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.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to the DD Sedeora Jaye Show. Dripping controversy on the mic. Don't forget to comment, like and subscribe on all social media platforms. Now here is DD Sedeora Jaye with a dose of DD. That's deep.

Speaker 2: 0:18

African-American students are being benboozled and hoodwinked by the school system. I would like to call out the Board of Education responsible for the curriculum and predominantly African-American communities. Why is African-American studies not embedded in the curriculum in middle school and high school? The audacity of public school boards to design a curriculum for a predominantly black community and not vote African-American studies to become a part of the school's program is baffling. Black history month consists of 29 days. We cage African-American students in a 29-day box to learn about an ongoing history that is created daily. This is equivalent to bondage. How does one teach in 29 days a history that can date back to 1526? 498 years of African-American history and counting? It is revolting that youth and predominantly black communities are denied access to the daily teachings of African-American history, a history that flows continuously like a river, becoming its own entity. African-american students are being benboozled and hoodwinks out of their own culture. African-american studies provide students with a high caliber of data. African-american students have the right to understand that the accomplishments and transgressions of the past contributes to the cycle of challenges African-American students face today. Allowing African-American students to comprehend the cultural framework of African-American history creates a formula to design blueprints to reverse generational issues played within the culture. It allows for our historical figures and youth of today to embrace and tackle past, present and future matters of African-American history as a unit.

Speaker 2: 2:41

It is a generational curse that African-American youth are not privy to their own historical history. When we attempt to pull up chronicle events from African-American youth, it comes back as insufficient funds because we have not invested the African-American narratives in them to pull from. We cannot pull from an empty vessel. African-american youth are the vessels in which our history travels. African-american youth must be watered and rooted so they can grow and spread African-American history into future generations.

Speaker 2: 3:24

Angela Bassett, award-winning actress, ba in African-American Studies from Yale University. Michelle Obama, attorney and first lady of the United States, ba in sociology, with a minor in African-American Studies from Princeton University. To the schoolboys in our predominantly African-American communities across the world, why would you bury the African-American culture, a culture that cannot die, a culture that has taken roots within the walls of the world and continues to grow like a vine of sweet honey suckles. A culture resurrected 29 days out of the year and watered down with parades and school plays, that rotates around the same few names, as if only five people made a difference in the foundation of African-American history that dates back to 1526. African-american youth, you are being bamboozled and hoodwinked.

Speaker 1: 4:38

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