The Mis By Carter G Woodson Analysis

Does African Americans still get discriminated against today by the color of their skin? Carter G. Woodson explains in The Mis-Education of the Negro blacks in his day were being “culturally indoctrinated” rather than being taught in the American schools. Woodson encouraged his readers to do the unthinkable “do for themselves” nevermind what they were taught. Consequently, whites seem to surmise blacks did not acquire the pleasure of being “taught” anything at all. “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about a man’s actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stand in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, …show more content…
Caucasians looked upon themselves as being above blacks (or shall you say still looks upon themselves as being superior over blacks). African American slaves had no schooling yet someone still managed to discover the great significant leaders you read about today. Willie lynch believed the key was dishonesty and distrust. He says “Distrust is stronger than trust and envy stronger than adulation, respect or admiration. Willie lynch not only created slaves, he made black people accidentally (or maybe even on purpose). Lynch shaped the black person exactly to what he wanted them to be or do. Light skinned vs. dark skinned, male vs. female, size, and even financial status had colored people bumping heads with one another. People of color have a terrible difficulty not going against one another. You can not help but think Willie Lynch shaped all of the controversy moreover, arguments that blacks face with each other as well as with caucasians. “The ‘educated Negroes’ have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the …show more content…
Children get taught about the accomplishments of the white man while seeing their kind get blown in the wind as nothing but a pint of dust. Not teaching black history in schools is definitely the root problem for discrimination, Willie Lynch relevance may be the cause of problems still today. Blacks are not aggressive naturally furthermore, they imagined it is the way of their nature being they were brought up hearing such things they keep up the task. All problems today deal with ignorance. “If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.” Be the skin you are in, do not let the skin be