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TheDogon · (#9 (**permalink**))

RasRuben wrote:

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TheDogon wrote:

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I voted "no". I am unsure about such an endeavor. I would like this to be mandated among African peoples. But as to trying to educate others? I just don't know. It would seem that everytime we try to negotiate with the mainstream, we end up losing. I would rather we just focus on educating our own.

I like how you think. I thought the same thing as I try to always reference my thoughts of the future to historical pasts. Every time we work with the mainstrem we lose twice as much as we put in. However I moved away from your conclusion. I wish to educate all of my people, but with so many of them holed up in institutions of mass indoctrination I have begun to wonder, do we have the time ro the luxury to scoff at the chance of putting our truth into the mainstream because of the unfortunate side effect of having to teach others as well. I don't believe we have the luxury to leave the majority of our people in institutionally racist systems while we amass the necessary capital and human resources to teach our own in our own way.I think that ultimately we will lose more potential warriors in that way.Ihowever I understand your point of view.

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Hmm. . .I see your point. I am still more inclined to focus on "Black" schools. Especially, public inner city schools. We aren't as integrated as we are lead to believe. They definitely find a way to deliver substandard education to a majority of "Black" children. So we might as well begin with those same institutions. As for "Blacks" who end up being lost in mainstream schools, I just think that most would end up being lost anyway. There is noting harder on this earth, than trying to force a negro to see the worth of his own damn people.

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We have to let them go and save the ones that we can save.

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But again, I definitely see your point. And how many folks might feel that issue to be importants.

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Thanks for your insight, my brotha.