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BIOGRAPHY
Wise Intelligent is the front man for the critically acclaimed and Legendary Hiphop trio known to the world as the Poor Righteous Teachers. PRT hail from and represent to the fullest Trenton New Jersey (New Jerusalem). They released five incredible albums throughout their illustrious career. Their groundbreaking first album Holy Intellect was released on Profile records in 1990 and introduced to the world one of the most unique and revolutionary sounds in Hiphop history. Their equally impressive follow up album Pure Poverty was released in 1991 and cemented their place as one of Hiphops most elite groups. Black Business (1993/Profile), New World Order (1996/Profile), and Declaration Of Independence (2001/Exit 7a Records) continued to build on PRTs standard of lyrical excellence and commitment to raising the consciousness of poor people worldwide. Throughout all of PRTs albums, they have espoused the virtues of righteousness (without being self-righteous) as embodied in the struggle of poor people around the world. Growing up in any ghetto in any country around the world is not an easy task. Urban decay, joblessness, homelessness, racism, drugs and death are just a few of the things that await the children of the world, and PRT has always stood on the front lines of that struggle. Poor Righteous Teachers have also been on numerous national and international tours.
Now in 2006, Wise Intelligent is stepping back out on the front lines once again with an incredible new solo album that will undoubtedly raise the bar of lyrically integrity and change the game once again. Over the years many different styles have developed, and many different Mcs/Rappers have come and go, but none as original, honest, or distinct as the lyrical wizardry and unforgettable delivery of Wise Intelligent. Blending a unique style of Jamaican chanting and rapid-fire poetry, Wise has always delivered an unparalleled vocal assault.
As a diligent student of hip-hop pioneers such as Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, The Cold Crush Brothers, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions/KRS ONE, Eric B & Rakim, Brand Nubian, Ultramagnetic Mcs, X-Clan, and an adolescent immersion (baptism) into the Caribbean dancehall, rockers, and reggae sounds of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Yellow Man, Eek-A-Mouse, Sista Nancy, Early B, and Josey Wales among others Wise Intelligent is in his own wordz became "Every MC"
This New Jersey native (born + raised) representing Reb Brick City/DivineLand (Trenton, NJ) possesses all the attributes of a timeless warrior poet: insight, substance, skill, fortitude and most importantly integrity. "es cuomo es Wise" Wise is what he is!
Wise Intelligent IzThe Talented Timothy Taylor will be released Summer 2007. This powerful album will mark the moment when a True MC and Classic Hiphop Muzik will make its debut against the backdrop of the heavily marketed and marginally talented artist that have saturated the industry for far too long. With this new album Wise wants to take you on an intimate journey into the making of a Legendary MC. Wise Intelligents message is a simple yet powerful one The reason Hiphop is considered DEAD and the community is in a complete state of chaos and disorder is because WE ARE NOT LISTENING TO ENOUGH INTELLIGENT MUZIK!. So tell me are you ready to go back to the time when talent determined who was the best MC? Well if you are then get ready to embrace and experience The Talented Timothy Taylor
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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...The Truth: An Un-American Idea
INTELLIGENTNEWZNET INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY The Truth: An Un-American Idea Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Jeremiah…Chapter 7 verse 26-28…King James Version After listening to, watching, and reading transcripts of Chicago's now infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons, as well as other people's comments about those sermons, the inescapable reality of our situation hit me like a crane falling from a New York City skyscraper! That reality was that, to tell THE TRUTH is as “UN-AMERICAN” an act as bombing the World Trade Center. The truth in our day has been deemed an "enemy-combatant" an "enemy of the state" a "threat to national security" and a hater of the "freedom's" and "liberties" on which “democracy” was founded. It’s time for us to be honest. WHAT PART OF WHAT REV. WRIGHT SAID WAS NOT THE TRUTH? He said… “…the Government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a 3 strike law and then wants us to sing God Bless America…NO…NO…NO…Not God Bless America, but God Damn America! For killing innocent people, God Damn America for treating her citizens as less than human…” Now am I missing something because America (CIA) DID bring drugs into the country! They DID flood poor neighborhoods with these drugs, and used the money to finance covert wars on foreign soil and subsequently built a prison industrial complex that incarcerates unsuspecting ghetto children while making themselves billions of dollars in the process! All of this might be an inconvenient truth, but it is the truth nevertheless!!! [See, Iran Contra; Dark Alliance by Gary Webb; ask John Kerry or visit Freeway Rick Ross at Prison]. The reverend continued by stating that 9/11 could have been the result of America's tyrannical and oppressive foreign policy. He referred to this as the proverbial "chicken's coming home to roost". He said… “…We (America) bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki…and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye…We (America) have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done over seas are now being brought back right over into our own front yards…” I’m not trying to be sarcastic but I really thought in 2008 that all of this was elementary and basic common knowledge. While watching an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, I heard Barney Frank say that “it was wrong for Rev. Wright to suggest that America had brought 9/11 on itself”. Now I can understand why some people might think that it’s wrong to bring up these very uncomfortable things because it’s very painful to confront the potential reality of why such a horrific event could have happened, but in my opinion it’s vital for us to start dealing with the core and real reasons why people around the world have so many issues with America. If you can accept the fact that Saddam Hussein was executed because his “chickens’ of subjugation, oppression, and state sponsored terrorism throughout Iraq and the neighboring regions had finally came home to roost, it shouldn’t be considered Un-American for Rev. Wright or anybody else to start looking at America under the same type of