Igniting The Fire, Brings The Light, From Invisibility to Academic Viability & Excellence

By R. E. Vincent Daniels

A young African American man had a vision to bring forth an education system that he himself had never experienced. The existing education institutional system never addressed his self esteem, nor encouraged his quest for academic excellence. People of color were never looked upon or considered note worthy of recognition in or out of the classroom setting; for that matter, society in large part erased the acknowledgement of people of African origin, along with all others peoples of color. They, along with the majority of people of color, have been fundamentally omitted from historical text, therefore declared invisible in the annals of time and thereby denied their rightful and deserved greatness. What was assigned to them in historical studies has been minuscule in nature and often demeaning.

He recalled this disparity having begun to take hold/surface around the third grade in his public school lesson plan. What was often highlighted was Slavery; the Civil War; Emancipation by President Lincoln; Jim Crow and the Civil Right Movement. Africans were deemed never to have any history of any significance nor importance, for that matter, prior to their contact and eventual enslavement by Europeans. That is quite the contrary as Renaldo would subsequently come to realize, as he sort to educate himself on whom were the true African peoples of the world. It was his past educational encounters, which were to later ignite this dream to create a Charter School platform in honor of the African University known as Sankore, located in the town Timbuktu of the Mali Empire. Declared to be the world’s first university of higher educational learning.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Mar 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9781977263445

R. E. Vincent Daniels

R. E. Vincent Daniels  B.S. and M.S. college degrees Born and raised in the Brooklyn Bedford Stuyvesant community in NY in times of segregation/American Apartheid, that in large part, still persists in these United States of America; even thought it manifest itself in different fashions over the years, such as the current Book Banning, Culture Wars and Critical Race Theory (CRT) themes. I am a parent and a grandparent of six, four boys and two girls, of African decent. The adult children all are products of a public school system with a standardized curriculum and syllabus that was/is geared toward a underlining  Eurocentric inference.  This book projects hopes to present potential future options for consideration, which will perhaps begin to resolve many of the prevailing historical academic short comings now in place, if not, respond to the trend of racial eraser, appropriation and denial that haunt the western culture, society and religion at so many levels?  For centuries this construct was established and put into place in order to maintain control/supremacy over all others not of European heritage. 

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Igniting The Fire, Brings The Light, From Invisibility to Academic Viability & Excellence

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Foreword

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

"Engaging to Make It So, Cosmic Shift, a Quantum Leap, from Academic Ignorance & Bigotry to a World of Literacy of Enlightenment & Respect. The Nexus of education VS indoctrination, Eurocentric curriculum and syllabus VS (DEI) Diversity Equity and Inclusion = Fair representation that build the esteem of all students. The doubling down on specific Eurocentric education is the nexus of White Supremacy/Privilege that is the incubator for Institutional Racial Bias/Racism in the vulnerable minds of young children in a subliminally and covertly manner. The prevailing culture, movies and literary works also play a role in propitiating the theory of racial superiority over all others. This scenario can only be corrected when true DEI is fully implemented across the broad dynamic of society world wide.

BIO

R. E. Vincent Daniels

B.S. and M.S. college degrees

Born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant community in Bklyn. NYC in the times of segregation/American Apartheid that in large part persists in these United States of American even thought it manifest itself in different fashion over the years, book banning and Critical Race Theory (CRT). I. E. Concerns that American is stuck in the racial muck, but want to now make it Quick Sand so things will revert to its ugly radical racist past.

I am a parent of three and a grandparent of three, four boys and two girls of African decent. The adult children all are products of a public school system with standardized curriculum and syllabus which is geared toward a Eurocentric inferences. The theme of this book projects a possible future to perhaps resolve, if not respond to this trend of racial eraser, appropriate and denial that haunt the western culture, society and religion at so many levels for centuries by design in order to maintain control/supremacy. Scientific facts and data support this without any doubt and it is being reinforced, however truth shall raise no matter the lies being propagated. Much of the story is drawn from first hand experiences in a public school classroom environments that showed little to no respect for any people of color, rather they be Native American, Asian Pacific, Hispanic or from the African diaspora. The false lessons that the educational system indoctrinates the student body with is that those of European heritage are inherently superior to all peoples of color and therefore can regard those peoples of color as less then human beings of any worth. America in particular is the current incubator for such thinking and export this mind set around the world. My works of See Us, From Whence We Come (2020) & Truth Awaken, Darling to Dream of Past Glory in order to Envision Future Greatness (2021) both were designed to