I Wanna Be Like White

“First black Americans have to value education like whites, Asians, and blacks in Africa and the Caribbean.”

When I hear statements like this, I can only sigh, deeply. Sigh because the most significant term in this sentence and those like it is that the people of the earth are once again being coaxed to be like “whites.”

The lunacy is that the reason our people are in the condition they are in, partially anyway, is because they’ve tried so hard to be like “whites,” but without the fundamental economic foundation required to pull it off. Along with that type of foundation comes the ability to be able to fool others into thinking they are the ideal group of people, despite years of evidence to the contrary. It also comes with the ability to be able to lead the world to believe that they are now victims of the people they once openly enslaved. That is what it means to be “white,” and that is not something I strive for or attempt to persuade my children that they should strive to achieve—majorly, because it is not an achievement, it is defeat.

Yes, it is important that we value education, but it is not necessary that we value the training education provided by “whites.” However, it is important to know what it is in education that is valued by “whites,” because that simply goes back to knowing your enemy as you know yourself. In that instance, it is mandatory to know about their educational processes and how they see the world through those processes.

But, we cannot, in good conscious, place our children in “white”-influenced institutions and believe we will not have a significant number of “white” children in brown skin. It doesn’t work that way. Never has, never will.