San Francisco is truly an international city. Most of the California Bay area’s residents are not white. This area is populated by droves of Asians, Mexicans, Africans, Ethiopians, Pacific Islanders, Puerto Ricans, and countless other persons of color from all over the world.
Only 12% of San Francisco’s entire public school student population is white. Recently, African-American school board members dared to propose that only 40% of all required reading be written by authors who share the skin and the social experiences of 88% of the student population. Yet, bold racists white fools dare to protest!
As always, their hatred and hypocrisy are blatantly evident in all of their ludicrous and bogus claims. Typically, they defy all logic and reason with their brazen bigotry. They are hopelessly blinded by the arrogance of their ignorance and the comfort of their white supremacy.
If they really believed what they claim they do, no controversy would be raging. The board has voted to require one ethnic author per year. In a truly “color blind” arena, no such nominal compromise would have been made. If indeed “all literature is colorless art”, then why are current literary lists so exclusively colored white? Why so much venomous resistance to the inclusion of Black literary artists?
If all “classics” are penned by white authors, what then do Black authors pen? Is Black art inherently less excellent or inferior? Why are white authors referred to as “masters” and Black authors merely “diverse/ethnic”? Why are the white authors currently required deemed as “quality” selections, while newly required Black authors are referred to as “quotas”?
These racist fools dare to claim that Black authors will “divide students”. Students are already racially divided. They reflect a racially divided world. Doubt this is so? Try picking a seat in a cafeteria someday...
Racists are ancient experts at division. They have divided and conquered the world. Typically, they are upset that someone else dared to include us in their divisive white reading lists.
I adore and revere many white authors. I adore and revere many Black authors also. Quality has no color. Thus, all quality authors should be included on all reading lists.
It is an undeniable fact that we all express ourselves racially. It is also a fact that African-American students NEED afrocentrism in every facet of academia. Globally expanded curricula will benefit ALL students in an increasingly global world. It will help to erase the huge racial gaps in scholastic enthusiasm and academic success.
Afrocentric education is just as beneficial to white students as it is to others. Current history books breed white supremacy by depicting slaves as happy, passive foolish, and cowardly “darkies”. Neocon propaganda libels Mexicans as invaders of white lands. The media nullify the existence of Native Americans, as if they were hostile savages sent to reservations to create peace for pilgrims.
If students read the truth as told by numerous non-white scholars, it would foster superior respect and race relations. America and its educational systems are built upon lies! From the murder of millions of rebel African slaves, to the genocide of Native Americans, to the theft of the state of California from Mexico, ALL reading needs to be revolutionized in academia. Diversifying literary lists is a great place to begin.
If, by chance, white students in San Francisco now feel that they are somehow being deprived of white literature, I invite them to do as millions of us have done for centuries: read the authors they choose at home, in libraries, in bookstores, etc... The joys of reading should never be restricted to singular lists or academic assignments.
To those racists who continue to embrace denial and spew slurs upon the two Black men who dared to use their educational posts to improve the lives of Black children, I say:
WE OUTNUMBER YOU.
YOU ARE NO LONGER “BOSS”.
WE DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK!
WE WILL CONTROL THE DESTINY OF OUR CHILDREN, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
GET OVER IT! NOW!!!
Famed French clairvoyant Nostradamus predicted that World War III would be a global war of race and class. Racism is rabid nationwide. California is ground zero as one of the least white states in America. The war games are on in California. We won the war over ebonics. And, we will also win this war.
Excellence can never be inspired by exclusion. Education should never be limited to eurocentrism. Afrocentrism is our salvation. White supremacy has been our destruction. We refuse to be culturally colonized any longer. We DO wear the crown.
Lastly, I quote a related, classic and cerebral rap song: “We Wear the Crown” by Gary Byrd and The G. B. Experience (1983 Motown):
“...I do recall
so very well
When I was
just a little boy
I used to
hurry home from school
I used to
always feel so blue
Because there
was no mention in the books we read
about my heritage
So therefore
any information
that I got
was education
Bums, hobos
at depot stations
I would listen
with much patience
Or to relatives
who told the tales that they were told to pass ahead
And then one
day from someone old
I heard a
story never told
Of all the
kingdoms of my people
And then how
we fought for freedom
All about
the many things we have unto the world contributed
You wear the
crown...”
1998