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While I am not of african descent, i think it is an idea long past due. It strikes me that centric education already happens in many other areas,i.e..christian, liberal arts, arts, sciences, engineering, preforming arts. Afro-centric is sorely lacking in the mix. If an historically repressed people can find the means to eddify thier cultural gifts, more power to them. I would love to see the large native american community find similar resources.
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glen, yeah, there are many people that would agree wholeheartedly with what you said. . .it's my understanding that many some native American communities are able to so while isolated on the reservation system. . .so it may exist.

I would also imagine that schools of this type will emerge more and more in hispanic/latino contexts in the years to come

Don't know for sure. The latino population is a bit hard to figure education wise. I certainly hope the communities can maintain and expand the rich culture they have. My greatest fear that much of the heritage of latinos is lost in the turbo charged plunge to intergrate in the U.S. How many children lose thier mother tongue in just one generation? If the native american population is any measure, I would not expect it. Of course in the last century most non-english,non-white were ruthlessly oppressed, forced to integrate at end of a gun.
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I agree, but if there isn't anything wrong with blacks wanting Afro-Centric education away from whites, then there is nothing wrong with whites wanting a Euro-Centric education away from blacks, and anyone else. Do your own thing and, leave other groups alone. Of course, if you want to mix, then mix.

Yes and No,
While I think that blacks( as well as many repressed minorities) can benefit from more culturally sensitive forms of education, I do not think that there is an arguement for segregation. Euro-centric is the dominate form of conditioning. Inclusiveness and sensitivity to those minorities would go a long way. Given the devastating history, the blatant genocide (overt and covert) of minorities here, caucasians surrendered any credibility at all in such policies long ago. We are only beginning to listen, I suspect many of the cultures we so thuroughly descimated( and continue too,i.e... look at black youth in our prison populations)may never really rebound. We desperately need a much wider national dialogue.
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Zrazys is right. What's good for one race is good for another.

Zrazys is also right in that Kinist would like nothing better han to be left alone. But some people like to throw around words like "racist". Kinists wish no ill-will towards anyone of any race, rather all people of different races are created by God in HIS image and should be honored as such.

All the races are beautiful just as God created them. Kinism teaches that true MULTI-culturalism exist when each race is given the chance to reach their full potential of expression. It is only someone looking to misrepresent Kinism that says otherwise.

Thanks.

where is the most concise definition of what kinism is?

I do think that understanding where oneself came from is important to understanding the world around you, but is isolationism the way to get there? I have issues with any education focusing on one view or cultural heritage--which is why I try very hard to show my students that there is so much beyond a eurocentric view of literature, music and art. I think balance is what's necessary--the problem with too much focus on one cultural heritage is that it easily leads to prejudice against other heritages, a problem that is very much present in Western society as a whole. And frankly, while past African cultures have been educated and vibrant, the past hundreds of years have not been so fortunate for Africa. Where will the balance come in at this school? It's an interesting idea, but I'm not ready to say it's good, yet.

It is a must that our children get an quality ed.
They don't care about our children. They want to take the brightest of ours and turn them into little Armstrong Williams and Little Clearnce (uncle toms)Thomas's. If we don't teach them about
our ancent past they will teach them that we were nothing but slaves. Thank you for your work and send me more information about the books that you use.

A centric education is not about isolationism (as mentioned above). It is about moving away from a one-sided Eurocentric education towards a more realistic Multicultural view. For example, in a lesson about the civil war, a centric classroom would discuss what americans of african, mexican, and chinese decent (to name just a few), as well as women were doing and experiencing. As far as Afrocentric education goes, it has been proven (in psychological studies) that children are motivated, learn more, and grow up to be healthier adults when more attention is paid to their cultural heritage and histories in the classroom. However, a centric education is not isolationism and not just for African-Americans (read Molefi Kete Asante, Danjuma Sinue Modupe, etc.) It is for the benefit of everyone and for the future of our society! To those above in favor of kinism and eurocentic education for white americans...don't fool yourselves into thinking that's anything less than racism and white supremacy.

Btw, for anyone who doesn't know what kinism is, or (like some people above) questions its connection to racism and white supremacy check out this:
http://www.kinism.net/index.php/weblog/beliefs

Glen said: blacks (as well as many repressed minorities) can benefit from more culturally sensitive forms of education ...and... Given the devastating history, the blatant genocide (overt and covert) of minorities here, caucasians surrendered any credibility at all in such policies long ago.

-- This, not euro-centism is the "dominant form of conditioning" in our schools: and racial revenge theory demands that whites cannot now be permitted equal rights.

That's why it's so necessary that white children be withdrawn from the system and educated by people who do not hate whites and who want to pass on what remains of western civilisation.

"As far as Afrocentric education goes, it has been proven (in psychological studies) that children are motivated, learn more, and grow up to be healthier adults when more attention is paid to their cultural heritage and histories in the classroom."

So in other words, you have no problem with Afrocentric education and actually think it would be beneficial to blacks, but a Eurocentric education for whites is racist and promotes white supremacy? Gotcha.

Ah, the logic of the left...

I got my pre-college ed in 5 schools in 5 states -- all rural or suburban. Never met my first non-white until I was in 10th grade when there was 1 black student. . .

I am not tracking with you on the separation of the races.

1. So Brown vs. Bd of Ed got it wrong?
2. Aren't 90% of suburban/rural education in the US already eurocentric enclaves for white kids?

Joel H., sorry bro, if you think Brown vs. Board was about just about racial integration you may want to go back and reread the case law and revisit the conversation. White people continue to believe that blacks are just dying to be around them as if being around whites makes a black person's life better. It's so arrogant. You're also very inaccurate about the suburban/rural education race difference. Most blacks in America life in rural settings anyway according to census data. Have you spent much time in the Southeast where 50% of all blacks in America live? We definitely need more all black (and all male) schools for some kids especially those from broken homes and lower income areas. Only someone black can teach a black kid what he needs to know about being black in a world dominated by whites (esp. the white dominated world of American evangelicalism)

Just curious, where are you getting your demographic information from?

My reading of the moral judgement of Brown is that in a culture dominated by one ethnicity/race that separate and equal is impossible. This true not only in education in housing as well (see American Apartheid) because of the way that the minority group will be prevented from accessing parity of resources.

The demographics are very northern, midwestern, western and strictly anecdotal. But my point is that the shape and texture of most US education is already eurocentric, therefore no reason to call for white schools (or white affirmative action -- we've already had that too for 400 years).

I am personally quite open to the notion of black students being taught in this manner but find the call for white equality specious. We have a public Afrocentric community school 2 blocks from my house. The principal is African and often dresses with traditional garb. They inculcate values that are associated with Africa and Kwanzaa. Check it out here: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/schools/woodlawn/

"White people continue to believe that blacks are just dying to be around them as if being around whites makes a black person's life better. It's so arrogant"

I think I understand your sentiment here and of course for white's to be so condescendingly presumptuous is dumb/arrogant. But Massey and Denton site survey data that most blacks and most whites do want to live in racially integrated neighborhoods. (Blacks define racially integrated as 50/50; White's define it as 94/6. . . bizarre!)

I don't think blacks want integrated schools per se (or neighborhoods necessarily) but equal access to resources and competitive educational processes. . . .