However, this must not happen! We must fight as if we are fighting for our lives and our children's children. Many feel threatened and are fearful of the truth - they are attempting to hide the facts and vail the minds of our children. The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe. The Langston Hughes poem touches the pulse that drives through the book's heart. It provides historical information from slavery to the twenty-first century. The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones enlightens the minds of readers.
Over time, it has spread like wildfire causing "The Miseducation of the Negro Mind" as title in Carter G. It has been deeply embedded and rooted into the fabric of our being. The author wants his readers to realize that race is a construct. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi goes to the root cause of race and racism. For instance, it has been noted that the following books are "used to spread radical and racist ideologies to students. However, since such actions are no longer, they try new fear tactics. A time when a hundred and one lashes were the punishment should they be caught with a book. It appears that the oppressive power structure wants to return to a time when ignorance was bliss and a time of mental and physical agony that our forefathers and mothers endured - forbidding them to partake from the tree of knowledge. Now, here we are again, with this threat looming on the horizon in the twenty-first century. This legislation casts slave literacy as a potential threat to the slave holding colony." (Rasmussen, Birgit Brander." 'Attended with Great Inconveniences': Slave Literacy and the 1740 South Carolina Negro Act.) That all and every Person and Persons whatsoever who shall hereafter teach or cause any Slave or Slaves to be taught to write or shall use or employ any Slave as a Scribe in any manner of writing whatsoever hereafter taught to write Every such Person and Persons shall for every such Offense forfeit the Sume of One hundred pounds, Current money. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid. ".the having of Slaves taught to write or suffering them to be employed in writing may be attended with great Inconveniences. This was the ultimate quintessential book banning in American history. European colonizers strategically designed our enslaved African descendants to remain illiterate. Thus, some are in limbo, wondering where they belong. Historically, the disruption, disconnection, and lack of exposure to literature have caused loss of identity and culture amnesia generationally. The White power structure wants to control and conquer the minds of the next generation! These are the root causes why this recurring issue is now front and center in the minds of many. The knowledge that I have accumulated and deciphered over the years through the reading of books, and lived experiences has made me realize three fundamental factors in the craze for banning books: The enslaved became trained animals fenced in by an invisible electric fence - hence, the ambushed mind! They say what we know Hence, their minds had to be ambushed - no longer did most of the enslaved think for themselves, ask questions, or attempt to step out of the box of confinement. If exposed to books, the enslaved could threaten, disrupt and cause chaos in a society whose focus was greed and money. Therefore, enslaved thoughts had to be molded, shaped, and designed - thus, affecting the mind and gaining total control of their behavior. 3 (1982): 65–83.)įrom my perspective, to prevent understanding ideas, enslavers did not want to reveal the written text. “ What Is the History of Books?” Daedalus 111, no. "What Is the History of Books? … Its purpose is to understand how ideas were transmitted through print and how exposure to the printed word affected the thought and behavior of mankind during the last five hundred years."
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