The problem with Black Boys & British Education.

On this day in 2002, i was taught i was dumb, failed all of my core GCSE subjects but one, was kicked out of numerous colleges, and failed some more, so, i would, by the understanding that school & further education was an instutiontion that determians job / role in society, now probably never be anything, and so i nearly threw in the towel,

my despondency and disillusion towards society grew, and i feeling socially disenfranchised, applied myself to the far more transgressive, deviant alternative. 

See there's a short pivitol timeline in which a young black boy sets himself up to achieve or fail, to rise or demise, and i belive it's (in the UK) the period after we leave secondary school...

See, one of the main issues with education, as a BLACK MALE, is that growing up, academia (education) within the Black community (especially), isn't culturally valorised, thus unpopular / undesirable.

Currently the stats in the UK suggest more black males are attenting and engaging in further education, however still not enough, and we're still 3x as likely to be unemployed even when qualified, thus 49.1% of black males between the ages of 16-25 are currently unemployed. 

Generation to generation, our over-representation in areas of non-academia, have almost created cultural definition of black success. Those ideals we I.D with to identify purpose and success, have actually lead us to obtain a very one dimensional position in western society, acting not as much inspirastional, as inhabitant.  

   It's suggested education is the way out, the way forward, but invariably, we as young people for the definition of 'black success', struggle to translate purpose of maths & science & english, BECAUSE, we don't assert ourselves of the conviction our academic achievement in any one of these fields is socially acceptable or personally productive, invariably mapping out only those subjects or avenues, best suited to achieve the standard or acceptable - Rapper - Sportsperson - Worker. 

i chose to engage in creative stuff, because the British Educational System had told me, by their judgement, i wasn't intellegent, which in turn taught me to play it safe within the confines we as black people already occupied, they were far more attractive than attempting to  achieve anything by means of further education, not only was that an alien ideal to my mind, but culturally alien, plus my confidence was already knocked from the poor GCSES, and so i surcame to hanging about and producing music. 

  See, if intelligence is the ability to solve your problems, and according to western history we've (black people) never invented, solved or managed a damn thing, then we're being taught we're not intelligent. 

So we fail, or even many achieve, but seldom are we given astute encouragement or guidance, far easier get caught up in popular culture, the roads, dreams, maintaining hobbies and inappropriate, yet circumstantial behaviour...

Solution? - Cultrual Reform.

(Explained in next blog) 

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