From Paris, TX to Paris, France - Stop The War On African People!
The United States Public Education System started
out by committing countless acts of physical, verbal and mental abuse
against African people. In fact, we haven’t even had
the right to read for over half of our time spent in this
country. The Brown vs. the Board of Education told us that
the solution was“integration” between the slave and the
slave master. 
But we are now finding that the conditions for Africans in the school system have gotten worse since integration. In most major cities, the rate of high school graduation for Africans is 30% or worse. Just recently in Philadelphia, police arrested a 4th grader in a school for having a pair of scissors! In 2004 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg dismantled the Board of Education – which the people won the right to have as a consequence of the African community Ocean Hill-Brownsville struggle for community control of education in 1969.
The same attacks are being made in small towns. In Paris, TX, 15-year old Shaquanda Cotton has just returned home to her mother after serving 10 months of 7 year prison sentence given to her for allegedly shoving a Paris school faculty member. In Jena, LA 6 young Africans are facing prison for defending themselves against white nationalist terror in the high school they attended.
Things are getting worse and worse. The schools that our children attend are turning into prisons. At the same time, the state criminalizes young Africans for defending themselves against a school system that is clearly hostile to them. The African community has a responsibility to stand up and fight for the safety of our children and the right to control the way our children are educated!
