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
Wasn't Valerie born in Iran?
Make Black students read about the history of the Irish, the Welsh, and the Poles. Oppression and slavery weren’t unknown among whites until it was abolished by Christianity.
Then they should have to learn United States History and the Constitution!!!
Another race pimp paid big bucks by the struggling tax payers. This parasite has never had a real job in her life, being a Class A Taker.
And that it was a future Republican presidential candidate -- Barry Goldwater -- who requested the honor of commanding and integrating the first military unit, the Arizona Air National Guard.
Thanks for the INFO.
I didn’t know about the blood types or the North Pole, but I had heard about the traffic light.
It seems so. She lived there for about 5 years is what I see?
Haiti
“...Would there even be a recorded Black history were it not for Western Civilization?...”
Ummmmm....no. IF it weren’t for Western Civilization, they’d still be in loin cloths tossing spears at each other. Let’s face it: They stared at the ocean for hundreds of years and never once thought of a sail. Never thought of a wheel either. They’d still be dragging stuff if not for Western Civilization. They’re on the low end of the Bell Curve and no amount of “political correctness” or “affirmative action” is ever going to hide that. Obama, himself, is living proof.
Same for the Mayans. No wheel and no primitive metallurgy yet millions in civilized nations are spooked terrified by the Mayan apocalypse date of December 21st this year. Mayans- Bunch of dumbasses if you ask me. All wogs east of Suez
OK , as long as they highlight the part where BLACK people captured and sold other BLACK people to the French slave traders to be transported to America where their lives became better than ever as slaves on plantations, even better than their former lives in that hell hole Africa
“make whites...”
she can stop right there.
female canine.
I think plenty of people wish American black slavery had never existed.
“Most of them have probably never even heard of Ralph Bunche.”
I remember him from my stamp collection (yes, blacks were allowed on postage stamps before the race-hustling industry came around); never learned about him (or many white people) in school, though.
I have no problem with including African-AMERICAN history (as part of the general US history - lumped with British and Dutch and German and Irish and Polish and Italian and whatever) in a curriculum; there should be no more focus on Africa than there should be on any other part of the world.
Amen. Thank you.
and that would include Obamas cousin Odinga that he went as a senator to campaign for, hacking to death 300 as they fled christian churches that he firebombed
I know more about Black History than most Blacks do.
Ask a black, who was George Washington Carver or Booker T Washington? They won’t know, they only know about Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
and how about Black appreciation of African Art history , good luck getting more than $10 for any beautiful old art object from Africa , you’d be lucky to get $7 for some ornate beaded mask or complex copper wall hanging , they would rather have a bottle of night train any day
Get a British leftie to admit that England was a major player in slavery without wincing and I’ll give ya’ 10 bucks. They always point their finger at “The Yanks”.
Don’t they spend all of February doing this anyway? Wonder when there will be a white history month?
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