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A Proposal:
A Black
American
Public School
System
By Michael Holzman
June 5, 2015
The American
education system has failed the descendants of enslaved Africans. Only 16% read
at grade level in middle school (and only 12% of male African-Americans do so).
Just over half of male Black students graduate from high school in four years
(as compared to more than three-quarters of male White students). 21% of young
Black women graduate from college, but only 16% of young Black men (compared to
31% and 30% for White women and men, respectively). As a result of this failure
of the public schools to educate Black children, lifetime earnings are reduced
on average by over a million dollars, or a total of $5 trillion for this
generation of the descendents of enslaved Africans as a whole.
This $1
million individual reduction in lifetime earnings is a quantifiable, continuing,
harm resulting from centuries of slavery and an additional 150 years of Jim Crow
and its lingering effects. As such it can be taken as one component of the
calculation of the figures for restitution.
While the
average per student expenditure for Black students is less than $12,000, the
amount spent on White students whose families are in the upper 20% of incomes
can easily reach $30,000. Adding to that the amounts spent by those families on
education activities outside of school hours-private lessons of various kinds,
tutoring, educational travel-we can estimate the annual monetary educational
disadvantage of Blacks students as at least $25,000. Given k-12 Black enrollment
of seven million, the total annual shortfall is on the range of $175
billion.
If this $175
billion were available for the education of Black American children, how could
it be used to eliminate the educational penalty for studying while Black?
One idea would
be to utilize the existing legal framework underpinning the charter school
movement to create a national charter school network for the American
descendents of enslaved Africans: The Black American Public School
System. These schools would be funded in each locality by the
usual local, state and federal contributions, supplemented by a National Black
Educational Fund (NBEF), capitalized with restitution contributions. The total
per student expenditure would vary by locality, but would everywhere be
sufficient at a minimum for universal pre-kindergarten; all-day,
literacy-oriented, kindergarten; challenging, college-preparatory curriculum
with after-school, Saturday and summer classes; highly effective teachers
supported by on-going subject-area and pedagogical professional development;
excellent facilities.
Use of
advanced technology would enable geographically neutral delivery of resources,
including administration, so that Black students in a small elementary school in
the rural South would have educational resources equivalent to those of Black
students in Northeastern and Far Western suburban Black American Public School
System schools.
Graduates of
the Black American Public Schools admitted to college would be
provided with full tuition and living expenses. Others would receive support for
job training, including apprenticeships.
Increases in
Black high school and college graduation rates would result in higher Black
annual and lifetime earnings, with consequent improvements in health, family and
social life and childhood well-being in the Black community and increased
contributions to governmental revenue at all levels. In this way, the education
system, the deficiencies of which now drive the Black poverty cycle, would
instead serve as a foundation for the prosperity of the Black community.
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On Saturday, June
13, 2015, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, at 3509 South King Drive, Chicago, Illinois, The
Black Star Project is sponsoring
The Great Black Male
Read-Off
Top Prizes for 9th- to 12th-grade Black
male readers
$250.00 for 1st Place
$175.00 for 2nd Place
$125.00 for 3rd Place
Top Prizes for 5th- to
8th-grade Black male
readers
$200.00 for 1st
Place
$150.00 for 2nd
Place
$100.00 for 3rd
Place
Top Prizes for 1st- to 4th-grade Black male
readers
$100 for 1st Place
$75.00 for 2nd Place
$50.00 for 3rd
Place
 Young men will read passages from Frederick Douglass,
Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Marcus Garvey, Dr. Martin
Luther King,Jr., Vincent G. Harding or other great Black heroes from
history.
You must register to participate in
this event. Registration is limited. This competition is only open to
young Black males.You must bring proof of grade level to
enter this contest. Awards will not be given without proof of grade level.
Readers will be judged by a panel of educators,
mentors and community members.
Selected winners will read to
all of Chicago on The Parent Revolution Radio Show on
WVON1690AM and at The Mass Black Male Graduation on
June 20, 2015. 
