Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)

Dissension and Weakness... it is very clear, then, that if Negroes got their conception of religion from slave holders, libertines, and murderers, there may be something wrong about it, and it would not hurt to investigate it...

The educated Negro leaves the masses...At that time men went off to school to prepare themselves for the uplift of a downtrodden people. In our time, too many Negroes go to school to memorize certain facts to pass examinations for jobs. After they obtain these positions, they pay little attention to humanity...the Negro has been so busy doing what he is told to do that he has not stopped long enou...

The Failure to Learn to Make a Living... what Negroes are now being taught does not bring their minds into harmony with life as they must face it... the so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have, and go in quest of those which they do not find...the schools are not turning out men properly trained to take up Negro business as it is, and d...

Education under outside control...the only way to elevate people is to help them to help themselves...the education of any people should begin with the people themselves, but the Negroes thus trained have been dreaming about the ancients of Europe....

How we drifted away from the truth- In geography the races were described in conformity with the program of the usual propaganda to engender the Whites a race hate of the Negro , and in the Negroes, contempt for themselves...

How We Missed the Mark...The poverty which afflicted them for a generation after emancipation held them down to the lowest order of society, nominally free but economically enslaved...

...to handicap a student by teaching him his Black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching...~Carter G. Woodson