Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)

Political Education Neglected... The result is that Negroes grow up without knowledge of political matters which should concern all...Negroes in certain parts, then, have all but abandoned voting even at points where it might be allowed...such knowledge is apparently useless for Negroes and unnecessary for the Whites, for the Negroes do not immediately profit by having it and the Whites may function as citizens without it...

Professional Education Discouraged...Negroes...learned from their oppressors to say to their children that there were certain spheres into which they should not go because they would have no chance for development...this was especially true of the law schools, closed during the wave of legislation against the Negroes...in other words, the thing which the patient needed most to pass the crisis was taken from him that he might easily die...

Dissension and Weakness... it is very clear, then, that if Negroes got their conception of religion from slave holders, libertines, and murderers, there may be something wrong about it, and it would not hurt to investigate it...

The educated Negro leaves the masses...At that time men went off to school to prepare themselves for the uplift of a downtrodden people. In our time, too many Negroes go to school to memorize certain facts to pass examinations for jobs. After they obtain these positions, they pay little attention to humanity...the Negro has been so busy doing what he is told to do that he has not stopped long enough to think about the meaning of these things...

The Failure to Learn to Make a Living... what Negroes are now being taught does not bring their minds into harmony with life as they must face it... the so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have, and go in quest of those which they do not find...the schools are not turning out men properly trained to take up Negro business as it is, and develop and make it what it ought to be rather than find fault with it...

Education under outside control...the only way to elevate people is to help them to help themselves...the education of any people should begin with the people themselves, but the Negroes thus trained have been dreaming about the ancients of Europe....

How We Missed the Mark...The poverty which afflicted them for a generation after emancipation held them down to the lowest order of society, nominally free but economically enslaved...

...to handicap a student by teaching him his Black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching...~Carter G. Woodson

...if we have reached consensus that brainwashing is real and it must end NOW, age or stature won’t trump energy and commitment, and no one will be expected to “fix it” alone...This is a call to coalesce , unify, improve and end a detrimental campaign that has gone unrecognized and unaddressed for too long...

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