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RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK 2010

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

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(aka The Red, Black and Green School)

IMPORTANT NOTE: IN OUR SCHOOL PROPER ALL PHOTOS, ICONS, CLIPART, AND
UNDERLINED WRITINGS ARE HOT-LINKED TO THE LEARNING OBJECTS AND STUDY
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Scholars Think Tank in the
spirit of Sankofa—a word
from the Akan language of
Ghana which means” We
must go back and reclaim
our past so we can move
forward; so we can
understand why and how we
came to be who we are
today. (Please see RBG
NALT -New Afrikan
Leadership Training- Center)

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

IN CLASSICAL AFRIKAN (KEMETIC)


PHIOLOSOPHY
THE HUMAN BEING AND HUMAN REALITY
WERE GOVERNED BY THE BASIC DIVINE
LAW OF “TO BE A SPIRIT”. THE MORAL
MANDATE OF AFRIKAN HUMANITY WAS
“TO BECOME AND IN BECOMING”---THE
PERSUIT OF SUCH DIVINE LAW AND
MORAL MANDATE WAS REFLECTIVE OF
ONES PERSUIT OF GODLINESS.
EDUCATION WAS KEY TO THIS PROCESS-
TO BECOME AND IN BECOMING A MORE PERFECT BEING. FOR OUR AFRIKAN
ANCESTORS EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING WAS ULTIMATELY ABOUT A
PERSON BEING TRANSFORMED FROM A LESSER MATERIAL BEING TO A
GREATER SPIRITUAL BEING. DR. E CURTIS ALEXANDER DEFINES AFRICAN
CENTERED EDUCATION AS SYSTEM OF SEQUENTIALLY PLANNED
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED FOR AFRICAN HERITAGE
CHILDREN, YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS TO DEVELOP THE NECESSARY AND
REQUIRED SKILLS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE WITH
SPECIFIC INTEREST ON THE UPLIFTMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF THEIR
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AND
GROWTH OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. THUS, RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK
TANK IS ABOUT USING HISTORY AND THE MEDIUM OF AFRICENTRIC CULTURE
TO FACILITATE A FORWARD-LOOKING AND FUTURISTIC EDUCATION PEOPLES
DEVELOPMENT.

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

REAL EDUCATION=TRAINING AND SKILLS +

KNOWLEDGE OF SELF

THE EDUCATION OF ANY PEOPLE SHOULD BEGIN WITH THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.... THE CHIEF
DIFFICULTY WITH THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO IS THAT IT HAS BEEN LARGELY IMITATION
RESULTING IN THE ENSLAVEMENT OF HIS MIND.
-- DR. CARTER G. WOODSON, "THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO, (1933)

RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK IS COMPRISED OF FOUR CONCENTRICLY INTEGRATED,


RADIO AND TV DRIVEN LEVELS OF AFRICENTRIC CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP
EDUCATION/ FROM G.E.D. TO PH.D.

RBG Blakademics ACTI- Afrikan


Centered Thematic Inventory

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

FROM OPPRESSION TO LIBERATION

THROUGH RELEVANT EDUCATION:


“RBG STREET SCHOLARS STYLE”

DRIMHOTEP'S ONLINE CLASSROOM


EDUCATORS AND CIVIC LEADERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WHO WANT TO
HISTORO-CULTURALLY, SOCIO-POLITICALLY AND PSYCHO-EDUCATIONALLY
ENGAGE AND EXCHANGE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD SEE “HIP HOP/RAP
CULTURE” AS A FRUITFUL AVENUE TO ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS.
ALTHOUGH THE HIP HOP/RAP SUB-CULTURE IS WIDE SPREAD, PARTICULARLY
IN RELATION TO URBAN BLACK AND BROWN YOUTH, SUCH A ROAD IS
WEIGHTED DOWN WITH LANDMINES; GIVEN THE CONTROVERSIAL LYRICS OF
SO CALLED GANGSTA RAP, THAT TEND TO SENSATIONALIZE VIOLENCE,
CRIME AND SEX AND RAP MUSIC VIDEOS THAT DEPICT WOMEN AS SEX TOYS.
NEVERTHELESS, AS AN EDUCATOR INTENT ON THIS PATH, THE CHALLENGE
HAS BEEN FOR ME TO FORMULATE TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES THAT
USE HIP HOP/RAP TO FOSTER YOUNG BROTHERS AND SISTERS INTEREST IN
AND ENGAGEMENT WITH COMPUTER LITERACY AND PROFICENCY, BASIC
EDUCATION SKILLS AND AN INTEGRATED UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES THAT
IMPACT THEM AS INDIVIDUALS, MEMBERS OF NEW AFRIKAN FAMILIES AND
THE NEW AFRIKAN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

