Congrats on your new book. Shalom.
On Oct 19, 2017 11:59 PM, <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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"Assensoh, Akwasi B." <aassenso@indiana.edu>: Oct 19 07:46PM
SIR Cornelius:
This is interesting history! Thank you and V-C Aluko for your respective perspectives and elucidations!
You mentioned Brother Malcolm X in passing! Well, in our biography of Malcolm -- MALCOLM X: A BIOGRAPHY (Greenwood Press, 2014) -- as well as our recently-published book, MALCOLM X & AFRICA (Cambria Press, 2106), we have researched and presented several aspects of Malcolm X's very long 1964 stay in Africa, during which he received in East and West Africa several warm welcoming accolades and honors, including the giving to him of the Omowale (Yoruba) name at University of Ibadan. Hopefully, many of our people will delve into the two books, which are deemed by critics to be refreshing departures from publications that either rehash or harp on Malcolm's problems with his Black Muslim brothers and sisters! Of course, my former Ohio Sate University boss (the late Professor Manning Marable) did his own overkill with his 594-page tome, MALCOLM X: A LIFE OF REINVENTION (Viking 2011); his massive book did not sit well with several Malcolm scholars and admirers because of some unnecessary revelations!!
A.B. Assensoh.
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V-C Aluko,
Many thanks for elucidating what for me was the mystery of "Whidah" which I had suspected was a code name, an ugly racist pseudonym/ code word for somewhere in "Niggerland"; you know that some racists think that Niger-ia is where Niggers spelt with one ge come from. Spelled with two esses, Gustavus Vassa <https://www.google.se/search?num=100&newwindow=1&client= firefox-b&dcr=0&biw=1280&bih= 884&q=Gustavus+Vassa++&oq= Gustavus+Vassa++&gs_l=psy-ab. 12..0l5j0i30k1l4j0i10i30k1. 2523415.2527266.0.2529471.2.2. 0.0.0.0.109.185.1j1.2.0....0.. .1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.184... 0i10k1j0i22i30k1.0.g_UPhtcad6w > is available in Swedish translation as Jag, Slaven Gustavus Vassa av Olaudah Equiano ( I the slave Gustavus Vassa by Olaudah Equiano )
"What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" ?
Be of good cheer : In 1964, Malcolm X was given the name Omowale when he visited the University of Ibadan<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=In+1964%2C+ Malcolm+X++was+given+the+name+ Omowale+when+he+visited+the+ University+of++Ibadan&oq=In+ 1964%2C+Malcolm+X++was+given+ the+name+Omowale+when+he+ visited+the+University+of++ Ibadan&gs_l=psy-ab.12... 126801.131545.0.134004.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64. psy-ab..0.0.0....0.88MKW8IySIU >
But first of all, to set things right Sir: Like many a Nigerian politician, Gustavus Vasa was greedy for wealth and power - he took a lot of money from the churches etc, but I don't believe there is any justification for anyone labelling him "a racist Swede".
Gustavus Vasa contemporaries in Europe<https://www.google.se/search?num=100&newwindow=1& >client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw= 1280&bih=884&q=Gustavus+Vasa+ contemporaries+in+Europe&oq= Gustavus+Vasa+contemporaries+ in+Europe&gs_l=psy-ab.12...0. 0.0.62051.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0. 0....0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0.0.. ..0.aaUHebZMkMI
Gustavus Vasa and his contemporaries in Europe<https://www.google.se/search?num=100&newwindow=1& >client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw= 1280&bih=884&q=Gustavus+Vasa++ and+his+contemporaries+in+ Europe&oq=Gustavus+Vasa++and+ his+contemporaries+in+Europe& gs_l=psy-ab.12...0.0.0.29599. 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1. .64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0. Ru2rN7mY0Ow
Which is not to deny that a few centuries later Racism<https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&q=Nathan+ > is very much alive, here and that sometimes, you can see it in eyes staring daggers, looking at you and saying with them there eyes, "You are in the wrong country"Hamelberg+on+Racism&oq=Nathan+ Hamelberg+on+Racism&gs_l=psy- ab.3...2202.13703.0.14200.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1. 64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0. VlMukZVoZig
