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Feb 12, 2019

Sharecropper Education = Preassigned Work + Preassigned Education

Imagine you have been pre-assigned work [for life], and at best, you get the education for the work you have been pre-assigned. — No, really… imagine. Imagine a reality that before you were even born, still inside your mother’s tummy, you were pre-assigned a career which requires low skills and a career that is awarded low pay for the rest of your life. And get this. The education that is guaranteed for you…

Racism

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Sharecropper Education =  Preassigned Work + Preassigned Education
Sharecropper Education =  Preassigned Work + Preassigned Education
Racism

5 min read


Feb 4, 2019

Black Folk + Mathematics + Computer Science = the Young People’s Project

“Not only do we [black people] need to function in the mathematical space, we need to also, in parallel, function in the Computer Science space, because our existence in the 21st century counts on it. ” -Cliff — In the book Radical Equations, Bob Moses and Charlie Cobb described, eloquently, the age-old problem revolving mathematics. They wrote about the transition of the 20th century and how the first programmable computer, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was developed one year before the first cotton-picking machine was used in…

Education

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Black Folk + Mathematics + Computer Science = the Young People’s Project
Black Folk + Mathematics + Computer Science = the Young People’s Project
Education

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Cliff Freeman

Cliff Freeman

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I think about how Black People should relate to Mathematics and Computer Science. Because… who else will?

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