African Centered Education Requires a Consistent Framework. Black Titan Sep 23, 2002 "Peace, Afrocentric education isn't racist, nor is it a necessary evil. With the right organization it could be championed as a useful tool to create productive members of the Black community. We should not use it as a counter-program to everything white because it makes the entire idea seem reactionary, and that is when it can easily be branded "racist". The problem is that it is an idea that is not universal as of yet. African centered education has to be all-inclusive. Afrocentric education must explicitly teach economics (with an emphasis on how our people operate within the systems of Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism beyond simple social commentary), military science, life science, technical science, political science, culture and entertainment, plus history in order to become a full-fledged ideological framework. Right now there is no Afrocentric framework that can replace Western frameworks in totality because of the emphasis placed on history in Afrocentric studies. It cannot teach our children everything they need to know right now. In short, we need diverse Black people with different professional and cultural backgrounds to take up the task of formalizing our system. This is our challenge, making a true ideological framework that is consistent across broad implementations and usage. It should not be set forth as a cure-all solution, it should be the basis from which all of our subsequent frameworks spring. People of African descent are not organized ethnically; this would be the primary step to any form of upward mobilization on our part. Many of the suggestions you propose would require a politically conscious population to enforce and support the institutions designed to deliver the education to students. The basis of Afrocentric education cannot be strictly limited to an African/European contradistinction. Afrocentric education has to be modernized with the task of solving our real world problems, not just the ongoing disparities of "racial discriminations" or divergent cultural particulars between Black people. We're simply not at that point of maturity as a group of people yet. It's something we must constantly work at."