ABSTRACT
In the year of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the systemic problem with American education continues to be inequality and the absence of a comprehensive system that educates African Americans as human beings to be independent, and self-sufficient in the struggle for familial, cultural, social, and material well-being. African Americans can only overcome this systemic problem by realizing-as our ancestors did since their captivity and arrival in this hemisphere in 1501-that we must take responsibility for our own circumstances for we will not be educated byothers and “set free,’’wemust educate ourselves and “walk to freedom.’’
