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Dear Editor:
I am writing tp your readers to hare my views on racial
relations.
We all have to admit that America's racial relations hav not
gotten any better. The Rodney King and Malice Gr n inci
dents, not to mention, a Black man being torched by three white
men. Action must be taken.
I believe the only two solutions that will allow Africans in
America to survive are re-education and total eparation from
Caucasian Americans.
This is not racist, this is reality.
I know a lot of your African American readers will object to
my idea of total ind pend n of Africans in Arne ica.
We must realize a few things:
• We as African Americans have upported the Pal tine
Liberation Organization with our tax dollars.
We as African Americans have supported th break up of
the former U.S.S.R. into eparate independ nt tates.
The minut Afric ns in South Africa and America want
indepehdence, there i objection.
THIS I THE hypocrisy of white America and the Black
Leadership - always wanting it for someon 1 but nev r for
African people.
We can't liv off America forever, just look at the hape of .
this nomy.
We w re ind ndent before th slav In t r brought u
over here.
And if the Black man wouldjust stop being the slave master's
COOy', we will be ind pendent again.
We need our own land, national flag, hools, economy and
our own n tion I urity. "We had it befor w . me her ."
Malcolm Hakeem Abdul Ali
Kincheloe, MI .
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Greg Byndrian
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cation .
Thus far the re ults have
n nothing hort of pectacu
lar. All c t country Black
p rent, tudents, te chers,
chool board m mbers and com
munityactivis re su fully
fighting for the ad ption of Afri
can centered curricul . their
school districts and the creation
of African centered learningcen
ters.
Indeed the ntire edifice of
Ameri n edu tion has been
shak n to i very foundation
the African centered education
movement bas provoked a na
tional debate about the exclusive
(European) chamcter of Ameri
can education and the n for
radical change.
Because of its enormous
ONE 0 THE most success
ful mo menta to emerge in the
last decad within the National
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Copy,lghl 1813 leale, J. Ke,n All Righl. ne .. ,ved
oft t
n tion of
tional Bo rd of Education
for P pI of African A ry
(NBEPAA).
In 0 m r of 1991 A 'can
ch I and ctivi gathered
in e Yor City to gin true
turing a system tic p for
developing and evaluating Afri
can ntered curricular mod
and tudy gui , m pping out a
policy a nda, and d loping
pla to i the number of
ind pendent B educational
i titutions including the
tion of an independent African
centered university,
A follow-up convention
held in Oakland, California in
October 1992. National Task
Forces were tablished at th '
conventions, and a decision
m de to purchase a building in
New York City to .as the
admini trative headquarters
and national nerve center for the
NBEPPA and the Afrialn cen
tered education movement.
Flush with the extraordinary
s which the mo ent has
achieved in such a short period
,
00
t.
Just as th prioriti , values,
belief: and actions of the poor
whit a determin by th ir
restricting min t, 0 are the
th ugh and actions of I -ad
v nt g d Blacks. Moreover,
Bla carry an additional bag
gs of impedim nts C8 of
mpant racism and ra aware-
that ap ar to always
nt.
of ime, t d i
Third ADnu Con ntion in
Chicago Octo r 21-23, t King
Kenney ColI
Aooording to the organiz
-t . convention e rgiz th
ho continu to or to nd-
rdiz curriculum, hape educa
tional polio , and coordinate
education in t public and ind
pendent ools throughout t
country."
Hun of concern and
committed people ttended this
nvention from all a t
. country.
In ddition to plenary
sio and war bo on a range
of important topics, t conven
tion reoognized Dr. Leonard Jef
fri and Atty. Joseph Fl Dring
for their landmark legal victoey
o City College ofN Yor
THE RICAN entered
education mo ment and the
NBEPAA are logical ions
of Black educational empo
ment mowm t of the 60'. and
70's.
This movement advanoed t
notions of community control of
public education, spawned inde
pendent elementaIy and con
dary schools, spar ed the Black
studi movement on college
and university campus and
created university level institu
tions like the Center for Black
Education and the Malcolm X
Liberation University.
The Black educational m
powerm nt movement sprang
out of the movement for Black
Power, Black nationalism and
Pan-Africanism - the Blac
Liberation Movement.
As such the goal was notj
education to get a job or to ad
vance a career. The goal was
education for liberation; educa
tion as a vital community-build
ing, nation-building
undertaking education to rescue
African people from the menti
cide/genocide of Eurocentric
education and white supremacy.
Hence the Mrican centered
education movement as it has
evolved over the last decade and
the creation of the NBEP AA are
at the cutting edge of the strug
gl for the survival and develop
ment of African people in this
country.
Ron Daniels serues as Presi
dent of the Institute for Commu
nity Organization and
Development in Youngstown,
Ohio. He may be contacted at
(216) 746-5747 .
to a Bl ck American mindset
that is not conducive to upward
mobility.
BUT BLACK conservatives
such as Clarence Thomas,
Thomas Sowell and others evi
dently s king the pproval or
money of white upremacists
must unde tand that the lack of
achievement or su in some
human being; is notane lusive
p erv of Black people. This
la is common to all ra and
to all people who suffer d f ts
that ult in limit lief in
on's ability to compete success
fully C8 of circumstances
beyond his or her control.
A dominating negative mind-
emer from defeat or frus-
tration and destroy hope and
optimism.
The remedy for the negative
mindset i not to blame t vic
tim. The remedy will found in
a national climate of equality,
opportunity and optimism and
e Hence.