Yesterday, I was at the Royal Library between 1400 hrs and 1700hrs checking out Equiano.(BTW, one of my Better Half's first cousins (Margareta), used to be head of that library after some time as the head of the University of Stockholm's library and you may - as we say in Nigeria, " rest assured" that I have read many a doctoral thesis , not least of all about South Africa and every once in awhile, some hot stuff by one Stefan Jonsson <https://www.google.de/search?q=Stefan+Jonsson+%28+ >Africanist&oq=Stefan+Jonsson+% 28+Africanist&gs_l=psy-ab.12.. .0.0.0.56539.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.. 0.0....0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0. 0....0.PWMNuuBLwmQ
Cut out the satire and we may compare Equiano's real life peregrinations to
Gulliver's Travels<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gulliver%27s+ >. On life's pilgrimage, wherever we may be now, I believe that we are surely in the same boat (planet earth) and hopefully, moving on.travels&source=lnms&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwj5k5iau_ zWAhXsIJoKHWP2BGgQ_AUICSgA& biw=1280&bih=893&dpr=1
I don't pay attention to whippersnappers behind the curtain. At the same time, in my view, in this people's planet we cannot be talking about a person - not even about Karl Marx who is buried in London<https://www.google.de/search?q=Karl+Marx++who+is+ > or about Jesus of Nazareth who ascended to his Father in heaven or Nnamdi Kanu who ran away to Scotland instead of facing trial by Pontius Pilate and eventual crucifixion, rebirth and resurrection as the Messiah of Biafra - we cannot talk about such flesh and blood and have them say we shall not "personalise" it. It is my fervent hope that some Jahmaican<https://www.google.buried+in+London&oq=Karl+Marx+ +who+is+buried+in+London&gs_l= psy-ab.12...18427.19985.0. 23675.7.7.0.0.0.0.62.330.7.7. 0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2. 108...0i13k1j0i8i7i30k1.0. pQyzysHXOLs de/search?q=Lewis+Ricardo+ > or Nigerian <https://www.google.de/search?Gordon+&oq=Lewis+Ricardo+ Gordon+&gs_l=psy-ab.12.. 0i22i30k1.10815.10815.0.12595. 1.1.0.0.0.0.51.51.1.1.0....0.. .1.2.64.psy-ab..0.1.50....0. Bu4kiuVFR5A q=Tunde+Bewaji&oq=Tunde+ > philosopher doesn't start braying that that's some unwarranted invective from somebody, anybody. As Marcus Garvey wrote about injustice <https://www.google.se/search?Bewaji&gs_l=psy-ab.3.. 0j0i22i30k1.97253.102068.0. 102488.12.12.0.0.0.0.57.549. 12.12.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab.. 0.12.547...0i67k1j0i10k1.0. KCusXDxMKvA client=firefox-b&dcr=0&q= >Marcus+Garvey+:+Injustice& spell=1&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwi0hbiStfzWAhVMP5oKHT1dB IcQvwUIKCgA&biw=1280&bih=884
"Lying and stealing is the white man's game;
For rights of God nor man he has no shame
(A practice of his throughout the whole world)
At all, great thunderbolts he has hurled;
He has stolen everywhere-land and sea;
A buccaneer and pirate he must be,
Killing all, as he roams from place to place,
Leaving disease, mongrels-moral disgrace- "
When it comes to the problematics of miscegenation<https://www.google.de/search?q= > versus segregation we notice that unlike E. W. Blyden the first, Equiano also a product of his times and having only recently escaped the gallows ( lynching ) - is all for the mixing of the races. I guess that Steve Biko also stood for that too. Otherwise , it's his sometimes very cringing tone - the usual tone of the uncle tom, that riles me. Just as the extremely servile tone of Kachikwu's letter to President Buhari - riles me to the extent that I wasn't sure whether or not there was a misspelling in this line from Skytte's book and perhaps you could elucidate that too :miscegenation&oq=miscen&gs_l= psy-ab.1.2. 0i10k1j0j0i10k1l4j0l2j0i10k1l2 .134286.137445.0.141123.6.6.0. 0.0.0.60.312.6.6.0....0...1.1. 64.psy-ab..0.6.311...0i67k1.0. cXizeDMLvlM
"The Negroes who come from the Ebo tribe in Benin are the weakest and the most disheartened" The slightest hard treatment reduces them to despair and suicide."
