I assume the question (what do you make of this) is asking what I think they're doing rather than just my opinion about what they're doing, which is positive overall.
I think they're turning the young men into Americans without disconnecting them from being Black. They do it by connecting them to each other. What makes them typically American is the collective belief that the are not collective. Achievement > affiliation is not correct, because it is through one's affiliations that achievement is recognized.
But that's okay...you got three ways of dealing with dual consciousness: merge them, kill one or surf the wave of the interference patterns. This is method three; and having made that choice the program looks pretty good.
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When I saw this I immediately wondered why didn't CNN bother to compare and contrast this effort against Prof. Fryer's own venture?
That's an interesting
That's an interesting thought.
Fryer uses the "kill one" approach.
Beautiful piece
Until I read submariner's comment, I was going to ask if Soledad included this in her piece. Guess not.
And I thought someone debunked that number of "more black young men in prison than college" charge?
And I thought someone
Janks Morton...but he was trying to slip Black Conservatives in under cover. When that didn't work, the debunking was no longer pushed forward.
What does the merge option
What does the merge option look like? That is, how would such a program compare with with the one in the video?
It would look more like
It would look more like church than school. Instead of trying to get to the starting point your worldview requires you start by recognizing where you are and start building immediately from there. It would be more about meditation than learning. You learn to recognize the difference between human needs and conditional needs, learn to see through their form to recognize the needs an action is intended to fulfill, and judge it by how successful it is at filling the need. (That whole sentence describes a single idea, by the way). It is not about the attainment of any specific bits or patterns of knowledge, nor does it obstruct the attainment of any specific bits or patterns of knowledge.
Very Clear
Very clear example of why black people must assume the responsibility of black education. Only conscious black people who who love black children can guide them through the mine fields of this society during the most crucial age range when most fall victim before they mature enough to slip the net.