A page out of history is being played out today for black
Americans who are trapped on the Democratic Party's economic plantation.
See the book by Carter
G. Woodson published in 1933 with the title “The Mis-Education of the Negro” available
on Amazon.
Woodson, a Harvard graduate who was born in 1875 and died
in 1950, was a historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association
for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first
scholars to study African-American history.
The synopsis posted on Amazon contains the following information.
The thesis of
Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated,
rather than taught, in American schools.
This conditioning, he claims, causes
blacks to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater
society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become
autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were
taught:
History shows that it does not matter who is in power...
those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on
others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in
the beginning.
Here is a another quote from the book:
"When you control a man's thinking you do not have
to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go
yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to
send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is
no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it
necessary.”
