I Had A Lot Of Time And

To Die For The Racists Is Lighter Than A Feather, But To Die For The People Is Heavier Than Any Mountain And Deeper Than Any Sea.

There Is A Very Strong Socialist Movement In Jamaica. I Was In Jamaica Years Ago. All The Talk, All Day They Talk Politics. The Literacy Rate Is Very Low. Everyone Is So Interested In Politics, More Than Those Who Can Read In The United States.

Iq Tests Are Routinely Used As Weapons Against Black People In Particular And Minority Groups And Poor People Generally. The Tests Are Based On White Middle-class Standards, And When We Score Low On Them, The Results Are Used To Justify The Prejudice That We Are Inferior And Unintelligent. Since We Are Taught To Believe That The Tests Are Infallible, They Have Become A Self-fulfilling Prophecy That Cuts Off Our Initiative And Brainwashes Us.

Youths Are Passed Through Schools That Don’t Teach, Then Forced To Search For Jobs That Don’t Exist And Finally Left Stranded In The Street To Stare At The Glamorous Lives Advertised Around Them.

During Those Long Years In Oakland Public Schools, I Did Not Have One Teacher Who Taught Me Anything Relevant To My Own Life Or Experience. Not One Instructor Ever Awoke In Me A Desire To Learn More Or To Question Or To Explore The Worlds Of Literature, Science, And History. All They Did Was Try To Rob Me Of The Sense Of My Own Uniqueness And Worth, And In The Process Nearly Killed My Urge To Inquire.