For years African Americans have been used as complacent pawns to a failing system of American Education. I have been a student in Baltimore City Schools for years and the constricting structures of policing blackness has appalled me. If we take a minute to analyse the inequities within schools in our communities of color versus white neighborhoods. Earlier in my educational career I attended a predominately white school until I was moved to a school closer to me in the city. The structural inequities were the first major difference I experienced.
Our schools in our communities of color receive significant less money for improvements and our budgets are slim. The intersecting systems of whiteness and capitalism play a part in shaping our young peoples mind. If we look at the curriculum in an average school in Baltimore City, they are still teaching that Columbus discovered America and that racism ended after the Civil Rights Movement. A lot of the schools in Baltimore and other cities across the country cant afford Advanced Placement or IB courses. Its no coincidence that these cities have high poverty rates and are primarily black and Hispanic. This is were as conscious people of color we have to teach our children the process of self educating.
The school curriculum refuses to teach our children how to liberate themselves, the systems primary purpose is to build complacent clones to eventually fuel anti blackness. We are taught what we are told and this paralyses the brain against any form of critical thought to question the system. If we buy the widely believed thought that children are the future, we have to focus on how are future is being educated.
five years later , we should have some solutions by now ! By now 2018, there should be free downloads of tutorial enrichment K-12 online for economically disadvantaged Black parents in all 50 states, to suplement what is in the schools! Along with HBU students creating after school and weekend Freedom Schools to provide Black history , and enrichment as they did in the 60s and 70s