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Intro to RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi Media e-Journal: "History is a Weapon in Taking Off the White Mask"
Who Taught You To Hate Yourself - Minister Malcolm X
This new online book is meant to counter the niggerization (through negro history month) of our rich history of struggle and resistance to oppression and to emphasize the important daily relevance of history in guiding our present and future development. Any Black person with half a conscious knows that there has been a commercialization (niggerization) of our history using "so called black history month". For example during the Super Bowl last year (2007) we were reminded that February is Black History Month. Coca-Cola ran 30-second spots cycling through a timeline of achievements by the black community. This "revere" for Black folx comes only seven years after the company agreed to the largest-ever settlement ($192 million) for a race discrimination lawsuit. So now we're suppose to believe that Coca-Cola is a changed man.
This is why the e-Journal (multi media book) and our Wikizine entitle Black History Month 24 / 7/ 365 are being offered. To counter the rapid commercialization (niggerization) of Black History, as it is the wrong meaning and direction for a subject that is most important to our liberation.
"Black Studies Movement"
Our "History is a Weapon Learning Series" is an effort to correct the idea that we should only celebrate/draw lessons from our rich legacy of struggle for human and civil rights during the shortest month of the year. Efforts to investigate and understand the world around us are invariably dependent upon the information that is made available about the world's reality. That means knowing history (Our-Story as well as His-Story). The truth about every current "shit-uation" is rooted in it's history. The establishment is trying to co-opt our use of history as a weapon and make us believe everything is straight now. So history is censored in our public schools and is told from the perspective of our oppressor everyday. They give our children, youth and adults information that constantly undermines our efforts to understand, to predict, and to act - leading to white supremacy / racist upholding inferences and misguided efforts at real socio-political and cultural change in us as a Afrikan people.
“Negro His-Story Month” is slowly but surely transforming the opportunity for our real education into a perfunctory corporate whore. The value and substance of our history can’t simply be paid off with TV spots and the same features in newspapers year after year. Just like 40 acres and a mule, it’s simply not enough to address 500 years of slavery, suffering and death; superimposed on our ongoing political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation and socio-cultural degradation. In short, the true fact of the matter is that embeded in our history is the blueprint, roadmap and floor plan for National Liberation and Self Determination. History is a weapon and the enemy knows this.
The reducing of our rich and painful history of resistance and struggle for freedom, justice and equality, which we as a people still have yet to achieved, to a celebration of trivia pursuit is disrespectful to Dr. Woodson's contribution and the sacrifices of our ancestors. Corporate sound bites one month out of the year are another trick to co-opt ahistrorify and minimize the Black Power of history. We have been duped into thinking that the most instructive subject of all should be relegated to February cheerleading.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson envisioned Negro History Week as an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of African-Americans and to demonstrate to the world that people of African descent in American had made significant contributions to history. For it to be necessary to do such speaks volumes to the racist sickness of the white people of that time. It tells us that they were invested in systematically hiding the truth from us, them and the rest of the world to maintain our de-Afrikanization, dehumanization and inferioritization. Of all the disciplines of study history is best qualified to reward all research. When you know the history of a topic / subject or people you understand that topic/subject or people best in their current manifestations. Why is this RBG? Because there is no true separation between the past, the present and the future. What happen yesterday determines what we see and experience today-positive and negative.
Eighty-one years after Dr. Carter G. Woodson was inspired to establish Negro History Week, which was later expanded to what we know today as Black History Months we have lost sight of the intent of his work and the progress we have made resultant to it. Dr. Woodson did a great thing given the racist nature of America in 1915, but today that we designate a specific month to celebrate the contributions blacks have made to society at the expense of drawing lessons from the deep well of activism and scholarship year round is convoluted at best and white brainwashing at worst. Our history should be a part of our daily instruction, focused on a search for the answers to the problems that we continue to face today. Is it not our responsibility to expand on and evolve the trailblazing contributions of our ancestors in order to continue our development as a people, rather than simply romanizing the past for 28 days? Everyday is Black history day, every week is Black history week and every Month is Black history month. So I say, let us leave behind the celebrating during the shortest month in the year and be about the business of making a "New Afrikan" history everyday. Let our history of struggle and resistance be our weapon and educational guidepost into the future.
The "Black Studies Movement" has worked to include courses on the African American experience in the curricula of American colleges and universities. Beginning in the late 1960s, they began one of the most important endeavors in American education: the creation of departments, programs and courses in African American studies. In their efforts they have continued the work begun eight-one years ago by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Now many of them have been watered down to humanist-integrationist inbetweenity, ie multiculturalism.
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is offered without the restraints of traditional academia, as for the most part they too have escrowed any real use of our history to being about revolutionary change for the people. Except for very few, they treat the subject as an objective sterile discourse with no relation to using it as a weapon to fight.
At RBG Street Scholars Think Tank “Black History Month 24/7/365 means we must use history to fight for our freedom 24 hours a day, 7 days a week , 365 days a year. This e-journal is being offered to that end.
RBGStreetScholar
June 2008
http://rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com//feeds/posts/default
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi Media e-Journal
Dr. Amos Wilson - Education & Genetic Criminality
I have pulled from what I think are the best of 
the best of my myriad of online education works and organized those assets into nine refreshingly honest, well documented and cogent multimedia chapters of Black history, culture, politics, social science and education; covering the 1960s up to the present. "Destine to be a New Gold Standard" in Afrikan Centered Web 2.0 Education.
