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
Isn't it just like "The Man" to make it the shortest month of the year?
Hey, the Chicago jesus said that there have been Muslim contributions to American history!
I checked. This list is correct, and there have only been the declarations of war by the Barbary Pirates, as a consequential marking on American history, until 1993, when the first towers bombings happened in NYC, and then nothing until 9/11, when Saudis flew those planes into the towers.
What’d the black guys invent, squalor?
Bet they know GPS though. lol
lol........, but it started way before that, I’m thinking sharpton and the rev. jesse
Well, they did have a COKE BOTTLE at one time. cept they didn' know what to do with it. rofl............
as a matter of fact, your right about that.
That is the FIRST place to start.
A tenured history professor I worked with once told a class of about 200 students that the “sole contribution of blacks to America was the word ‘mother@#$^er.” That statement got my attention, but the thirty or so blacks in the class did not seem to notice. Most blacks, just like most whites, don’t give a crap about history and that is just one reason why the country has gone to heck.
It should read “make black students learn American history!”
It should read “make black students learn American history!”
She could help a lot of poor urban black kids with that money. Of course, so could the Obama’s with theirs, if Obama wasn’t so hell-bent on making sure no urban poor black kid can get find job can be used to jump up to better things.
She could help a lot of poor urban black kids with that money. Of course, so could the Obama’s with theirs, if Obama wasn’t so hell-bent on making sure no urban poor black kid can find a job that can be used to jump up to better things.
Northern Brazil. Detroit. South Side Chicago. Philly. DC. Baltimore.
The impoverished people in the USA should be informed about what economic class and it’s members are doing to make the a world a better place for them i.e. the impoverished. Probably wouldn’t make any sense to them hearing about how the rich one world promoters like Rice and Soros are the ones who are doing the USA no good.
Never heard of the Kingdom of Cush? or Ethiopia?
Western Civ. got us to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Pax Americana. If you had to pick one thread of history with the best outcomes it would be ancient Greece to America.
You could do a follow up on failed states that would include tribalism, socialism, genocide and the rest of the world.
Britain and England are not the same.
And the Clearances in Scotland were done by SCOTS.
The Irish Famine killed Protestants as well as Catholics.
Yet it is the latter who have claimed the Famine as their own.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.