There has never been a completely white-washed America nor a white-washed world. The historical evolution of Western European thoughts reflect contemporary eastern, and western Europe being an eclectic mixture of European and Afrocentric ideologies some born from theological and mathematical thoughts that have emanated from among black,red,yellow, and brown skinned cultures globally. A truthful educating of American citizens will help to bring about a realization that our nation is politically situated as to form a higher level reasonable realization that America’s citizens have more in common than not.

Any major political program in the new century should be evaluated by its ability to state the need for a new educational paradigm; one which establishes a constitutional guarantee to education, that de-institutionalizes knowledge and learning, and one which provides all who want to learn with access to learning opportunities and resources at any time in their life.

It is unfortunate that our whole notion of school is so inextricably bound to the present model: a brick-and-mortar place that children from seven to eighteen are obliged to attend nine months a year to be taught, by a self-certifying elite, a presumptive set of courses approved and prescribed by the State. Schools have accordingly become, at best, experimental institutions for the confinement of the poor and innocent between the ages of 7 and 18, at worst, dangerous and irrelevant.

This is the 21st century and our children, indeed our society, need a change. The present, presumably well intentioned, system of schooling which groups students by age and curriculum practically guarantees classroom will be filled with the disruptive, the bored, the disinterested, and more recently—sociopaths. The presumptive notion that students enter schools alike and eagerly awaiting what government believes should be taught is nonsense. Indeed, an alchemist would have a better chance of transforming lead into gold than our age specific, curricular based, and compulsory schooling has in melding the diversity of students into a wholesome citizenry, never mind changing present educational outcomes—especially for the poor. Compulsory aged-based, curricular learning presumes the student is ready and interested in government schools at the time of day, time of year, or the time in life they are presented. The environment in which a child or an adult is confined in our present model has a destructive influence on the human desire for knowledge and blunts natural curiosity. A 12-year-old with a collection of 1,000 beetles at home is being miseducated and wasting time in a compulsory class on “American” history.

Learning is a lifelong experience best achieved when adapted to individual needs and not limited to the young, the rich, or to those certified by an institutional monopoly to be ready for the next “level”. Any new model of education should allow the student the right to choose the medium, the subject, the teacher, the place, and the time for learning. In my mind, so called educators, and administrators, should be limited to identifying aptitude and interest, preferably, when the learner is young, and then provide and guide access to competent, willing, demonstrably competent, and relevant skill models, guides, and instructors.

I propose four fundamental changes in citizen education:

(1) An end to compulsory attendance laws at government schools.

(2) The substitution of competency test for grades, diplomas, or degrees.

(3) Self-directed learning

(4) The proportioned grants of educational credits, or “vouchers” for all citizens based on age, income, and disability, throughout an individual’s life: more credits when young and proportionally decreasing credits based on age and income. Credits that can be saved (banked) and transferred or used to obtain skills, increase competency, and promote independence.

The only solution is for all African Americans to separate and segregate from Racist America by any means necessary. African Americans should only attend and enrolled their children and themselves in black owned private or public schools. All African Americans must attend black HBCU’S and invest in the future of black community college; but more so put all our hard earn money and savings in black owned banks and financial institutions.

Remember, there are over 150 black private schools and HBCU’S in America; as well as 21 black owned banks and credit unition; therefore, it is time for black people to move away from white people and create our own safe space for our black Christian children.