Oct 27, 2023·edited Nov 3, 2023Liked by Free Black Thought
So why don't we have a K-12 Black Recommended Reading List?
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
Never heard of Stuart Chase? George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase was a member of FDR's brain trust and wrote the book A New Deal. It was under FDR's administration that Black Americans switched from the Republican to the Democratic party.
The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood
Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds
What do you mean, you want a Black author? You prejudiced or something? LOL
The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
There is another significant possibility besides a reading list.
There was some educational software that began development in the 1960s called PLATO. It was time shared from mainframes of the day and was continuously developed until the late 70s.
I worked for IBM and in 1980 the top of the line mainframe, the 3033, cost $3,000,000 and some change. That change being a few extra hundred thousand dollars depending on the configuration.
Curiously the January 1983 BYTE magazine had a benchmark testing lots of different computers with lots of different languages. The IBM 3033 running Assembly language beat everything else.
A few days ago l received a "new" used computer that I bought from Amazon for $150. Years ago I rewrote that 1983 benchmark program to run and display statistics from that old magazine article. The program is in the 'C' language so it is not 100% efficient like Assembly language. My used computer is more than 70 times as powerful as that 40 year old mainframe.
So it is a matter of how we implement educational software and what kind of fight the traditional educational system will put up against it.
So why don't we have a K-12 Black Recommended Reading List?
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
Never heard of Stuart Chase? George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase was a member of FDR's brain trust and wrote the book A New Deal. It was under FDR's administration that Black Americans switched from the Republican to the Democratic party.
The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood
Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds
What do you mean, you want a Black author? You prejudiced or something? LOL
The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
by Mary E. Jones Parrish
There is another significant possibility besides a reading list.
There was some educational software that began development in the 1960s called PLATO. It was time shared from mainframes of the day and was continuously developed until the late 70s.
I worked for IBM and in 1980 the top of the line mainframe, the 3033, cost $3,000,000 and some change. That change being a few extra hundred thousand dollars depending on the configuration.
Curiously the January 1983 BYTE magazine had a benchmark testing lots of different computers with lots of different languages. The IBM 3033 running Assembly language beat everything else.
A few days ago l received a "new" used computer that I bought from Amazon for $150. Years ago I rewrote that 1983 benchmark program to run and display statistics from that old magazine article. The program is in the 'C' language so it is not 100% efficient like Assembly language. My used computer is more than 70 times as powerful as that 40 year old mainframe.
So it is a matter of how we implement educational software and what kind of fight the traditional educational system will put up against it.
I guess I'm a bore. 2 posts that I think would be relevant to Minds of any spectrum get no comments in two weeks.