This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. The quote educated Negro have the attitude of contempt toward their own people

because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to

admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin, the Tooten, and to despise

the African.

Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education, only 18 are for a course taking up the history of the Negro.

And in most of the Negro colleges and universities where the Negro is thought of, the race is studied only as a problem or dismissed as of little consequence.

This is in the chapter, The Seat of Trouble in the Miseducation of the Negro, a book that we are going to be examining in February of

20-20 as part of a book club, these are the words of Carter G. Woodson.

1933, 1933, this book was written published and as I'm reading this you know and these are

the quote-unquote educated Negroes in my travels I realize globally, the way black people are taught, either very little,

not at all, or as a problem to be solved. There's very little conversation about Mansamusa, the Candaces,

Shakazulu, Hannibal, none of that. Even the Black Amore of Shakespeare, no one talks about the Moors and how they conquered Italy and why there's such a connection between Islam and Spanish and many of these.

You know, no one talks about this, right?

Because to put that into the education system

is to validate a people, and to validate a people would mean that everything that's been said about them

All of the denigration has to be re-examined and that would give us power, right?

So I understand why I recently met with an official for a city who showed me the law that says

that African history, African American history,

has to be mandated, has to be taught, and yet it's not.

It is a federal law that it has to be taught

in schools, public schools throughout this country,

and I'm talking about America right now, and it's not taught in black places

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