microscope to try and figure out just what the hell is going on around here. How many American's really understand the depth of this countries influence in foreign lands - for better or for worse? How many American's know that "Al-Qaeda" is an American CIA invention? This group was armed, trained, and named by the CIA in the early 1980's, and used to help destabilize the then Soviet Union. Guess what, it worked! America’s so-called “Cold War” or “War on Communism” created the world we are wrestling with today, i.e., the “war on terror” the ‘war on drugs”, etc. • The Cold War was responsible for fueling the illegal drug trafficking in America beginning when drugs from Laos were shipped to America in the 1950’s – 60’s and profits from sales financed the arming of allies fighting against Ho Chi Min. Also, the flooding of African-American communities with tons of cocaine from South America with proceeds going to finance the contra’s whose task it was to destabilize the Sandinistas of Nicaragua. • The Cold War was responsible for arming, training and financing such terrorists groups as Al-Qaeda, as well as the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Believe it or not Saddam Hussein was also a CIA “Cold War” creation. • The Cold War was responsible for arming opposing African rebels in the Congo, thus, giving rise to the current “civil-unrest” in African countries like Sierra Leone. I suggest the uninformed American citizen grab him/herself a copy of Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Tree Leaves Press, New York 2005). It was during this same “Cold War” period that Robert McFarlane and Oliver North asked the Saudis for $1 million a month to help finance their own international terror campaigns. The two, North and McFarlane, also tapped the Apartheid South African government for $1 million a month for the same covert terror. Then we wonder why the Reagan/Bush administration did nothing about the genocide in South Africa that was at its peak during this time? You see, after the Boland Agreement that stopped funding for the “war on communism” the Reagan/Bush administration took two initiatives that all but destroyed America’s “black” community and changed U.S. foreign policy forever. According to Mamdani, these were 1) they turned to the drug trade for an illicit source of funds; 2) they turned to the religious right to implement those foreign policy objectives that Congress had ruled against, thus beginning a trend towards privatizing war.” Rev. Wright was, in effect, RIGHT! Remember Malcolm X made the “chicken’s coming home to roost” analogy famous amongst us. Malcolm used the proverb immediately following the assassination of JFK. Brother Malcolm was referring to the fact that America had just assassinated Patrice Lumumba and had been involved in the assassination of many other foreign leaders, so maybe the JFK assassination was an example of “reaping what you sew”, one of those good ole “Judeo-Christian” principles on which America was built. Today we know that the same American “Judeo Christian” machine that assassinated Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Lauren Kabila, Martin Luther King and Brother Malcolm, was the same machine responsible for splattering JFK’s cerebrum all over his wife in front of the entire Judeo-Christian world. Bottom line, Rev. Wright is a pastor whose only crime was telling the TRUTH! He had no cache of arms stockpiled in the basement of his church, he had no “weapons of mass destruction” and his church hasn’t and doesn’t receive any western-union transfers from Osama Bin Laden. The good Judeo-Christian Rev. Wright simply told the truth, now he’s an “anti-American villain”, who supports the “terrorist” and the “axis of evil”, [ooohhh…scary], when both these infamous boogie monsters have “Made in America” sewed in their underwear! But, even in the seriousness of this public “denunciation” and disowning/disagreeing with the good Reverend’s “anti-American-rhetoric”, I did find some humor in all of this. That laugh came from my own hood while watching black reverend’s from my area play such an agile and rhythmic game of hop-scotch trying their damnedest not to say what they really felt, something like “Yes…God Damn America!” It was like that part in the Bible wherein Jesus told the disciple Peter that he would deny him thrice before the cock crow (John 13:38). Peter wanted to be down and represent with, and for, the denounced, rejected and crucified Jesus, but at the same time he did not want the rejection, denouncing and public crucifixion that came with telling the truth in the ROMAN EMPIRE! These are Christian pastors who, by all accounts and testaments are supposed to do “what would Jesus do”. Jesus said that “the Truth shall set you free”. America was supposedly founded on a Judeo-Christian morality which holds certain “truths” to be self-evident! However, when Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton Sr., Gary Webb, and many others were moved to expound on certain evident truths, they were all denounced, disowned, messages reduced to rhetoric and assassinated! When certain MC’s of Hip Hop’s “Golden Era” (Public Enemy, KRS ONE, X-Clan, Poor Righteous Teachers, Brand Nubians, Ice Cube, Paris, Kam, Sista Souljah, etc.) were moved to high-light certain truths that they held to be self-evident, the entire movement was officially “un-officially” banned from the public domain; denounced, disowned, message reduced to worthless rhetoric and all but assassinated? So, if the countries so-called Christian leaders (white, black, etc.) want to maintain their positions of no-POWER in the current set-up, they must take the position of the high priest Caiaphas of Jesus’ day. For it was the high priest Caiaphas who said that if this man is allowed to continue with his sayings and works, the Romans will come and take all of our positions in the high places and destroy what’s left of Jewish autonomy (John 11:41-53)! Needless to say, in order to keep their positions in the high places, they sold Jesus out even though they knew he was telling THE TRUTH! It is a sad day in the world when men are threatened to denounce, disown, and disassociate themselves with the truth. If men were not afraid to speak truth to power America would not have invaded Iraq on the premise of an out-right LIE! If someone in congress or the presidents cabinet would have been brave enough to publicly tell the truth about Saddam’s “WMD’s”, over 4000 American soldiers and 120,000 Iraqi citizens would not be dead. It was George Orwell that said “in a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. It was the Apostle Paul that said “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (Gal. 4:16) WISE INTELLIGENT www.myspace.com/wiseintelligent Proper Education Always Counters Exploitation It’s NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB!
INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...BLACK TO SCHOOL
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INTELLIGENT CURRICULUMBLACK TO SCHOOL
History is a clock that people use to tell their political time of day. It is a compass that they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It also tells them where they are, and what they are. Most importantly, an understanding of history tells a people where they still must go, and what they still must be.
Dr. John Henrik Clarke (from his 1987 essay Why Africana History?)
Ok ladies and gentlemen its BLACK HISTORY month, how appropriate for my first blog of the New Year. I initially began writing something inspirational you know some journalistic libations for the noble ancestors upon whose shoulders we as a people, nation and individuals now stand. But sadly, that train of thought was derailed by a BBC article that came via the mighty Mundah and the Real News Network. The article entitled Canada Afrocentric School Sparks Debate served as a confirmation of my position that We [black folk] just dont get it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7217212.stm
The first paragraph of the article gets right to the point and focus of the article saying that A decision to create the first Afrocentric, or black-focused school funded by taxpayers in Canada's biggest city has sparked a heated debate.
Why should, or how could an African Centered school spark heated debate in a society of the western world where grandiose ideals like diversity, inclusion, tolerance, pluralism, multi-cultural and melting-pot roll off the tongues of western world citizens like stanzas from a Shakespearian play? I mean the current public school system (which is also funded by taxpayers money) is extremely Eurocentric or white-focused even when 90% of the children in attendance are non-white? So the first question that comes to my mind is that if its okay to use taxpayers money to fund a Eurocentric public school curriculum, then why should it spark heated debate to create an Afrocentric one in an African Centered School?
I believe I can say without too much rebuttal that the over whelming majority of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native citizens of Canada and America pay taxes with the same pleasant irritation as European or White American/Canadians do, and Im quite sure that they have earned and deserve the right to have an educational system that is reflective of their ethnic and cultural contributions to the nation in which they live. Why does the idea of an all-inclusive or should I say more simply an honest and balanced view of history create such negative feedback and adult angst?
I believe that if you're teaching history
Deal with straight up facts no mystery
Teach the student what needs to be taught
Cause Black and White kids both take shorts
When one doesn't know about the other ones' culture
Ignorance swoops down like a vulture
KRS ONE You Must Learn
So now that the can of worms has been opened, we can see that the western worlds non-white citizens have been paying taxes to help fund the current predominantly Eurocentric or white-focused schools throughout the entire western world to their own detriment. The article goes on to say that the scheme yes, the scheme (read plot) was approved at a packed meeting of the Toronto District School Board.
From kindergarten to the western university taxpaying non-white students are bombarded with overtly racist ideas, myths, falsities, omissions and all sorts of gross misinformation that comprise the legendary lying lore that western mis-education is fashioned of. This is why Noam Chomsky said that education is a system of imposed ignorance. I mean truth be told Pythagoras had no original patent to the concept of a theorem. The square root of the hypotenuse was used in Egypt some two-thousand years before Pythagoras was a drop of semen. Columbus discovered nothing. There were people in the New World when he got here. The journals of these same Spanish explorers confirm that West Africans had long been making the trip to the New World before Columbus was a drop of semen. The Egyptians were black! Hippocrates was NOT the father of medicine, and the Civil War was NOT fought to free the slaves because the North thought enslaving human beings was wrong! Now should non-white taxpayers continue to support and fund the perpetuation of the Eurocentic legendary lying lore?
Considering the above, we must honestly ask and answer the question of whats wrong with a public school in the west wherein the curriculum aim to use "the sources, knowledge and experiences of peoples of African descent as an integral feature of the teaching and learning environment?
