[raybbr]

...is part of the elite group of African-American scholars...

Who defines them as elite? Also, I do not acknowledge the term African-American unless they have dual citizenship with some African country. I think that every black person, who was born here in the U.S.of A. is an American. If they choose to use the A-A designation then it is clear they do not consider themselves Americans.

A lot of African-American kids have no idea of their culture. They have no idea what part of Africa they came from,"

They are Americans. That is their culture. If they want to celebrate living in grass huts then they can easily go back to Africa where cultural and social developement is a century behind the rest of the world.

"Teaching of the young starts very early," Smith said. "You cannot wait until a child's in seventh or eighth grade and then try to teach them about their history."

In other words, "Start the victimization doctrine as early as possible and they will spend the rest of their lives working the system to get monies from the government (self-loathing, self-made-guilty rich white people).

God, I hate this issue. Nothing is going to divide this country more than this push for reparations. The push for imaginary diversity has done a great job so far. However, it is nothing compared to the ruin that reparations will cause.

[FreedomPoster]

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[libertylover]

"They have no idea what part of Africa they came from..."

I have no idea what part of Europe I came from and I don't care. It doesn't matter. I am an American. Period.

[Rodney King]

"If they know where they came from, in terms of their culture, then they'll know where they are presently."

What would that possibly tell them about their present selves of culture?

[Rodney King]

noting that he traced his own roots back to a "great empire" in Africa that existed more than 400 years ago

Good Lord, the man is delusional.

[mhking]

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[Rodney King]

"But what both sides did after the Civil War was over, both in places like New York as well as in the South, is that they took that land," he said. "In places where there [were] promises made, promises [were] never kept."

That darn confederacy. We're glad they lost and don't have the power to keep promises, but we sure wish they had the power to keep promises.

[Rodney King]

According to Smith, racism has historically prevented African-Americans from being compensated for all of the pain and suffering that their ancestors endured.

No, the rule of law, and the "liberal" concept that a man cannot be held liable for the crimes of others (like in Africa) is.

[Rodney King]

Smith compared the suffering and deaths of African-American slaves to the atrocities Jews suffered at the hands of Hitler during World War II

Now, I don't mean this as an offense to andy African Americans, but you would think that the last thing that an African-American educator would want to do is to appear to be smoking crack.

[Adder]

"Civilization itself started in Africa and it worked its way to this part of the world, but most African-Americans as well as white Americans don't know that," he said. "No matter how much we try to disprove that reality, it always comes back to the fact that civilization did start in Africa and then spread out throughout the rest of the planet.""
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What an absolute lie! Civilization didn't start in Africa. Man evolved in Africa. Thats a huge difference!
I still contend that simply because the geography of the place of origin was africa, one cannot therefore assume that early man was black. Skin color may have evolved AFTER the dispersion of the species from Africa. It makes little sense that a hair covered creature would also have black skin...in fact very few do[see chimpanzes for example].
I cannot stand that this sort of supposition is passing for knowlege. The so-called African empires exist only in the minds of the "elite scholars". Collections of mud huts and leftover oral traditions do not pass for empires. There is no writing or some form of communication such as knotted ropes that I am aware of, surely an indicator of civilization in that every "empire" that I am aware of had writing or communication...even the nomadic empire of the Mongols had writing. Understand I am talking about their contentions and pretensions of "Empire", not culture.
Its a sorry state of affairs when these people with no evidence, no facts are given positions like secular priests establishing a religion based on some crypto-mysto faith to lie to a generation. AND they want the taxpayer to fund this boolsheet.
This is a total and complete OUTRAGE!

[RightOnline]

This has nothing whatsoever to do with "teaching". This is about "propaganda". This so-called curriculum is designed to do one thing and one thing only: drive a bigger wedge between blacks and whites. Period.

Way to go, guys. Get 'em while they're young, eh?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"A lot of African-American kids have no idea of their culture.
Parent's fault. Parent's job. Not the school's.

They have no idea what part of Africa they came from,"
My great grandparents came from Germany. I come from Cincinatti. A school age child of today comes from somewhere America. Not Africa.

"If they know where they came from, in terms of their culture, then they'll know where they are presently."
Non sequitur. If they know where they came from, in terms of their culture, then they'll know where they came from, in terms of their culture.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings kattracks, FReepers, et al:

"A lot of African-American kids have no idea of their culture. They have no idea what part of Africa they came from," he said. "If they know where they came from, in terms of their culture, then they'll know where they are presently."

Looks like it will continue that way too. Facts social engineers ignore:
(1) Slave sales originated in Africa with slave traders. Someone sold a slave to the captain of slave ship.
(2) Not all slave owners where "white." Some "black" Americans were slave owners too.
(3) Not all slaves were "black." Just ask a "Cajun" about their origin.
(4) Liberia was created to "repatriate" anyone who longed for "mother" Africa.

The USA is the land of opportunity. Quit whining, make a life of it.

[F16Fighter]

"It sounds like for even the white kids, they're going to find out their black roots, granted I mean we're talking probably the Stone Age when the migration of peoples [occurred]," said David Almasi, spokesman for the black conservative group, Project21.

Foisting these lies and historical revisionism upon ALL children is nothing more than a thinly veiled revolution upon American by "African" separatists and anarchists.

Why the "educators" propaganda cited in this article are given one red cent by the U.S. government is beyond stupidity -- it's treasonist.

[concerned about politics]

"Civilization itself started in Africa and it worked its way to this part of the world, but most African-Americans as well as white Americans don't know that," he said. "No matter how much we try to disprove that reality, it always comes back to the fact that civilization did start in Africa and then spread out throughout the rest of the planet."

Liar. Mesopotamia is suppose to be the home of Adam and Eve according to scholars who have studied this stuff for ages and ages.
This guy must have read up on Marx. "Repeat a lie often enough, and you'll eventually get your taxpayer rip off."
FOX was also reporting how the new school textbooks have Islam as a "religion of peace" and a "Jihad" as a purification ritual.

Vote school choice canidates. Shut down the indoctrination centers.

[Destructor]

As a descendant of a Native American, I hereby denounce the criminal misdeeds of the "Buffalo Soldiers," and I demand reparations from the "African-American" community!

[lodwick]

Shine this.

[CtBigPat]

What they SHOULD be teaching black kids:

No one cares who your ancesters were or how badly they were treated. They care about who YOU are and, more importently, WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER. Pay attention in school so you will have much to offer.

Business is not about black and white. It is about making green. Be the person they want to hire-honest, hardworking, educated.

You are free because white people decided that slavery was wrong and because white people died so that you might be free. They still practice slavery in parts of Africa.

Anyone who claims that you are due "reparations" is trying to buy your support with the false promise of a fat check that will never come. Your reparations are the fact that you live in the greatest country in the world while those who's ancesters were not taken as slaves live in a third world hell-hole where half the population has AIDS and the average income is a dollar a day.

[Xthe17th]

... Both rely on federal grant money from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support their educational efforts....AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!

He said it is important for African-American children to be able to trace their culture back to the African tribe that they are descended from, noting that he traced his own roots back to a "great empire" in Africa that existed more than 400 years ago. No, it's more important for children to recognize that they are AMERICANS and value the freedoms that they enjoy here. If this guy pines for the old days, let's help him relocate to his beloved Africa.

[Indy Pendance]

"A lot of African-American kids have no idea of their culture. They have no idea what part of Africa they came from,"

I have no idea what part of the Ukraine my family came from. We need more teachings of the Ukraine in school. We need to be sensitive to every Ukrainian who fled the Bolshevek revolution, and to demand our heritage be taught in school. We were serfs and slaves too.