THIS NEW USE OF HIP HOP/RAP TO FACILITATE SERIOUS STUDY IS A SHARP


DEPARTURE FROM THE TRADITIONAL EUROCENTRIC APPROACHES TO
“EDUCATING” STUDENTS OF COLOR.

THUS, WE MUST FOREWARN THE


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PERSPECTIVE STUDENT; “THIS SCHOOL
Tank Curricula Overview
Booklet-2010 UPDATE/ DOES NOT SERVE TO JUSTIFY THE STATUS
including mp3 Intros. QUO AND / OR MAINTAIN SOCIAL CONTROL.
RATHER, BY DEMONSTRATING THAT ALL
THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR AFRIKAN PEOPLE STRAPPED WITH KNOWLEDGE
OF SELF, BASED ON THE WIDE STRIDES ALREADY TAKEN BY OUR
ANCESTRAL AND ELDER SCHOLASTIC GIANTS, IT IS AN INSTRUMENT FOR
LIBERATING SOCIAL CHANGE AND „NEW‟ AFRIKAN CULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT,”(“FUNCTIONAL MELANINIZATION”). BY SERIOUSLY STUDYING
OUT OF THESE CLASSROOMS THE RESULT WILL BE NOTHING SHORT OF
AFRIKAN SELF AND COLLECTIVE RESCUE, RESTORATION AND
TRANSFORMATION. YOUR MIND (BRAIN CIRCUITRY /INTERCONNECTEDNESS)
WILL RADICALLY CHANGE THE VERY MECHANISM OF HOW IT WORKS.

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

WITH STRICK ATTENTION TO DEVELOPING


RBG Blakademics ACTI- Afrikan
Centered Thematic Inventory OUR STUDENT‟S BASIC EDUCATION SKILLS
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HIGHEST
STANDARDS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, SUITABLE FOR ONE TO
CONFIDENTLY SIT FOR HIGH STAKE EXAMS, WE SIMUTANEOUSLY ADVANCE
THE PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL HEALING AND SPIRITUAL UPLIFTMENT OF OUR
PEOPLE BY PROVIDING KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND OVERSTANDING OF THE
HISTORO-CULTURAL, SOCIO-POLITICAL AND PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCES OF AFRICANS IN AMERICA IN AWAY THAT RADICALLY
REAPPRAISES EDUCATION FROM THE PAINED AND ANGRY PERSPECTIVE OF
THE OPPRESSED BLACK COMMUNITY.
WITH THE PRESENT DAY HIGH RATES OF BLACK ON BLACK HOMICIDE,
SUICIDE, AND IMPRISONMENT AND A RISE IN SINGLE-PARENT HOMES,
RAMPANT POLICE BRUTALITY, UNPRECEDENTED UNEMPLOYMENT, AND
BLACKS USE OF POPULAR (ENEMY) CULTURE (THROUGH MUSIC, VIDEO
GAMES AND POPULAR MOVIES) TO CELEBRATE "ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM,

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

IGNORANCE, IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD, DRUNKENNESS, DOPE DEALING,