With a drop out rate among young black males as high as 40%, it is obvious that the current system is not working for a very high percentage of young black people. Why then is the peoples attempt to implement a solution that has been proven to work (as evidenced by privately funded CIBI schools in the U.S.) met with such visceral public resistance from the custodians of the legendary lying lore?
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"
Malcolm X
Take the statement from Anthony Hutchinson for example, an economist and former university professor who the article says has been involved in a number of youth outreach and employment programs. The article quotes Mr. Hutchinson saying "This belief that if we teach kids about their social and cultural identity they're going to perform a lot better is just stupid." Now how can teaching people the history of themselves (good and bad) be stupid?
The above quote is disturbing and interesting because the same individual previously states in the same article that he blames the school system for marginalizing students. To marginalize someone means to make them feel unimportant and unnecessary. To lay blame for this marginalizing of black students at the foot of the school system you must know that the school is responsible for making black youth feel like they are nothing. How does the school marginalize black youth? It tells them they had no history before slavery at the hands of Euro-Americans. It teaches them that their culture is primitive or third world. It severs Egypt (and recently Ethiopia) from Africa and made them and their marvelous accomplishments apart of a fictional land mass called the middle or near east. The current Euro-centric or white-focused system teaches the black child that slavery was a blessing and forever repudiates the black world as being of no value!
The only way to reverse the lying lore of the Euro-centric or white-focused system is to establish a system that deals with the truth concerning the people that have been oppressed and exploited to no end. This must been done even if it means the establishment of a counter Euro-centric or white-focused, African-centered or black-focused school. When does Africa get to tell its side of the story? When does the Native American get to tell his story? When do ALL non-white people get to tell their story? Why have we accepted the exploiters version of the story (his-story) as the only story? I dont see any of these custodians of the legendary lying lore pointing out the undeniable fact that the current school systems of the west are Euro-centric and white-focused in their curriculum.
"what you're calling Negro history, and
African history is the missing pages of world history."
Arthur Schomburg speaking to Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Next the professor states that an African centered school is "counter-intuitive and counter-productive arguing further that Youre going to take public money from the public school system to channel towards a special interest imperative. This is a slippery slope that we do not want to go down." If you really want to start talking about what has been Counter-productive we can deal directly with the current Euro-centric system to the tune of a 40% black male drop out rate? This is not a matter of taking public money from the public school system its a matter of scraping the singularly Euro-centric and white-focused public school curriculum and replacing it with one that reflects and includes a more honest and complete historical perspectives of all of its students. Furthermore, is the current public school agenda not a special interest imperative? Are not black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American/Canadian students a special interest of the current system? I guess not. That being said, the reality of the built-in failure mechanism for black and other non-white youth in the western world public school system is crystal clear.
But how about the statement from the city's influential newspaper, The Toronto Star, who said that the idea of an African-centered school smacked of segregation, which is contrary to the values of the school system and Canadian society as a whole". If 90% of the student body in the poorest schools are predominantly black, but 90% of the student body in the wealthiest schools are predominantly whiteYOU ARE ALREADY SEGREGATED!!! What kind of a pathological flight from reality must one be suffering from not to see this?
Furthermore, how is it segregation when children of ANY RACE, ethnicity or cultural background can attend? No one has said white kids can not attend the African-centered or black focused schools. Segregation was predicated on the idea that blacks could not attend the same schools as their white counterparts. This is not the case with the African-centered school. My son attended the Afrikan Peoples Action School (APAS) in Trenton, NJ for his entire elementary school experience. In such an institution ALL CHILDREN are welcome, but in this dynamic it is pointed out that George Washington cut down the cherry tree and crossed the Delaware but it is also conveyed that he was a slave-trader that owned over 300 slaves, reportedly raped black women and sold a Blackman for a jar of molasses. This is the TRUTH! This is real and complete EDUCATION, and not legendary, lying lore!
There can be no greater tragedy than to forget one's origin and finish despised and hated by the people among whom one grew up. To have that happen would be the sort of thing to make me rise up from my grave.
Paul Robeson, 1938
Next the article lauds the mother that lost her 15 year old son to gun violence when she said the following in opposition to the African-centered school "Martin Luther King and so many of our fathers fought to come together so black and white can be together, for us to sit in the front of the bus together. What we're doing is all segregating each other. We should be one" Again this in NOT about segregating each other, its about creating a true and accurate historical educational system that ALL people can participate in and benefit from. Now lets get to the reality of segregation in 2008. At what point will we realize that America and the west are as segregated as its ever been? When you get on the bus in your hood how many white people do you see sitting next to you (front or back)? When you gaze across the street, up and down your block how many white faces do you see? When you look around your classroom in your inner-city public school how many white faces do you see? Few and far in between Im afraid.