This is a slaver's perception but who pray could "the Ebo tribe<https://www.google.de/search?biw=1034&bih=735&q=The+ >" be? Surely, not our Brethren from Eastern Nigeria? I know that like the Jews, they are always whining, but "the weakest and the most disheartened" The slightest hard treatment reduces them to despair and suicide." ???Ebo+tribe&oq=The+Ebo+tribe&gs_ l=psy-ab.3..0i10k1l3.6876. 11432.0.11756.13.13.0.0.0.0. 60.697.13.13.0....0...1.1.64. psy-ab..0.13.696... 0j46j0i67k1j0i46k1.0. pPTHyPbKSYA
Re- "Equiano must have known that there were powerful people out to discredit him<https://www.thenation.com/article/true-story-equiano/ >"
In the preface to his book, there's the letter which begins, " An invidious falsehood…. with a view to hurt my character and prevent the sale of my narrative<https://books.google.de/books?id= >"4GM6AAAAcAAJ&printsec= frontcover&dq=The+Interesting+ Narrative+of+the+Life+of+ Olaudah+Equiano,+or+Gustavus+ Vassa,+the+African&hl=en&sa=X& ved= 0ahUKEwjN54310fzWAhWLPZoKHQNwD PYQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=The% 20Interesting%20Narrative% 20of%20the%20Life%20of% 20Olaudah%20Equiano%2C%20or% 20Gustavus%20Vassa%2C%20the% 20African&f=false
I half expected that at the conclusion of the story, unlike Cornelius Adebayo, Brother Equiano returns home, sweet home in Africa, and in the land of the rising sun, he marries an Igbo woman and they live happily ever after…
Better Half ( in Sweden known as " The government" ) has been whining that she wants to use her computer ( we have two computers but only one chair) so I'll vacate the chair and end here…
MVH,
Cornelius
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 10:42:45 UTC+2, Bolaji Aluko wrote:
Cornelius Hammelberg:
I am consuming your contributions voraciously.... You have a way of teasing in information...
By the way I recognize WHIDAH is really the Kingdom of Whydah or Ouida
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouidah
Please continue our education ... I am intrigued about the extemporaneous nature of claims to Igbo heritage, as well as Obi's wonder about the power of recall of all the fine textural details of his people's indigenous culture by an 8- or 11-year old. Was the adoption of a racist Swede's name the last laugh, what Sherlock Holmes would have exclaimed to Dr Watson "How did we miss that, Watson?"
I ordered two books on all of this today... I like mystery.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
"The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America
is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown
violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have
not risen up against their oppressors--in which they would
have been justified by all moral criteria, and even by the
democratic tradition! It is a miracle that a nation of
black people has so fervently continued to believe in a
turn-the-other-cheek and heaven-for-you-after-you-die
philosophy! It is a miracle that the American Black people
have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the
centuries of hell that they have caught, here in white man's
heaven! The miracle is that the white man's puppet Negro
'leaders,' his preachers and the educated Negroes laden with
degrees, and others who have been allowed to wax fat off
their black poor brothers, have been able to hold the black
masses quiet until now." ( from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X <https://www.google.de/search?biw=1034&bih=735&tbm=vid&q= > ) …THE+AUTOBIOGRAPHY+OF+MALCOLM+ X&oq=THE+AUTOBIOGRAPHY+OF+ MALCOLM+X&gs_l=psy-ab.12...0. 0.0.5644.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0. ...0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0.0.... 0.-9J9zjpDnsc
In this our Pan- African forum, here's my last two kobos worth, please permit me to start here:
Gustavus Vasa<https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1280&bih=832&q= > being the name of the Swedish King popularly credited with being the founder of the nation known as Sweden, it's a good guess that there are many Swedes who are very curious about a slave, a very famous one at that, named after that Swedish King though with a slight difference in spelling, Equiano's rather non-Ogbo name bearing an extra ess to its cling : Gustavus Vassa<https://www.google.se/Gustavus+Vasa&oq=Gustavus+ Vasa&gs_l=psy-ab.12...9191. 12140.0.14644.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. .0.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0. 0.0....0.h84cGBzpNr0 search?num=100&newwindow=1&q= >.Gustavus+Vassa&spell=1&sa=X& ved=0ahUKEwic2rOM- vnWAhWKSyYKHYr0ADcQBQgkKAA& biw=1280&bih=832
