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Alexander Crummell (1819-1898)

Alexander Crummell, an Episcopalian priest, missionary, scholar, and teacher.  Crummell earned his degree from the University of Cambridge in 1853, becoming the first black student to graduate from the institution. He spent much of his life addressing the conditions of African Americans while urging an educated black elite to aspire to the highest intellectual attainments as a refutation of the theory of black inferiority. Alexander Crummell was born in New York City on March 3, 1819, to Charity Hicks and Boston Crummell. Both his mother and father were free, with Boston having been taken from Timannee, West Africa, and forced into bondage in the North, but eventually refusing servitude. With his parents believing in education for their children, Alexander began his education at an integrated school in New Hampshire. He later transferred to an abolitionist institute in Whitesboro, New York where he learned both the classics and manual labor skills. However, after being denied ...

Judge Me by the Color of My Skin

Every time, We curse Our Sacred Features; i.e. hair, lips, nose, eye color, and skin color, these self-negating thoughts block the development of our personal logic circuit. Consequently, We as a as People are blocked from authentic thought s and concepts. We have been so traumatized by this Branch of Hell, called America, that the mere mention of anything considered militant, radical, Pro-Black induces a panic attack. The fear of white reprisal for independent, self-reliant thoughts and behaviors has trapped Us in a debilitating, intellectual limbo that shuts down the reasoning capacity. The proof this psychic/mental malaise is in the Conspiracy of Silence in African-American Culture. Children intuitively sense that something is terribly wrong about the savagely brutal cycles of poverty, injustice and degradation. Yet, all the “adults" are talking about Satan Claus, Disney Land and Basketball Wives. Those irrepressible Freedom Fighters who have the temerity to speak agai...