Martin Luther King and our fathers who fought with him set out to accomplish a great workchanging the hearts, minds and attitudes of Americas white majorityunfortunately the only thing that changed were paper-precepts i.e., laws, while the hearts, minds and attitudes of the white majority remained exactly the same as they were when Martin Luther King lie bleeding from the neck on a Memphis motel balcony. In the late fourth quarter of the Civil Rights initiative Martin left us what was in my opinion, his most valuable lesson. This lesson came in the form of a premonition of sorts and was conveyed to his close friend, confidant and brother Harry Belafonte. The message was Brother HarryI believe we are integrating into a burning house
To the good people of Toronto Canada who have set out to accomplish a great workchanging the hearts, minds, and attitudes of black youthin the spirit of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Kwame Nkrumah, and all the manyOPEN THAT SCHOOLBy Any Means Necessary!!! At least Black History will then be for an entire school year!
A final reason for the African centered curriculum is the nature of the population composition in the United States. This country is composed of a variety of ethnic and racial groups. As such the country should properly be conceived of as the United States of various ethnic, national and racial groups. The Eurocentric curriculum, more or less, serves the cultural interest of most European ethnic groups. It does not serve the cultural interest of most people of African descent. Since population patterns are such that most African Americans live in predominantly African American communities and attend predominantly African American schools, it is logical that they should be taught from an African perspective if they so choose
Jacob H. Curruthers. Essay on African Centered Education
Just a little bit more of tax payer Public School history on my way out the door
It was Georg Wilhelm Hegel who, in order to lend credence to his ignorant assumption that Africa has no history, proposed that Egypt be severed from the continent and made a part of a pseudo-geographic land mass called the Near East. Hegel knew that Egypt was a black African civilization and that the certain Africans were the Egyptians, but this fact did not support his racist supposition that Africa had no history, so he had to take Egypt out of Africa. But, Hegel did not stop there. To explain the great civilizations of Carthage, Tunis, Cyrenica, etc., Hegel proposed that North Africa be considered a part of Europe ascribing it the appellation European Africa. The falsities, ideas, and assumptions of the racist George Wilhelm Hegel, are the very same ideas that shaped and developed the American Educational System. This is not good for black people in general, let alone our children.
Although the German Hegel did not contribute directly to the American System of education himself, it was rather through his Hegelian students (as they were called) William Torrey Harris, Horace Mann and John Dewey that his ideas were laid at the foundation of American education. In The Origins of American Philosophy of Education, J.J. Chambliss states that William Torrey Harris was the "central figure in rationalism's influence on American philosophy of education" (Chambliss). In Public Schools and Moral Education, Neil G. McCluskey informs us that the "consensus among historians of education and students of social thought clearly indicates that Horace Mann, William Torrey Harris, and John Dewey can be considered the triumvirate whose thought has most affected the creation and development of the present philosophy of the American public school" (McCluskey).
Neil McClusky informs us that the roots of Harris's work in the American educational system were firmly planted in Hegelian principles. The following definition of Hegelian principles shows us how Hegels students believed that all power to control the individual should be held by the institution. To the American Hegelians, education was an effective tool for developing the individual mind to promote "self-activity," or to cultivate the mind to a point at which every individual became entirely aware of his position as a subject in the complex interactions of reality. As Harris put it: "...education is the process through which the individual is led to attain his freedom" (Harris, Twentieth Annual Report). Although the ultimate goal of Hegelian education is freedom of the individual, "freedom" in the Hegelian context denotes a dependence on the influence of institutions. Institutions, as the embodiment of man's rational behavior and thought, are the ultimate tool of freedom.
For more on the Hegelian school of thought: http://gyral.blackshell.com/hegel/hegedu.html
Book List
Boone, Richard G. ed. by William T. Harris. Education in the United States. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903.
Brackett, Anna C. "The Science of Education," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, December 1878.
Chambliss, J.J. The Origins of American Philosophy of Education. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960.
Harris, William Torrey. "The Education of the Family, and the Education of the School," Journal of the American Social Science Association. XV, February 1882.
Harris, William Torrey. "The Church, the State, and the School," North American Review. CXXXIII, September 1881.
Harris, William Torrey. Twentieth Annual Report to the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Public Schools for the Year Ending August 1, 1894
Harris, "The History and Philosophy of Education," The Chautauquan III, October 1882.
McCluskey, Neil Gerard. Public Schools and Moral Education. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958.
Schaub, ed., William Torrey Harris, 1835-1935. Unknown publisher, date.
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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...INTELLIGENT KIDZ
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INTELLIGENT KIDZ
Whats good Family? I know Ive been off the radar for an extended minute but believe me I have an excellent excuseAt the end of last year while I was out on the Its NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB promo tour supporting my new album Wise Intelligent izThe Talented Timothy Taylor, I got the chance of a lifetime and I could NOT turn it down. As you all know (and for the ones who dont) the focus of my mind, body, and soul over the past 15 plus years has been on community education, upliftment, and development, but outside of doing lectures, workshops, and panel discussions Ive only had the chance to put most of my ideas, thoughts, opinions, questions, and solutions on wax. While this was cool for a minute it doesnt really have the power to realistically make a substantive and long lasting positive impact in the lives of our youth. Things have snowballed way out of control in our communities and we can longer afford to just sit on the sidelines talking about the issues and just hoping for things to get better. I think its past time for us to start balancing out our theories with direct community action, and I cant think of a better way for me at this time in my life, than helping to facilitate an after-school youth program right in my own hood!