Since Sweden's only possession in the "New World" during the slave-trading era was the tiny island of Saint Barthélemy<https://www.google.se/search?num=100&newwindow=1& > and for only a very brief period, a major point of curiosity would be, was Equiano from that island and therefore fondly baptised or self-named after one of Sweden's great kings ? The short answer is no. My only knowledge about that former prized possession is a TV documentary I watched recently and a few decades before that, circa 1986 to be exact, reading Göran Skytte's Det kungliga svenska slaveriet<https://www.google.biw=1280&bih=832&q=Swedish+ Saint+Barth%C3%A9lemy&oq= Swedish+Saint+Barth%C3%A9lemy& gs_l=psy-ab.12..0i71k1l4.0.0. 0.86351.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.. ..0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0.0.... 0.9GjSkxty_os se/search?num=100&newwindow=1& > ( "The Royal Swedish Slavery") which unlike Equiano's autobiography is unfortunately not yet available in an English translation, but as background to the times in which Equiano lived and some of the White World's prevalent attitudes to Africans in the period and context in which Equiano's biography was written, here are some of the most memorable lines from Skytte's book (my reliable, state of the language translations) :biw=1280&bih=832&q=G%C3%B6ran+ Skytte+%3A+Det+kungliga+ svenska+slaveriet&oq=G%C3% B6ran+Skytte+%3A+Det+kungliga+ svenska+slaveriet&gs_l=psy-ab. 12...0.0.0.12123.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0..0.0....0...1..64.psy-ab.. 0.0.0....0.Y2wG-8Pzn2M
The title of Chapter 5 is : "The Negro laughs and smiles and would really prefer to be a slave "
"Carlsson's attitude is that he he thinks that the Whites because of their skin colour stand over black people. It is like God given that there is a social order in which the white has unlimited power over the black"
On page 114 :" God's ombudsman and the Swedish Church's representative on St. Barthelemy explains that the Negro is only partly a human being :
"Negern , sådan jag i Västindien haft tillfälle att observera honom är knappt till hälften människa ; resten är apa och tiger"
" The Negro, as I had an opportunity to observe him in the Caribbean, is barely half a person; the rest is monkey and tiger"
"There are some traits of the Negro that show that he is partly a monkey. Laziness. Talkativeness. His craving to dance and play. Addiction to stealing..Lust for animal love and sweet things."
"The tigritude comes in this way.The Negroes swear together in countless conspiracies against the whites They intend to try to eradicate the white people in the most incredibly cruel ways."
"To substantiate this reasoning, Carlsson writes that the negroes are so low that even the animals shun them. If a white person is bathing in the sea he risks being eaten up by a shark. But Negroes can bathe without risk. Ther sharks don't like Negro meat…"
According to Bergius' book which was published in 1819:
"These negroes have different looks and different characters and characteristics depending on where they come from. He writes that he does not see any difference between them when the night is dark. But by the light of day, one sees that they are very different.
The Negroes that come from the tracts that are north and west of Sierra LeoneCornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> : Oct 19 03:07PM -0700
Wofa Akwasi,
Many thanks and Congratulations for your I'm sure diligent work on Malcolm
& Africa
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1034&bih=735&tbm= >.bks&q=Assensoh++%E2%80%8E%26+ Assensoh+%3A+Malcolm+X+and+ Africa&oq=Assensoh++%E2%80%8E% 26+Assensoh+%3A+Malcolm+X+and+ Africa&gs_l=psy-ab.12...64538. 102199.0.104570.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0..0.0....0...1.1j2.64.psy-ab. .0.0.0....0.LwvqqNjIIe0
One has to have reading feet that travel faster than Usain Bolt to catch up
with the prolific, quality output of our own Wofa Akwasi and Chief Guru,
Alagba Falola. If our main libraries don't have their copies, I'll make
sure that they DO.
As for Marable, may his marbles rest in perfect peace & tranquility. Maybe
his "revelations" should be in inverted commas ?
Archie Shepp - Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Archie+Shepp+-+ >Malcolm%2C+Malcolm+-+Semper+ Malcolm+&oq=Archie+Shepp+-+ Malcolm%2C+Malcolm+-+Semper+ Malcolm+&gs_l=psy-ab.12... 20090.20090.0.21569.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0..0.0....0...1.2.64.psy- ab..0.0.0....0.iQe3Ydzj1A0
Nyboma : Malcolm X
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nyboma+_+Malcolm+X& >oq=Nyboma+_+Malcolm+X&gs_l= psy-ab.3...92211.98322.0. 98892.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.... 0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0. 1fFekHZmR4Q
I zapped through a whopping 1136 page monumental looking Guy Arnold : Africa
: A modern History : 1945-2015
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=1034&bih=735&tbm= >bks&q=Guy+Arnold++%3A+Africa+% 3A+A+modern+History+%3A+1945- 2015&oq=Guy+Arnold++%3A+ Africa+%3A+A+modern+History+% 3A+1945-2015&gs_l=psy-ab.12... 0.0.0.55978.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.. 0.0....0...1..64.psy-ab..0.0. 0....0.5iQbP0wmQrg
( R.I.P) - one of the books that I'm sure that I'm not going to read cover
to cover before I die.
