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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

—-James Baldwin

The terms for battle (c/o Merriam-Webster):

1. Paradox: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises
2. Education: to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction
3. Conscious: perceiving, apprehending, or noticing with a degree of controlled thought or observation
4. Examine: to test by questioning in order to determine progress, fitness, or knowledge

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 ”Brothers and sisters, if you and I would just realize that once we learn to talk the language that they understand, they will then get the point. You can’t ever reach a man if you don’t speak his language. If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can’t come to him with peace. Why, good night! He’ll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can’t speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can’t communicate with him in Chinese.

You have to find out what does this man speak. And once you know his language, learn how to speak his language, and he’ll get the point. There’ll be some dialogue, some communication, and some understanding will be developed. You’ve been in this country long enough to know the language the Klan speaks. They only know one language. And what you and I have to start doing in 1965 — I mean that’s what you have to do, because most of us already been doing it — is start learning a new language. Learn the language that they understand. And then when they come up on our doorstep to talk, we can talk. And they will get the point. There’ll be a dialogue, there’ll be some communication, and I’m quite certain there will then be some understanding.”

El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 14, 1965

It’s amazing, fourty-four years later and truer words have never been spoken. Now we’re looking to our 44 to further this Understanding

There is clearly a reason they call this man Jay Smooth

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