WEED SMOKING, COCAINE, X-PILLS, LOOSE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND
CRIMINAL LIFESTYLES/THUGGISM"; WE HAVE CHOSE TO DESIGN A
CURRICULUM THAT, RATHER THAN GETTING CAUGHT UP IN THE
ENTERTAINMENT / BLACKPLOTATION ASPECTS OF HIP HOP/RAP, WILL USE
HIP HOP/RAP WITHIN A HISTORO-CULTURAL, SOCIO-POLITICAL AND PSYCHO-
EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS THESE VARIOUS DEATH WALKS
FORTHRIGHTLY. OUR NEW METHODOLOGICAL STYLE IS INTENDED TO GET
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO BEGIN TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THEMSELVES,
THEIR WORLD AND THEIR ROLE AS PEOPLE OF AFRIKAN DESCENT.
THE WORK IS A COMPREHENSIVE (BUT ONLY A CORE FRAMEWORK) SURVEY
OF SUBJECTS AND TOPICS THAT HAVE CONFRONTED AFRIKANS IN AMERICA
THROUGHOUT OUR 246 YEARS OF CHATTEL SLAVERY, 100 YEARS OF
APARTHIED AND ONLY “ONE GENERATION OF FREEDOM” HERE IN AMERICA. I
LIKE TO DESCRIBE THE SCHOOL AS A “CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND
LEADERSHIP TRAINING COMMUNIVERSITY”. FROM OUR RESEARCH, WE HAVE
DETERMINED THAT THE IDEA OF SANKOFA, WHICH MEANS "WE MUST GO
BACK AND RECLAIM OUR PAST SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD; SO WE
UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW WE CAME TO BE WHO WE ARE TODAY", REALLY
ENCOMPASSES THE WHOLE AFRIKAN-CENTERED IDEAL. NONETHELESS, AS
THIS IS A WORK IN EVOLUTION AND ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WE
HAVE CHOSEN TO FOCUS OUR TEACHING/LEARNING JOURNEY MOST
DIRECTLY ON THE PAST 45 YEARS OF OUR STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN AND CIVIL
RIGHTS—THE THEME “THE MORE THE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS
STAY THE SAME, WE NEED A REVOLUTION, THE SYSTEM AIN‟T GONA CHANGE
UNLESS WE MAKE IT CHANGE”. THE CONTENT AND CHARACTER OF THE
CURRICULUM IS AFRIKAN-CENTERED AND THE GOAL IS ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE IN PURSUIT OF BLACK POWER. WE TEASE OUT THE SOCIAL,
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MORAL IMPARATIVES OF BLACK POWER IN THE
21ST CENTURY BY ZOOMING IN ON TWO POVITAL QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT
OUR COURSE OF STUDY “WHAT IS BLACK OPPRESSION IN AMERICA AND
WHAT IS LIBERATION?”

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

RBG What is Black Oppression in Amerikkka,


f. Paris Presents Hard Truth Soldiers Vol. 1

BLACK OPPRESSION: BORN IN THE U.S.A.


CURRENTLY, SOME 70 PERCENT OF THE 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN U.S. JAILS,
PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTERS ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR;
APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN. WITH THE HIGHEST
INCARCERATION RATE IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD, THE UNITED STATES
IS ONE OF THE FEW DEVELOPED COUNTRIES WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND
ONE OF A FEW DEMOCRATIC NATIONS (UP UNTIL THIS YEAR, 2005) TO
EXECUTE MINORS. 5.1 MILLION PEOPLE ARE UNDER CORRECTIONAL
CONTROL IN THE U.S. WE ARE OFFERING THIS SCHOOL TO OUR PEOPLE IN
THE INTEREST OF HABILITATION. THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR
OUR HIP-HOP / RAP GENERATION THAT CONTAINS KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND
OVERSTANDING THEY CAN RESPECTFULLY CALL REAL EDUCATION FOR THE
BLACK MAN/WOMAN IN THE HELLS OF 21ST CENTURY AMERICA.THIS IS TO
SAY, THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN DESIGNED SO AS TO ENABLE US TO CREATE
JOBS FOR OURSELVES BASED ON THE PROBLEMS AND ISSUES PLAGUING
OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

