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American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of Western civilization, the mythical Whitetown, that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

Ishmael Reed
Education, Sex, Race

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Ishmael Reed
Education, Race, African American
Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.

Ishmael Reed
Loyalty, Education, White

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

Ishmael Reed
Education, Hurt, Cancer
Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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