http://daownunder.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/your-child-belongs-to-me/ Aboriginal news, views, and expression, from Australia Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://daownunder.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/your-child-belongs-to-me/#comment-77 Renee Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:57:20 +0000 http://daownunder.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-77 Very good...You might want to check out the The Prussian (German) Educational System that was introduced in 1819 and has been the basis for most education systems throughout the world...the end result of the Prussian education system was to train the masses "to obedience, subordination, and collective life." i.e remove any free thinking from the general population. If you combined this with a "colonised mind" of the Aboriginal people you will then begin to realise why we reject our own culture in favour of our colonisers or oppressors. Your research shows some interesting quotes from your sources but for a more accurate and parallel understanding of our current situation I would strongly suggest that you look towards reading black works such as Steve Biko's 'We Blacks' and 'Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity', Aime Cesaire's 'Discourse on Colonialism' and Frantz Fannon's 'Black Skin White Masks'. There are also other numerous writings on decolinising the mind and "miseducation". Oh and of course one should never overlook our own black writings ;) it is just that the above are the foundations for most modern black thinking today. “When it comes to teaching the Black people something about great Black man who were scientist who stood their ground…The white man has shrewdly written that role out of the textbooks and today the effect it has on you and me - we don’t think we can stand on our own two feet” Malcolm X Who taught you to hate yourself? Very good…You might want to check out the The Prussian (German) Educational System that was introduced in 1819 and has been the basis for most education systems throughout the world…the end result of the Prussian education system was to train the masses “to obedience, subordination, and collective life.” i.e remove any free thinking from the general population. If you combined this with a “colonised mind” of the Aboriginal people you will then begin to realise why we reject our own culture in favour of our colonisers or oppressors. Your research shows some interesting quotes from your sources but for a more accurate and parallel understanding of our current situation I would strongly suggest that you look towards reading black works such as Steve Biko’s ‘We Blacks’ and ‘Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity’, Aime Cesaire’s ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ and Frantz Fannon’s ‘Black Skin White Masks’. There are also other numerous writings on decolinising the mind and “miseducation”. Oh and of course one should never overlook our own black writings it is just that the above are the foundations for most modern black thinking today.
“When it comes to teaching the Black people something about great Black man who were scientist who stood their ground…The white man has shrewdly written that role out of the textbooks and today the effect it has on you and me – we don’t think we can stand on our own two feet” Malcolm X Who taught you to hate yourself?

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