The Mis-Education of a Negro: Chapter 1-5 Outline
In chapter one Carter G. Woodson says that educated Negros have contempt for their uneducated brethren because they are taught, in Black schools as well as white, to honor the Greek, Hebrew, and other white groups and at the same time to despise the African. Once educated, Woodson questions the role to be played be these Negros. He says that their opportunity is limited. To earn a living many come back to the Black community to teach what they have been taught. Since they have already been taught to despise everything African, their role becomes suspect. It is "the worst kind of lynching," Woodson says, to teach a student that that his Blackness is a curse. He is handicapped and is given over to vagabondage and crime. Society becomes justified in its exploitation and abuse of Black people. "Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior. In every type of school from science to theology Black people are being taught in terms of white peoples development and are not being taught the things that they need to know in order to develope their own communities. In other words education is almost criminally eurocentric. In schools of business, Woodson says t
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