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This audio lecture from one of my favorite scholars, the brilliant ancestor Dr. Amos Wilson and this is on the Purpose and Funtion of Education
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Below is an excerpt from his extraordinary book titled "Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children"
Education and the Future of Afrikan Peoples
I was reading a very interesting little book called Ethnic Enterprises In America, which compares the economic development of the Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks. And it deals with the issue of--Why haven't Blacks developed a large or a sizable business class? Why is it that with over 300 billion dollars (circa 1990) in consumer dollars Black people who, if you looked at their income, represent the 9th or 10th richest nation on earth--why is it that they haven't developed a business class? Why is it that they have Asians running their business communities? Why is it that they have other ethnic groups serving their needs? Why is it that they enrich other people and then beg for jobs? That's an issue we should concern ourselves with. That's an issue at the center of what Black economic education should be about. Not the issue of how do you move up in IBM; a wholly different thing. How do we gain control of those billions of dollars that are available to us and use them for our own interests and for our own advancement?
But, as long as we are in the school trying to learn how to move up in IBM, the Asians are going to move right in and suck every bit of our nickels and dimes out of our pockets and use them to advance their own interests. At the very point Blacks are getting the most degrees in business we're losing business territory--which tells us that there is something wrong with them. Obviously, these degrees are degrees for servants, which only prepare us to serve the interests of others and not our own. But that is true of any degree. It does not matter what it is. But it must be that way. Do you think the dominant Whites are going to prepare us to fully compete with them?
Part 1 - The Sociopolitical Context of Education -Introductory Lecture pages 8-9
