DD That's Deep: How The School System Has Bamboozled and Hoodwinked Our Youth

Why does African-American history get packed into a single month when its threads weave through the very fabric of our nation's story? This episode of DD Sedeora Jaye podcast is a daring exploration of the educational injustice faced by African-American students, whose history is often restricted to a fleeting acknowledgment each February. We're confronting head-on the oversight of school boards that fail to integrate a comprehensive African-American studies program into the curriculum of predominantly black schools.

Through this passionate discourse, you'll grasp the gravity of how omitting key historical narratives from our classrooms is denying African-American youth the foundation to understand and celebrate their cultural legacy. We spotlight the influences of esteemed individuals like Angela Bassett and Michelle Obama, who've leveraged their knowledge in African-American studies to make indelible marks on our society. This is not just a conversation—it's an urgent appeal to empower the upcoming generations by sowing seeds of knowledge that can blossom into wisdom, pride, and progress.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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That's deep.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
African-American students are being benboozled
and hoodwinked by the schoolsystem.
I would like to call out theBoard of Education responsible
for the curriculum andpredominantly African-American
communities.
Why is African-American studiesnot embedded in the curriculum
in middle school and high school?

(00:39):
The audacity of public schoolboards to design a curriculum
for a predominantly blackcommunity and not vote
African-American studies tobecome a part of the school's
program is baffling.
Black history month consists of29 days.

(00:59):
We cage African-Americanstudents in a 29-day box to
learn about an ongoing historythat is created daily.
This is equivalent to bondage.
How does one teach in 29 days ahistory that can date back to
1526?

(01:20):
498 years of African-Americanhistory and counting?
It is revolting that youth andpredominantly black communities
are denied access to the dailyteachings of African-American
history, a history that flowscontinuously like a river,

(01:40):
becoming its own entity.
African-american students arebeing benboozled and hoodwinks
out of their own culture.
African-american studiesprovide students with a high
caliber of data.
African-american students havethe right to understand that the
accomplishments andtransgressions of the past

(02:04):
contributes to the cycle ofchallenges African-American
students face today.
Allowing African-Americanstudents to comprehend the
cultural framework ofAfrican-American history creates
a formula to design blueprintsto reverse generational issues
played within the culture.

(02:25):
It allows for our historicalfigures and youth of today to
embrace and tackle past, presentand future matters of
African-American history as aunit.
It is a generational curse thatAfrican-American youth are not

(02:46):
privy to their own historicalhistory.
When we attempt to pull upchronicle events from
African-American youth, it comesback as insufficient funds
because we have not invested theAfrican-American narratives in
them to pull from.
We cannot pull from an emptyvessel.

(03:06):
African-american youth are thevessels in which our history
travels.
African-american youth must bewatered and rooted so they can
grow and spread African-Americanhistory into future generations
.
Angela Bassett, award-winningactress, ba in African-American

(03:29):
Studies from Yale University.
Michelle Obama, attorney andfirst lady of the United States,
ba in sociology, with a minorin African-American Studies from
Princeton University.
To the schoolboys in ourpredominantly African-American
communities across the world,why would you bury the

(03:52):
African-American culture, aculture that cannot die, a
culture that has taken rootswithin the walls of the world
and continues to grow like avine of sweet honey suckles.
A culture resurrected 29 daysout of the year and watered down

(04:12):
with parades and school plays,that rotates around the same few
names, as if only five peoplemade a difference in the
foundation of African-Americanhistory that dates back to 1526.
African-american youth, you arebeing bamboozled and hoodwinked

(04:35):
.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
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