Instructor: Mba Mbulu Title of Course: Integration 101
Textbooks: Not To Be: Essays On Integration and The Black Studies Book: A Black Studies Guide for TeenAgers and Adults.
Class #3
From Not To Be read the essays "Not To Be" (p. 7) and "White People Don't Read Black Books." (p. 37) From The Black Studies Book read "Beyond Farrakhan and OJ." (p. 229) Be able to expound on the following issues.
(1) Why is the overall white population handicapped, societally speaking?
(2) What handicaps do white people have to overcome before they can become sincere integrationists?
(3) What does integration have to do with the new world order? Are white people prepared to be parties to this new world order? Why/Why not?
(4) What are power, perception, status and accommodation, and how do they influence the odds of sincere integration taking place in the United States?
(5) The following quote is from page 12 of Not To Be. Do you understand the depth of this quote?
"The American people are not yet able. They are not yet able because they have been brainwashed and miseducated so thoroughly that they cannot acknowledge the fact of their victimization. As participants, as actors, as players, American individuals cannot effectively distinguish between the imagery of whiteness and the reality of a new world order. People of color have forged ahead, the white elite is unwilling to adjust for economic reasons, and the American people, who would benefit from the change, don't know how to adapt on their own."
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