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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
The British left will quite happily do that, as they will also quite happily bash Britain and its history, tell you that the Empire was completely evil, that British foreign policy was and is wrong etc etc.....
Get a British leftist to admit that the Empire and Britain pre-modern era did anything worthwhile, and I will give you £10.
Substitute “White” for “Black” in this story and Susan Rice would be viewed alongside David Duke in the American consciousness. But as it is, society views it as A-OK. That is how insane we have become.
Yeah, they should learn what happened when the black nations went marxist. Never mind, they’ll see it for themselves right here in the Nationalized States of America.
“I look at those who are living lives of dependency as a sad waste of talent and potential.”
So true. And this is the sinister intent of the nanny state proponents: As long as everyone is equally mediocre, society is just.
Good Lord. This woman does NOT “have a point” as you stated. She is the type who wants REVENGE over equality.
all history is propaganda.
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Intellibridge was founded by Clinton cronies Anthony Lake and David Rothkopf in 1999. It received a total of $28M in venture capital during its existence from 1999 to 2005.
There can be little doubt Rice got a large chunk of change from Intellibridge. However, she left after only a couple of years. What I assume is under the covers at the Brookings Institute is essentially a payoff mill for liberal policy people to enrich them in return for them serving in government, sort of like Fannie and Freddie and the World Bank.
The simple truth is Rice is a well educated lackey. She has the academic cred to serve in key policy positions, and get multimillion dollar think tank jobs in between, but ultimately she is just a glorified water carrier for Obama.
Obama put Rice at the U.N., elevated the U.N. Ambassador post to Cabinet Level, and made Rice report directly to him to create a Shadow Secretary of State.
If you recall, early in Obama's first term, it was noted with Rice and various directly appointed, and directly reporting liaisons (i.e., George Mitchel to Northern Ireland, etc.), Hillary! was left traveling to every third-world $#!+hole to represent the U.S. She was never allowed to be involved in any serious foreign policy.
Why a non-State Department employee was put on the Sunday Shows, along with campaign personnel (Axelrod and Gibbs), none of which had anything to do with Benghazi, opens up questions.
What was actually going on in Benghazi?
I shared the list with selected teachers and faculty when I was a rising Senior. It was not received well, and I am convinced that it would have negatively impacted my final grades had those not already been published.
Obama's TARP/slush money divided between top staff members. Do we really know where 5 trillion dollars the last 4 years went?
Thank you.
As an actual Scotsman, and a history graduate and occasional lecturer, I had no idea of all this.
sarc
To avoid more sarcasm and meet your points, I know all the history, for the reasons given earlier.
My point was that it is very easy to blame ‘the English’ for ills committed by Scots working on the orders of the Crown. In other words, blame an entire people for actions ordered by one man and carried out by Scots. Blaming the English or ‘the British’ (an identification which Americans usually get wrong) is lazy history.
And that Crown, btw, was one with Scottish roots itself. The Hanoverians sat on the throne because of George I being the Protestant German cousin of the Scottish Stuart dynasty (1603-1649, 1660-1714), as he was the grandson of Princess Elizabeth, a Scottish princess who was the daughter of James I.
As to ‘England’ and ‘Britain’, I posted what I did because most people outside the UK wrongly equate England and UK/Great Britain/Britain to be exactly the same. The latter names being just other names for England. And that of course is not correct.
You are mostly right but I think Susan Rice is worth 23 million due to inheriting from her father Emmett Rice who has his own wikipedia entry. He was a banker and the second black to serve at the Federal Reserve. My guess is Emmett Rice got turned onto some fantastic insider deals to make his millions
Wow! Doubling her income while the rest of us are tightening our belts.
Wouldn’t be a bad idea if all U.S. students learned about the oppression of all peoples in the history of the world. Maybe they’d feel like there are actually commonalities in human suffering and begin to quell the group against group mentality that this country suffers from.
When did Gibraltar become an island?
What are black people in America doing to end the practice of slavery in West Africa TODAY?
Such outrage over dead history with no concern over modern occurrence.
So much for the myths of Mother Africa.
Since a disproportionate number of black students don’t learn anything in school and drop out...shouldn’t they be “forced” to learn something? Why the focus on whites, susie? What a racist pig.
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