Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Inside Student Radicalism

 In the final analysis, Brooke's convoluted and contrived,  pseudo -liberal article was an attempt to

 trivialize the struggle for  empowerment. He was wrong on many levels, as Biko pointed out.

 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
africahistory.net

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Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries on

Africa and the African Diaspora

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From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 11:14 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Inside Student Radicalism

 

David is wrong on many levels as usual:

1) Meritocracy as an ideology for white privilege only breeds mediocrity especially when assessment is often subjective and who you know is more important than what you know in the professional world.

2) Opposing imperialism is not an identity politics but lies at the root of political independence which motivated the Founding Fathers of the US to declare that all (white) men were created equal

3) Scholar-activism is prioritized in the Africana Studies paradigm but not as an ideology of victimhood or identity politics, students learn better when they are active in using their knowledge to serve their community from positions of strength.

4) Contrary to the pedagogy that preaches the ethic of hard work, I tell my children and my students that studying is not hard if you know how to do it; learning is fun essentially (LIFE): work smart, hard work is for dummies.

I do agree with David that students should be admired for their activism. We stand on the shoulders of past activists to see further how to make the world a better place still.

Biko

On Sunday, 29 May 2016, 15:24, Moses Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

"The meritocracy has become amoral."


Not only that, the meritocracy is escapist, an ideology operationalized to deny and deflect the prior advantages that those who purportedly climb the ladder of meritorious success often enjoy and leverage to get to their achievement. Here I speak self-consciously as a self-selected immigrant who realizes that the disadvantages we self-selected immigrants endure or overcome are partially mitigated by the advantages of self-selection.

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> On May 28, 2016, at 12:40 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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> The meritocracy has become amoral.

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