There are those who choose to believe that simple things like reading, writing and arithmetic are unimportant are traitors to the efforts of the ancestors who braved death just to learn the alphabet. To the enslavers, educated Africans were dangerous to their business of human degradation. Today, too many have volunteered to blind them selves with the shackle of ignorance. Those who would keep the masses oppressed are happy. At one time we resisted. Now, there is willing compliance.

Note: The piece around eyes (and brain) is really a neck collar used during times of enslavement in Louisiana and some of the other states. The little ball-like structures held metal balls that rattled and would give away the position of a runaway. Those who ran away packed them with mud.