STUDIES ARE DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN TWO SEPERATE BUT,


INTERCONNECTED PHASES. IN PHASE I THE LEARNER WILL ENGAGE THE
CORE CURRICULUM— SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THESE FOUNDATIONAL
STUDIES IS A PRE-REQUSITE FOR ENTERY INTO PHASE II STUDIES. IN PHASE
II THE SCHOOL BECOMES AN ACADEMIC COMPANION TO ALL BLACK, BROWN
AND RED YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT THAT THINK THEY MAY WANTS TO BECOME A
COMPUTER SOFTWARE DEVELOPER/ PROGRAMMER, WEB MASTER, ALCOHOL
AND DRUG COUNSELOR, BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIST/ RESEARCHER, SCHOOL
TEACHER, MEDICAL DOCTOR OR PARAPROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE
PROVIDER. WHETHER ENROLLED IN RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK PROPER
(A STREET SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE) OR ATTENDING ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL
OR COLLEGE, RBG WILL BE YOU ACADEMIC SUPPORT SYSTEM. RBG STREET
SCHOLARS THINK TANK TAKES PRIDE IN BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN
URBAN YOUTH IN THE COMMUNITY AND THOSE IN TRADITIONAL COLLEGES.
WE TAKE PRIDE IN EDUCATING STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS
AND THUS, A MAJOR THURST OF THE SCHOOL IS TO MAKE NULL AND VOID
THE REPRESSIVE TRICKNOLOGY OF THE “THUGGISM-DOPE GAME-
PROBATION-PAROLE-PRISON WAREHOUSING-SLAVERY BACK IN EFFCT COG”.

RBG on Blacks and Computers-


A Basic and Advanced ICT
Learning Portal

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

RBG ATTICA REVISITED-ATTICA IS


ALL OF US-A MINI-DOCUM FILM

NOTHING IN LIFE IS TRULY OBJECTIVE, SO DON‟T GET THAT EUROCENTRIC


SCIENTIFIC METHOD, TRICKNOLOGY, TWISTED. TO A VERY LARGE DEGREE
THIS SCHOOL IS ABOUT MY JOURNEY; AND MINES IS THE JOURNEY OF THE
OPPRESSED, TAUGHT WITH STRICK ATTENTION TO SCHOLARSHIP AND
THOROUGHNESS, RGB STREET SCHOLAR STYLE.

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

THIS STORY, THIS CREATION, THIS


RBG Memories of Home, Teachers
and Luv- Remembering the 1967 SCHOOL IS ABOUT MY STRUGGLE AND

Newark Rebellion-History is a THE PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE ME. IT


Weapon REFLECTS WHO I AM AND HOW I LIVE AND
HAVE LIVED. A GHETTO BORN AND
BREAD, DRUG INFESTED AND VIOLENCE INFECTED NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
“NIGGA” (NOT NIGGER / NEVER IGNORANT GETTING GOALS ACCOMPLISHED)
THAT HAS ABSORBED THE LESSONS OF OUR ELDERS AND ANCESTORS AND
THUS, RECONCILE MY GIFTS WITH THE MOST HIGH TO CULIMINATE IN THIS
EDUCATIONAL OUTLINE. BUT, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, GIL SCOTT HERON SAY
“ANI‟T NO SUCH THING AS SUPERMAN.THEY SAY BLACK PEOPLE CAN‟T UNITE
AND I SAY THEY‟RE A LIE. THAT IS WHY RBG‟S MARCHING ORDER AND
GUIDING PRINCIPLE IS “ONE PEOPLE, ONE LUV, ONE STRUGGLE, ONE
DESTINY AND ALL IN THE SAME GAME”.

