Ignorance for the Blissfully Educated – Represent Our Resistance

Black and Brown children have been designated for canon fodder for the rulers’ continual wars and for the cheap labor they supply the prison industrial complex. Who wins with this scenario? Halliburton, KBR, and their politicians who make sure more canon fodder and cheap labor continues to flow their way with legislation (the Violent Crime Control an Law Enforcement Act 1994 and the crack-powder Cocaine disparity/Clinton, the Gang Abatement and Prevention Act 2007/Feinstein, and No Child Left Behind/Bush) targeting Black children directly and indirectly targeting the demise of the Black Left. Both Obama and Clinton support renewing the atrocious No Child Left Behind (NCLB) agenda. In a “democracy” that isn’t democratic, placing more value on math and science benefits the interests of the ruling class. A select few ascend to the top of this educational pyramid to serve as engineers and science for the corporate capitalists – and an even smaller select few are Black or Brown. The strategy is to prohibit thought that isn’t approved, programmed and controlled in order to achieve an outcome beneficial to the imperialist rulers.

Reform, the Still At Risk study concludes, is not enough. Stuffing a literature book here and a line or two about slavery and genocide there, offering “scattered kernels of awareness” is no more than “romanticized images flickering in the national conscience. What we need is confidence that all our children will be familiar with the highs and lows of the compelling narrative that is our common heritage.” But the people who believe they have invented the wheel, a new world – are tearing and slicing their way to “somewhere” else and the hell with those dispensable beings.