Afrocentric courses praised

Gary Post Tribune ^ | 2/4/2002 | Leslie Jones McCloud

[TopDog2]

This should help those kids get ahead in the world!

[TopDog2]

As educators, I thought you might want to see this?

[memetic]

what a bunch of horse-pukey! the fact that I know my ancestors back in erie were a bunch of illiterate, priest ridden, barefoot, bog trotters; hasn't slowed me down in the slightest. the past, is like past. Get over it.

[MrCraig]

The goal is to increase student achievement

By lowering the standards no doubt.

[End Times Sentinel]

They hope the change brings better school performance, behavior and higher test scores. .

Yeah, this should work. We already know that children of Italian decent are incapable of learning anything but Roman history, Greeks, Greek history etc. It’s about time that we do the same for the Fine African American students in this district.

Also, how about doing something to tie in their poor performance with suffering the effects of rashism.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[TomGuy]

Maybe this curriculum can/will/already does replace that void left in NJ by not teaching about the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers.

[sushiman]

" African American children don’t have an appreciation for African culture,” ... Too many " African American children don't have an appreciation for AMERICAN culture !

[BlueLancer]

Yes, but you forget: African countries invented all of the really cool stuff (agriculture, democracy, built the Pyramids, navigation, map making, architecture, etc, etc, etc) thousands of years ago ...

But it was all stolen from them by the wicked Ice People of the North and it was stolen from them so well that there are no records, no ruins, no traces of these marvelous inventions left in Africa.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Afrocentrism is educational Ecstasy - a feel-good drug that results in deep (economic) depression amongst those who are addicted.

[randog]

Giving Africans credit for Egyptian culture is like giving Panamanians credit for the American Revolution.

[FairWitness]

Fairly recently I read "Between the Rivers" (hope I got the title right) by Harry Turtledove. A good novel about life in bronze-age Mesopotamia. One of the interesting "gimmicks" in the book was that, when a person died, their ghost continued to live in the community and could talk to the living until the last person who remembered that person before they became a ghost died and then the ghost ceased to exist. This is really an analogy for how most of us know our heritage. We remember back to our grandparents and really no further. What came before is "over". For American blacks, Africa is "over" and they could get on with life better (IMHO) if they would concentrate on being Americans.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The courses are praised. The descriptive word used is most likely "easy."

[boris]

Do dey instruc dere homies wit EBONICS, too?

--Boris

[Faraday]

Jacky Gholsen is coordinator of the African and African American Infusion Project, that has been in place since 1993.

First, this is just a hustle in line with the scams taught at education schools. Why should the melanin deprived get all the gravy? Second, with an 8 year pilot project, you would think someone would ask for the results of that effort. Another day, another joke from the "education" industry.

[humblegunner]

"African American children don’t have an appreciation for African culture,”

Not much to appreciate about squatting in the mud
chewing on uncle mombata's thighbone.

[Rebelbase]

My ex. took a couple of semesters of education grad school at a predominantly black university. She received a minority prescence grant both semesters and the schooling did'nt cost us a dime. She had a real hard time with the A.A. studies though.

[Rebelbase]

They seem to forget that the SubSahran desert was a natural barrier between Egypt and the rest of Africa.