The meaning of racism has been buried under a mountain of antiracism rhetoric that never actually defines it. Antiracism has become the dominant focus of the discussion on racism in the media. It is the new social trend that seems to perpetuate the notion that Black...
Frederick Douglass's 4th of July speech is the most important thing America never taught you. Your school didn't teach it to you. That was not an accident. Every July 4th, America puts on its bogus costume. Fireworks. Flags. Cookouts. Speeches about freedom, liberty,...
Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history scholarship built by Cheikh Anta Diop and Chancellor Williams. Before you spend one dollar on a Samuel M. Goldstein book, read this. I am a professor of African and African American Studies with over 30 years of teaching...
Every Lesson They Taught Us Was a Choice — and So Was Every Lesson They Didn’t We cannot address systemic racism in education without first naming it for what it is. Systemic racism in education is not a relic of the past — it is the water our children are still...
They Didn’t Forget to Teach Us the Truth. They Chose Not To. Racism in American education history did not happen by accident. The American education system did not simply tolerate racism. It was built into it — by design, from the beginning. And we have been paying...