RBG Afrikan- Centered Cultural Development and Education
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly... [more]
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
Welcome to one of the baddest EduTainment Resources on the Web. A one-stop-shop for education,consciousness raising, entertainment and liberation. And the nicest thing about it is that you can become a contributor. Just start out by reading this overview and learning how things work. You can play a video right within this start page and even browse to it's music. Or turn on an audio playlist to facilitate your browsing. Tons of other options, too numerous to mention here are also right at you finger tips. Ride it however you like, it's all good. Once you get going, check out a Multi-Media Article that interests you and make a comment. I, RBG Street Scholar-Your Zine author, editor and guru will respond. The aforementioned approach is a kol gateway to doing bigger and better things in and with the Communiversity.
WHAT IS RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK AT ZIMBIO ALL ABOUT?
It's about creating and maintaining the best "Afri-Conscious Cyber EduTainment Portal / Communiversity on the Web".
It's about saving time doing study, learning / teaching together and having madd fun doing it.
The merticulously researched choice of links can be thought of as our votes in the popularity contest that is the "Best of the Best in Black Internet" . The intention is to provide a diverse and concise starting point for you to begin your quest for whatever information you are looking for from a progressive/radical/revolutionary Black perspective . As most of these sites have vast links sections of their own, so do the sites they link to, and so on, and so forth—starting from these links, you can delve further into whatever area interests you.
You got a myspace, youtube, odeo, website etc.
Add your Stuff Folx--and let's learn from each other, build together and teach the world
Our Zines are intended to help us develop and maintain a resource for scholarly research, build together and learn about any subject / topic related to what we're already about: Namely, the "Africentric Idea of Education" let's take the learner from G.E.D. to Ph.D in the contemporary liberal arts and sciences;
Including:
> computers & information technology,
> history and cultural development,
> religion and spirituality,
> sociology,
> political science,
> creative productions/ entertainment,
> education,
> health promotion and disease prevention
> economics and
> psychology
A one stop shop using all forms of media to interactively showcase our ideas of relavent education, unification, collectivity and self definition.
They say " Black Folx Can't Unite, I say they're a lie" Let's show the world our truth and culture; all under the umbrella of Black Nationalism> PanAfrikanism> Scientific Socialism> Revolutionary Change>Afrikan Internationalism.
Browse existing content in any of our four Zines and you will discover that they are all concentricly integrated, thus providing you with a most rich and wholesome interactive learning experience.
Help RBG Street Scholar, your Resident Guru, build our school with your good works.
Rate each others work as to keep us on point.
I'VE STARTED US OUT WITH SOME SOLID CONTENT. NOW WE MUST CONTINUE BY BUILDING TOGETHER. A GOOD WAY TO START IS BY FIRST SIGNING UP AND THEN BROWSING EACH FIELD IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS PANE TO THE LEFT AS TO GET QUICKLY ORIENTED. A LINK BELOW TO "RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK RULES OF ENGAGEMENT" WILL TAKE YOU DEEPER STILL.
THE FOLLOWING IS A GUIDING SYNOSIS TAKEN FROM THE COMMUNIVERSITY PROPER:
With strick attention to developing our student’s basic education skills in the context of the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams(ie. SAT/ACT and MCATs, LSATs), we simutaneously advance the psycho-emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND OVERSTANDING of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational experiences of Africans in America in away that RADICALLY REAPPRAISES EDUCATION from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.
WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS:
With the present day high rates of Black on Black homicide, suicide, and imprisonment and a rise in single-parent homes, rampant police brutality, unprecedented unemployment, and Blacks use of popular (ENEMY) culture (through music, video games and popular movies) to celebrate "anti-intellectualism, ignorance, irresponsible parenthood, drunkenness, dope dealing, weed smoking, cocaine, x-pills, loose sexual behavior and criminal lifestyles / thuggism"; we have chose to design a curriculum that, rather than getting caught up in the entertainment / BLACKPLOTATION aspects of hip hop/rap, will use hip hop/rap within a historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational framework to address these various death walks forthrightly. Our new methodological style is intended to get our young people to begin to think critically about themselves, their world and their role as people of Afrikan descent.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE WANNA GO:
This work is a comprehensive (but only a core framework) sequenced survey of subjects and topics that have confronted Afrikans in America throughout our 246 years of chattel slavery, 100 years of aparthied and only “one generation of freedom” here in America. I like to describe the school as a “cultural development and leadership training communiversity”. From our research, we have determined that the idea of Sankofa, which means "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today", really encompasses the whole Afrikan-centered ideal. Nonetheless, as this is a work in evolution and always under construction, we have chosen to focus our teaching/learning journey most directly on the past 45 years of our struggle for human and civil rights—
THE THEME “THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS STAY THE SAME, WE NEED A REVOLUTION, THE SYSTEM AIN’T GONA CHANGE UNLESS WE MAKE IT CHANGE”.