So at the beginning of November 2007 I/we linked up with the Arline Institute to help implement an After-School tutoring program. This exciting and powerful new youth program is not only specifically designed to answer the educational and social needs of our youth, it will provide them with invaluable life skills and lessons that will prepare them to live in the real world in real time. Everything kicked off officially at the beginning of this year (2008), and is off to a fantastic start. The initial jump off is a 10 week program and its in most of the Trenton public schools as we speak. Intelligent Kidz Inc. is the "liaison between Trenton Public Schools, Parents, their Children and the Arline Institute. Over the last few months we have been out in the community making the parents and students aware of the FREE tutoring services that are available to them. After which we help to facilitate the implementation of said tutoring program in the Trenton School District.
Here goes a brief background on the Arline Institute
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 2008
Arline Institute, Inc. a mid-Atlantic regional educational consulting firm, provides comprehensive supplemental educational services (SES) through our Back-To-Basics tutoring program. The Back-To-Basics program is specifically designed for students attending public and charter schools designated "in need of improvement" by the U.S. Department of Education under the No Child Left Behind Act (2002). Arline Institute instructors work closely with parents, schools, community organizations, and local educators to implement our research-based tutoring program. Arline instructors ensure that all students improve academically by providing appropriate support, motivation and small group instruction tailored to their individual needs.
At the Arline Institute our mission is to attain and maintain leadership in the mid-Atlantic region by providing rigorous standards-based tutoring and educational consulting to underachieving urban public school students. Arline Institute is approved by the New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania Departments of Education as a provider of Supplemental Educational Services (SES) and other educational services. During this academic year, 2007-2008, we seek to be recognized as the major provider of supplemental educational services in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. We fulfill this mission through strategic partnerships with school districts, charter schools and non-profit agencies focused on underachieving urban students.
For more information about our after-school tutoring program please reach out to us at
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Now that everything is up and moving strong, I can step back into the mix. I apologize to everyone whose been trying to get at me over the last 2 monthsI sincerely appreciate all your LOVE and SUPPORT! I could not have gotten this far without you! So with all that being saidIm BACK in the building and Im ready to go to workIm going to reach out to everybody that reached out to me over the last few months for interviews and featuresWere going to make it happen!
For booking, interviews, features, and shows please contact Born Free at bornfree9@hotmail.com / intelligentmuzik@yahoo.com
I am also very proud to announce that I am apart of The Platinum Speakers Bureau. For more information about this dynamic bureau and how to book me for lectures and panel discussions please reach out to Saideh Browne at sb@platinumspeakersbureau.com
Ive begun working on the 2nd period in my Back to School series. Wise Intelligent izThe UNCONKABLE Djezuz Djonez, and I guarantee that this album is going to be more than just another CD in your collection. This project is going to be an Unforgettable, Irresistible, and Undeniable experience!
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Its NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB
INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...INTELLIGENT OUTRAGE...THEYJUST DON'T GET IT!
INTELLIGENTNEWZNET
INFORMING the HIP-HOP COMMUNITY
INTELLIGENT OUTRAGETHEY JUST DONT GET IT!
This article contains excerpts from Wise Intelligents forthcoming book "3/5 of an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed-Down Rapper.
Knowledge is the base of existence that I
Build upon ya intelligence through the power of the real
Wisdom is a purified word or an act
That can bring rap back in fact Im ill.
Get knowledge get the wisdom but in everything you gettin
Hope you get the understanding so youll see the picture clear - Wise Intelligent Im Him from Wise Intelligent izThe Talented Timothy Taylor
When I say that "Its No Longer Smart To BE Dumb" I am by no means referring exclusively to rappers and/or the Hip Hop community. Rather, I am speaking also of the greater "black" community and all of its parts!
In my hood, a.k.a. New Jersey, New Jerusalem or Dirty Jerz (which ever you prefer), the Department of Education (DOE) and all of its parts are doing more harm to black youth than the sum-total of all so-called "gangster" or "misogynistic" rap lyrics combined!
According to an August 17, 2007 Trenton Times article entitled "Schools Fall Short on Test Reports" we are informed that no less than 618 schools in New Jersey "did not meet their yearly progress standards." The report goes on to say that "517 schools went two or more years in a row without meeting the standards" and that "38 schools failed to meet the standards for seven years in a row." Seven?!
But here is the stinger for me. Trenton, NJ (a.k.a. The Land of Truth) which is barely 7.5 square miles in area has 15 schools on the list? This is damn near every school in the district. Not to mention that Trenton Central High School and every high school in the immediate suburbs (Ewing, Hamilton, Lawrence, Nottingham) are also on the list of 618 failing schools.
