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Kathleen Howard : Memphis, TN
I have read all the updated excerpts from the "Project 2019" book that are available on the Web site and I am so impressed by the message of Project 2019. I have also learned a great deal about black America's history and I now have a better understanding of why we have the problems that we have and why Project 2019 is the only way to fix them. Please let me know as soon as the revised edition of the book is available. I want to be first in line to get a copy.

Kathleen Howard : Memphis, TN
I never had any doubts about the value of Project 2019. I only hope that the success of Barack Obama will convince other blacks that Project 2019 is exactly what black America needs.

DENVER --- Intent on dismantling affirmative action, activists have launched a coordinated drive to cut off tax dollars for programs that offer preferential treatment based on race or gender.

The campaign aims to put affirmative action bans on the November ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The effort is being organized by consultant Ward Connerly, who has successfully promoted similar measures in California, Michigan and Washington. Supporters of affirmative action say the initiatives will be tough to block, given that Connerly has a proven ability to raise funds.

Dan Roseman : Chicago, IL
Here is another one of the millions of reasons why we need Project 2019. (Article from the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 13, 2007)

STUDY : Black, white families' income gap grows

The income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of 2,300 families for more than 30 years.

Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades -- mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.

One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset by gains among black women.

"Overall, incomes are going up. But not all children are benefiting equally from the American dream," said Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institution.

Isaacs compiled the reports for the Economic Mobility Project, a collaboration of senior economists and researchers from four Washington think tanks. The project is funded and managed by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

I don't know whether you all have seen the Black Think Tank that Tavis Smiley hosts on C-SPAN every year, but it is powerful food for thought. Here are a few of the things learned at the Black Think Tank.

Facts:

1. The first Americans or Native Americans going back to 13,000 BC were black! Look up the Folsom people who lived in Arizona.

2. One of the best reasons to stop our use of the term African American and say Black. A white person who was born in Africa, who moves to America is An African American and qualifies for financial aid, etc., but will get the jobs/pay privileges afforded to whites.

3. Look up the Slavery Law of 1665 (which stayed in effect until 1968) and the Maryland Doctrine of Exclusion (1638): both laws state that blacks must be excluded from the benefits afforded whites, and that blacks must remain noncompetitive with whites, except in sports and entertainment.

4. Two white men: Bill Gates and Larry Elision, combined have more wealth than the combined wealth of all 36 million blacks in America. Civil Rights did not change the economic landscape or the balance of power in America.

5. Asians received 80% of all government minority set aside contracts. Hello!!

6. Blacks eat more fish than whites by a 4 to 1 margin. For every dollar that whites spend on fish, blacks spend $9 on fish. Fish sold wholesale for $1 will retail at $2.50 - $3.00. Guess what business we should be in as Blacks?

7. There isn't any black owned national cable, or major network television stations. Cathy Hughes, the black woman who owns our only black owned radio stations, plans to sell to white owners after hearing the deal Bob Johnson received for selling BET. (Cathy Hughes is from OMAHA y'all!)

8. There are no black owned companies on the Wall Street Stock Exchange; where blacks own the majority or controlling interest of the stock.

9. Ninety-six percent (96%) of all black inmates are men.

10. Over the next two years 440,000 black inmates will be released from prison. The State has no place to put them as they re-enter society. A profitable business would be a Halfway house!

11. In 1860, 98% of all Blacks in America worked for White people. In 2001, 98% of all Blacks in America still work for white people.

12. In 1860, blacks in America had a combined net worth of one half of 1 percentage point. Guess what, in 2001, after Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson, Oprah, Shaq, NAACP, and Urban League, our combined net worth is half a percentage point.

13. For every dollar earned by a Jewish person, that dollar touches 12 to 18 Jewish hands before it leaves their community. For every dollar earned by a black person it leaves the community soon as he or she earns it.

14. The last week of April 2003 in Washington, DC black teenagers were arrested and booked for eating McDonalds on the metro subway. Cops cited recent 5-4 court decision as the permission to arrest law breakers even for minor offenses.

15. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of all hate crimes in America are against blacks.

16. After we get through being pleased that we have carpet in our office, a secretary, our name on the door and make six figures, we do
not own anything.

17. What will happen if you miss 6 months of work without pay? All we've left for our children is debt not an inheritance. You cannot pass welfare or food stamps onto our kids as a nest egg! We are not even in the race.

18. By the way, the word "race" hit the English language in the 16th century when Europeans held a contest to see who will win the race to gather the lost wealth through exploitation of blacks.

19. You must read Powernomics by Claude Anderson. This is our blueprint to create wealth, not just have a job, but be a business owner, so you can hire people, be listed on the stock exchange,and develop businesses to meet our needs.

This is "Good Food" for thought. Share this with children, grand children, best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, neighbor, e-mail buddies, etc.

Wow! We have much work to do! While we see lots of ghetto fabulous images all around, change has to begin with each of us...keep laying the foundation of excellence (spiritually, mentally and physically) and our children will take it to the next level with the help of God and many, many prayers!

SHARE THIS WITH BLACK FRIENDS, FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES!!!

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Sandra Brown : President, Howard University Alumni Association (HUAA)
"As I wrote earlier, I was to attend (and did) an "HBCU Stakeholders" Meeting. I facilitated a discussion on HBCU student graduation rates. Read for yourself the alarming state of affairs for HBCU students, especially our Alma Mater.

