In 1829 in Georgia, nobody even white people were allowed to teach black people how to read or they would be fined, beaten or lynched. In 1830 in Louisianna the same. In 1832 Alabama and Virginia the same. In 1847 in Missouri the same. In 1833 in Georgia black people were not allowed to have jobs that required reading or writing based on the anti-literacy laws, or they would be fined or denied funding.
In 2023 it’s the same. Why is that?
Because education changes lives for the better, especially when you go to the right schools and get the right teachers, this is the last thing a white racist person wants.
That’s how brown vs board of education came about.
RUBY BRIDGES
They didn’t want us in their schools. Quite frankly I think it’s because they knew then, we would see that we were absolutely naturally smarter than them, and all we needed was that little extra to pass them up, unfortunately for them and fortunately for us they pushed us out of their schools, so we created our own and today those schools are some of the best universities in education in the world we call them HBCU’s.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
MOREHOUSE
Where some of our most prolific speakers, educators, writers, doctors, lawyers, and politicians graduated.
Is that why there were so many bomb threats against them last year.
This reminds me of another story. The bombing of the church or black wall street. The more things change the more they stay the same. Now they want to stop funding the HBCU’s.
So now critical race theory is a problem, diversity equity inclusion is a problem, what’s next you can’t even go to school. Even the word woke is a problem.
All of this is a threat to the racist, narcissistic power-hungry control loving old rich white man. WHY?
It’s making their kids feel uncomfortable when they find out the truth about their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. How do they think our parents felt when they were raped, beaten, sold, and lynched right in front of their kids. The sad truth is, it’s still going on today. In a more insidious sneaky legalistic way. Now they want to change the narrative, so they won’t look so cruel and evil.
This new spin on slavery is slap crazy. First, they say that we should be thankful for slavery because it taught us skills. The next lie they tell themselves is, we wanted to leave our beautiful kingdom where we were kings and queens with gold, silver, and platinum, to volunteer to be shackled at the ankles with thousands of people on the bottom of the boat for days, weeks and sometimes months, until some died from diseases, hunger, and thirst. What they didn’t know is that we are children of the most high. What they meant for evil God turned it around for our good. Just like the food they gave us; it was scraps to them. They didn’t think that we deserved the food that they ate. Now soul food is a delicacy and costs more than your average food and the best part about it is this food is much healthier for us, by us, grown by us, and cooked by us.
They didn’t want us living in their neighborhoods, so we made our own and now they want those back because of the land, the material of the buildings, and the location, because we’re usually closer to downtown because most of us didn’t have a vehicle and we had to catch the bus.
HARLEM
WHITE PEOPLE MAKE UP YOUR MIND PLEASE!
You want to talk like us walk like us dress like us dance like us cook like us, look like us, be like us, have babies by us,
BUT YOU HATE US?
So let me get this straight you don’t want nobody to know that we built this country for free, fought in this country for free, invented practically everything for free, created the culture for free, so the solution is to ban books, black history, Dei, critical race theory and then lock up and defund anybody who decides to teach it anyway. That makes sense when you look back in history. The only thing you allowed us to read was the bible because of one passage, slaves obey your master, but it backfired, once again God was at work. Because we kept on reading, and we read in exodus how the slaves were freed and that was not the plan.
What you need to recognize is we are God’s chosen people, a holy nation, and he will always see us through, no matter what obstacles you throw our way, we will win, we already won, we got the victory. Scripture says his people perish from lack of knowledge, well that’s not gone be us in 2023.
So good luck with banning books, you just gave us a reason to teach our own children the way we want them to be taught anyway.
As Dr Phil might say, “so how is that working for you now”.
“ONLY A FOOL WILL ALLOW HIS ENEMIES TO TEACH HIS CHILDREN” Malcolm X
This was a man they said he would never be anything and yet he changed a nation and became a movement that we still identify with in 2023, because he never stopped getting knowledge, he stayed true to his mission, and he never forgot his purpose.
HELL NO JIM CROW!!! We gone read some mo.
Here is a list of books every black household and woke ethnicities should have.
- White Fear Roland Martin
- The new Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- How to be an anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi
- More than a peach by Bellen Woodard
- The underground railroad by Charles L Blockson
- Harriet Tubman Secret agent by Thomas B Allen
- The heart of a woman by Maya Angelou
- We are the ones we have been waiting for by Alice Walker
- In the time of drums Kim L Siegelson
- Rise up singing by Marian Wright Edelman
- Sepia Dreams by Dionne Bennett
- Only Connect by Dr Rudy Crew
- Black firsts by Jessie Carney Smith
- Uncle Jeds barbershop by Margaree king Mitchell
- Wild wild hair by Nikki Grimes
- 1001 things everyone should know about African American history
- Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Sojourner truth American abolitionist W Terry Whalin
- Famous African americans in history by Louise Gilow and Siobian Mcgiwan
- The willie lynch letter and the making of a slave by Willie Lynch
- The Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
- The skin we’re in by Janie Victoria Ward
- Return to Glory by Joel Freeman
- The covenant with black America by Tavis Smiley
- More justice More peace: the black persons guide to the American legal system by Nedra D Campbell.
- The encyclopedia of African American heritage by Susan Altman
- Glory magical vision of black beauty by Kahran & Regis Bethencourt
- Ida B the queen by Michelle Duster
- Jesus and the disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Resurrection hope: a future where black lives matter by Kelly Brown Douglas
These are just a few books to have in your home library. There are many more for all ages and levels. Mahoganybooks.com has a lot of these as well as Amazon, Barnes and Nobles and whatever bookstore you frequent.
WE AINT GOING BACK! HELL NO WE WON’T GO!