Whilst still on this thread I had better make some amends, myself : The
Igbo "Gustavus" has been drummed in my ears " without abruption " to the
extent that there I went googling "Gustavus Vasa" when the name of the
great Swedish King is GUSTAV VASA - there is a later King Gustavus
Adolphus
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&q=Gustavus+ >Adolphus+&oq=Gustavus+ Adolphus+&gs_l=psy-ab.3... 1748.12090.0.14258.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64.psy- ab..0.0.0....0.FwVfA98qY-I
who we mostly associate with the thirty years war
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gustavus+Adolphus+ and+the+thirty+year+war+&oq= Gustavus+Adolphus+and+the+ thirty+year+war+&gs_l=psy-ab. 3...7756.20916.0.21242.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64. psy-ab..0.0.0....0.4LM76KhVb80 >and
then there was Sweden , still a great power in Europe at least, kicking
ass everywhere in the seven year war
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sweden+and+the+seven+ >year+war+%28+1756-63&oq= Sweden+and+the+seven+year+war+ %28+1756-63&gs_l=psy-ab.12... 153135.183348.0.186367.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1j2. 64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0. M0cZTcPoUDo
the war with which Gustavus Vassa , the liberated African was associated: ("He
served on Royal Navy warships that fought crucial engagements in the Seven
Years' War of 1756-63…"
Some more sad news Sir: Oxford accused of 'social apartheid' as colleges
admit no black students
<https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/oxford- >accused-of-social-apartheid- as-colleges-admit-no-black- students
53 years ago : Malcolm X @ Oxford Union debate
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Malcolm+X+:++Oxford+ >Union+debate&source=lnms&tbm= vid&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwia89nT1v3WAhUGZFAKHSanB xUQ_AUICigB&biw=1034&bih=735
Mvh,
Cornelius
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:48:11 UTC+2, aassenso wrote:
Biko Agozino <bikozino@yahoo.com>: Oct 19 07:41PM
Kikiwe Akowe Iwin,
All hands must be on deck. Families have a role to play in reproducing success just as peers, mentors, communities, students, and even corporations that support scholarships. However, a significant percentage of students from single parent families have excelled enough for us not to essentialize patriarchy in this regard. Religious schools have not done much better than public school either nor have selective charter schools done better than comprehensive public schools. The missing link is smart study skills with which any student could excel irrespective of family structure, religious affiliation, class background, gender or neighborhood. We are willing to collaborate with any school districts willing to test our hypothesis. I do not need to start a school to test my hypothesis since I am already in the business of mentoring future academic leaders. I am available for outreach to failing students and schools to transform them without preaching hard work ethics. Book work is not hard work. Learning is fun essentially (LIFE) if you have the learning skills.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 15:19:44 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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Biko:
1. Any role by the family in your research? I ask because there are those who approach this subject from the failure of nuclear families and the rise of single parents.
2. Is it not possible for you to build a team to establish a school and experiment with this idea? This is doable in collaboration with churches and those with commitment to empowerment.
TF
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Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cornell¹s Black Student Disunion
A few have always risen against the odds and the few African African immigrant students who excel are not the rule. They come from populations with mass failures in examinations. About 80% of Nigerian students have been failing high school exams in Nigeria for decades. The theory of Chua and Rubenfeld missed this by overgeneralizing their convenient samples, one of their examples is Justice Sotomayor who was failing in high school until she asked a successful classmate to teach her how to study effectively. The missing link is lack of training in study skills. Our students are being given fish by teachers but they are not taught how to fish. Once students master study skills, they will excel even against the odds. African American students at Cornell cannot be labelled failures simple because they complain about institutional racism which is a reality that African African students should speak out against too. Any student at Cornell must be good enough to get there in the first place. The problem lies in the high school where every course is taught but not study skills. We have a proposal to experiment by working with failing high schools to teach study skills and then compare the learning results with control group of schools. We hypothesize that knowledge of smart study skills will achieve better results than the gospel of hard work. We have shared our action research design with many state governors internationally but no takers yet.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 05:32:40 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Cornell's Black Student Disunion
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/cornells-black-student- disunion-1508364848- lMyQjAxMTA3NTE4ODcxMjg4Wj/
A radical group calls on the university to disfavor immigrants.
