Remove the kinks from your Mind, NOT your Hair – Marcus Garvey
Welcome Afrikans,
This section is designed to dialogue about books from the book list. Share what you have learned about this months book. Also, you may relate this book to other works you have read. So read and study this material and converse:
Book#1:
The Mis-Education of the Negro by: Carter G. Woodson
Questions:
What did you learn from this book?
How can you relate it our people in todays society?
What do you believe is the biggest lesson to be learned in this book?
What did you learn from this book?
Much can be learned from this book. I gained an example and guide of how to educate and appeal to my brothers and sisters. I gained written, quotable evidence of the diagnosis and study of the effects of the mis-educational “system” in play, as well as how to counteract and fight it.
How can you relate it our people in todays society?
From what I’ve gained in study, Brother Woodson wrote the book in a matter that it would be universal and would apply to any period in time in which the problems still existed. The Mis-education of the Negro, is automatically relevant because we still deal with the issue today.
What do you believe is the biggest lesson to be learned in this book?
Be forever conscious and alert to the powers in play and what you allow to educate and “teach” you. The power over your mind should be yours and yours alone.
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Right on brotha!
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i agree brandon.
my answer to the 3 questions are all related. when i read the book maybe 4 years and i was still in college, i was amazed at how the book was overly relevant! seeing that the book was written so long and could/can clearly be applied although ‘access’ is different and is thought to be improved by leaps and bonds by some. my relating it today that the saying of knowledge is true, “put it in a book…” and we know how that saying goes. seriously i would say today that sense/since we know it is in a book, we gotta start reading the past because they give their reality and insight to where we need to go!
~t
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