Looking around the community, I see our adults walking and driving around, really going nowhere-in a hurry. Although most of our adults seem to be alive, many are not living-they are just doing, going, getting ready to, or coming from-but they are not BEING.
What has happened to most of our adults-where has their energy gone?
In a word, CRUSHED!!! What do you mean, "CRUSHED"?
Let's unravel this ADULT PRODUCT, AND SEE WHAT THE "PROCESS" WAS THAT LED OUR ADULTS TO BE THE WAY THEY ARE TODAY! This is how the story goes:
Once Upon A Time, most adults today were, at one time, happy children. You know, imagine what a happy child looks like-big smile, having wholesome fun, has honest friendships, etc. Whenever you saw a child, one of the MOST IMPORTANT WORDS IN THE CHILD'S VOCABULARY WAS, "WHY"!! "WHY THIS?" "WHY THAT? Sometimes, we didn't even want to be around the child, 'cause we knew we would be bombarded with, you guessed it, 'WHY?"
What happened to that inquisitiveness? What happened to all the bubblin' CURIOSITY? Where did "WHY?" GO? How did it, when did it disappear?
I'll tell ya what happened:
When that happy child got to school, the teachers INTENTIONALLY CRUSHED the child's SPIRIT OF CURIOSITY!! What was the primary way the teachers carried out this hidden agenda against our young, brilliant and inquisitive children? The hidden agenda was carried out IN PLAIN SIGHT!! The agenda was cleverly carried out THROUGH THE USE OF white female teachers simply FOLLOWING THE LESSEN PLAN-THAT'S RIGHT-NOT THE LESSON PLAN, BUT THE LESSEN PLAN!!! (for more on this, see the Glossary in the book, "You Should Be Ashamed of Your Nice, But Duped, Parents). The teachers, administrators, and all those connected with the schools had one goal: CRUSH THE CURIOUSITY OF ALL BLACK CHILDREN!! LESSEN THEIR BRILLIANCE, LESSEN THEIR ENERGY, LESSEN THEIR INTELLIGENCE, LESSEN, better yet, CRUSH THEIR CURIOSITY.
For what purpose was this the goal of the white dominators?
The white dominators, masters of science (not masters in science), knew that if they could CRUSH THE CURIOUSITY of BLACK school-age children, they would not have to worry about these children growing up, as adults, and ASKING QUESTIONS-ESPECIALLY THE QUESTION "WHY"!
When one asks, "WHY?" THAT QUESTION BECOMES THE LAUNCHING PAD TO SPARK DEEP THINKING, GIVES US THE URGE TO START TRACKING DOWN FACTS, COMPELS ONE TO START LOOKING FOR ABSOLUTE TRUTH, AND COMING UP WITH SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS!! If one NEVER asks, "WHY", ONE REMAINS PSYCHOLOGICALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND EDUCATIONALLY PARALYZED AND REMAINS AN ABSOLUTE VICTIM OF system REMOTE CONTROL, SELF-DESTRUCT-BRAIN LOCKDOWN!!
To come to the point of asking, "WHY" means one is actually THINKING-and, of course, this is precisely what the "system" doesn't want BLACK PEOPLE to do: "Please don't THINK, just do as we say; continue to be a remote control robot!"
Below is an excerpt from a school that broke away from the regular public school web and started a curriculum that encourages children, white chilren, to THINK AND ASK (and go get ANSWERS) THE QUESTION
"WHY?"
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People are born with an amazing capacity for knowledge - the brain. It makes little sense to assume that such a thing could have evolved (or been created, or whatever) without the means of using it also being natural to human beings. Let me list some of the more obvious 'natural' mechanisms by which children (and adults) encode information about their world. Curiosity (crushed in a classroom where you must study what others wish, rather than that subject which you are burning to know), role-modelling (not easy when the only person older than you is a teacher whom you probably dislike and is almost certainly not practising the profession you would choose) and spontaneous play (that's right out the window, for children are so restrained by school that even 'recess' becomes a time for working off violent energy rather than exploring one's world).Global : Ideas : Bank - Sudbury Valley (progressive) School (http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=2242)
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In conclusion, when you see our Black adults not interested in learning, changing, improving, not "trying to get to the bottom of it", ain't tryin' to hear it, know that their CURIOSITY HAS BEEN CRUSHED!! IT CAN ONLY BE RESURRECTED WHEN THEY REGAIN THE CAPACITY TO ASK, and go on the search for, "WHY"