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Checkmate: Using Education as the Endgame against Blacks in America

Checkmate: Using Education as the Endgame against Blacks in America

Checkmate: Using Education as the Endgame against Blacks in America

Black Male StudentsThe psycho-academic assault on our youth, especially the pernicious assault on our young boys could literally be a checkmate on the grand chessboard in which this race war is being waged, and one the greatest dangers for blacks is that they do not even realize that the war is being waged at an extremely high level. While blacks are intent on forcing whites to accept us as equals, we are missing the slow, but steady, erosion of every aspect of our heritage and culture. The black family nucleus has all but been destroyed, and any sense of identity that we have is superficial, lacking the depth to build self-awareness and the power necessary to rise up to live at the level we were designed to live at.

The problem is that blacks have drank the Kool-Aid when it comes to the systematic presentation of the lie that the emancipation proclamation in some way implied that whites were ready to co-exist with blacks on an equal plane. Despite the horrors of reconstruction and Jim Crow, we continued to believe that if we simply found ways to assimilate into the system that our adversary would lift their hand of oppression and welcome us into the fold. This was a terrible mistake. We failed to see the true design and construction of the social hierarchy. Everything in America, and the world for that matter, is built upon economic empowerment. In its simplest form, status and position in this country is not contingent upon intellectual or physiological equality, but it is built upon financial fluidity. Without economic power, no person or group can possess any type of true influence. When a group or race of people don’t have influence, this means that they don’t have any real say so in the affairs surrounding their lives. Even when they vote, they will find that they still lack influence, because the elected official will always serve the agenda of those who provide the financial support to ensure that they are able to campaign to remain in office. So, without the financial prowess to invest in the political arena there is no way to influence the laws and policies that directly impact our lives.

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While we continue to wage war with picket signs, white supremacy has been systematically removing vital pieces from the chess board, subsequently weakening our overall position, which has never been strong in the first place. This has been done by presenting the illusion of progression while simultaneously diminishing our social, economic and filial strength. Everything that has been a staple of hope for the black community has consistently been under assault. The black family nucleus, which has been the foundation for educating and empowering future generations, has been all but wiped out. As our men have participated in a mass exodus of white women, and our women have succumbed to the lure of progressive feminism, we have been left in a state of division and weakness — rendering us easy prey.

While we wage an internal war between our men and women, with both pointing the finger at the other, white supremacy has launched an all-out assault against our youth. Using the educational system as a way to weaken our youth and destroy their proclivity to dream big and aspire to greatness.

This assessment of the current situation is not implicit that the malevolent assault on Black America cannot be effectively and permanently shut down, but it points to a very precarious situation in which we find ourselves in a position in which we must take action now. We find ourselves in check on the grand chessboard of life. Actually, have found ourselves in check multitudinous times in the past, and we have always been able to find a way to move out of check; however, this situation is different because we are in check from more than one aspect and the direct assault against our boys could spell our demise, if we lose the masculine influence of black men on a massive scale.

This process of mis-education is precarious because the assault is coming from more than one direction. Our men are being incapacitated by the criminal justice system at an alarming rate. They are being shut out of the job market. The public education system is addicting them to psychotropic drugs as early as age five. The quest to feminize or homosexualize the black male image is also taking its toll. If the black male is effectively incapacitated, there is no moving out of check. We will find that we have been successfully checkmated by our adversary.

Meeting the Challenge: Our Only Move

As I stated earlier, checkmate is not yet inevitable, but the window is closing, and there are innumerable impediments that stand in the way of authentic liberation and power. We must first break away from the proclivity to foster divisiveness within our ranks. We must come to the understanding that we will not always agree on everything, but we must understand that without taking collective action, we will be systematically annihilated. We must also refuse to allow things like religion and political ideologies to further divide us. There is one commonality that we will always share, and that is the fact that we are black, meaning that we will always find ourselves in the crosshairs of white supremacy. We must come together based on this commonality and develop strategies that will function to lift us out of the pit of oppression.

The way that we must address this intense assault on our men is to develop a comprehensive and diverse strategy to protect our men, especially our future generations. For instance, we have the power to deal a massive blow to the criminalization and imprisonment of our men by removing our young boys from the public education system and homeschooling them until we can raise the money to erect our own schools. There are a number of homeschooling programs throughout the U.S. that can help parents ensure that they meet all of the requirements.

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This action immediately removes our young boys from the direct and negative assaults of the public education system that are designed to cause them to doubt themselves and develop inferiority complexes.

It immediately removes them from the onslaught of psychotropic drugs that are being forced upon them at alarming rates, in which young black boys as young as five-years-old are on drugs like Zoloft and Ritalin. The chemical imbalances created in the brain by these types of drugs lead to all types of psychosis, which generally contributes to the learning disorder instead of the prescribed drugs.