The discussion comments ranged greatly; however, most believe that ranking is determined by admission practices. Schools with a liberal admission practice tend to rank lower. On the other hand, schools ranking high practice a more restrictive admission program.

The situation calls for more action from alumni. What will be your next step?"

(Note: Ms. Brown's comments are in reference to the following article. Ms. Brown is not the author of the article.)

(Excerpts from "The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education." The entire article is available at : http://www.jbhe.com/preview/winter07preview.html)

BLACK STUDENT COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES INCH HIGHER BUT A LARGE RACIAL GAP PERSISTS

"Nationwide, the black student college graduation rate remains at a dismally low 43 percent. But the college completion rate has improved by four percentage points over the past three years. As ever, the black-white gap in college graduation rates remains very large and little or no progress has been achieved in bridging the divide.

Throughout the nation, black enrollments in higher education have reached an all-time high. But a more important statistical measure of the performance of blacks in higher education is that of how many black students are completing school and earning a college degree.

The economic gains that come from a college degree are transparently obvious. Department of Education data shows that, as expected, black students who earn a four-year college degree have incomes that are substantially higher than blacks who have only some college experience but have not earned a degree.

Most important, in view of the huge penalty race discrimination has imposed on African Americans in the United States, is the fact that blacks who complete a four-year college education have a median income that is now near parity with similarly educated whites.

But the good news is severely tempered by the unacceptably low college completion rate of black students. According to the most recent statistics, the nationwide college graduation rate for black students stands at an appallingly low rate of 43 percent.* This figure is 20 percentage points below the 63 percentage rate for white students. On this front, the only positive news is that over the past three years the black student graduation rate has improved by four percentage points...

Graduation Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

We come now to a most disappointing set of statistics. The graduation rate of African-American students at the nation?s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) tends to be much lower than the graduation rate for black students at the nation?s highest-ranked institutions. Yet the graduation rate at a significant number of HBCUs is well above the nationwide average for black student graduations, which, as stated earlier, currently stands at an extremely low rate of 43 percent.

By a large margin, the highest black student graduation rate at a historically black college belongs to the academically selective, all-women Spelman College in the city of Atlanta . In fact, the Spelman black student graduation rate of 77 percent is higher than the black student graduation rate at 12 of the nation?s 56 high-ranking predominantly white colleges and universities referred to earlier. Spelman?s unusual strength shows in the fact that it has a higher black student graduation rate than do such prestigious and primarily white colleges as Bates, Colby, Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Claremont McKenna, Chapel Hill, and Carnegie Mellon.

Following Spelman in the rankings, the next-highest black student graduation rate among the HBCUs was at Fisk University . At Fisk, 63 percent of the entering black students go on to graduate within six years. Claflin University also has a black student graduation rate of 63 percent. Hampton University , Miles College , Howard University , Morehouse College , and Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina sadly are the only other HBCUs that graduate at least half of their black students within six years.

Here is the worst news of all: At 20 HBCUs two thirds or more of all entering black students do not go on to earn a diploma. The lowest graduation rate was at the University of the District of Columbia , where only 8 percent of entering freshmen go on to earn a bachelor's degree. At Texas Southern University in Houston , 15 percent of entering students complete college.

The low graduation rates at black colleges are due to a number of reasons. Many of the students enrolled at these institutions are from low-income families, often ones in which there are few books in the home and where neither parent nor grandparent went to college. In addition, the black colleges on the whole have very small and totally inadequate endowments. They often lack the resources necessary to generate funds for student financial aid. Often they are unable to furnish sufficient aid packages for upperclassmen to permit them to stay in school. This circumstance appears to be a major factor in accounting for the low black student graduation rate at these schools. But probably the most important explanation for the high dropout rate at the black colleges is the fact that large numbers of African-American HBCU students do not come to college with strong academic preparation and study habits. The graduation results at the HBCUs are worsened by the fact that flagship universities in the southern states often tend to shuttle the lowest-performing black applicants into the state-controlled black colleges in their states."

Loretta Love Huff : Emerald Harvest Consulting, LLC
The following article provides additional fuel for the case that Project 2019 is making.

"Average Income Increase for College Grads" by Imani Josey (The Hilltop, Howard University)

"College graduates are seeing an income increase in recent years. According to new census information, adults with a bachelor’s degree average more than $20,000 a year than those who have only attained a high school diploma or GED."

(Follow the link below to read the entire article.)

http://media.www.thehilltoponline.com/media/storage/paper590/news/2007/01/31/BusinessTechnology/Average.Income.Increase.For.College.Grads-2688091.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thehilltoponline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com&mkey=1967742

Bryan Sanford : Detroit, MI
After being alerted to this matter by my church pastor, I was impressed to do some further research. Attached is a link to a "YouTube" site that will inform you of all you need to know about the utter lack of humanity that is taking place in Sudan and Darfur. PLEASE take the time to:
(1) send this information to every person that you know
(2) write or call your Congressman to register a compliant
(3) be as creative and thoughtful as you can in determining how you can best increase the awareness of this grave problem that has existed in Sudan and Darfur for, at least, the past 3 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUb1Hzof8M4&mode=related&search=
Also see : www.savedarfur.org

May God bless you all and your families.

