Master teacher Dr. Rusty Shacklestein, and later Dr. Hate, joined this week’s edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour discuss the crisis of Afrikan education. Dr. Shacklestein is an experienced educator with time spent as both teacher and administrator for all levels of schooling pre-school-12th grade. We discussed the politics of education, the importance of Afrikan-centered education and the on-going crisis of culture and consciousness. For current and future parents, as well as, all those concerned about an Obama administration that continues to further militarize and privatize the country’s public schools and the impact this is having on all but particularly Black/Afrikan students in the U.S. this is a must-hear show.
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I really appreciated the program, and the topic. Education is one of the keys. One of the main keys, and the orientation associated with it. The best way, I have noticed, based on the people who have instituted it, is home schooling. This is the only way to have complete control. But how do we impact schools over which we have little or no control? Which is where most of our children are. My realization is also that many of our people will be beyond, for lack of a better word, salvation. Therefore my focus has been on those with the will, concern and ability to understand what is needed. The solution is multifaceted, and we are not a monolithic mass, and many of our people must be forced to comply.
Barbara Sizemore. You can’t say enough!
In light of this show I’m going to borrow some phraseology and say, “You can’t free a slave unless they know their in bondage”. We can’t take up this reductionist and capitalistic mentality of “instant revolution”. We should leave such ideas where they belong, on Facebook and in the hands of the Mac-olutionaries and Starbuckatistas. We haven’t even remotely begun to crawl in this struggle. We’re also nowhere near the body of work to be done to be in the position of weighing such grim logic. Force will be necessary that’s a given; however at this point in time such action would probably only lead to spiteful outcomes that make the enemy the savior and confidant if not handled correctly. Overall the frustration of people not being where you are is part of the territory of striving for transformation (I’d say “change” if it wasn’t so dirty these days). The times are ripe and pregnant with possibility, pessimism should be nowhere in site on the approach to this horizon. The only loss to be had in this time is in compromise and fatigue.
O vanity vanity give me sight on site.
Great Show as always soon as the Guest gets to heart of what the discussion topikc was its one hour is over LOL ! Dr Ball needs a 2 hour show !
As far as using video games as teaching tools, there is a computer game called Arma 2 and Virtual BattleSpace 2. This is an excellent vehicle to teach Our people true Military Science. Even the US military leaders uses them to rehearse exercise.
http://www.arma2.com
Advanced Combat Enviroment