do black things today to assure us of a black tomorrow.''..."
lolol
There is a page within my county's public school website that was hacked(cracked for the purists) with a text change and stayed that way for weeks until someone in authority was notified.
I find this disgusting and something the people of OK should think about the next time they go to the polls and elect Sandy Garrett, the Democrat State Superintendent, again!
This from their web site:
The Millwood Public School District is located within the boundaries of Oklahoma City property, between Lincoln Boulevard and Sunnylane/Coltrane Roads on the west and east; and between Northeast 48th and 82nd on the south and north. The district consists of nine square miles. The boundaries are still the same as they were shown in 1900. The advalorem tax base is primarily residential property and Remington Park. It contains such nontaxable properties as the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City Zoo, Kirkpatrick Center, National Softball Hall of Fame, Fireman=s Museum, the proposed National Marshall=s Museum, National Clown Museum, and the land on which Remington Park is built.
Think of it as I-35 up near the Turner Turnpike, the horse racing track, the Cowboy Hall of Fame, that area. (not far from the TV stations' antenna farm.)
OKC has a very conservative Mayor, Kirk Humphreys, who I would suggest we all email at:
Mayor Humphreys is very involved in education in Oklahoma City schools and don't imagine this would make him very happy. He recently led the fight against some gay groups putting up banners on poles in OKC and won!
However I'm very interested in the 12 Detroit schools that are "afrocentric" and any more source material you have on them. Where did you get the quote? Do you have a list of the schools? Any more information would be appreciated.
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