--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "mikal haley"
> <chipsterthehipster@> wrote:
> >
> >> whites delegalized literacy for blacks until the end of the civil
> war.
>
> (Ahh, you need to get your history straight. Up until the 50's
> whites were denying black people education, oh yes.
>
> In third grade there were two guys who had just come up from Arkansas-
> -one was 12 the other was 14--no they were not retarded. Every year
> when it was time to get out in the fields school was out for them.
>
> I talked to an adult black man years later who verified this. He had
> gone back to school got his GED in his late 50's. He wanted to go in
> the army during WWII but he was illiterate.
>
> African Americans in this country are 40 years out of aparthied and
> figuring somehow they are supposed to have caught up.
>
> I came up in a house with two high school graduates and plenty of
> books. If you don't have that, chances are you will not read for
> leisure or study beyond what you need to do in school.
>
> It is easy for us to sit and say what somebody else should be doing.
> If books are not important, you will not read--and with this
> President, is is becoming obvious that you can be successful and rich
> and be ignorant as you wannabe)
>
Not all Blacks were denied. Lets get that straight. The south was
very restrictive but millions of Blacks were able to get college
educated including one of my grandfathers in the 40's who later and
thought as a college professor in California.