"12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself" : Written by Nannie Helen Burroughs (Circa Early 1900's)

(1) The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership.
* The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls "a good time." The Dr. Kelly Miller said, "The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs."

(2) The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself.
* It is the "Divine Plan" that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5:8) to do--Carry his own load--"Take up your bed and walk."

(3) The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive.
* He must learn to "run his community up"--not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not--some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.

(4) The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure.
* Knowing what to wear--how to wear it--when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.

(5) The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.

(6) The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance.
* The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship.
* We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance-- satisfied ignorance --is a millstone about the neck of the race. It is democracy's greatest burden.
* Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards.
* It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.

(7) The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His "Color" And To White People's Attitude.
* The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun.
* God never intended that a man's color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction . It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan. He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone "RIGHTS" mad and "DUTY" dumb.

(8) The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits.
* He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job--such as petty quarrelling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and--too often--liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!

(9) He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places.
* Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered.
* There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration.
* Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services.
* It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation.
* The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.

(10) The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People--Not For Negro People, Only.
* To do business, he will have to remove all typical "earmarks," business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously--in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.

(11) The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had--(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did
* Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel.
* A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible "common people." A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never "things apart from the people." They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to "Come on!" Dante stated a fact when he said, "Show the people the light and they will find the way!"
* There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the "latter-day leaders." In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there.
"Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet."
* The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A's, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.

(12) The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. "Remember."
* Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that "I the Lord thy God delivered you" -- through human instrumentalities.
* The American Negro has had and still has friends--in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race--for their brothers in bonds.
* The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward-- "God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is" sure to win out. Get to work! That's the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R
* In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!

Rodney Coates : Miami University, Ohio
"Coming to PBS on Feb. 9th and the 16th from 9PM to 11PM is the four part series Slavery And The Making Of America, produced by Dante James, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. Dante is an incredible filmmaker who has produced many award wining films among them biographies on Marian Anderson and A. Philip Randolph. He worked with the late great filmmaker Henry Hampton at Blackside and was the executive producer of Hampton's last series This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys.

Slavery And The Making Of America tells the story of slavery from the point of view of the enslaved. The series recognizes the strength, humanity and dignity of the enslaved and redefines them as pro-active freedom fighters not passive victims.

It is essential to pass this email on to friends and family and encourage them to watch. If we can create a large audience for this important series PBS will be forced to produce and air more programs that address the
African-American experience.

There are also two web sites for the series they are www.pbs.org/slavery and www.slaveryinamerica.com.

Please pass this email on and be sure to tune in. If you have the opportunity, this is truly worth watching"

Curtis Brady : Chicago, IL
"I sent in comments a couple of months ago saying that I thought Project 2019 was great but I did not know a lot about it. Since then, I have read the book and a lot of things on the Web site. I am now convinced that Project 2019 is the best thing that African-Americans have going for them and I intend to do my part. I have started talking to some people about what we can do to help. Thank you again for your work.

(Previous comments:)
("My comment is that I don't know how Project 2019 will work. I guess I should read the book and that kind of thing. But I can say that Project 2019 is the only thing that I have seen in my short life that makes me think that older African-Americans really care about younger African-Americans. I like the idea that you all are looking out for our future.")

Christina Anderson : North Carolina
"I saw the notice about the Project 2019 Movement radio program that is coming in June. Just so you know, I will be listening every Monday evening. I will also help to spread the word because Project 2019 is something that we really need. Thank you for doing this."

Michael Gaines : Itasca IL
The following is a very informative article by Tyrone D. Taborn:

America's High Tech "Invisible Man"

You may not have heard of Dr. Mark Dean. And you aren't alone. But almost everything in your life has been affected by his work.

See, Dr. Mark Dean is a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is in the National Hall of Inventors. He has more than 30 patents pending. He is a vice president with IBM. Oh, yeah. And he is also the architect of the modern-day personal computer. Dr. Dean holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon. And, Dr. Mark Dean is an African American.

So how is it that we can celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IBM personal computer without reading or hearing a single word about him?

Given all of the pressure mass media are under about negative portrayals of African Americans on television and in print, you would think it would be a slam dunk to highlight someone like Dr. Dean.

Somehow, though, we have managed to miss the shot. History is cruel when it comes to telling the stories of African Americans. Dr. Dean isn't the first Black inventor to be overlooked. Consider John Standard, inventor of the refrigerator, George Sampson, creator of the clothes dryer, Alexander Miles and his elevator, Lewis Latimer and the electric lamp. All of these inventors share two things:

One, they changed the landscape of our society; and, two, society relegated them to the footnotes of history. Hopefully, Dr. Mark Dean won't go away as quietly as they did. He certainly shouldn't.

Dr. Dean helped start a Digital Revolution that created people like Microsoft's Bill Gates and Dell Computer's Michael Dell. Millions of jobs in information technology can be traced back directly to Dr. Dean.

More important, stories like Dr. Mark Dean's should serve as inspiration for African-American children. Already victims of the "Digital Divide" and failing school systems, young, Black kids might embrace technology with more enthusiasm if they knew someone like Dr. Dean already was leading the way.

