Anthony Maceo
The Bold American Outlook Handbook--A New Post-Racism Paradigm for the 21st Century--Designed to Show Educators/Parents How to Teach America's Young People to Find Solutions to Racism's Legacy in Their Lifetime--is an unprecedented and essential handbook for educators and parents. Consisting of short, concise, thought-provoking chapters, examples and incentives, this handy guide shows educators and parents what must be taught to students/children to end racism's legacy in their lifetime. This handbook will detail how a 'language of racism' in the American discourse inhibits America's ability to end racism's legacy and find solutions to our social problems. There are no simple solutions to racism's legacy, yet you'll find that The Bold American Outlook is the most viable option today. This is the first in a series of books I propose to write showing Americans how they can defuse claims of racism and end racism's legacy in America's future.
Adult Americans must establish a 'Post-Racism Paradigm'--a mode of thought beyond the concepts of 'races'--for young people if we want to continue our position as a world leader and, more importantly, if we indeed want to end this nation's most enduring social cancer--racism's legacy. The Bold American Outlook does not have an ethnocentric agenda. Instead, The Bold American Outlook has a 'let's show American young people how to improve their future human relations without the old paradigms of 'race' agenda.' You'll find that the included Bold American Outlook Principles are a vital asset for that agenda and for all Americans.
If we do not act quickly toward establishing a Bold American Outlook, which will prevent young people from inheriting the false 'racial' concepts that we adults unfortunately inherited, then young people will become infested with the long-festering cancer of racism. Racism's legacy is capable of consuming young people and this nation into a 'race' war because of the historical momentum it has generated and because we adults have not afforded them a 'post-racism paradigm' to counter this historical momentum.
Recent events only graphically demonstrate that the greatest enemy this nation has today is us. We create and re-create our own 'intra-American' enemies through a 'language of racism.' As long as Americans believe that we are so different that we must consistently categorize ourselves based on false 'racial' labels, then we will continue to base our decisions--often life or death decisions--on the confusing, arbitrary and deceptive notions of 'race.' The Bold American Outlook is dedicated toward preventing American young people from continuing the tragic perpetuation of racism's legacy in the United States in their lives and beyond. This book is for those who are looking for a future-oriented and solutions-based focus for ending racism in the United States.
I'm a Cultural Diversity Consultant based in California and I enjoy helping people to understand the true dynamics of 'race' and 'color' in the United States. I studied Journalism at California State University, Dominguez Hills, before beginning work as a reporter, editor and editorial consultant. While working as a journalist, I recognized how the media established practices that unreasonably furthered 'racial' identities unnecessarily and I thus began a decade of research on racism's legacy in the United States.
This book is a result, not only of years of research of racism's legacy in America, but also of a lifetime of reflection on what my life experiences have been in a family whose heritage is obviously culturally diverse, but spoken only in terms of being either 'black,' 'white' or 'Indian.' This book is the first in a series of books to address and correct these false identities for my family and all Americans.
Introduction
'If Americans are to learn to deal with [find solutions for] racism in education, they will first need a point of view and we will need courage, for racism pervades this society like a cancer, eroding the humanity and capacity of all.' --Charles Wilson, 'Racism in Education'
'Education can be a powerful force in the struggle to eliminate racism.' --Frances E. Kendall, 'Diversity in the Classroom: A Multicultural Approach to the Education of Young Children'
As an American concerned about the future of this nation, the words of Charles Wilson above were like a call to action for me and a call for action for our country. I sincerely hope this book meets the challenge he puts before us. Not only is developing a point-of-view difficult, but implementing one will be even more difficult. I believe I have done my part by creating what I think is a viable and capable solution to racism's legacy in America. A point of view is not a simple thing to come by, but after years of thought and reflection I came to the conclusion that the BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK is right for the future of America and for the future of America's young people.
After reading this handbook, I challenge you to do your part by having the courage to implement a BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK among the American young people in your schools, classroom or home. In doing so, I sincerely believe that we can play a huge part in eliminating the cancer of racism in our young people's lifetime. This cancer may not consume adult Americans today, but its historical momentum may well consume the innocent lives of our young people if we allow racism's legacy to continue.
The BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK, A New Post-Racism Paradigm™ for the 21st Century, is unprecedented in its scope and its possibilities to change how you think and more importantly how America's young people think about themselves and others. An exciting aspect of this change to a post-racism paradigm is that the end result will be improved human relations between all Americans and particularly America's young people. The purpose of this book is to help you show American young people how they can be the first generations of Americans to effectively end racism's legacy in their lifetime.
This is the first book designed and written entirely from a viewpoint that seeks to empower young people, as they mature to adulthood, to disengage and defuse racism's legacy in America's future. The BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK can and WILL do this with your help. As an educator or parent concerned about the continuing presence of racism's legacy, you can play an unprecedented role in the beginning of the end of racism in America. Your dedication toward instilling the BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK Principles detailed in Chapter 3 and in teaching your student/child the importance of avoiding the 'language of racism' - the various words and concepts of 'race' 'color' and 'minority' status will, over time, give young people the conceptual tools they need to move beyond the deceptive paradoxes of 'race' and toward effective solutions to racism's legacy.
The BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK also emphatically furthers the view that racism is a historical construct that is only perpetuated by the various words and concepts of 'race' 'color' and 'minority' status within the American discourse. This is not to say that the BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK teaches that racism does not exist--it certainly does, because the 'language of racism' is still prevalent. Yet, the BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK teaches that racism's legacy only exist within the minds and beliefs of those who continue to use the old-world 'language of racism' within American social, educational, scientific, economic and political institutions. All else, including many things we now associate with 'racism' such as 'hate crimes' are simply what they are. Rude behavior, criminal or deviate behavior or violence should be dealt with appropriately for what they are (and perhaps more harshly and fairly) and not be given the politicized labels of 'hate crimes' or 'racism.'
The purpose of the BOLD AMERICAN OUTLOOK is to help educators and parents teach young people, within American schools or homes, that the concepts of 'race' 'color' and 'minority' status are all false human identities. MOREOVER, the continued use of these terms perpetuate a lie that this nation has too long condoned--that there are 'races' of humans.
(117 pages)
