I flunked Sambo University: 10 invisible "schools" by which African Americans learn to look down on their own genetic heritage

There is, in America, an intangible university of sorts, invisible, self-propagated, and silently teaching Black Americans to disrespect and look down on their own racial kinsmen. This mis-educational institution is built on a foundation of demonstrably false ideas, long lingering myths, and hateful half-truths that have, over the years, legitimized themselves in our minds and decimated our power to effectively respond to our own problems, and, do for the world what we did at the dawn of civilization. All Black Americans enroll in the “schools” that make up this university, but, lucky for us, some enrollees fail to learn their anti-black lessons or master their confidence-killing teachings. I say with more sorrow than pride: I flunked Sambo University.