Although technically Dr. Dean can't be credited with creating the computer -- that is left to Alan Turing, a pioneering 20th-century English mathematician, widely considered to be the father of modern computer science -- Dr. Dean rightly deserves to take a bow for the machine we use today. The computer really wasn't practical for home or small business use until he came along, leading a team that developed the interior architecture (ISA systems bus) that enables multiple devices, such as modems and printers, to be connected to personal computers.

In other words, because of Dr. Dean, the PC became a part of our daily lives. For most of us, changing the face of society would have been enough. But not for Dr. Dean. Still in his early forties, he has a lot of inventing left in him.

He recently made history again by leading the design team responsible for creating the first 1-gigahertz processor chip. It's just another huge step in making computers faster and smaller. As the world congratulates itself for the new Digital Age brought on by the personal computer, we need to guarantee that the African-American story is part of the hoopla surrounding the most stunning technological advance the world has ever seen.

We cannot afford to let Dr. Mark Dean become a footnote in history. He is well worth his own history book.

Loretta Love Huff : Phoenix, AZ
The following is a very informative USA Today article by Yolanda Young regarding black spending habits.

"These are tough economic times, especially for African-Americans, for whom the unemployment rate is more than 10%. Alarmingly, rather than belt-tightening, the response has been to spend more. In many poor neighborhoods, one is likely to notice satellite dishes and expensive new cars.

According to Target Market, a company that tracks black consumer spending, blacks spend a significant amount of their income on depreciable products. In 2002, the year the economy nose-dived; we spent $22.9 billion on clothes, $3.2 billion on electronics and $11.6 billion on furniture to put into homes that, in many cases, were rented.

Among our favorite purchases are cars and liquor. Blacks make up only 12% of the U.S. population, yet account for 30% of the country's Scotch consumption. Detroit, which is 80% black, is the world's No. 1 market for Cognac.

So impressed was Lincoln with the $46.7 billion that blacks spent on cars that the auto maker commissioned Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the entertainment and fashion mogul, to design a limited-edition Navigator replete with six plasma screens, three DVD players and a Sony PlayStation 2.

The only area where blacks seem to be cutting back on spending is books; total purchases have gone from a high of $356 million in 2000 to $303 million in 2002.

This shortsighted behavior, motivated by a desire for instant gratification and social acceptance, comes at the expense of our future. The National Urban League's "State of Black America 2004" report found that fewer than 50% of black families owned their homes compared with more than 70% of whites.

According to published reports, the Ariel Mutual Funds/Charles Schwab 2003 Black Investor Survey found that when comparing households where blacks and whites had roughly the same household incomes, whites saved nearly 20% more each month for retirement, and 30% of African-Americans earning $100,000 a year had less than $5,000 in retirement savings. While 79% of whites invest in the stock market, only 61% of African-Americans do. Certainly, higher rates of unemployment, income disparity and credit discrimination are financial impediments to the economic vitality of blacks, but so are our consumer tastes.

By finding the courage to change our spending habits, we might be surprised at how far the $631 billion we now earn might take us."

(Yolanda Young's next book is SPADE: A Critical Look at Black America.)

Name Withheld By Request
"I don't like to admit it, but there was a time when I think that I was ashamed to be an African-American. I was young and ignorant and just did not know any better. I am thankful that I got enough education and knowledge to understand that our people have nothing to be ashamed of. And thanks to Project 2019, I am turning another corner. I am beginning to understand how great my people really are and how they have the potential to be even greater. I am going to learn everything there is to know about Project 2019 and I am going to do my part. I really want to help black children to grow up being proud of who they are by teaching them all the things we had to overcome to get where we are today."

SOBE / CABE (www.StateOfBlackEducation.org)
Harvard University Scholarship is to be offered again, this year- but competition is fierce fierce and race will play a factor in favor of poor white students.

If you know of a family earning less than $40,000 a year with an HONOR student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The "prestigious" university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free...no tuition and no student loans!

Please note that there are a very limited number of these scholarships and "honor" student most likely means an all "A" student in all of one's high school years as well as scoring very high on the SAT AND graduating from a high school that has a tradition of high percentages of its seniors entering college. Rural/suburban high schools will probably outweigh urban high school in Harvard's decision-making process. In addition, students interested in the sciences will probably be weighted favorably. Of course, lots of extra-curricula activities will be a major plus.

To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making less than $40,000 a year visit Harvard's financial aid web site at:

http://adm-is.fas.harvard.edu/FAO/index.htm ---or ---
call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495- 1581

( Click here for : SCHOLARSHIPS And FINANCIAL AID informatio links )

Curtis Brady : Chicago, IL
"My comment is that I don't know how Project 2019 will work. I guess I should read the book and that kind of thing. But I can say that Project 2019 is the only thing that I have seen in my short life that makes me think that older African-Americans really care about younger African-Americans. I like the idea that you all are looking out for our future."

SOBE / CABE (www.StateOfBlackEducation.org)

Available Scholarships - Need More African Americans To Apply

Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with someone who does. Pass this scholarship information on to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations that have donated moneys for scholarship use to
African Americans, a great deal of the money is being returned because of a lack of interest.

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE NOT APPLYING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS! PARENTS, HEADS UP!

No one is going to knock on our doors and ask if we can use a scholarship. Take the initiative to get your children involved. There is no need for money to be returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it.

Please pass this information on to family members, nieces, nephews, friends with children etc. We must get the word out that money is available. If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. Our youth really could use these scholarships.