However this analysis is not to determine whether No Child Left Behind and its policy of policing schools works or not (we all no that it doesn't), the point is that the ineffectiveness of the American "educational" system at educating black youth was and has been a problem long before No Child Left Behind and is no new revelation. The heartache comes in seeing the doctors, ministers, and cremators of the black community launch national campaigns attacking the very same black children (the "Hip Hop" community) who have been failed by a system that is designed for them to fail!
I have heard all sorts of excuses to explain away the reality of the situation; excuses like "these children are uneducable" or that its "bad parenting" or simply "these children don't get it" or "their parents don't get it." Not once have we seen a thorough examination and evaluation of the system in which the children are embedded as the direct cause of their failure to "get it."
When we add the fact that 98% of all black youth attend these failing public schools the seriousness of the issue is made apparent!
In a 20/20 report entitled Zoned Out of a Good Education, John Stossel tells the story of 18-year-old Dorian Cain of South Carolina, who was still struggling to read a single sentence in a first-grade level book when he met him. This, despite the fact that his public schools had spent nearly $100,000 on him over 12 years. They squandered over $100,000, wasted 12 years of this boys life, and never taught him to read? This is a kid whos trying to take advantage of Brown vs. The Board of Education [Mr. Cosby], but the system failed him. We are not talking about calculus, scientific notations or quantum physics, they couldnt teach him to read?
Before you say that the child may have had a learning disability (excuse used by inadequate teaching staffs), lets see what happened next. So, Stossel says, the news program "20/20" sent Dorian to Sylvan, a private learning center, to see if teachers there could teach Dorian to read when the South Carolina public schools failed to. Astonishingly, the report tells us that this learning center Using computers and workbooks, Dorian's reading went up two grade levels -- after just 72 hours of instruction. In just three days the private learning center was able to boost this young mans reading by two whole grade levels?
I was a seed with a seed, I mean a baby with a baby
Half my teachers called me crazy when they failed to educate me
They said I had a deficit, disorder of attention
Couldnt teach me to read so they pegged me for prison - Wise Intelligent, Go With Me from Wise Intelligent izThe Talented Timothy Taylor
The public school system is a joke, and an insult to parents and children who fail for want of a good education. It was Bill Cosby who went on an endless rant about how the lower economic and lower middle economic people are [not*] holding to their end in this deal and that Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white persons problem. I mean Mr. Huxtable went as far as mocking the broken English spoken by poor black youth, saying It [your child] cant speak English. It doesnt want to speak English. I cant even talk the way these people talk. Why you aint where you is go, ra But, 18 year old Dorian Cain wanted to learn to speak English properly. His mother thought hed be taught language arts and English literature in his 12 years of taking advantage of Brown vs. Topeka, but the system failed him miserably! Why are we so afraid to look at the root cause of our issues!
Dorian Cains mother, Gena Cain, summed it all up when she said that she was thrilled with Dorian's progress but disappointed with his public schools. With Sylvan,she says it's a huge improvement. And they're doing what they're supposed to do. They're on point. But I can't say the same for the public schools," she said. . Gena Cain the report says, like most parents, doesn't have a choice which public school her kids attend. She followed the rules, and her son paid the price. Yes, Gena Cain followed all the rules, but she had no idea that her son would end up dumber after twelve years of school than he was when he entered.
The large majority of todays rappers mainstream, underground, conscious or dumbed-down are the product of the same machine that failed Dorian Cain. The average rap artist is Dorian Cain and Dorian Cain the average rap artist. No doubt, a young Dorian Cain entered the educational process willing and eager to learn, but the machine destroyed him. It mutilated his self esteem and devoured his self image and pride. Janice Hale in her study Learning While Black compared the educational progress of children who had just entered Head Start with those who had been there for two years. She found that children who had just entered performed better, regardless of social demographics. The older children who attended Head Start the longest possessed lower scores. After considering the results of her research Hale concluded that African American children do not enter school disadvantaged, they leave disadvantaged. Theres nothing wrong with children, but there is clearly something wrong with what happens to them in school. Jawanza Kunjufu, Black Students, Middle Class Teachers, p. 95, 2002
When we add the psychological effects of the racism and discrimination that many black youth have to deal with just sitting in most American classrooms throughout the school year the problem becomes even more serious. For all of us who are of the opinion that racism is no longer a factor in Americas schools just Google The Jenna 6.
Hell is the human bondagesuffered when inner conscious
Go undiscovered, due to ego and a lack of knowledge
You should go back to college, tell your professors for profit
They taught you nothing, then Molotov coattail bomb it! Wise Intelligent Intelligent Wise for Wise Intelligent izThe Talented Timothy Taylor
As it is our policy to never present a problem without presenting what we feel is the INTELLIGENT solution, here goes the solution. It is obvious what works and has been working in black communities throughout the country for the past 30 years and even before the 1960s in some parts of the US. Wherever you find an independent black school with an Afrocentric curriculum educating black youth from a psychological perspective based on their history and experiences as a people, you also find a high percentage of exceptional students with high self-esteem and enhanced racial pride; two elements that are essential for any person or group of people to build! And if you dont believe me then go ask every other racial group on this planet! From Jewish to Amish they NOT only teach their child Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, they teach them about their history (good and bad), the magnificence of their culture, and most importantly self-love and self-worth. Why are we so afraid to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done to fix our problems!
