Akil Parker On Math Being The Key To Black Liberation And The Dangerous Culture Amongst Black Men
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
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Akil Parker is a professor, tutor and owner of 'All This Math'.
In this reasoning, Akil Parker starts off talking about the political necessity for Black boys to be deficient in math. Next, Parker explains how 'consequential thinking' can save Black men from death and prison. Later in the reasoning, Parker speaks about the importance of college and the dangerous culture amongst Black men that is hindering their collective progress.
00:10 Why Black boys get behind in math
3:16 Importance of understand multiplication facts
10:36 The political necessity for Black children to be deficient in math
16:15 How the skill of 'consequential thinking' can save Black males form death and prison
27:36 Not everyone is made for college
43:51 On The cultural addiction to 'feeling good and being comfortable'
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From a middle school math teacher. Please just help your child with multiplication and reading. I can do the rest in the class room. Just give me the building blocks
Roger that
As someone who went through the Jamaican education system in a shitty ass school and was turned off from the sciences and encouraged to go into the arts because that just what successful Jamaicans do, THEN reeducated myself in stem in my 30s, it really is never too late
I love this. Too many of us are not given that “confidence” by our parents. All parents have to say is, “you are smart, you can do it!” This goes deep into a child’s psyche and emerges in confidence
"Intelligence rules the world. Ignorance carries the burden"
Guns and nuclear weapons rules the world.
@@rbellot11 The world had rulers before guns mate.
You can't design and manufacture a gun or even conceive of nuclear fusion/fission if you're illiterate
I see Garvey is in the house!!!!
@@ronwhiteleo3352 man of culture I see. Prof Parker started it. I'm just following the pattern
Power rules the world. There’s people in powerful positions who are not intelligent. Case in point, Donald Trump and his cohorts
I follow Akil's youtube channel and I appreciate his math lessons. I enjoy his perspective. Black America was thriving during Reconstruction era. We not only educated ourselves during this era, we founded our own primary and secondary schools, and colleges. From Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, blacks excelled in academics. The colonizers realized integration would stifle black economics and black education. Prior to Brown vs the Topeka BOE, 35% to 50% of principals and teachers were Black. Immediately following the Brown decision, 100,000 black teachers were fired. There were a series of U.S. Senate Select Committee hearings in 1971 about the hemorrhaging displacement and firing of Black school principals and teachers that were replacement by less qualified whites. Black students were excelling in academics prior to the Brown decision. The majority of blacks didn't want school integration because they feared this decline was imminent. These are facts backed by statistical and historical data. Not surprisingly, there is a Nigerian commentor in this thread that took this opportunity to lecture black America who established this country. Further, he inaccurately stated that black America idolizes athletes and entertainers. What he doesn't understand is America is like the Roman civilization. "America" idolizes sports and entertainers. This is a pagan society. The colonized power-structures that run sports agencies and television prop up these characters - it's not blacks who run these agencies that uplift entertainers or who predominately purchase inflated sports tickets. I tour public schools. I see their curriculum. I see the images on their school hallways (ran by whites). These schools ran by whites today recognize black entertainers and not black scientists. This is purposeful. The Tuskegee Airmen were educated at a black founded university and excelled in mathematics and science. William Claytor, Mark Dean, Elbert Frank Cox, Valerie Thomas, Lonnie Johnson, John Urschel, Raymond Johnson, Suzanne Weekes, Mohamed Omar, Talithia Williams, Scott Williams, Kimberly Sellers, Shirley Ann Jackson, James West, Guy Bluford, Christine Darden, Dennis Weatherby will never be showcased in public schools ran by a colonized system. These examples of black figures all excelled in math and sciences prior to the Brown decision. Black education has declined since that decision. Conversely, after 62 years of Nigeria being independent from Britain, poverty went from 10% under British rule to 62% today. Nigerians are eagerly repatriating to Europe and the US rather than leveraging their academics to solve their country's problems. Once comfortably in America, and post-Jim Crow, they lecture black America about the our academic decline without knowledge of any well-documented history statistical data. Self-reflection is needed across the board. Again, I appreciate this interview and support Akil's mission.