( Click here for : SCHOLARSHIPS And FINANCIAL AID informatio links )

Paulette Malden : Chicago, IL

"I want to share the following information from www.BlackAmericaWeb.com (BAW) regarding remarks made by Dr. Cosby on May 17, 2004."

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When Bill Cosby was called to the stage of Constitution Hall last week to receive an award for his philanthropy during a Washington, D.C. gala that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, what the comedian said was anything but funny.

Cosby used his time on stage to applaud the sacrifices made by the civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s and to complain that too many blacks today are wasting away the opportunities that the Civil Rights Movement made possible for them.

His words sparked a heated debate among blacks — and a feeding frenzy among right-wing commentators who have tried to turn Cosby’s remarks to their advantage. While most media reports on this matter have been based on second-hand accounts of what Cosby said, BlackAmericaWeb.com has obtained an audiotape portion of his speech to share with its readers.

Jesse Jackson once said that “Content without context is pretext.” Mindful of that admonition, we offer this reality check on some of what Cosby had to say during that controversial speech.

Bill Cosby on the Poor Verbal Skills of many Young Blacks:
“I can’t even talk the way these people talk: ‘Why you ain’t, where you is’…I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. It’s all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and when you got in the house you switched to English. Everybody knows that at some point you switch to English, except these knuckleheads.”

“We’re raising our own home-grown immigrants.”

BAW Reality Check:
Last year the College Board, which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) reported that while test scores for virtually every other racial and ethnic group rose, blacks students made no progress on the exam between 2001 and 2002. Black students had the lowest average score of all groups in both the math and verbal portions of the test.

Bill Cosby on Blacks and Crime:
“I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange (prison jump) suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you don’t know he had a pistol?”

“Looking at the incarcerated, these people are not political prisoners. These people are going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake. Then we’re all outraged. Ah, the cops shouldn't have shot him. What the hell was he doing with the piece of pound cake in his hands? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. I looked at it and I had no money, and something called parenting said ‘if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother; plus you’re gonna to get your butt kicked.’”

BAW Reality Check:
The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 12 percent of black men between the ages of 25 and 29 were in jail or prison in June 2002. Nearly 560,000 black men between the ages of 20 and 39 were incarcerated at that time.

Bill Cosby on Out-of-Wedlock Births to Blacks:
“Grandmother, mother and great-grandmother in the same place raising children and the child knows nothing about love or respect from any one of the three of them. All the child knows is give me, give me, give me.”

“We’re not parenting ladies and gentlemen. Listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backward; isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with the hat on backwards and pants down around their crack. Isn’t that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?”

“Isn’t it a sign of something when she’s got a dress on all the way up to her crack?”

BAW Reality Check:
Sixty-eight percent of all babies born to black women in 2002 were born out of wedlock, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Vital Statistics Report.

Carla Abram : State University of New York
"I was wondering what is the contribution expected from Black Student Union's and African American Student Organizations in higher educatuion to Project 2019? I am currently a member of a BSU and have not heard of this from any national conference solicitation as addressing this agenda. I personally think that our students should be involved in its progress."

Manny Lucus : "The Onion" (Volume 39 Issue 51)
"Just because I happen to live with my four brothers and sisters in my mom's two-bedroom South Side apartment, work at Taco Bell, and don't have a car, some ignorant types assume that I don't have much money. But, as you can clearly see from my $220 Fubu jacket and $95 Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt, I could not possibly be poor.

The kind of name-brand clothing I wear is very expensive. See these Karl Kani jeans? Eighty-eight dollars. Would I spend that kind of money on a pair of jeans if I were poor? Of course not. If I were poor, I'd think $88 was way too much to spend on a pair of jeans that, with the exception of a tiny Karl Kani logo embroidered on the front right pocket, are practically indistinguishable from a plain old pair of $25 Levi's. But I don't think that's too much to spend because, for a well-off person like myself, money is no object.

Sure, I make $5.90 an hour at Taco Bell, but that couldn't possibly be my only source of income, could it? If my total weekly take-home pay were only $175, why in the world would I spend practically that much on a Nautica sweater and pair of Timberlands? That would mean I'd have spent 40 hours slinging Chalupas just for that one shopping trip to the mall. That'd just be plain stupid. So, obviously, I must be rolling in dough. And I am. You can tell by my special non-poor-people clothing.

Yes, it's obvious that I'm not like all those other losers who are working at Taco Bell and living with their moms. No, I'm a player. Take, for example, my socks. If I didn't have money to burn, I certainly wouldn't spend $22 for a pair of basic white athletic socks with a teeny-tiny Calvin Klein "CK" on them, would I? Of course not. I'd need to save my cash to get my telephone reconnected, or to pay off my loitering fine, or to help out my mom with the grocery bill. But, luckily, I'm not in that situation, and everyone knows it just by looking at my clothes.

I'll admit it: A lot of people here on the South Side are poor. In fact, most of my relatives are poor, including my mother and all my siblings. Knowing that, you might assume that I don't have that much money, either. But just look at these Lugz boots. And look at this Sean John baseball cap. They prove that I'm in an entirely different social class from my relatives, as well as from all those suckers who ride the bus with me every day.

