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
I had seen this list before of “inventions” by black Americans. I needed a good laugh again. The biggest hoax of all was George Washington Carver, who the liberals like to say invented peanut butter. Truth of the matter is he invented nothing.
http://whitelocust.wordpress.com/black-invention-myths/
I took a black history course in college. Day one there were lots of black students. The teacher handed out the reading list. Day two, almost all the black students had dropped the course. You make your own judgement as to why.
So, Ms Rice, how about you make the BLACK students take a course in black history? I already did!
Rice should’ve also included:
“And we should make sure that we make black students learn black history.”
For example, most younger blacks with whom I’ve spoken are shocked when I tell them that up until around the mid 1960s — the time of LBJ’s “Great Society” programs — most blacks voted Republican, as did Martin Luther King, Jr. for his entire life. They are shocked to hear that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery in the 19th century, and the party of “Jim Crow” and “Separate but Equal” laws in the 20th.
We might want to include the interesting (if embarrassing) fact that the wages of black workers had been rising steadily since the end of WWII, and that in specific areas of skilled labor, they surpassed those of white workers, and that this changed for the worse AFTER the civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act.
In other words, as part of a black student’s education, he should read some of the works of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell.
How about making black students learn. Period.
That would be the history you don't think you need to learn?
And at this juncture I’m in a particularly ugly mood.
Clearly.
Invention is a matter of many people coming up with different versions and improvements. So, for example, Morgan's gas mask was a major improvement on Stenhouse's or Tyndall's, as Miles's elevator doors were an improvement on Meaker's.
I don't get the rage to dismiss another people's culture or achievements and pronounce them nothing. I hope it's just momentary anger and not a sign of some deeper hatred.
Oh, contrary to that racist site, the Jenny coupler and the Janney coupler are two different kinds of railroad coupler, one invented by the Confederate, the other by the African-American.
I have a feeling the democrat party will nominate her for president in a few years.
The media will be crowing “first woman president” and Americans will fall for it.
Hate to say it, but I’d be happy if anyone, regardless of race, creed, religion, gender, etc.... would learn any part of history at all. That would be amazing, in and of itself.
Black history? Is that the history that occurs between sundown and sunset?
Just asking........
Thought it would be the same, all 24 hours of the day.
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