Sorors and friends,
I just finished reading all of your responses to this thread and I commend your willingness to provide strong comments and several sides to these two delicate issues. I must stand in agreement with my sorors, TRSimon and Ninjapoodle. We have to know our history to continue as a race/culture. I have been teaching in the classroom for ten (high school -history and social studies)years now and every year our African American students show such blistful ignorance about their African roots, rich history and culture. They act like being from Africa is a terrible thing. They walk around using words that would make our ancestors turn over in their graves. And a large percentage of them are ashamed of anything that is associated with being an African American. Many of them are content with a "C" or even a "D" and most of them don't have a clue about preparing for their futures. They blindly read and believe a lot of information from their caucasian teachers and they will go so far as to challenge or disrespect many of their African American teachers.
I restate that I'm not totally against integration, however, I believe that we as members of the African American race need to wake up before our youth is totally assimilated into the Euroamerican culture.
Folks we need to proceed with caution!
Serioussigma22