Except for Angela, that is. I met her Monday on the C-route. She clearly belongs to a higher class of people like myself. I could tell because she was decked out from head to toe in expensive gear: Fubu jersey, Pepe jeans, and Fila shoes, not to mention a big gold chain around her neck. Angela was holding her two-year-old son, but he obviously isn't placing much of a financial strain on her, as he was wearing a complete matching Abercrombie & Fitch outfit, which must have cost around $140. Recognizing how much Angela and I had in common, I asked her out on the spot. We went to dinner at Denny's that very same night."

Remel K. Moore : Executive Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana from 1996-2000
"William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an educator who believed that education was not for the intelligentsia, the well-schooled or aspiring scholar alone. His career and life was devoted to pursuing, sharing and promoting education on college campuses, but also among the community as director of publications through his writings and editorship of The Crisis, the official information organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Certainly, Dr. Du Bois believed that young minds should be challenged to think, even dangerously, if they were being creative, timely and pertinent to the challenges of today and tomorrow. He instructed students in history and economics at Atlanta University. He was strongly compelled to ensuring that the future leaders, found and bred on university campuses, were challenged by the most promising minds of the time. Yet mindful of the thirst of the African American community to be challenged with new ways of thinking about their condition and changing current circumstances, he also believed in the capacity of the so-called masses to think, coalesce around an idea, and move society forward in a positive direction thus his continuing passion to providing progressive views for the public's consumption.

In fact, Dr. Du Bois perceived education as a companion to efforts to promote African people. "Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. Work alone will not do it unless inspired by the right ideals and guided by intelligence. Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life." Dr. Du Bois viewed the lives of African people as consumed by work with little recognition given to working people as a thinking people. When he began his life's profession and inclination as a teacher/professor and writer, he focused on Africans born in the United States. However, as early as 1898, he soon became concerned with the condition of African people worldwide with his pan Negroism exhortations rooting later Pan Africanism ideals. Not surprisingly, Dr. Du Bois ended his life while pursuing the gigantic effort of compiling the Encyclopedia Africana.

Dr. Du Bois wrote numerous articles and more than twenty books, with the hope that by sharing his thoughts on group organization, the plight of African peoples, segregation, social injustice and so on, that individuals in communities would move towards action, change and equity. Underlying the civil rights movement, at its foundation, are the writings of Du Bois and others. The writings of Dr. Du Bois in The Crisis, other newspaper or journal articles and books could be read, reread, shared and discussed in dining rooms, churches and community centers. Dr. Du Bois was certain that education, with the purpose of instructing a nation, had to be extensively and publicly promoted through vehicles of public information. He did not underestimate the capacities of his readers to understand and react to his urging commentary. He wrote with the assumption and expectation that readers and discussants would comprehend tenets raised with perceptive and reflective consideration

Always venturing beyond the known territory and safe boundaries, Dr. Du Bois dared to think, say and write ideals that became the structural foundations for the Niagara Movement, NAACP, Pan Africanism, world peace and nuclear disarmament while sharing and espousing socialism and communism even at the threat to his personal rights and safety. While under investigation by the United States government for his relationships with Iron Curtain leaders who held him in high regard and, no doubt, his chairmanship of the Peace Information Center, Dr. Du Bois responded affirmatively to yet another request to educate the masses, now on the African continent.

Spanning the African World, Dr. Du Bois sought to fulfill a dream of President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to enlighten millions of Africans of their own glorious history albeit largely absent from African peoples' written record (except by Europeans' assessments). Dr. Du Bois long-held belief in the value of the written word matched President Nkrumah's esteem for the authorship, permanence and commitment to truth-telling of Africa's history and development as could best be told by African people themselves. President Nkrumah understood the immensity if this mission. Dr. DuBois, in spite of his age, felt that he was up to the task.

Dr. Du Bois was stimulated by the myriad of possibilities and the richness of the potential posed by this awesome task and responsibility. Living in Ghana, he focused on the work before him but never hesitated to meet and talk with school children. He continued to inspire youth with the importance of education gathering them before him in last days. Dr. Du Bois was unable to complete the Encyclopedia Africana but his life continues to be a beacon to those who would seek education as the tool to life, indeed to live life fully, education must teach life."

Dorothy Booker : Indiana
"I just want to say I support Project 2019. I have three sons who are seven, five, and two years old and it is nice to know that there are other prople who are also thinking about their future. I promise I will do everything that I can to make sure that my kids learn everything they can possibly learn and that they go to college. We will definitely have something to celebrate in the year 2019."

The Purpose Of Education, By Martin L. King Jr. (Morehouse College, 1948) -- (Submitted by Mileka Aljuwani Milwaukee, WI)
"As I engage in the so-called "bull sessions" around and about the school, I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end.

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one's self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The late Eugene Talmadge, in my opinion, possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America. Moreover, he wore the Phi Beta Kappa key. By all measuring rods, Mr. Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that I am an inferior being. Are those the types of men we call educated?

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.

If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, "brethren!" Be careful, teachers!"

Bruce H. Edwards : Lexington, KY
Click here to read "LeBron James, 50 Cent... Public Enemies #1" by Bruce Edwards of the Lexington, Kentucky Chapter of Project 2019. Click here for Bruce Edwards biographical information.

