Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

goal-directions ("integrated" schools, headstart programs,
etc . ) as panacea .
Black teachers will forever attempt to impart and instill the
true ingredients of quality education-against insurmountable
odds (lack of sufficient cohesiveness in the black community
to guarantee and provide immunity) .
Black professionals will forever attempt to bridge the gap
between what is unreal and what is real in the rendering of
professional services in a process of socialization that respects
and includes them, at best, only at peripheral points of contact
and access .
Black community organizations will forever attempt to
arouse the conscience of a society that is suicide bent and
chronically-afflicted with the muteness of racism ; will forever
attempt to arouse, stimulate and appeal to a black community
that (subconsciously and innately) knows that it is powerless
to win any real battles until a base for power is built.
Black students, against this backdrop and with the legacy
outlined in preceding paragraphs, will forever engage in almost
solely peer-supported campaigns and confrontations . High
schools and elementary schools become battlegrounds instead
of educational reservoirs for instilling and preserving a social
and cultural process .
A similar form of control exists within the colleges and
universities . They will teach Blacks how to separate and, at the
same time, be dependent upon white society for our livelihood
-and NOTHING more .
A BLACK BOARD OF EDUCATION can bring an end
to this crippling process of Acculturation .
B . Board Rules
1 . This Board was organized to develop the power to carry
out the new values of the black community .
2 . This Board will not attempt to manipulate, force, control,
"trick-up," or persuade the people to act against their own
will . This Board will be an expression of the WILL OF
THE PEOPLE-in fact and in deed.
3 . This Board WILL NOT (nor will the new Black Educational
System) make demands, bargain, compromise, petition,
or beg from the present white system of education .
VII. ONE-DAY- SCHOOL (SATURDAY)
A . Community Elementary and High Schools
1 . Community Board of Education
NEGRO DIGEST Moth 1970 73