How can our oppressors be our teachers? Malcolm X knew that whitewashed history books

have always lied to us, so he fought for us to control our education by any means necessary.

This is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Malcolm X did not play when it came to educating our children, and he didn't hold back when

he described black people being left out of history as downright criminal.

What was his vision for our schools?

Number 1 Black Educators and Administrators

Malcolm X once said, we want Afro-American principles to head these schools.

We want Afro-American teachers in these schools, meaning we want black principals and black

teachers with some textbooks about black people.

Number 2 Controlling Our Education

For this topic, Malcolm X said, we must establish all over the country schools of our own,

to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians.

We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs.

Number 3 Self-Determination

According to Malcolm, we must unite our efforts and spread our program of self-improvement

through education to every Afro-American community in America.

Malcolm X words remind us of one thing.

We can't be content with our oppressors educating us and our children.

Education is crucial to black liberation.

Like Malcolm X, we have to reject white supremacist teachings and educate our communities

through our own efforts.

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