A lot of parents don't reinforce any of the education during the summer. The kid forgets a lot over the summer if it isn't taught for months.
This is true. Summer is filled with eating junk food, staying up late and being on their phones & iPads from sun up to sun down. I remember in the summer time my dad would have scholastic workbooks and we sat down for 45 minutes each day to complete them. We also went to the library, museums, played boards games, went to the playground, beach etc. some parents aren’t parenting in today’s society.
I like Math and struggled with it when I was in school. I was able to do Calculus 1 and 2 despite struggling in Math.
Love this! Akil was my high school math teacher, I’m happy to see him expand his impact.
As someone who is actually struggling with Math. I really do appreciate this video. I am in who actually compares myself to the genius students in my class. I can apply this learning principle to EVERYTHING....truly apprecilove this .
Colonial education systems reinforce social class systems and division of labor, thereby maintaining an order only beneficial to itself (colonialism/matrix/homonormative patriarchy).
The common denominator in a lot of the problems concerning the community are cumulative. From English not being our first language through underfunded disparities is still a big transformation to be proud of.
I love to see a black brother with himself together working for the right cause not believing the lies that are being informed 🎉🎉🎉
Love this! Please have him come regularly! Thank you both!
Love this brother's understanding of an individual's safety being tied to the Collective's strength. For Black people, individualism is part of the "trick bag".
I've learned that in this new data driven world the level you do math at in corporate America will have a direct correlation to the level pay you will receive.
Education, in general, is. Start with/READING📚
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So true. I speak about this, not the math part but factoring that in is explosive. Makes perfect sense to me. Understanding basic math and the elements to mathematics is important. It applies to everything. Wow!
I always tell black people, we can’t be on an individual mindset but most of us are. THATS the problem right there. We can’t win with individualistic and failure mindsets.
Too many of us approach scenarios with a defeat mentality.
Stem at a early stage in kids life.Teach our kids Math and Reading as young as 3 years old.Stem classes is what is needed in Public schools. And it should start at home.Great teacher Akil.Keep up the good teaching.
I follow this gentleman. Great teacher. One trick i teach/thought my kids on multiplication is to always use the ones they know as their checkpoint. They know how to multiply by 5, so i tell them, to multiply my 6, just multiply by 5 and add the multillicand one more time. Since 5×6 is 30, 6× 6 = 30+6.
This was inspiring. Thanks Akil!
The professor is hundred per cent right !!
THANK YOU. You also made a great point on how math is so important the United States 🇺🇸 imports math students. The West as a whole does this. And, it’s why even Africans have been able to come here to the U.S. and surpass Americans Africans.
Thank you for the information. This opened my eyes a lot.
As well as owning your own business.
You better k ow math to run a business sucessfully
Excellent interview!
Peace good bro. Great interview!
Good information
Love what this brother is doing
That's was good advice; to go to college, at least get the paper.
Hooray for the Truth!
51:21... "That 40 you have is not an indication of you not understanding
Giving credit to the ones the student got right ...
Good styy
Somebody probably already said this in this thread but often math is associated with money ---so the math trauma is intertwined with poverty trauma which makes the trauma extremely powerful and debilitating.
This was hella heavy.
Hosea 4:6
This brother on time
Math helped a lot as I grew up Believe it or not algebra help me apply situations in real time to get timely results this is a smart brother
Math is important and even effects someones understanding regarding finances. Math is necessary because youll need to have it to pass class for degrees and different licenses as an adult.
We were taught multiplication facts by doing slide multiplication and I can memorize and all have that ability ❤️🙌🏾❤️💃🏿💃🏿But, My Children not so much🤷🏾♀️🤦🏽♀️
Well you need to take the time to educate you’re children in what you’ve learn
@@donanderson3520 Go to hell young Man you late I already got them up to par😡🤔24,20, and 16 we goodt🖕🏿
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Name drop that teacher!!!! Enough protecting the white man!!!
..teaching remedial math as if its a punishment is damaging to students
I took remedial math in college and it felt like a punishment the teacher wasn’t effective and most times the students worked amongst each other, & he sat at his desk on his phone or laptop. I passed but didn’t learn much.
How did Amos Wilson died.