Carla E. Brown : New York
"I just ran across your website and I want to voice my agreement with your message. I can't imagine why others, especially are so-called black leaders, are not saying the same things. We can sit around and complain or we can do something positive. Project 2019 is definitely something positive. I hope all black Americans are paying attention. Project 2019 may be the only thing that will ever save black America. May God bless you and what you are trying to accomplish."

Laurdine (Michael and Zack) : Chicago, IL
"During Black History Month, I had the pleasure of meeting Charles Sanford (the author of "Project 2019") at a lecture he gave at Malcolm X College. After reading "Project 2019," my sixteen year old son and his friend also had the opportunity to read it. We have now decided to join the fight to help black Americans achieve "educational parity" by the year 2019. Please let us how we can help the movement."

Raymond L. Baker : Atlanta, GA
“I have just read the information about the campaign to have "Slavery" recognized as a proper noun when referring to the 400-year ordeal of African people. This makes all the sense in the world to me and I have already started to spread the word.”

Mike Ramey : On Line Book Reviews

“Only Black America Can Save Black America”

Before you purchase a copy of “Project 2019 : Socioeconomic Equality Through Formal Education” by Charles E. Sanford, be warned. It’s one of those books that will keep you turning the pages through an entire weekend (1998, Hundred School Publishing, USA, 219 Pages)

Sanford does a skillful job of stating his case for true Black progress in the United States. The historical references and statistical information provided by him are easy to digest, and, if need be, easier to teach in a classroom setting. In fact, I would recommend this book be at the top of the Black History Month list for anyone serious about solutions, instead of excuses, when it comes to Black Pride and our success as a people.

Have you ever picked up a book, and from the opening pages found that YOU had actually spoken these items to yourself or your family? One can’t help but to identify with this work at that level. This ‘twenty-year plan’ for our success as a people, according to Sanford’s preface, was birthed during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

The book is composed of some 24 separate issues, ranging from slavery, racism, and our winning the Civil Rights struggle, coming up to our need to re-emphasize the value of an education to our youth. Sanford is bold enough to mention the types of critics he will likely find as the clock continues to tick towards 2019, as well as the pluses and minuses of what could happen to our people if the plan is put into motion into EVERY Black home.

Sanford’s work should be in a second edition as public interest continues to grow. It is the first work of its type in this still new millennium that is not shrill, nor condemning. It states the facts, and puts down the challenge. Either WE, as a people, are going to have to get back to demanding that our youth stay in school, or we will not achieve as a people.

I would recommend this book for anyone with children of middle-school age and higher. This book would also find a home with some of our ‘at risk’ youth, who may be either incarcerated, or on probation or parole. It will give them something more than they can find on television and the movies. It will give them hope that they can turn their lives around, and become productive citizens. I especially like how Sanford handled the voting and Affirmative Action issues. Some great food for thought…and traction for real community action. For purchasing information, check out the Website: http://www.project2019.com, or buzz the author at project2019@prodigy.net. You won’t be sorry to make the inquiry…or investment in the book.

Phozisa Malusi : South Africa
"I'm a 25yr old black woman. I'm a South African woman who beleives firmly that the diginity of our people will be restored by other Black people. We just have to work on the renewal of our minds. In South Africa we have what is called the Affirmation Action that is meant to fix the imbalances of the past. Yet it is still the white man that holds the managerial position and is making critical decisions about the future of the black employee. So many of our black graduates are still without jobs. So many of our brilliant and talented high school children are without scholarships and cannot further their studies. In South Africa we can boast of a democratic government but that doesn't mean much to the average black person who still struggles for a job and an education.

I and a group of friends, would like to establish a movement called Black Youth Initiative. The purpose of which would be to promote the restoration of the culture of learning in our schools and therefore restoring the dignity of Africa. We would focus on young people in our townships by going to schools which are struggling and assist them in attaining dissent matric (grade 12)results. We hope to partner with school management and with government academic intervention programmes, we'd come up with a year long motivation and youth development programme focusing on each learner. We'd develop activities that will strengthen the learner - parent - teacher relationship ....... we'd like to call this " partnerships for change ". We believe that success starts on the inside and its reflected on the outside .... so we'd look at issues affecting the learners which are not solely academic.

We want the poorest of the poor to believe in themselves and their abilities. We'd take them away on youth camps and come up with activities in their schools.

We hope to use professional young people from the church, society who are engineers, attorneys, doctors, specialists in different fields. We'd invite them to talk to students, concentrating mostly on those professionals who managed to attain an education despite the apartheid and poverty. Mainly professionals who studied in conditions worse off than the current learners . We'd also like to include issues like HIV/Aids as you cannot deal with young people and not deal with their issues holistically . We hope to be partnering with large corporations that could guarantee scholarships for the students. We'd also hold workshops and seminars on issues such as entreprenuership, developing a savings culture and so on . We have so many ideas and programmes that we've drafted down. We need assistance in getting the whole programme and movement off the ground. Any help and advice you might offer would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thank you for your time and God Bless you on your endeavours."

Bruce Edwards : Lexington, Kentucky

"The American Game"
So small our slice of the American pie
I've spent countless hours wondering why
Why have we so little
While others have the lion's share
Why do foreigners take part in the harvest?
While our cupboards remain so despairingly bare

( © 2001 Bruce Edwards )

Minister Paul Scott : operationmedia@yahoo.com
"In dealing with the patience that it took to deal with those brothers who were less culturally aware during the Black Power Era of the 60's, someone said that "every Negro is a potential Black man." In the 21st century; The Afrikan Power Era our slogan should be "every Thug is a potential Afrikan."