The Council of Independent Black Institutions (CIBI) (www.cibi.org) is a national model of the kind of curriculum that works for black youth. With about 40 small schools nation wide this institution continues to churn out some of the best and brightest black minds in the country. However, it is the guards at the gate of the black community who quickly say thats segregation? But, where have they been? Americas schools have been segregated since before and after Brown vs. The Board of Education. In a report done by the Community Service Society of New York we read the following:
PUBLIC EDUCATION: STILL SEGREGATED, STILL UNEQUAL
70 percent of black students across the country attend schools that have a majority of minority students. One out of three is in schools with at least 90 percent students of color.
Americas schools are, today, just as segregated as they were before Brown vs. Board of Education. More recently, says Edwin Schur, the Coleman Report on equality of educational opportunity has made clear that, almost fifteen years after the Supreme Courts historic school desegregation decisions, segregated schooling is the rule rather than the exception across the nation. Edwin M. Schur, Our Criminal Society, p. 48, 1969; James S. Coleman, Equality of Educational Opportunity, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966
The argument that independent Afrocentric schools or curriculums are based on the practice of segregation is evidence of a pathological flight from reality. The reality is that segregation, as stated in the above report is the rule rather than the exception. Yes the report was from 1966 but I used it to compare with the present situation and the following report:
Those who do not want their children to be handicapped by the learning problems of others who have suffered generations of oppression, ignorance, and neglect simply abandon the city schools that these students were being integrated into and fled to richer suburban schools. Over 52% of Americans live in the suburban areas surrounding the large metropolises (Elam, 1993, p.196). Today, Blacks, Hispanics, and poorer children dominate 23 of the nations 25 largest urban school systems (Frady, 1985, p.13). This has raised a permanent fissure in our public schools and has separated them into two separate and unequal class systems - one suburban, privileged and mostly white; and the other inner-city, poorer and mostly non-white. - Amy Golba How Does Education in Urban Schools Compare to Suburban Schools? Communicated by Marsha Heck.
In light of the above reality we must EMPLOY WHAT WORKS by ANY MEANS NECESSARY! But lets get back to what works.
One highly publicized example of what works was highlighted on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show. On this show Oprah spoke with black educators from a Ohio school district I believe, who separated the black student body (who had lower scores than everyone else) and black staff from the rest of the schools students and staff so that the black students and teachers could really see what was at stake. This was effective because it allowed black students to step out of the system and view it from a perspective that spoke directly to their history and experiences. Today those same black children are well above average and in some areas achieving higher than their peers of other nationalities.
The point is that we have a severe and extreme crisis of inadequate, inefficient and incapable education that will require severe and extreme measures to repair. The guards that have positioned themselves at the gates of the black community must begin to employ what works for black youth regardless to who that course of action might offend. Our condition is too severe to burden ourselves with being politically correct or with upsetting the current power structure or some underwriter. OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING FROM THE INSIDE OUT!!!
This by far is the most important issue confronting the black community, but somehow Michael Vick, Akon and the rappers have garnered more attention and rebuke than a system of education that is responsible for creating more Michael Vicks, 50 Cents, Snoop Doggs, CamRons, Stan Tookie Williams and Freeway Rick Rosss than all three decades of Hip Hop music combined!
And now the elders, act like we the reason why
As if our generation, fell from out the fu*kin sky
I guess the fruit are falling further from the trees
Cuz nobody wants to harvest, whats become of black seeds - Wise Intelligent Set U Free from Wise Intelligent izTalented Timothy Taylor
I guess the elders, leaders and guards of the black community, are like the black youth in my hoods public schools THEY JUST DONT GET IT!
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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...TOUR UPDATE #4
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Whats the Science People?
The Its NO LONGER Smart to be DUMB! Tour is still in perfect motion and moving at a terrific speed
The In-Store in Philly at Armands (Big Up to Steve) this past Saturday was definitely on point. I want to thank the entire staff at Armands who hosted the event and all those who came out and showed me love and support cuz thats the real fuel that keeps this and any tour rolling strong know matter whats happens along the way. And just like the in-store at Fat Beats this one a produced a few great surprises of its own
First of all the God Cee Knowledge from the Legendary Digable Planets came thru and blessed me with his presence and my other brother the God K Born Allah (Gurus people) was also in the building. The God Self Justice (Allahs Team) rolled thru and hit me with some incredible literature. Im breezing thru In the name of ALLAHThe History of Clarence 13x and the Five Percenters right now and everything is right and exact! Thanks for the LOVE God! Also my man Isaac (Trenton Stand Up!) came thru to show his LOVE and Support. And for everybody else who came in and copped the albumI just want to say THANK YOU!
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