Smart Practices

As a Black child, the founder of the African American Registry was encouraged to seek first-class citizenship. He was also warned about the facts of Black life in America: working more to receive less. His plateau of American nationality drives the intent of our mission to inspire the young minds of our future. Accurately gathering, publishing, and teaching youths our content is phase one of the smart practices of our work.

Cultural competency as a measured goal against anti-racism work is a challenge as old as the United States of America itself. Education is not a quick remedy for this, but it is needed. Using African American heritage is a qualitative source of success. This source is because descendants of American slavery have arguably the most robust track record of upward mobility of any non-white American community.

We use historical, philosophical, honest subject matter and models to work from. Some of our hypotheses’ come from Egypt’s Hebrew slavery and African heritage. Others include 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th-century American abolitionists.  Additionally, 20th and 21st-century activism and more further frame our educational and informational agenda. This content shapes our curriculum, classroom service, and youth programs’ commitment to young people.

If a harmonious society is a goal, the following acknowledgment must be addressed: Internal mediocrity in African America and European (white) America presents certain barriers to equitable success. In general, many from both communities live and breathe the messages that were (are) systemically used to create servitude, false empowerment, dependency, oppression, and low self-esteem.

Our methods use the following formula with our content: history + culture = heritage. Those three themes are repetitively instilled in young people and are crucial to the success of our smart practices. When heritage is known, it helps all youth better realize their individual and collective importance in the world. This formula allows them to describe what they want to improve and explain how they will enhance them. As Frederick Douglass once said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”