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...
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 people can also be racists. But there’s one problem. Black people, who are the main target of racism, have been...
C. Wright slowly turned his head and his gaze away from me for a moment. It appeared as if he was going to give me a break. But when he looked back at me, with the stare of an assassin, I knew it wasn’t a reprieve. He wasn’t letting me off the hook. He was...
“You know it was an illusion. And you know why you know that my friend?” he asked, more as a statement rather than a question. “You know it because you remember it.” “I remember it?” I asked, with half my mind in the room listening to what he was saying, while the...
“Well,” he said, still in a confident mood, “it’s very simple. Racism is nothing more than the belief held by white people that they are superior to people who are not white.” “Come again,” I said, not believing what I thought I heard him say. “It’s not that...
"You can't handle the truth!" — Words uttered by actor Jack NicolsonFrom the movie A Few Good Men (1992) — Racism is a sensitive subject. The above words, “You can’t handle the truth,” could apply to several areas of life. However, none is more applicable than that...