>Come on everyone, let's put those
>thinking caps on and think
>up a new name for
>Thought's album. Now, this
>isn't official, but I'm giving
>it a try. It was
>Angiee's idea.
>
>
>Vice President of S.L.I.C.K
>
>Dice Raw: "Reclaiming the Dead", August
>1st, 2000"
>
>The brutal truth is that the
>bulk of white people in
>America never had any interest
>in educating black people, except
>as this could serve white
>purposes. It is not
>the black child's language that
>is in question, it is
>not his language that is
>despised: It is his experience.
> A child cannot be
>taught by anyone who despises
>him, and a child cannot
>afford to be fooled.
>A child cannot be taught
>by anyone whose demand, essentially,
>is that the child repudiate
>his experience, and all that
>gives him sustenance, and enter
>a limbo in which he
>will no longer be black,
>and in which he knows
>that he can never become
>white. Black people have
>lost too black children that
>way. (James Baldwin)