June 21, 2020
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
Vol. 25, Issue 22
“Our vote and our money are the two most powerful things we have. Be careful who you give them to.” - Roy Douglas Malonson
THE ‘MIS-EDUCATION OFTHENEGRO’
R E M A I N S I N F U L L E F F E C T T O DAY Letter from Publisher Roy Douglas Malonson: We have been overwhelmed with support from the community in response to my last editorial in regard to the backlash received on the decision to remove two racist statues in Houston public areas, and place one of them -- The Spirit of The Confederacy – in the Houston Museum of African American Culture. HMACC CEO Emeritus John Guess said placing the statues in the museum will help discuss the “difficult conversations” about race and culture. We don’t need to preserve them; we need
to destroy them as what they stood for have destroyed Blacks for generations. Enough is enough! And for anyone who is in favor of placing the Confederate statue in HMAAC, I feel you need to read the “Mis-Education of the Negro,” by Carter G. Woodson. If you did, you would see just how many of us are still trapped in a slave mentality. In “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” which was published in 1933, Woodson was teaching us how Blacks were historically brainwashed into accepting white ideologies, which still
governs how many of us live today. Uncle Tom-ism is just as alive today as it was then. Blacks, back then, were taught to be dependent on Whites, rather than learning how to do for themselves. It was all a matter of control, dating back to the “House nigger” mentality and loyalty to “Massa.” Woodson said, “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go
without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.” Do you understand what Woodson was saying? He was explaining how some Blacks were “kept in their place” so much, that even if they had a taste of freedom or free will, they would still not get out of line. They would “find” a way to still follow the White Man’s rules. This kind of thinking will forever keep us in a place of servitude or inferiority when it comes to
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WARNING TO BLACK FATHERS We’d love to tell you “Happy” Father’s Day, but in this day and age, we feel the need to just say “Congratulations, you’ve made it another year.” In the words of Charles S. Dutton in the movie Menace 2 Society, “the HUNT is on.” They are hunting Black men and killing them for sport, it seems. They are driving you out of businesses, emasculating you in front of your women, chasing your sons while they peacefully jog in neighborhoods, or walk home at night with a bag of Skittles and a bottle of Arizona Tea. They are telling the world that “Black Baby Daddies ain’t sh**” and they make you HATE the women you procreated with, thanks to the good old Attorney General who steps in to force you to do what you should have done on your own -- provide for your kids! Maya Angelou didn’t write a poem for you; it might have been hard to find the proper words to say. But on this day, and every other day, we say, KILL THE MYTHS, do what Black men were put on this Earth to do. KEEP GRINDING, KEEP SHINING, KEEP MOVING and SHAKING. Keep GOD FIRST, keep BUYING BLACK, keep EDUCATING our youth and keep BUILDING your communities by PURCHASING property. KEEP VOTING the GOOD ones IN and the BAD ones OUT. Keep making a way out of no way and CHECK on your kids AND your neighbors’ kids. Keep LOVING those Black women who will forever have your backs. The WARNING comes for those who don’t recognize that we, as a people, must take ownership of our lives, united in strength, and proudly represent our BLACKNESS to the fullest. LEAD YOUR FAMILIES, BLACK MEN! Now, we say... HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
- AANI