Recently i've been watching/stumbling on docs that focus on Blacks and education. And something hit about Western Hemispheric Blacks and education.
Every country that has a Black population in this part of the world, that population are descendants of enslaved Blacks. Slavery went on for about 150 to 200 years plus in most of these countries. Think about that, for over a 150 years plus, you had a population that simply wasn't allowed to be educated, even on the most basic level. You had a group of people, who couldn't read and write.
Then all the sudden, they get "freedom". But very few off them were educated or even fukking literate. All they knew was work, or entertaining white folk. And they ended up of course having kids, and who was gonna teach those kids how to read and write. All they could teach their kids was work, cause that was their legacy. Education wasn't something they knew a thing about.
We really need to think about that, I mean if you lived near a big city or town in those times, there may have been some schools. But if you lived in some country ass, nowhere land, there wasn't a fukking school, let alone schools. Blacks in this part of the world being truly educated is a very recent thing.
Think about remote places in states like Bama, Florida, Arkansas etc. You got people in their late 20's to mid 30's, who when they graduated high school, they were the first ones in their families to do that.
Just something to think about
