The African’s plight in American has been painstaking. They have experienced many climacteric stages that freed them enough to claim America as home. African Americans have come a long way, but there are still evidences of inequalities that plague America’s many systems that continue to take wind from the sails of those seeking new horizons. The African American’s endless and compendious scrutiny of these faulty systems has been brought on by many years of purposeful wrongs, and in many ways, there seems to be some resentment toward the African American for their chagrin and persistence – an indication that some would like to gloss over the seriousness of these matters. We cannot play down how big America is in her attempts to ameliorate, but we cannot think that she will do this unsupervised! Public education in America (in her richness), coupled with the African adage that “it takes a village to raise a child,” should be a vehicle relied upon to deliver all kids from one level (emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually) to a higher level in each of these categories so that they have a chance at economic success in life. This is not happening in the American systems of education, and in many cases, these systems implode on the heads of African America! Examining the experiences of the African in America and the history of America’s systems of education side-by-side, we will find that there has been a subsystem of disempowerment installed and nourished in both of these institutions without urgency for an all-inclusive solution.
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