Photo:istock/Getty Images
By
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Oct. 18, 2017 6:14 p.m. ET
159COMMENTS
A century ago, colleges cared if your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Now some are demanding that when universities admit black students, they give preference to descendants of those who arrived on slave ships. Black Students United at Cornell last month insisted the university "come up with a plan to actively increase the presence of underrepresented Black students." The group noted, "We define underrepresented Black students as Black Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country."
After widespread criticism—including a student op-ed with the headline "Combating White Supremacy Should Not Entail Throwing Other Black Students Under the Bus"—the group backtracked, sort of. It apologized for "any conflicting feelings this demand may have garnered from the communities we represent." But if the purpose of racial preferences is to promote "diversity," as the Supreme Court has held, why don't immigrants count?
The BSU argued that "the Black student population at Cornell disproportionately represents international or first-generation African or Caribbean students. While these students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America."
There's a contradiction here. For years liberal writers have blamed black poverty and undereducation on racism—the experience of being more likely to be pulled over by police, to be looked at suspiciously in department stores, to be discriminated against in schools and the workplace.
But it doesn't seem to be the case, at least not to the same degree, among immigrants. "The more strongly black immigrant students identify with their specific ethnic origins, the better they perform [academically]," Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld observed in their 2014 book, "The Triple Package."
Anecdotal examples are easy to find. The website Face2FaceAfricanoted in April that Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey teen born in Nigeria, had joined "a remarkable roll call of high-flying African-American students who were accepted into all 8 Ivy League Universities." Among them: Ghanaian-American Kwasi Enin, Somali-American Munira Khalif and Nigerian-Americans Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna.
Why does racism not seem to keep black immigrants down? The answer is obvious: Black immigrant culture tends to value academic achievement and believe it is possible no matter what happened to your ancestors. As one business school graduate born to Nigerian parents tells Ms. Chua and Mr. Rubenfeld: "If you start thinking about or becoming absorbed in the mentality that the whole system is against us then you cannot succeed."
Groups like the Cornell BSU insist that the system is out to get them and they cannot succeed. This makes the presence of high-achieving immigrant black students inconvenient. Between diversity and victimhood as the highest good in today's academia, it's hard to know where to place your money.
Ms. Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.
Appeared in the October 19, 2017, print edition.
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Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu >: Oct 19 07:47PM
Biko:
Can you circulate to us the published literature on this? The African community, from my own research, puts emphasis on hard work and occupations. What you call LIFE provoked serious caning in my generation. I am interested in this, and if we know more, we can begin to take the ideas back to Africa.
Do you have evidence of its success? Where? Who?
TF
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Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cornell¹s Black Student Disunion
Kikiwe Akowe Iwin,
All hands must be on deck. Families have a role to play in reproducing success just as peers, mentors, communities, students, and even corporations that support scholarships. However, a significant percentage of students from single parent families have excelled enough for us not to essentialize patriarchy in this regard. Religious schools have not done much better than public school either nor have selective charter schools done better than comprehensive public schools. The missing link is smart study skills with which any student could excel irrespective of family structure, religious affiliation, class background, gender or neighborhood. We are willing to collaborate with any school districts willing to test our hypothesis. I do not need to start a school to test my hypothesis since I am already in the business of mentoring future academic leaders. I am available for outreach to failing students and schools to transform them without preaching hard work ethics. Book work is not hard work. Learning is fun essentially (LIFE) if you have the learning skills.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 15:19:44 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Biko:
1. Any role by the family in your research? I ask because there are those who approach this subject from the failure of nuclear families and the rise of single parents.
2. Is it not possible for you to build a team to establish a school and experiment with this idea? This is doable in collaboration with churches and those with commitment to empowerment.