All prizes will be awarded
at The Mass Black Male Graduation Ceremony on June 20, 2015, 10:30 am,
Metropolitan Apostolic Church, 4100 South King Drive, Chicago,
Illinois.
Please call 773.285.9600 to register your young
Black male reader for this competition of courage, skill and excellence. This event is open to the public.
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In Honor of Rev. Dr. Webb Evans
JOIN MIN. RAHIM
ETON AND
THE
UNITED AMERICAN
PROGRESS ASSOCIATION (U.A.P.A.)
IN OUR
ANNUAL
"BUY BLACK BUSINESS" PARADE/MILLION DOLLAR
MARCH
SATURDAY JUNE 6,
2015
Chicago,
Illinois
12:00
NOON
| Min. Rahim Eton (left) and the late, great
Rev. Dr. Webb Evans (right) |
Line up at 7900 S. Perry at
10:00am
Kick off at 12
noon
Parade Route: From
79th & Perry, West on 79th Street to 79th
& Hermitage where we will have a rally and Vendors Market with live
entertainment in the parking lot. Please call 773-846-3091
to participate or for more
information.
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Dr. Ra Un
Nefer Amen
Saturday,
June 6, 2015 and
Sunday, June 7,
2015
11:30
am
at
The
Ausar Auset Society
2108
E. 71st Street
Chicago,
Illinois
Health scientists have known from
ancient times that stress (negative emotions) is the leading basic cause of
illnesses-from the common cold to heart disease, diabetes, cancer and so on.
Given the fact that almost everyone in the world is stress ridden, stress
induced illnesses must be given pandemic status. And because stress is the
leading cause of brain damage, it is also the leading cause of failure in
people's lives.
The
failure to eliminate stress from the lives of people stems from the fact that
the science of stress is based on 1930's information on the brain, and
physiology. Stress Free for Life, by Ra Un Nefer Amen, author of Metu Neter
volumes 1 through 7, Maat 11 Laws of God, and many other books, applies the
spiritual wisdom of the ages to the latest findings in brain science and
alternative medicine to bring to the public meditation methods, herbal and
nutritional materials to heal and enhance the executive functions of the brain
that were evolved by nature to transcend the primitive survival responses behind
stress.
The book provides meditation
techniques and scripts that the author has used to guide thousands for the past
40 years to heal, and achieve success in their relationships, and professional
undertakings.
Eliminate stress and help
yourself and others for the simple reason that stress elimination is programmed
in man's genetic structures. It is a simple matter of gaining a scientific
understanding of what you have done in the past to eliminate certain negative
behaviors, and to apply them across the board everywhere else in your
life.
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Recommend a Black Male Elementary School
Graduate, High School Graduate or College Graduate for The Mass Black Male Graduation Ceremony on Saturday,
June 20, 2015 with Keynote Speakers Attorney James Montgomery and Hip Hop Artist
Jasiri X. Call 773.285.9600 to register the young Black men at your school and
in your life.
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Will You Invest in Teaching Black Boys to
Read?
In 2014, The Black Star
Project received very little government or foundation funding for our
programs to improve the lives of Black men and boys. But that did not stop us
from being one of the leading organizations in the country working to nurture,
save, educate and empower Black males.
Our programs over the past few
years include the Million Father March, Daddy Daughter Dances, MLK
Mentor Day for Young Black Men, Black Male Reading Academies, Math Boot Camps
for Young Black Men, Mass Black Male Graduation Ceremony, College Fairs for
Young Black Men, Take A Young Black Male To Worship and our
Young Black Men of Honor Mentor Program.
Please become part of the solution to improve the lives
of young Black males by investing in the work of The Black Star
Project.
Just
click the orange DONATE NOW button (or CLICK HERE) to
make a positive difference in the lives of Black children, and children of all
ethnicities that we serve.
or send a check or money order
to:
The Black Star Project
3509 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60653
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