BAREFOOT AND IGNORANT?

A Losing Strategy for the 21st Century

The history of  this country, stretching back almost 400 years, depicts a struggle from an agricultural, slave, economy in the beginning to the present information-driven Global Economy. It is also a history beset by an attitude of "keep-em barefoot and ignorant", or "keep-em barefoot and pregnant and ignorant".

Because making babies, keeping labor tied to the land, and women totally dependent on men, were essential to the success of the slave system, these attitudes became embedded in the psyche of this country.  A careful study of the Congressional Record will show a litany of attempts to legislate our way out of that past and to achieve a citizenry that was adequately educated to make the journey from the agricultural, through the industrial, to the current Information Age.

We have fought this battle, first to consolidate the disparate poor European immigrants into a cohesive white majority, and, today, to make our slog toward an adequately educated citizenry succeed across the color line.  It has been extremely expensive and has corroded  the social fabric.  It's time to end this insanity; it's time to correct our thinking.  The old way of thinking has produced a present population of inadequately educated whites and miserably under-educated non-whites.  Throwing money, blaming teachers, getting rid of schools and programs that have worked because they don't comply with the reigning attitude in our history, while praying for some technology-driven miracle; have to stop. 

Every person in this country involved with bringing a child into this world must realize that they have to be on the front line, 24/7, to get that child from birth to functioning adult-hood with the best prepartion of that space between their ears that wil lenable them to compete successfully in a global economy.  Government must be a tool, used by those responsible.  It cannot be the responsible agent.  Separating the education of children by color, class, region, religion, political philosophy, is insanity on its face.  This nation has pursued this course for too long.  Our future success as a nation is at stake.

For all males involved in the birthing and rearing process, I'm reminded of an old saying I learned
from my father:  "any dog can make a pup, but that don't make that dog a dad!"

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