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PROJECT 2019 |
"Project 2019" is a National
Movement by black Americans:
To reach "Educational Parity" with the
rest of America -- as measured by college degrees earned
By the year 2019 -- the 400th anniversary of the beginning of Slavery in America.
Based on percentages of population:
-- White Americans and Asian-Americans earn TWICE
as many college degrees as black Americans
-- 86% of whites graduate from high school versus only 80% of black Americans
-- Black Americans are dead LAST (behind whites,
Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans) in reading proficiency, math
proficiency, and science proficiency
In the technology based global economy
of the 21st century there is no need to discriminate against black Americans
based on skin color. "De facto educational discrimination"
produces the same results -- and it
is not illegal.
We Must Accept The Irrefutable FACT That Black
Americans Will...
NEVER Attain Social and Economic Equality in
America
UNTIL Black Americans Reach Educational Parity
in America.
KNOWLEDGE
IS POWER. White America has always
clearly understood and wholeheartedly believed this truism. It is the reason
why...
-- It was illegal to educate black Americans during
246 years of Slavery (64% of the time blacks have been in America).
-- It is the reason why black Americans received separate, substandard
education during the 103 years of the Jim Crow era (27% of the time that
blacks have been in America).
-- It has only been during the first 40-plus years of the Equal Opportunity
era (9% of the time blacks have been in America) that all black Americans have
had the opportunity to obtain knowledge and compete
on a nearly level playing field in America.
Knowledge Is Power. And, as long as black Americans remain the least
educated and the least knowledgeable people in America, black Americans
will remain the people with the least amount of power in America.
There has always been racism and there will always be racism
in America. However, in the 21st century, the amount
and the nature of racism cannot prevent black Americans from becoming
the most educated, the most knowledgeable, and therefore, one of the most
successful segments of the American population.
Only Project 2019 Can Save Black America Because:
-- Reaching educational parity is a positive, necessary, attainable goal
-- Project 2019 is a thoughtful, rational "strategy"
-- Project 2019 has specific, measurable objectives
-- Project 2019 has a specific (and historically significant) completion date
-- The success of Project 2019 is solely dependent on black Americans
-- All black Americans can participate and contribute to Project 2019
-- Project 2019 can unite black America for the first time in decades
-- Only Project 2019 is "guaranteed" to improve the socioeconomic
standing of black America
Education and knowledge is the "gateway"
that will lead to the solutions to all the problems that afflict black America.
How black Americans respond to The Project 2019 Challenge
will speak volumes about the resilience, the resourcefulness, the strength of
character, and the pride of black America.