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

I BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST THING WE MUST DO


The RBG Blueprint for Black
Power Study Cell Guidebook TO BECOME A UNIFIED COLLECTIVE IS SEE
OURSELVES AS SUCH. A PICTURE IS WORTH
MORE THAT A THOUSAND WORDS AND THE REVOLUTION IS IN THE MUSIC.
THIS IS WHY OUR SCHOOL IS DRIVEN BY RBG STREET SCHOLARS RADIO AND
TV. THUS, MY CHALLENGE AND HUMBLE APPEAL TO ALL TRUE HIP-HOP
HEADZ, SCHOLARS, EDUCATORS, ENTERTAINERS, ACTIVIST ETC. DEPICTED IN
THIS WORK IS AS FOLLOWS “THIS IS A UNIVERSITY/ AFRIKAN INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY IN EVOLUTION, THE INFORMATION YOU PHOTO BRINGS WHEN ONE
CLICKS ON YOU IS NOT WRITTEN IN STONE AND THEREFORE I WELCOME YOU
CONTRIBUTION (WORDS AND DEEDS) FOR INTEGRATION INTO THE
CURRICULUM—THIS IS OUR SCHOOL IN THE MAKING---THE PANTHERS USE TO
SAY “YOU‟RE EITHER PART OF THE SOLUTION OR THE PROBLEM.”

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

RBG Hard Truth Soldiers


Multi-media Tutorial

Decolonizing the African Mind- FINNALY, PLEASE LET US BE CLEAR, THE


Further Analysis and Strategy MAIN GOAL OF THIS SCHOOL IS NOT
by Dr. Uhuru Hotep MASTERY OVER OPPRESSION. SUCH A GOAL,
EVEN IF ACCOMPLISHED TO ITS FULLEST
EXTENT, WOULD ONLY LAND AFRIKAN PEOPLE IN A VACUUM. RATHER, THE
PREEMINENT GOAL OF THE RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK‟S CORE
CURRICULUM IS SELF-MASTERY BY WAY OF AFRIKAN-CENTERED CULTURAL
TRANSFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING BLACK POWER.
NONETHELESS, THIS GOAL MANDATES THE ACTIVE NEUTRALIZATION OF ALL
OPPRESSIVE YOKES WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE AFRIKAN SELF AND
COLLECTIVE. GIVEN THAT WE ALL ARE DECENDENTS OF A PEOPLE THAT
WERE TAKEN THROUGH THE EUROPEAN‟S “EVIL GENIUS” THREE STEP
PROCESS OF DERACINATION, I.E. DEAFRIKANIZATION, DEHUMANIZATION AND
INFERIORTIZATION, THE INDIVIDUAL SEARCH FOR SECURITY UNDER OUR

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RBG Afrikan Center Thematic Overview: A Position Paper 2010

PRESENT CONDITION AND THE QUEST FOR PERSONAL HARMONY AND


PRIVATE SUCCESS AT THE COST OF BETRAYING OUR COLLECTIVE
ASPIRATIONS FOR SELF-DETERMINATION REQUIRES LITTLE COURAGE, VISION
OR RISK. SUCH EFFORTS ACCEPT THE SOCIAL ORDER (DISORDER) AS
IMMUTABLE. BUT, IN ORDER FOR AFRIKAN PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND,
DEFINE AND DEVELOP IN OUR OWN IMAGE AND INTEREST; A NEW COURAGE,
NEW VISION, NEW CONSCIOUSNESS, COMMITMENT AND CONDUCT IS
REQUIRED. THE DEHUMANIZING ENEMY WITHOUT MUST BE NEUTRALIZED—
AT LEAST PSYCHO-CULTURALLY AND SOCIO-MATERIALLY—JUST AS THE
ENEMY WITHIN MUST BE EJECTED. NEITHER CAN OCCUR WITHOUT SERIOUS
STUDY AND WORK THROUGH OUR OWN AFRIKAN EYES AND ORGANIZED
TECHNOLOGICALLY SOPHISTICATED INDEPENDENT INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT. BOTH ENTAIL RISKING A SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC,
EDUCATIONAL AND SPIRITUAL CRISIS; AND EVEN PHYSICAL DEATH. FOR
THEM AND ONLY THEN CAN A “NEW” AFRIKAN WORLD UNION BE
ESTABLISHED?

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