Just a cursory look at the history of labour will reveal that service and entertainment professions are NOT the key to building an educated and thereby productive population. Language is the key.
Colonial education systems reinforce social class systems and division of labor, thereby maintaining an order only beneficial to itself.
@@elee3024 Ummm.. what?
I agree that colonial systems maintain an order beneficial to themselves BUT.
'Division of labor' is a feature of social species. It's a natural part of human social evolution. If everyone was making their own homes & growing their own food & practicing their own medicine & making their own clothes etc etc then who would specialize and how would technology develop?
Social class is an inevitable feature of animal groups.
The problem is not that labor is divided but how. Who gets the meaningful jobs and who doesn't.
Not that social classes exist but rather how bold are the lines between them and how is wealth distributes amongst them.
Even though we can't replace the whole education system just yet, we can make tweaks. A very simple tweak is to emphasize particular subjects.
The US benefits the most from immigration by gaining the best engineers and and scientists from around the world. Immigration pre to post WWII is a great example of this.
If we can steer more Afrikan children into STEM, especially by convincing them that success can be achieved without bars, hoops and balls, we would have already made a colossal shift. Same point prof makes about having examples of people we can admire doing the same thing.
Just my 3 cents
@@MikeStoneJapan I mean division of labor is more or less controlled, doctored and fixed to stifle development of the underclasses (and maintain support of the upper classes) via their limited capacity to think and act on the level of passive consumers and unskilled laborers. We need to master the sciences so we have a greater understanding of the world and ourselves, otherwise we're vulnerable to all sorts of exploitation.
I think technical skills and technology would more rapidly and holistically develop if folks were in the idyllic, independent economic system you described (which I personally aspire to). As the old adage goes, necessity is the mother of invention. The thing with capitalism and colonialism is the maintenance of clientelism via controlling populations and social development with measures that are decided as sustainable or repressive, depending on context.
Likewise, in the real world, it's a market of ideas, but the social orientation is leaning towards the perceived dominant center of the equally objectionable desired commercial activity. Productivity and creativity is being undermined and devalued so that basic consumerism persists predictably and optimally without challenges for an actually better way of pursuing lifestyles and workstyles.
@@elee3024 I mean hear your clarified point about 'division of labor' and agree to great extent especially as it regards the trends of euro-late stage capitalism (which I think is a most insidious institution).
I also agree that in said idyllic system we would be forced to innovate and technologically provide for ourselves (even though I contend that subject specialization is crucial) but I suspect that time is long past.
Because of how many humans there are and how connected we are, the days of every family doing most things for themselves might never return.
However, if we can grasp more firmly, the disciplines involved in creating things like refrigeration, transportation, information technology, weapons technology etc, I suspect we can slowly start to wean ourselves off of euro-capitalist dependence.
What's more, if we can better understand what many call 'Technologies of Control', the technology that powers the worlds largest navy or mass surveillance systems for example, then we can better 'fight' back.
You make great points though. Appreciate the parley
@@MikeStoneJapan I agree focus should be on developing technical proficiency in common areas such as what you've mentioned in order to expedite the process for an interdependent or self-sufficient Afrikan community. Still I have contentions with subject specialization bc it potentially reinforces subjectivity by a limited capacity to perform/produce, also many subjects and positions become irrelevant and replaced through cultural and industrial revolutions so our education must be more comprehensive and well-rounded. Mastery of the arts and sciences are essential for self-mastery and a healthy, independent or community life, however our focus should not be limited by arbitrary values and the products we are able to materialize bc it inevitably leads to decadence. Self-realization is a major objective of life.
Islam is mathematics , mathematics is Islam
Please explain how a belief system is mathematical, math is a fact based system.
@@williamlee3594 Much of the math came out of the Islamic world. We use their base 10 number system as example.
The most honorable Elijah Muhammd teaches us every civilization of the universe is the result of the works of Allah. The word of God is in fact mathematic formula applied in a subjective reality. It is eternal , and stands by the principle of every truly succesful science. Freedom Justice and Equality.
@@spurgeonholloman8135 moore no more
Science belongs to all people and can be produced by all people. We don't need to subscribe to a belief system to do math or science