It is imperative that we look at this Thug/gangsta image that has been held up as the essence of "black manhood" and more importantly the ramifications that it has for Black men, Black women and most importantly, Black children.

If we trace the creation of the "Thug" we must, of course, start with the destruction of the black masculinity during the African Holocaust (transatlantic slave trade). Before the Africans were brought here bound in chains, they had been stripped of their manhood through an intense "seasoning" process, the horrors of which have never been fully realized by this society. Upon arrival to America, the enslaved African was treated like one of the animals of the field and was used for two purposes labor and "breeding." It has been recorded that many Black men were lynched right in front of their pregnant wives so the fear that she felt would be transferred into the unborn child. It is also said that the slave owner would sometimes snatch a black woman away from her husband in the middle of the night and make the husband watch as he brutally raped her; further stripping him of his masculinity.

After the end of "physical" slavery instead of declining, the attack on black manhood intensified as the white man never would forget to "put the black man in his place" by constantly regarding him as "boy" regardless of the age. That is why we have so many "men" behaving as "boys" today. I have heard it said that the trend of "sagging" (walking around with your pants hanging off your behind) which many of our young people think is so cool, came about because when a white man would see a black man with his pants pulled up, he would make him drop them down because "only men were supposed to wear their pants pulled up."

Later during the Civil Rights era while the emphasis should have been on regaining our manhood and culture, the mainstream Civil Rights groups concentrated heavily on sharing a toilet or a lunch counter with white folks. One of the main failures of the Civil Rights Movement was focusing on integration instead of the social, economic and spiritual empowerment of the Black community. We bent over backwards to love white folks while all the while hating our black selves.

We made an attempt to recapture our Black manhood during the Black Power Era of the late 60"s and early 70's but that was quickly crushed by COINTELPRO and other attempts by the white power structure to make sure the transformation from boys to men would never take place.

All of this has led to an internalized anger which, when coupled with the conscious or subconscious fear of white power, has produced the Thug image of today. Where the fear was too great to challenge white supremacy, head on, a pseudo-culture was created which allowed the Black man to let out his aggression without becoming a threat to the white power structure. It has also given him the ability to search for self respect in material things, clothing with the name of a white man on the label or gold medallions. The MEDIA (MisEducation Destroying Intelligent Afrikans) has been a willing ally in this endeavor with the movies that have degraded the black man from the pimp/player roles in the black exploitation movies of the early 70's ( Super Fly, the Mack) to the gangsta flix of the late 80's to the present (Menace to Society, Belly etc).

The effect on the black community has been devastating. The reason that you have 30 something year old men acting like teenagers is because thug life has no age limit.

When I was a rebellious teen we would laugh at anyone over 21 still "trying to be down" Because the bad boy image was seen as something that kids did. Today, every other song on the radio is about grown men trying to be Thugs/gangsters as if that is something to be proud of. Some of the rappers have sons that carry the same Thug image as their fathers (Lil Romeo and Master P) There is something very wrong with that.

Recently, I listened to a sister on the radio telling the DJ how she needed a man with a "little Thug in him." It is sad that while the sisters of previous generations wanted a man to give her R-E-S-P-E-C-T. some of our less conscious sisters today want a man to treat them thuggishly.

We are currently raising a generation of young people that has no sense of black culture outside of the Thug culture. When asked to name two black men who "died for the struggle" instead of naming Malcolm X and Fred Hampton they will tell you quickly Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Or if ask them the meaning of political prisoner they will say "Yeah, that's what they tried to do to Puff Daddy."

What our community is missing is a complete analysis of the Thug Life phenomenon in the context of the Afrikan Liberation Struggle. We cannot let the "fear of blaming the white man for all our problems" or the fear of "preaching hate" prevent us from giving our people a correct historical analysis of the condition of Afrikan people. We must give our young people a sense of culture. We must remove the red and blue bandanna's from the heads of our children and replace them with the Afrikan Liberation colors of red, black and green. We must replace their gang signs with Black Power fists raised proudly in the air. We must replace Black self hate with black love for all black people. We must replace the desire to be a Thug with the desire to be a strong Afrikan man fighting for the LIBERATION of his people."

(Minister Paul Scott is founder of the New Righteous Movement based in Durham North Carolina. He can be reached at operationmedia@yahoo.com)

Christopher D. Sims : Rockford, Illinois
"I LOVE and RESPECT what you are accomplishing through Project 2019. What you are doing, and are a part of, is unique, but mostly, NEEDED. We need education, especially Blacks, even if it is just a high school education. In Rockford, there are not a lot of opportunities for those of us who do not have at least a high school diploma.

If our youth are not in a place where they are learning, then more than likely they are out in the streets. Some are turned off by formal education indeed, especially from an education that does not interest them or one that does not relate to them or the lives that they face. They need formal and nonformal education. Project 2019 can help with that. There is "alternative education" needed. By "alternative education" I mean education of themselves,
especially that they do not and will not receive in the public school system. Knowledge of self.

I applause you for what you are doing Brotha Chuck. Please keep working hard and making a difference in the lives of the youth and our lives in general. We are all one."

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