Homeschooling also creates a more natural environment for learning — one that is nurturing and safe. When we enroll our children in the public education system, or any school system that is controlled by whites, we expose them to excessive hostility and a conditioning process that teaches them to hate themselves and love their enemies. Far too many blacks in America are using the public school system as a daycare and a baby sitter. The public education system was never meant to be the primary caregiver or the primary conduit through which our children would be educated. This system is not designed to engage the unique and specific needs of our children.

If Africa, parents assume the primary responsibility of educating their children. Even when children are sent off to school to enhance certain academic skills, it is still the parent’s responsibility to introduce them to their history. It is their history that helps to form their view of themselves — their self-image. In Visionetics, the study of self-image, parents are considered to be primary label givers.[1] This means that the way that a child views themselves is a direct reflection of the images that are set in the mind of the child by the parent. Although there will be many label givers, including peers and teachers, the role that the parent plays in the process of developing their child’s self-image is preeminent, or at least it should be.

When a parent invests themselves in the process of teaching their children their heritage, they help to shape the child’s view of themselves. One of the greatest concerns with the current educational process through which blacks are informed of their history is that it is limited to the history of this country, which means that the vast majority of black children’s view of their history is centered on captivity and oppression. This only serves to foster the feeling of inadequacy — strengthening their inferiority complex.

The truth is that our history goes back much further than that, but it does not serve our oppressors to inform our children of our rich history and the contributions that our ancestors made to civilization. This would serve to elevate their personal self-image, and it would cause them to raise their expectations for themselves. This is why black parents must take the time to create a cognitive notion of greatness in their children before these children are ever exposed to counter-cultural propaganda. When we train our children to expect greatness from themselves, they will receive negative propaganda as something that is diametrically opposed to their personal plan for their own lives, and they will reject and dismiss it.

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Also, black parents must unite. The chasm that exists between black women and black men who have children together is huge, and it the results are devastating. The black family nucleus was the ideal environment for fostering the positive growth of our children. It contained just the right amount of feminine energy and the ideal amount masculine energy to ensure that our children had a balanced developmental process. When parents break up, and then determine that the children are a great and powerful weapon to use against their former mate, the ones that suffer most are the children.

We must learn to put our differences as parents aside for the greater good of our children and our race. We must understand that the presence of both parents is essential to the full development of our children. It is time for black parents to understand that our children are not weapons to be used in the process of attempting to reshape or destroy our former mates. They are not to be caught in the center of these narcissistic confrontations that are simply focused on having the last word in a perpetual battle. No person is perfect, and that includes every person that is reading this sentence. With that being understood, you must understand that your mate or former mate will have strengths and weaknesses. It is in the best interest of the child for the parents to work in a manner that maximizes the strengths of each parent, while minimizing the impact of the weaknesses of each.

We Own our Destiny

For far too long, we have allowed an external force to write our story. We basically surrendered to the suggestions of white supremacy racism, subsequently taking our queue from them. We have bought into the lie that we are inferior, creating a level of self-hatred that has never existed among any other people in history. We have accepted, without question, the lie that we are helpless to create change, and that we are at the mercy of our oppressor. I have quoted Dr. Umar Johnson on numerous occasions, and here it is again:

“White supremacy is absolutely nothing without black compliance.”

This means that the greatest accomplishment of white supremacy has been to convince blacks that they have no power. We must be willing to take back our power to live within our purpose as we work toward our destiny. We must understand that no one has absolute power over us. We always have an option, even if that option is to choose death over oppression and bondage. We are where we are because we have failed to take proper action. We have settled into the maze of mediocrity and chosen comfort over character. This is why I say that white supremacy has us in a “check” that could finally produce the checkmate that they have been looking for since the emancipation proclamation. The assault against our men has weakened our collective leadership, and without male leadership, we are doomed. Sorry ladies, despite all of the tenets of feminism, no matter how much our women progress, if our men don’t survive, our race, as we know it, is doomed. This is why it is vital that we cover our young boys and protect them long enough for them to develop into men who believe in their inherent greatness. This is why the existing men must take ownership of our roles as leaders and providers in our homes and communities.

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Dr. Rick Wallace, Ph.D.
I will be honest with you. There is not a great deal of fanfare for men who are willing to step into their roles right now, so this means that we must be willing to take on these roles simply because it is our responsibility. Many black women will take a while to come on board, but if we continue to lead from a position of selflessness, they will come on board and they will support our movement.

Now is the moment that we challenge the adversary on the grand chessboard of life. Through proper education of ourselves and our progeny, we not only have the potential to move ourselves out of “check,” but we will also find that we also have the potential to place our adversary in “check” as well. And history has shown that our adversary does not respond well when they are not the aggressor. In the words of my grandfather: “It ain’t no fun when the rabbit has got the gun!” It is time for us to take a more aggressive approach.

[1] Wallace, Rick, The Self-affirming Force of a Christian Self-image, Straight From the Lab, 2014

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