Black Children Must Remain in the Family Structure: Why Building An All Black Boys Academy In The US Is A Bad Idea
Chantell Beaty
December 4, 2015
The White race is the ruling clan of society, and as long as this race remains the dominant class in humanity, all other social classes or races of people will always remain subject to this ruling order in one form or another. Black people must be mindful of the choices that they make for themselves and their families. They must create the best solutions for the worst problems that they may encounter as an inhabitant of white culture in a dominant white society. One of the most important choices for black families is how they should educate their children while still existing under white dominant control and power. Black parents must choose whether to send their children to public school, private school, or to home-school, or potentially send them to a boarding school while establishing or maintaining their intended Black culture.
The term “Black” is used over African in this context because until the practice of racism or White Supremacy has subsided from Earth, there will always be division and cultural relation through the racial colors of Black, White, Brown, Yellow, and Red, and with White as the dominant and cultural standard for society. Henceforth, until there is an establishment of a black social theory, whereby Black communities develop an order or code by which black people define their relationships with other living things, values and rituals, and methods of child rearing and education (Wright, 1984); a movement for a black educational institution that does not incorporate the intact black family, should cease.
A common cliché is that the definition of insanity is when people do the same thing repeatedly and expect different results. To build a black educational institution in a White Supremacist society where there is no proven model of success and expect it to succeed over similarly failed models is insane. The HBCU and boarding school concept are both institutional models of education where the black child or black adult child are away from the primary family structure, however, the college student is socially prepared to leave home at an appointed time. Therefore, considering that HBCUs are at a critical risk of closure due to the lack of financing, declining enrollment, and poor leadership (Jacobs, 2015) itself; how can black parents expect to send their children who are not yet mature, off to an institution that represents a potentially failing European model such as the boarding school.
A boarding school is a British form of education, and although various communities of Africa still embrace the concepts of boarding school today, inherited from their immediate European oppressors, Black scholars have not proven the boarding school model as a conducive concept for education in Black culture today. Furthermore, the British debate on whether the boarding school concept is still relevant to European culture today (see video below). Black communities desire to build black educational institutions for their black youth whether they are primary, secondary or higher forms of education. However, until black people have an understanding of the direct correlation of building blAck under the system of white supremacy, they are bound to repeat the process of insanity, until they first establish a black order, black code, or black social theory that guides them and umbrellas them from the attack of white supremacy while building their cultural camps.
This is not to say by any means that Black communities should not move forward and create intra-systems of educations such as home schools, community-based private schools, and community-based intervention committees for those still in public schools. The creation of Black cultural education must flourish! However, while in the mind of creativity, Black builders must always remember the common system of deconstruction, White Supremacy, and as stated in the words of Neely Fuller, Jr., "If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism)-what it is, and how it works-everything else that you understand will only confuse you."
References
December 4, 2015
The White race is the ruling clan of society, and as long as this race remains the dominant class in humanity, all other social classes or races of people will always remain subject to this ruling order in one form or another. Black people must be mindful of the choices that they make for themselves and their families. They must create the best solutions for the worst problems that they may encounter as an inhabitant of white culture in a dominant white society. One of the most important choices for black families is how they should educate their children while still existing under white dominant control and power. Black parents must choose whether to send their children to public school, private school, or to home-school, or potentially send them to a boarding school while establishing or maintaining their intended Black culture.
The term “Black” is used over African in this context because until the practice of racism or White Supremacy has subsided from Earth, there will always be division and cultural relation through the racial colors of Black, White, Brown, Yellow, and Red, and with White as the dominant and cultural standard for society. Henceforth, until there is an establishment of a black social theory, whereby Black communities develop an order or code by which black people define their relationships with other living things, values and rituals, and methods of child rearing and education (Wright, 1984); a movement for a black educational institution that does not incorporate the intact black family, should cease.
A common cliché is that the definition of insanity is when people do the same thing repeatedly and expect different results. To build a black educational institution in a White Supremacist society where there is no proven model of success and expect it to succeed over similarly failed models is insane. The HBCU and boarding school concept are both institutional models of education where the black child or black adult child are away from the primary family structure, however, the college student is socially prepared to leave home at an appointed time. Therefore, considering that HBCUs are at a critical risk of closure due to the lack of financing, declining enrollment, and poor leadership (Jacobs, 2015) itself; how can black parents expect to send their children who are not yet mature, off to an institution that represents a potentially failing European model such as the boarding school.
A boarding school is a British form of education, and although various communities of Africa still embrace the concepts of boarding school today, inherited from their immediate European oppressors, Black scholars have not proven the boarding school model as a conducive concept for education in Black culture today. Furthermore, the British debate on whether the boarding school concept is still relevant to European culture today (see video below). Black communities desire to build black educational institutions for their black youth whether they are primary, secondary or higher forms of education. However, until black people have an understanding of the direct correlation of building blAck under the system of white supremacy, they are bound to repeat the process of insanity, until they first establish a black order, black code, or black social theory that guides them and umbrellas them from the attack of white supremacy while building their cultural camps.
This is not to say by any means that Black communities should not move forward and create intra-systems of educations such as home schools, community-based private schools, and community-based intervention committees for those still in public schools. The creation of Black cultural education must flourish! However, while in the mind of creativity, Black builders must always remember the common system of deconstruction, White Supremacy, and as stated in the words of Neely Fuller, Jr., "If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism)-what it is, and how it works-everything else that you understand will only confuse you."
References
Boarding School Action (2014, Dec 30). Edinburg boarding school
debate [YouTube]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/NNFb3t7kBHE
Fuller Jr., N. (1971). The United Independent Compensatory Code
System Concept a textbook/workbook for Thought, Speech and/or Action
for Victims of Racism (white supremacy) [Manuscript].
Jacob, P. (2015). There is an unprecedented crisis facing America’s
historically black colleges. Retrieved from
http://www.businessinsider.com/hbcus-may-be-more-in-danger-of-closing-than-other-schools-2015-3
Wright, B.E. (1984). The psychopathic racial personality and other
essays. Third World Press: Chicago, IL.
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