Black Studies Programs Aim to Confront Historical Distortions and Expose How Racism Shaped American Institutions
One goal of Black Studies programs is to educate not only the minorities concerned, but also other members of the world community who need to shake off the legacy of white supremacy. Any discipline that ignores the negative effects of racism and the role it has played in indoctrination of the population is part of the problem. Interestingly, the use of history books, political science texts, and the writings of other disciplines still ignores or fails to adequately discuss the issues of white supremacy and racism, and how these ideas have ruined the academic world in many instances. No one is trying to make Whites feel bad about the brainwashing they received to think themselves superior. It is about education that is at odds with the historical record. One cannot address the issue of racism unless an honest discussion is held about how racism’s poison has polluted the American landscape in every facet of life.
Racism affected the lives of millions of nonwhite American citizens for hundreds of years and remains a cancer. Whites were terrorized as well when they refused to accept the code of belief of white supremacy. In politics, economics, culture, ideology, religion, class, and many other areas, racism has been used to create a white dominated regime of falsehoods. When the issue of white supremacy comes up in many conversations, someone often makes the off-handed remark that there are also Black racists. Sure, there are Blacks and others who hate, but they never have had the power to enforce that hatred upon an entire society. White supremacy has that power, and that is where any real and honest discussion about racism must begin.
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The ritual of acting within a system of fabrication produces those who actually act out the role they have been given. Not providing access to readings that reveal the nature of discriminatory doctrines and how they have become part of our thinking only furthers the problem. This may produce a dance that allows certain leaders to become respectable to the white elite. These conformists promote acquiescence of the status quo in their appointed or elected position. This includes people, and a small number of minorities, who have been adopted by racially prejudiced operatives in the Republican Party to churn out their rhetoric, or follow the invented image of Charlie Kirk who was not just a believer in free speech, but a racist as well. In fact, there is a trend to find Black and Brown faces who will promote a conservative agenda in order to capture the Black and Hispanic vote. This is now backfiring in the Hispanic community, as ICE agents are attacking all Hispanics regardless of their immigration status through racial profiling.
Liberation Education can expose the inner working of a racialized society. If applied in as many settings as possible, Liberation Education can be a tool to rid America of racist doctrines. Racism suffered a severe as a result of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement, but it was not permanent. We are still hearing about the misleading concept of “The Founding Fathers,” while ignoring the “Founding Mothers” and the Founding Native Americans, and the Founding Black people. True history is ignored in favor of a racist interpretation of American History. Being soaked in historical lies will produce a narrative product that is centered along white supremacist lines. We cannot move toward a nonracial, non-class biased society until we are all on the same page as to how we came to this horrible Trump time.
