Black Americans
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Resources for African American Home Schoolers Rise to Meet the Growing Demand
African Americans are the fastest growing demographic group of home schoolers in the United States. Because this is a new development in home schooling, there is a great deal of interest in the world of epidemiological research concerning the details of the African American home schooling experience. The focus, specifically, is on African American experience when newly home schooling, as well as the experience of African American parents of home school graduates.
Resources for African American home schoolers are becoming more and more available. A group focused solely on African American families who home school is called African American Unschooling. It is a network with members throughout the country, all of whom are black families who home school.
A magazine is also available for those who would like to know more about the experience of African American home schoolers and perhaps pick up a few tips. The magazine is called FUNgasa: Free Oneself! The Magazine for African-American Home Educators.
Another resource in the making combines the efforts of African American Unschooling and FUNgasa. African American Unschooling steadily works to gather data from various African American home schooling families in the form of surveys. With the data they collect, the editors of FUNgasa will create a new series of guidebooks aimed specifically at African American home schooling parents.
By finding out the issues of black home schoolers and their parents, these guidebooks will attempt to help families better handle the pitfalls with the information they need to make their experience run smoother. What will make these guidebooks different from the other home schooling guides currently on the shelves is their Afro-centric focus.
African American culture is often one of the fundamental reasons that African American families choose to home school. By incorporating black culture into home school curricula, African American families have the opportunity to impart a rich history and proud tradition that gets lost in the predominantly white-favored public and private school systems.
The opportunity to network with other black home schooling families and learn from articles written from an African American perspective, with the black American experience in mind, is a major victory in the world of home schooling. What heretofore has been a predominantly white movement is now opening up to embrace the cultural experience of all races and ethnicities, making the home schooling a truly inclusive one.
About the Author
Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling mother, writer, children’s rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of home education company Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of 28 years reside with their 8 children right outside Philadelphia, PA.
Rothschild launched Learning By Grace, Inc. because she believed that our nation’s public school system has failed parents and students. Learning By Grace, Inc. offers online education through a multimedia-rich curriculum to PreK-12 children across the country and throughout the world.
An accomplished author, Rothschild has written books regarding education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Daily Education News Feed consists of articles and essays dealing with alternative learning methods.
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Why do some black Americans complain about racism in the USA when they have the advantage?
I thought the civil-right activists of the segregation era were all about equality? It doesn’t seem so. Black Americans, whether they like it or not, have the upper-hand when it comes to success in the USA. Black scholarships, affirmative action, etc. Black people rarely have to try anymore and those that do and want to be recognized for their sole achievements can’t because of these systems that favor them. So, how does racism against black people still exist when they clearly have the upper-hand over minorities and even whites when it comes to earning an education and being successful?
we have the upper hand, how so? Let’s say for the sake of argument that affirmative action does require schools and businesses to hire 13% minorities. Who do you think represents the other 87 percent? And out of that 13% half will be white women, who by law, are considered a minority.
There are more white women attending college than anyone else, yet some of you all still complain about AA being unfair when it has clearly helped more whites than it has blacks.
As far as scholarships go, most of them are given to whites. One, because you all go to better schools which prepare you for college. And two because no one is coming into the inner city to give a black person a scholarship unless it’s for sports. They’ll give an athlete a $40,000 education because he’s going to earn them about $4,000,000 in ticket sales. More than that if you consider all the royalties they receive from merchandise sales.
We don’t have to try anymore? Are you kidding me? We have to try twice as hard just to prove ourselves to the rest of you that we didn’t succeed solely because of Affirmative Action. It’s white people who have jobs waiting for them because daddy knows someone in ABC corporation.
But you asked for examples of how racism still exists against blacks…here’s a few:
A person with a “black sounding” name is 50% less likely to get called for an interview than a person with a “white sounding” name.
A black person with the same education and experience as a white person will be paid 25% less.
A black person with no criminal record is less likely to find a job than a white person who has a criminal record.
A Black American – Def Poetry Jam
