There are many concrete things that you can do as an individual to support our cause and help ease this urgent crisis.  We list a few of them here.  Please act on some, or all of the following suggestions:

  1. Hold high academic and behavioral expectations of Black boys in both regular and special education, and communicate these to them clearly and frequently.
  2. Encourage and reward Black boys who are achieving academic excellence, support and push those who are struggling academically.
  3. Work to bring more advanced placement, honors, and other types of challenging classes to your school, and enroll more Black boys into them.
  4. Become a loving foster parent or adoptive parent to a Black boy in foster care.
  5. Become a positive personal mentor or academic tutor to a young Black male student, neighbor, or relative.
  6. Donate money to, volunteer time with, and/or join a worthy community organization or educational institution that works to promote the education, overall development, and legal rights of young Black males.
  7. Start such an organization locally if you cannot find one to join or support.
  8. Say uplifting things about Black males to Black boys on a daily basis in order to counter-act all of the very negative things that are routinely said to them about Black males.
  9. Teach Black boys to have a great love for reading from the womb to the tomb, and share appropriate sections of daily newspapers with elementary school-age boys.
  10. Read “Raised Wrong, Educated Worse: Addressing The Troubled Behavior of Our Sons,” all of the articles and reports that are published on this site, plus the related materials on young Black males that are referred to here in order to achieve in-depth understanding of the various issues and challenges that they, their loved ones, and their teachers face daily.
  11. Appropriately modify how you raise, educate, counsel, employ, judge, or interact with young Black males in accordance with what you learn from your reading.
  12. Establish and maintain discipline amongst all youth in your classroom and home.
  13. Oppose the implementation of irrational zero tolerance student code of conduct policies at your school that are guaranteed to result in mass suspensions and expulsions of young Black males.
  14. Publicly challenge any media representatives, educators, policy-makers, or law enforcement personnel who continue to falsely portray young Black males as intellectually inferior, genetic super-predators.
  15. Teach Black boys entrepreneurial skills and the concept of cooperative economics.
  16. Encourage all young Black males to learn a trade while in high school even if they already have a determined primary college or career objective.
  17. Refer this site to as many people as you can, especially educators, therapists, policy-makers, legal professionals, and journalists of all races.

Yes indeed, there is a lot that you can do as an individual.  However, always remember that individuals can do much more towards a cause when they organize and work with others who support their efforts.  Through greater organization and individual commitment, we will save more of our sons in school.

 

 

 

What Can You Do As An Individual?

There are many concrete things that you can do as an individual to support our cause and help ease this urgent crisis.  We list a few of them here.  Please act on some, or all of the following suggestions:

  1. Hold high academic and behavioral expectations of Black boys in both regular and special education, and communicate these to them clearly and frequently.
  1. Encourage and reward Black boys who are achieving academic excellence, support and push those who are struggling academically.
  1. Work to bring more advanced placement, honors, and other types of challenging classes to your school, and enroll more Black boys into them.
  1. Become a loving foster parent or adoptive parent to a Black boy in foster care.
  1. Become a positive personal mentor or academic tutor to a young Black male student, neighbor, or relative.
  1. Donate money to, volunteer time with, and/or join a worthy community organization or educational institution that works to promote the education, overall development, and legal rights of young Black males.
  1. Start such an organization locally if you cannot find one to join or support.
  1. Say uplifting things about Black males to Black boys on a daily basis in order to counter-act all of the very negative things that are routinely said to them about Black males.
  1. Teach Black boys to have a great love for reading from the womb to the tomb, and share appropriate sections of daily newspapers with elementary school-age boys.
  1. Read “Raised Wrong, Educated Worse: Addressing The Troubled Behavior of Our Sons,” all of the articles and reports that are published on this site, plus the related materials on young Black males that are referred to here in order to achieve in-depth understanding of the various issues and challenges that they, their loved ones, and their teachers face daily.
  1. Appropriately modify how you raise, educate, counsel, employ, judge, or interact with young Black males in accordance with what you learn from your reading.
  1. Establish and maintain discipline amongst all youth in your classroom and home.
  2. Oppose the implementation of irrational zero tolerance student code of conduct policies at your school that are guaranteed to result in mass suspensions and expulsions of young Black males.
  1. Publicly challenge any media representatives, educators, policy-makers, or law enforcement personnel who continue to falsely portray young Black males as intellectually inferior, genetic super-predators.
  1. Teach Black boys entrepreneurial skills and the concept of cooperative economics.
  1. Encourage all young Black males to learn a trade while in high school even if they already have a determined primary college or career objective.
  1. Refer this site to as many people as you can, especially educators, therapists, policy-makers, legal professionals, and journalists of all races.

Yes indeed, there is a lot that you can do as an individual.  However, always remember that individuals can do much more towards a cause when they organize and work with others who support their efforts.  Through greater organization and individual commitment, we will save more of our sons in school.