The content and character of the curriculum is Afrikan-centered and the goal is academic excellence in persuit of black power. We tease out the social, political, economic and moral imparatives of black power in the 21st century by zooming in on two povital questions throughout our course of study:
“WHAT IS BLACK OPPRESSION IN AMERICA AND WHAT IS AFRIKAN LIBERATION.”
Dee Lee, a white man says "THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES" /and RBG SS Agrees
NEW RBG ICE BREAKER VIDEO
Pictorial and Video Education Embellishments by RBG Street Scholar
NEW RBG VIDEO EDUCATION SERIES
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THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES
Why: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
"THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES"
We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.
Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.
GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).
Any of us can use them as our target market, for any
business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They
continually want more, with little thought for saving
or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneakers than invest
in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or
that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.
SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life.
Instead, that segment has created another class, Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance.
When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)
They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own , as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they
refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!
Post Response by "Street Poet"
| Feb 20, 2007 3:58 PM |
| Black people & Reading... :/ {Repost} |
yo.. im lightweight heated off this shit! (excuse my language).
THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from theBlacks without the effort of physical slavery Look at the currentmethods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS... Or continue down and get into the comments and see what and how your peers are thinking...and my responses / there are tons of powerful lessons herein. Finally, you can take video lessons any time you like--see related videos in the right hand pane.The more you read/study the school the smarter the videos become--you see more and overstand relationships better.
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dee lee in her artical seems to realise hoe powerful a people we are! and how successful we can be if only we can work together.. yes the global community we have imporved not only in talent as she claims but in interlect.... i love my skin, i am black and a university student.. and in my street are two white kids who failed to go to college, the choice of ones conviction to read does not based on the colour of their skin.
am hurt by her lack of euphemism, but encouraged at the fact that if we work together we can be a better people.
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bradley
Ndifor ANKH HORUS
how can a black man become america's president without reading?
how about phil emeagwali?
Ben carson?
the numerous black people in the congress...
not to mention the "black-dominated" entertainment industry
i guess it's the author of this article that doesn't read

While the wealthy families are somewhat structured,they still remain very jealous of the love and bonding hardworking families have. Therefore,the wealthy are also busily working through the media and other means to tear our families apart--sometimes using our own to do it. So, I do not believe that this article is primarily aimed at African Americans, but instead,is a political move to DIVIDE HARDWORKING PEOPLE. If this article IS primarily about African Americans, then ask yourselves "Why are African Americans the target again at this point in time"? Do African Americans have something that the wealthy want at this time or in 2012 when another Presidential election occurs? In my opinion, it seems that many wealthy Republicans are now living in fear because minorities are quickly becoming the majority. If the hardworking people (mostly Democrats) can somehow be divided, then the wealthy(usually Republicans) stand a chance of returning to power to further place hardworking Americans in unemployment and soup lines again while their corrupt big businesses continue to thrive and rip off the average hardworking person in 2012. So, thank you, for the wake up call--actually HARDWORKING PEOPLE are wide awake and still have not forgotten the Bush Administration and look forward to 2012.
The truth is somethings she has mentioned are true, things like awarding best speakers that awarding best doers and things like we like to buy fancy things inorder for us to be seen and neglecting taking care of our communities and families as a result we have a large number of black children that are raised by a single parent.
What she is ignoring about reading is Our Education back then was distroyed by a White man who forced Blacks to learn how to please a White man, now please don't blame Blacks for not reading because back then there was nothing for a black man to read but now we are opening doors I do admit we are not there as yet but sooner or later we will get there.
Fani Masoka
Proudly Black South African
While SOME of us have taken the time to read and expand our knowledge through books and other educational outlets from all over the world, there is still a vast majority of Blacks who REALLY don't feel like doing any of this.
This is where the Talented Tenth comes in.
If 300 African-Americans enroll in UCLA, the theory is that only 30 will graduate with a PhD in engineering. Where is the other 90 percent? In Welfare lines or struggling to get and maintain their own in a world that is ignorant and almost emotionally barren to their causes.
While I agree that the weakness in the black community comes from the messy and IGNORANT teachings of slave times,
I also recognize that many use it for a cop out for their laziness.
Just like ignorant whites, like the Author of this letter, use us as a cop-out for a nation that THEY HELPED SINGLE-HANDEDLY RUIN.
I'm sorry.
The argument can be pulled, stretched, ripped, shredded, and reformed but ultimately, this nation is cold and mean and sympathy will not be found.
If a White man takes time off or takes work leave then he is a man who knows his limits and gives himself a break.
If a Mexican or a Black person does it, the general populous spits that they are lazy and disgusting.
It's unfair, but as long as there are Blacks and Whites in America,
there will be blacks blaming whites for everything
and whites blaming blacks for everything.
Welcome to America, Where the Blacks are Lazy and The Whites are just as lazy but get mad at the black guys for being so lazy.

I can go a day, a week even with out a wrist watch but can I leave the house as the young lady I am with out combing my hair? Can I drive down the highway without a traffic light? Can I go one day without using the toilet? Before you bash black people do some research and you'll realize the things that We can't do with out were invented by a BLACK person.
Black people will unite when the time comes for it. Look at history and you will see that also.
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