Wazi Hekima

Proverb

“I was born into a world that already had Malcolm and Karenga, Dubois & Biko. Hence I was fortunate not to have wonder around the culture-less deserts of humanity”. - Alik Shahadah

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“Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts and his opinions” - Ancient Egypt

How can I Turn from Africa & live?”- Derek Walcott

“We cannot have the oppressors telling the oppressed how to rid themselves of oppression” - Kwame Ture

“For far too long, a majority of Africans have been indifferent to misrepresentations about who they are” - Childo Nwangnu

The Black West by William Katz pg.18

“The explosions killed of all the black & red warriors & 200 Women & children. The few warriors were led back to the USA for slavery. In his initial order General Andrew Jackson had asked that they not only destroy the fort but return the stolen negroes & property to their original owners.”

In 1816 Colonel Duncan Clinch lead an army into Florida 1st invasion to defeat the Black Fort aka Fort Negro which flew a Red Flag.
Report of Colonel Clinch of the destruction of Fort Negro July 29,1816 ( Washington War Records Office, National Archives).

Africans & Native Americans by Jack Forbes

“In 1524 the Carolina coast people were said to be of dark color not much unlike the Ethiopians”

“From 1549-1565 the letters of the Jesuit missionaries in Brazil usually addressed to colleagues in Portugal/Spain frequently refers to the Americans as Negros... In April 1549 Manuel de Nobrega the leader of the Jesuits addressed a letter from Bahia to Simao Rodriguez in Lisbon in which he refers to Portuguese in Brazil as living in sin because of their having “many negras” lots of children by the said “black” women. Thus the Jesuit Father called the American women living with Portuguese men “negras” a term which according to Leite, could not have denoted people from Africa because in 1549 there was few or no African women in Bahia. When Africans was referred to in the Jesuit Letters they are always called negros de Guine (Blacks of Guinea) to distinguish them from negros de terra (Blacks of the land) Americas.

EDUCATION
42 percent of Black children are educated in all high-poverty schools (both elementary and secondary). By comparison: 38 percent of Latino children are educated in high-poverty schools, 31 percent of Native American children are educated in high-poverty schools, 15 percent of Pacific Islander and Asian children are educated in high-poverty schools, and 6 percent of White children are educated in high-poverty schools.

Black youth make up 16 percent of public school students and 9 percent of private school students in grades K–12 nationwide but account for: 35 percent of in-school suspensions, 35 percent of those who experience one out-of school suspension, 46 percent of those who experience multiple out-of-school suspensions, and 39 percent of those who are expelled.

The unemployment rate for Black high school dropouts is 47 percent. By comparison, the unemployment rate for White high school dropouts is 26 percent.