TF
From: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Reply-To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cornell¹s Black Student Disunion
A few have always risen against the odds and the few African African immigrant students who excel are not the rule. They come from populations with mass failures in examinations. About 80% of Nigerian students have been failing high school exams in Nigeria for decades. The theory of Chua and Rubenfeld missed this by overgeneralizing their convenient samples, one of their examples is Justice Sotomayor who was failing in high school until she asked a successful classmate to teach her how to study effectively. The missing link is lack of training in study skills. Our students are being given fish by teachers but they are not taught how to fish. Once students master study skills, they will excel even against the odds. African American students at Cornell cannot be labelled failures simple because they complain about institutional racism which is a reality that African African students should speak out against too. Any student at Cornell must be good enough to get there in the first place. The problem lies in the high school where every course is taught but not study skills. We have a proposal to experiment by working with failing high schools to teach study skills and then compare the learning results with control group of schools. We hypothesize that knowledge of smart study skills will achieve better results than the gospel of hard work. We have shared our action research design with many state governors internationally but no takers yet.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 05:32:40 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Cornell's Black Student Disunion
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/cornells-black-student- disunion-1508364848- lMyQjAxMTA3NTE4ODcxMjg4Wj/
A radical group calls on the university to disfavor immigrants.
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Photo: istock/Getty Images
By
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Oct. 18, 2017 6:14 p.m. ET
159 COMMENTS <https://www.wsj.com/article_email/cornells-black-student- >disunion-1508364848- lMyQjAxMTA3NTE4ODcxMjg4Wj/# comments_sector
A century ago, colleges cared if your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Now some are demanding that when universities admit black students, they give preference to descendants of those who arrived on slave ships. Black Students United at Cornell last month insisted the university "come up with a plan to actively increase the presence of underrepresented Black students." The group noted, "We define underrepresented Black students as Black Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country."
After widespread criticism—including a student op-ed with the headline "Combating White Supremacy Should Not Entail Throwing Other Black Students Under the Bus"—the group backtracked, sort of. It apologized for "any conflicting feelings this demand may have garnered from the communities we represent." But if the purpose of racial preferences is to promote "diversity," as the Supreme Court has held, why don't immigrants count?
The BSU argued that "the Black student population at Cornell disproportionately represents international or first-generation African or Caribbean students. While these students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America."
There's a contradiction here. For years liberal writers have blamed black poverty and undereducation on racism—the experience of being more likely to be pulled over by police, to be looked at suspiciously in department stores, to be discriminated against in schools and the workplace.
But it doesn't seem to be the case, at least not to the same degree, among immigrants. "The more strongly black immigrant students identify with their specific ethnic origins, the better they perform [academically]," Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld observed in their 2014 book, "The Triple Package."
Anecdotal examples are easy to find. The website Face2FaceAfrica noted<https://face2faceafrica.com/article/ifeoma-white- > in April that Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey teen born in Nigeria, had joined "a remarkable roll call of high-flying African-American students who were accepted into all 8 Ivy League Universities." Among them: Ghanaian-American Kwasi Enin, Somali-American Munira Khalif and Nigerian-Americans Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna.thorpe
Why does racism not seem to keep black immigrants down? The answer is obvious: Black immigrant culture tends to value academic achievement and believe it is possible no matter what happened to your ancestors. As one business school graduate born to Nigerian parents tells Ms. Chua and Mr. Rubenfeld: "If you start thinking about or becoming absorbed in the mentality that the whole system is against us then you cannot succeed."
Groups like the Cornell BSU insist that the system is out to get them and they cannot succeed. This makes the presence of high-achieving immigrant black students inconvenient. Between diversity and victimhood as the highest good in today's academia, it's hard to know where to place your money.
Ms. Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.
Appeared in the October 19, 2017, print edition.
Toyin Falola
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Biko Agozino <bikozino@yahoo.com>: Oct 19 08:00PM
Akowe self,
Na who cane you while you spent your youth counting the tiger's teeth with pleasure rather than working hard. You are a good example who learned study skills from grandma as she prepared her herbal medicine. The poor Igbo have also learned some study skills to excel against the odds of genocide where many of their privileged compatriots fail even after burning the midnight oil. Du Bois taught us that he did not burn the midnight oil at Harvard. Hard work is for dummies when it comes to books. For further evidence, check out my blog posts on this theme:
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On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 15:47:31 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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Biko:
Can you circulate to us the published literature on this? The African community, from my own research, puts emphasis on hard work and occupations. What you call LIFE provoked serious caning in my generation. I am interested in this, and if we know more, we can begin to take the ideas back to Africa.
Do you have evidence of its success? Where? Who?
