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Julianne Malveaux: We Get Olympic Excellence But Educational Mediocrity

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

The Olympic games are a celebration of excellence and athleticism.  Whether we are cheering the Williams sisters in their gold medal-winning doubles match, or Serena with her gold, or the graceful Gabby Douglass in flight, or some of the many others, we are cheering their excellence, their indomitable spirits, their drive.   We are also acknowledging the tens of thousands of hours that they must have put into practice.  Even as we cheer, there are lessons for each of us, both individually and in a social policy context.

We’ve all heard, time and time again, “get out there and do it”, or “just do it” or “I worked hard for this”.  Often the difference between a gold and silver winner is the one was hungrier, wanted the gold more intensely, and worked harder than the other.

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4 Responses to Julianne Malveaux: We Get Olympic Excellence But Educational Mediocrity

  1. Derrick Reply

    August 15, 2012 at 7:36 am

    The Truth and nothing, but the Truth!

    We excel in sports, but get exSPELLed from the classrooms! I also, blame these caucasoid teachers for dumbing down our children. They tell them; they are nothing and worthless, and this is why some of our children rebel, and drop out of school.

    Remember, Malcolm X’s teacher told him he was NOTHING, and could only use his hands; not his mind! This messed up Malcolm X just like our children today are being BRAINWASHED by caucasoid teachers!

    Education is great, but let’s start teaching our children their True Ourstory, so they can learn they WERE NOT SLAVES, but were ENSLAVED, which is a difference! We were Kings, Queens, Gods, Goddesses, Leaders, Rulers and Contributors to WORLD OURstory; not his-story or his-LIE!!!

    Three forms of Black genocide are:

    The miseducation of our children in schools
    The misdeducation of religion
    The miseducation the media projects of our people

    THE BLACK MAN RULES!

  2. Jackie W Reply

    August 14, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    I agree – 100%

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