Since the founding of America, the education system has served not as a beacon of truth, but as a tool of erasure. For generations, Black children have sat in classrooms designed not to empower, but to mislead—shaped by curricula that glorify European conquest while silencing African legacy.
Let’s be clear: the lie began with religion. American schools rarely teach that Christianity’s origins trace back to Ethiopia, where the oldest known Bible—written in Ge’ez—is preserved. Instead, they peddle the King James Version, a European interpretation that paints Jesus as white and frames whiteness as divine. This isn’t just a distortion; it’s a calculated form of supremacy. When Black children are taught this version of faith, it sets the stage for self-erasure and the normalization of inequality.
And then there’s history—or rather, the selective fragments of it. American slavery, one of the most defining atrocities in this nation’s past, is either sanitized or omitted entirely. Books that tell the raw truth about lynching, rape, and systemic theft are being banned under the guise of “protecting children.” But who is really being protected? Not the descendants of enslaved people—who need these stories to understand their power and their pain—but the descendants of oppressors, who fear the reckoning.
Here’s what they won’t teach:
- Black civilizations predate European ones by thousands of years.
- Moors taught Europeans hygiene, mathematics, and architecture during their rule in Spain.
- Black inventors have created technologies that power daily American life, from traffic lights to gas masks.
- The first university in the world, Sankore in Timbuktu, was built by Black scholars.
- Wall Street was built over the bones of enslaved Africans.
Despite centuries of displacement, sabotage, and systemic violence, Black people continue to persevere. Black students outperform their peers when given equitable resources. Black culture—music, fashion, language, innovation—is mimicked globally. And Black resilience has turned survival into excellence.
So why teach European history as American heritage? Why frame the Holocaust as more relevant than the Transatlantic Slave Trade? Why amplify other cultures while silencing the truth about Black royalty, Black intellect, and Black triumph?
Because truth dismantles power.
When we know we are descendants of kings and queens—not the enslaved, but the enslaved AND the builders, dreamers, warriors, scientists, healers, and revolutionaries—the entire system of white supremacy begins to crack.
It’s no accident that books are banned. That accurate history is replaced by propaganda. That educational standards are manipulated to mask brilliance. This is an ideological war, and its battlefield is the mind.
Call to Action:
We must challenge our schools. Demand real curricula. Sponsor Black-led educational initiatives. Teach your children at home, in communities, in churches and mosques. Tell the story your ancestors didn’t get to tell.
Knowledge is the most radical form of resistance. And in a system built on lies, telling the truth is a revolution.
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