TF
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Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cornell¹s Black Student Disunion
Kikiwe Akowe Iwin,
All hands must be on deck. Families have a role to play in reproducing success just as peers, mentors, communities, students, and even corporations that support scholarships. However, a significant percentage of students from single parent families have excelled enough for us not to essentialize patriarchy in this regard. Religious schools have not done much better than public school either nor have selective charter schools done better than comprehensive public schools. The missing link is smart study skills with which any student could excel irrespective of family structure, religious affiliation, class background, gender or neighborhood. We are willing to collaborate with any school districts willing to test our hypothesis. I do not need to start a school to test my hypothesis since I am already in the business of mentoring future academic leaders. I am available for outreach to failing students and schools to transform them without preaching hard work ethics. Book work is not hard work. Learning is fun essentially (LIFE) if you have the learning skills.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 15:19:44 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Biko:
1. Any role by the family in your research? I ask because there are those who approach this subject from the failure of nuclear families and the rise of single parents.
2. Is it not possible for you to build a team to establish a school and experiment with this idea? This is doable in collaboration with churches and those with commitment to empowerment.
TF
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Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:17 PM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Cornell¹s Black Student Disunion
A few have always risen against the odds and the few African African immigrant students who excel are not the rule. They come from populations with mass failures in examinations. About 80% of Nigerian students have been failing high school exams in Nigeria for decades. The theory of Chua and Rubenfeld missed this by overgeneralizing their convenient samples, one of their examples is Justice Sotomayor who was failing in high school until she asked a successful classmate to teach her how to study effectively. The missing link is lack of training in study skills. Our students are being given fish by teachers but they are not taught how to fish. Once students master study skills, they will excel even against the odds. African American students at Cornell cannot be labelled failures simple because they complain about institutional racism which is a reality that African African students should speak out against too. Any student at Cornell must be good enough to get there in the first place. The problem lies in the high school where every course is taught but not study skills. We have a proposal to experiment by working with failing high schools to teach study skills and then compare the learning results with control group of schools. We hypothesize that knowledge of smart study skills will achieve better results than the gospel of hard work. We have shared our action research design with many state governors internationally but no takers yet.
Biko
On Thursday, 19 October 2017, 05:32:40 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Cornell's Black Student Disunion
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/cornells-black-student- disunion-1508364848- lMyQjAxMTA3NTE4ODcxMjg4Wj/
A radical group calls on the university to disfavor immigrants.
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Naomi Schaefer Riley
Oct. 18, 2017 6:14 p.m. ET
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A century ago, colleges cared if your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Now some are demanding that when universities admit black students, they give preference to descendants of those who arrived on slave ships. Black Students United at Cornell last month insisted the university "come up with a plan to actively increase the presence of underrepresented Black students." The group noted, "We define underrepresented Black students as Black Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country."
After widespread criticism—including a student op-ed with the headline "Combating White Supremacy Should Not Entail Throwing Other Black Students Under the Bus"—the group backtracked, sort of. It apologized for "any conflicting feelings this demand may have garnered from the communities we represent." But if the purpose of racial preferences is to promote "diversity," as the Supreme Court has held, why don't immigrants count?
The BSU argued that "the Black student population at Cornell disproportionately represents international or first-generation African or Caribbean students. While these students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America."
There's a contradiction here. For years liberal writers have blamed black poverty and undereducation on racism—the experience of being more likely to be pulled over by police, to be looked at suspiciously in department stores, to be discriminated against in schools and the workplace.
But it doesn't seem to be the case, at least not to the same degree, among immigrants. "The more strongly black immigrant students identify with their specific ethnic origins, the better they perform [academically]," Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld observed in their 2014 book, "The Triple Package."
Anecdotal examples are easy to find. The website Face2FaceAfricanoted in April that Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey teen born in Nigeria, had joined "a remarkable roll call of high-flying African-American students who were accepted into all 8 Ivy League Universities." Among them: Ghanaian-American Kwasi Enin, Somali-American Munira Khalif and Nigerian-Americans Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna.
Why does racism not seem to keep black immigrants down? The answer is obvious: Black immigrant culture tends to value academic achievement and believe it is possible no matter what happened to your ancestors. As one business school graduate born to Nigerian parents tells Ms. Chua and Mr. Rubenfeld: "If you start thinking about or becoming absorbed in the mentality that the whole system is against us then you cannot succeed."
Groups like the Cornell BSU insist that the system is out to get them and they cannot succeed. This makes the presence of high-achieving immigrant black students inconvenient. Between diversity and victimhood as the highest good in today's academia, it's hard to know where to place your money.
Ms. Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.
Appeared in the October 19, 2017, print edition.
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