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
re: Rice’s history with the Clintons—From an article at huffpo
Rice stunned her colleagues during the 1994 Rwanda genocide by asking what the effect would be on the November (mid-term) election if the administration used the word “genocide” but failed to intervene.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-loconte-phd/a-crisis-of-conscience-in-benghazi_b_2170905.html
Amen to that. And long after actual slavery was outlawed, we had the Potato Famine, the Welsh coal mine disasters and the Russian invasion of Poland. Most whites in America would have to mail themselves a check for reparations.
Good one!
He also recognized the military contributions of blacks by racially integrating the military, insisted that Nazi horrors of WW2 be fully documented, initiated the interstate superhighway system, started an agency that would be renamed and claimed by a later president as "the Peace Corps", instituted an era of peace and prosperity inspired by his own deep knowledge of war and its consequences, and was the first of our modern presidents to suffer the media belittlement and personal scourging that is now standard practice.
Good point. Emmett J. Rice served on the Federal Reserve Board from 1979 to 1986, then served on several corporate boards. If he did not make millions from his work at the Fed, he definitely did serving on corporate boards.
However, Emmett just died in March 2011, and he was survived by both his daughter Susan and son E. John Rice, Jr.
I doubt Emmett Sr. was worth $80M.
It doesn't matter. The truth is Susan Rice, like Moochelle Obama, grew up in a unique, upper middle class black family. Barack Obama grew up in a upper middle class white family.
I am tired of these people who grew up in nicer homes, with more wealth, educated in private schools, calling me racist if I dare question their competence.
I'm tired of people who got their wealth and success from a political benefactor system claiming my success in the private sector is because I cheated in a rigged system.
“...he then went on to be an adviser to the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos in 1963 and 1964.[7]”
Anyone see a pattern? Another CENTRAL, WORLD banker.
And now his daughter is US secretary to the UN.
Which parent was white?
Huh?
I went to elementary school in the late 70s and early 80s in a rural MD community that was about 30% Black, and honestly I think we may have devoted a third of our time to studying Harriet Tubman ad naseam - certainly more than any other historical US figure.
So what Rice wants was already happening when she wrote that.
A black man invented 300 uses for the peanut(many still used today) including explosives and 150 uses for the sweet potato. A black surgical aide to a well known surgeon of the 1800’s(I think) invented many of the instruments used in today’s surgery. Many black men have invented many inventions of note.
I agree that earlier, American history avoided discussions that were painful. We need to just call it History and teach everything. Huge contributions to our nation should get the most time, but no ethnicity should be left out.
No separate month for soft bigotry for groups. No patronizing. Just tell the whole story and let older kids discuss the moral dilemmas and failings of yesteryear. Life is messy.
She also holds between $300,000 and $600,000 worth of investment in Keystone Pipeline.
How’s that working for you, Susan???
Your Black God won’t let that pipeline f do what it is intended to do.
Perhaps Rice would like to concentrate on the history of the Blacks who stole the farms from the whites in Zimbabwe.
That country used to export millions of dollars worth of food.
Now—under the farms ‘owned’ by the blacks, they IMPORT about 80% of what they need to subsist.
How’s that for some “Black History”???
How about the “Black History” that is put on the front pages each & every day in Oakland, Chicago, Atlanta & other cities in the USA where the blacks are roving thugs???
Just another typical racist moron, brought to you courtesy of FuBO.
She isn’t fit to judge a beauty pageant.
You are correct. I don’t know the difference and I make the effort. So what are other Americans left with
Yep, no real world experience to tie her limpid brain to reality. We need a revolution.
Do we get to teach that the first black slave owner was a black man named Anthony Johnson and his first black slave was John Casor a black man. Johnson petitioned the court to allow him to keep for life Casor as his slave.
Blacks started black slavery.
Gibraltar has historically been referred to as an ‘island.’
It also has very obnoxious monkeys.
Funny...you wouldn’t think Rice would want to appear “white”, would ya?
http://moonbattery.com/?p=21746
As part of my Masters program in history I had to take a Black History course. It was beyond a doubt the most boring, inconsequential, opinionated waste of time I ever was forced to take by the “progressive” history department.
(of course they later changed the title to African-American History, to be politically correct)
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