wasn t: Its purpose, she'd assert then as now, was to colonize young black minds, undermine the development of healthy self-esteem, impair cultural awareness and hinder black ability to perceive ourselves in a global historical context, according to The Japan Times. The result gentrified souls, groomed to embrace white supremacy as a given, as the natural order, often without even being aware of it. ; The school I attended made heroic efforts to counteract this. To summarize, she believed the exclusively Euro-centric indoctrination that black minds are subjected to in American public schools was tantamount to brainwashing. I never even saw a white teacher until I was forced to finally attend public school in my mid-teens. It wasn't until university, when a white professor introduced me to the writings of Chester Himes and Zora Neale Hurston the two black writers who've had the greatest influence on my decision to become a writer that I began to question my resolve to judge an educator's ability to grasp blackness partly on the basis of skin color. By then, though, having been exposed for eight years to under-taught truths about the ruination of African civilizations, and the sanitization of the history about the birth of our nation truths that didn't make it anywhere near the NYC public school curriculum I took every smidgen of propaganda coming out of these teacher's mouths, or leaping off the pages of their sanctioned textbooks, with profound skepticism.
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