What?! The vast majority of blacks in Canada come from the Caribbean isles, most of which are majority black societies.
It's naive to assume someone that comes from a predominantly racially homogenous society will automatically be better adjusted to polyethnic, multicultural life in Canada just because of our 'welcoming' reputation in contrast to other first world nations. The stigma and legacy of slavery is mentally crippling to the advancement of any peoples; the social, economic and political effects of which still plague blacks of the Caribbean and Latin America to this day.
Although colonized, most Africans were likely never called the N-word or told to sit at the back of a bus or denied entry to certain aspects of society. Their drive to succeed comes out of sheer determination to escape war, famine, disease, preindustrialized existences. They are encouraged by their communities to excel, not coerced by peer pressure/ media mad-mouthing/ societal restrictment to drop out.
Please stop using this word Afrocentric. It donates some sort of pan continental value system, whereas a large part of Africa's population isn't even black.
What gave you that impression? National Geographic? This may come as a shock to you, but 70% of Saharan Africa is black, not Middle-Easterner. It's easy for a white controlled media to brainwash society into thinking Jesus and Moses were pale-skinned and blue-eyed when archeological evidence prove everything to the contrary.
Black culture is what you want it to be; many people can be impartial to
nappy headed hos, enough so to elevate, not destroy, Don Imus' career (where are Barbara Walters and CNBC to interview Isaiah Washington as one of their Top 10 Influentual?) but one slight of hand from a black figure and their goose is cooked (anyone know who Arsenio Hall is? He bad-mouthed GHW Bush and was literally blacklisted from ever working in Hollywood again). If blacks continue to not defend themselves against this type of slander and instead cultivate an uplifting image, the perceptions of non-blacks will always be to follow stereotypical norms instead of merit one's ability by their character.
Otherwise, what exactly are the positive elements of North American black culture that we wish to integrate into the school system?
How come virtually every other ethnicity has been able to avoid this level of degradation? The problem doesn't end in the classroom, from birth 90% of blacks are guaranteed to suffer some adversity the general population won't. Forgive me if I strongly beleive society's even less progressive and more backwards then it was 10 years ago.
strong morality does not always have to include religion..
Some of the world's greatest thinkers were non-religious
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I fail to see how "black culture" classes help anything. First of all "black culture" does not exist... there are too many countries, languages, and cultures blacks participate in to pretend there is a singular black culture.
And what better way to mend fences and build camaraderie against the various black communities then having them as participants of an united classroom? Surely 8 months is long enough to have a Diaspora studies that'd be inclusive of blacks of all stripes- Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Guyanese, Sudanese, Ethiopians, Nigerians, Congolese, Zimbabweans, etc.
because the only history widely taught is Canadian history When history says "Canadians did _____" that doesn't say "white", it says "Canadian".
Wow 400 years of primarily British/French history with some Natives interspersed only to mention the vast majority of polyethnic contributions to Canada in the last 2-3 weeks of a lethergized History class dying for winter break to begin. I'm sure someone from Bangladesh or Somalia feels really at ease
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Blacks don't need to support rap/hip-hop or gang culture. They aren't forced. Just like everyone else they can turn the channel. Morals aren't taught at school...
Are you serious? Free will and free choice don't go far when everyone and their mother is hammering in defeatest propoganda on impressionable, still developing minds. Like I said earlier blacks do succeed but often at the cost of their social status. If it's easier to sacrifice grades for friends and recognition, adoloscence of any race will do it. Stereotypically smart teens from Indian or East Asian households grew up in a totally different environment than blacks, and as such have a larger network of like-minded peers to prop eachother up. Blacks unable to fit into the Eurasian group or with the underachievers of the black group are hence socially isolated.
It isn't like movies dealing with black history are the only ones out there. In any case, what will this black curriculum be if black history that deals with slavery is out of bounds? Will black history taught in schools start in the period before Europeans arrived in Africa and before black people were brought to the Americas and the Caribbean?
There is a big difference between teaching the subject material in a respectful manner where students have the oppurtunity to debate it and the visceral raping of an entire people's identity to make a quick buck. A half millenia of suffering is imcomparable to any other man-made atrocity ever inflicted upon humanity. Heck I'm sure far more than 350, 000 black slaves were swallowed by the seas than every victim in the Tsunami. Again the media makes a misericordiam out of black protrayals while whites are the saviours.
Pretty sure Coach Carter didn't involve a gun and pretty sure every movie Stallone was in involved violence.
When Jack Bauer or House does unethical things are they still not heroes? Micheal from Lost was a likeable character father figure who the writers decided to make into a double murderer for no apparent reason. This was after a long hiatus of his character. Soon after with much tacked on villany he disappears for good. Please stop pretending like there's no racial bias in the media/entertainment industry because clearly there is.
Get rid of "Afrocentric" and it is no longer racist. Just like sitting at the back of the bus isn't something to argue about... unless the back of the bus is "Afrocentric".
I guess it's better to tackle a problem head on, then pretend it's not there. It's no secret segregation already exists in Toronto schools, it's only those who rarely socialize outside of own their ethnicity that would be unaware of it.