BY BERTHONY NAPOLEON | Chairman and Founder & REY ROBINSON | CEO, Five and Two Solutions Group, Inc.
STATEWIDE — The Teaching Our Own History (TOOH) task force tasked my organization, Five and Two Solutions Group Inc. (FTSG), to write this article. I accepted the task as a privilege and honor. This came about after a briefing that encompassed pre-slavery to the present day provided to the task force on the “New World African (NWA) Studies, A Primer to Decision Making Process.”
Rey Robinson
The NWA concept highlights the peculiarity of the Africans captured, sold, shipped in chains and scattered throughout the Americas into servitude under the Christian empires of Europe’s whip, which was sanctioned by Pope Nicholas V.
The program’s critical thinking and historical analysis within the context of security, economics, diplomacy, information, and immigration will stimulate the imagination of African-American youths while digging into the functionality of history. Critically reviewing our past will help African Americans:
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- Know who, what, where, why, when, and how of slavery (to develop a never again attitude)
- Acknowledge as Africans, we were once sovereign, many were royal, and to discover the scattered Africans in the New World, increasing African American’s worldview to enable vision for critical decision-making
- To cultivate a common consciousness amongst the NWA, an identity to advance our narrative and testimony in order to tell our own story
- To get wisdom and understanding to rebuild our spiritual, educational and entrepreneurial systems
- To understand the status quo and to take appropriate actions favorable to our community
- To develop informed visionary leaders who can, in turn, build their people self-sufficiently and self-reliantly
Berthony Napoleon
African-American youth, in the aggregate, are not grateful to their ancestors and are not prepared to make informed decisions that are beneficial to their self-interest. The education system is inadequate to prepare young Black people. To reverse the trend, we need to TOOH. Make NWA history part of the learning regiment of our community to develop visionary leaders with authentic belief systems in their People.
Our task force will present to the government a comprehensive curriculum that correctly and effectively teaches African and African-American history to students in Florida’s public schools. Moreover, we will develop 40 plus “Freedom Schools” by 2025. We will not sit idly by and allow any governor to erase the accurate teaching of Black history.