Early African-American Schools Refuted White Supremacists’ View

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By STEPHANNIE STOKES • 4 HOURS AGO

At the start of the Great Depression, Horace Mann Bond, father of the late civil rights leader Julian Bond, journeyed into the rural South to document the condition of African-American schools.

The photos he brought back show what some at the time refused to believe -- that Southern black children wanted an education ...

“The white supremacist view was that educating black folks didn’t make any sense because they didn’t need education," says Suitts. "But there was a corollary of that view. And it was that black folks weren’t interested. You could build the finest school in the world, the white supremacist would say, but black folks wouldn’t go to it. They’re not interested in education, and they’re not capable of it” ...

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This is interesting, but it completely misses the story of the Reconstruction Era, when many former slaves and their children wanted and got good educations, until the union troops withdrew and the white supremacists began to regain and consolidate political power

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1. TPTB use to say the same things about educating women.

Something about some of the richest and most powerful people who shape society that makes them hate the down trodden and weak. Is it that deep down inside they know that they don't deserve their wealth? Do they realize they are merely lucky and NOT chosen or special? Do they lay in bed and wonder how they would survive if born into this hate filled world they perpetuate?

Probably not.