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
If not her perhaps the AA lady who cornered me outside a store to ask for funds to turn on her IPhone. It took everything I had to not unload on her. But then I remembered that the beg might have been a ploy to distract. Oh on topic, susan rice can go pound a granular substance.
Does this include the fact that Africans sold fellow Africans into slavery or do we omit that part?
Cause only whites are bad doncha know.
They are also pulling out all the stops to make this Marxist the SOS. Even though Benghazi is important, there are far more serious issues in her background that needs to be questioned. She makes Van Jones look like a moderate. Susan Rice is an unabashed anti-constitution, UN globalist, and will be Obamas final nail in America’s coffin.
Racist biotch!
LLS
The Irish population has yet to recover fully fom the 'potato famine' that killed about 1.5 million and caused another 1.5 million to emigrate in the 1800's.
Ireland is the only modern/developed country to have a lower population today than in 1840.
You didn't learn that history in school either.
Albeit, Germany is the European country to have more of its citizens emigrate to the USA than citizens from any other European country.
Bingo!!! Looked around to her fathers wiki entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_J._Rice
He was a connected banker. This is where Susan Rice is worth 23+ million via her daddy (inherited). She is from DCs mocha elite
black history?
um.... long long ago we made huts and spears to throw at each other and the animals.
The end.
besides, most whites know more about black history than blacks do.....
for instance, that MLK was a republican...that most of the rats voted no on the civil rights bill, that is was the white deomocrats who were the nucleus of the KKK..
Do you really believe most cannot find Africa on a map? It may be true today with the dumbed down teacher’s union. Heck, we had to close a new charter school in Nashville (3 years old) after the students failed miserably in reading and math. What chance does a grade school type have when he/she cannot read, write, much less can they do basic math after three years in a so called grade school charter school. We had to shut the school down. Please tell me how teachers with a degree in Black Studies would have helped?
I wonder what the percentage is of black Americans who know the correct answer to the question “Who was the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?” I would guess less than 1%. Most of them have probably never even heard of Ralph Bunche.
Almost all of her money seems to be connected to Iranian type investments. Not funny as the person who runs this country seems to be a female who has been around Obama, Ayers, plus all of zero’s pals for years. Yes, Valerie Jarrett has been pals with Pro Iranian hard line types like Trita Parsi.
When I hear that someone went through the Rhodes program, I immediately suspect them.
Bill Clinton was in the Rhodes program when he toured Eastern Europe on his mom’s meager income. And in those days, you didn’t even tour Eastern Europe.
What are they?
I do know one myself.
Better yet, start with the Bible, a month of Church History to understand why the Mayflower Compact was significant, then let them re-evaluate World and American History. It isn’t a ‘white man’s’ story, but it does help to place racism in a better perspective, including modern day racism against anything white.
Maybe blacks should be taught that it was a WHITE REPUBLICAN MALE that freed them from slavery.
Everything I need to know about blacks, I’ve learned in the past 4 years.
Who was the first at the North Pole?
Then: A A+ B- O+
Traffic signals
Grease fittings on locomotives.
There's more but this is a good start.
those are investments. The millions in seed money came from her rich daddy banker who was the second black on the Federal Reserve Board
(my guess)
dittos! very sad indeed. I was stupid enough to be pro-affirmative action for blacks a few years ago. Now I see laughing at us and robbing the taxpayer (whitey) wall to wall scams everywhere
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