Marlon James' Message: What is Good for the White Student is Bad for the Black Student

Page 7 of the MJLU report begins with what must be Marlon James' favorite quotation, "The same educational process which inspires and stimulates [the White student] with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worthwhile, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the [Black student] by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.   Carter G. Woodson, 1933."  ........... At page 24, he states, "If not redressed, neither learning nor teaching in Windsor High School will spark the innate genius in every learner, and the Districts' new mission will conform more closely to Woodson's prophetic words:"