Not only that but if you forget you are a victim and you aren't in good standing in society in terms of social-economic level, then what happens? You start to hate yourself. Because if you are under someone else and not taught that you are in fact a victim, then you will blame yourself and your people.
TCM,
This often happens to some African American students. They begin to believe to make it that they have to be different from all the other "ignorant black folks".
I believe that people are under the wrong impression, when they think that Blacks kids trying to get an education are called "white" because they are trying to get an education.
In fact their called white because their putting down and saying ignorant things about Black people, as they dissasociate themselves from what ever they consider a hinderance to their survival.
Psychologically, the little black child has to disassociate with all things black, to give themselves permission to get a good education. It's because their told all things Black led to the bad condition of their school, neighborhood, etc.
It is like a pet peeve of mine, that you can enter a room of 5000 black successful Ghetto Children, who are suburban adults now, who will tell some opie story of how they survived their terrible Ghetto's because they refused to be like the rest of those stupid Negro's.
This is part of the problem that hopefully children getting far better educations in "Afrocentric schools", you don't have to stop being black and have hatred of black to be a successful person.
One little Afrocentric school near me, just beat out the snobbiest if not the richest little white suburb in some state testing.
Another Afrocentric school brags on the amount of words that it's children can read, write and understand by early ages.
I hear many more success stories from around the country with this new breed of Afrocentric schools coming into existence right now.
Black kids can learn much more than the current government school systems expect from them.
Kids just need someone to believe in them.
It's much better for a Black child to learn from an Afrocentric school that yes -- Blacks have been the victims in society for a long time. All of us. So let us not even discuss your home life, your parents, your poverty. Let's just get to learning.
I actually think it is the white teacher's "emotions" that get in the way of their opening communication with Black students.
The teacher try's to "love" them by giving them easier work, so the child can feel like a success. (Thus is the reason you have black 4.0 straight A students, who have to be retrained in up to standard basics as they enter college.) This is not appropiate love.
The teacher who actually "hates" black students and let's them know it. Like the one who told his 7th grade class, that if it was up to him, he would have never ended slavery. Another teacher who said the only thing sad about a little black boy getting decapitated on his school bus is that "she wasn't there to see it".
This type of thinking is what Black Children are the victim of, and we must be open to seeing the victim (50 percent of Black Male Children not graduating, in some places) so that we can address those children's needs.
Afrocentric schools can help with this.