Ch. 1) RBG Memories of Home, Teachers and Luv: History Is A Weapon
Ch. 2) RBG Celebrating Minister Malcolm X:Feat. Hip Hop & Our Own Shining Black Prince
Ch. 3) A History of Jazz: From The Middle Passage to BeBop / America's Only True Classical Music
Ch. 4) Sustainable Food (UCLA Lecture) + Homegrown Revolution
Ch. 5) RBG On Slavery Days, Called By Any Other Name, From Chattel to the Prison Industrial Complex
Ch. 6) RBGz State of the Black America, The Masses of Our People & The Obama Factor in Change ?
Ch. 7) "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights to Black Liberation?"
Ch. 8) A People's History Of The United States / by Howard Zinn : RBGz Audio and History Is A Weapon e-Book
Ch. 9) Osirian Myth - Dr. Naim Akbar and The Osirian Cycle
"History is a Weapon in Taking Off the White Mask"
(A Intro to the Work; why it is being offered.)
This new online book is meant to counter the niggerization (through negro history month) of our rich history of struggle and resistance to oppression and to emphasize the important daily relevance of history in guiding our present and future development. Any Black person with half a conscious knows that there has been a commercialization (niggerization) of our history using "so called black history month". For example during the Super Bowl last year (2007) we were reminded that February is Black History Month. Coca-Cola ran 30-second spots cycling through a timeline of achievements by the black community. This "revere" for Black folx comes only seven years after the company agreed to the largest-ever settlement ($192 million) for a race discrimination lawsuit. So now we're suppose to believe that Coca-Cola is a changed man.This is why the e-Journal (multi media book) and our Wikizine entitle Black History Month 24 / 7/ 365 are being offered. To counter the rapid commercialization (niggerization) of Black History, as it is the wrong meaning and direction for a subject that is most important to our liberation.
"Black Studies Movement"
Our "History is a Weapon Learning Series" is an effort to correct the idea that we should only celebrate/draw lessons from our rich legacy of struggle for human and civil rights during the shortest month of the year. Efforts to investigate and understand the world around us are invariably dependent upon the information that is made available about the world's reality. That means knowing history (Our-Story as well as His-Story). The truth about every current "shit-uation" is rooted in it's history. The establishment is trying to co-opt our use of history as a weapon and make us believe everything is straight now. So history is censored in our public schools and is told from the perspective of our oppressor everyday. They give our children, youth and adults information that constantly undermines our efforts to understand, to predict, and to act - leading to white supremacy / racist upholding inferences and misguided efforts at real socio-political and cultural change in us as a Afrikan people.
"Kwowing Our Real History is a Revolutionary Act"
“Negro His-Story Month” is slowly but surely transforming the opportunity for our real education into a perfunctory corporate whore. The value and substance of our history can’t simply be paid off with TV spots and the same features in newspapers year after year. Just like 40 acres and a mule, it’s simply not enough to address 500 years of slavery, suffering and death; superimposed on our ongoing political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation and socio-cultural degradation. In short, the true fact of the matter is that embeded in our history is the blueprint, roadmap and floor plan for National Liberation and Self Determination. History is a weapon and the enemy knows this.
The reducing of our rich and painful history of resistance and struggle for freedom, justice and equality, which we as a people still have yet to achieved, to a celebration of trivia pursuit is disrespectful to Dr. Woodson's contribution and the sacrifices of our ancestors. Corporate sound bites one month out of the year are another trick to co-opt ahistrorify and minimize the Black Power of history. We have been duped into thinking that the most instructive subject of all should be relegated to February cheerleading.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson envisioned Negro History Week as an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of African-Americans and to demonstrate to the world that people of African descent in American had made significant contributions to history. For it to be necessary to do such speaks volumes to the racist sickness of the white people of that time. It tells us that they were invested in systematically hiding the truth from us, them and the rest of the world to maintain our de-Afrikanization, dehumanization and inferioritization. Of all the disciplines of study history is best qualified to reward all research. When you know the history of a topic / subject or people you understand that topic/subject or people best in their current manifestations. Why is this RBG? Because there is no true separation between the past, the present and the future. What happen yesterday determines what we see and experience today-positive and negative.
Eighty-one years after Dr. Carter G. Woodson was inspired to establish Negro History Week, which was later expanded to what we know today as Black History Months we have lost sight of the intent of his work and the progress we have made resultant to it. Dr. Woodson did a great thing given the racist nature of America in 1915, but today that we designate a specific month to celebrate the contributions blacks have made to society at the expense of drawing lessons from the deep well of activism and scholarship year round is convoluted at best and white brainwashing at worst. Our history should be a part of our daily instruction, focused on a search for the answers to the problems that we continue to face today. Is it not our responsibility to expand on and evolve the trailblazing contributions of our ancestors in order to continue our development as a people, rather than simply romanizing the past for 28 days? Everyday is Black history day, every week is Black history week and every Month is Black history month. So I say, let us leave behind the celebrating during the shortest month in the year and be about the business of making a "New Afrikan" history everyday. Let our history of struggle and resistance be our weapon and educational guidepost into the future.
The "Black Studies Movement" has worked to include courses on the African American experience in the curricula of American colleges and universities. Beginning in the late 1960s, they began one of the most important endeavors in American education: the creation of departments, programs and courses in African American studies. In their efforts they have continued the work begun eight-one years ago by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Now many of them have been watered down to humanist-integrationist inbetweenity, ie multiculturalism.
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is offered without the restraints of traditional academia, as for the most part they too have escrowed any real use of our history to being about revolutionary change for the people. Except for very few, they treat the subject as an objective sterile discourse with no relation to using it as a weapon to fight.
At RBG Street Scholars Think Tank “Black History Month 24/7/365 means we must use history to fight for our freedom 24 hours a day, 7 days a week , 365 days a year. This e-journal is being offered to that end.
RBGStreetScholar
June 2008
http://rbg-street-scholar-multi-media-e-zine.blogspot.com//feeds/posts/default
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