Politics influence educational equality. It’s been this way since the beginning. But why does the Democratic Party assume blacks will vote for them considering Democrats’ efforts to defund black educational freedom? Education has always meant black power, black liberty, black justice. The freedom of body and mind has always been the goal, and we will stop at nothing to achieve it — our black votes matter.

As early as 1635, white boys in this country had the freedom to learn. However, education equated to lawful death for enslaved blacks and imprisonment for whites who supported them or tried to teach them. Nonetheless, blacks educated themselves. There are accounts of writing tablets and books found in slave quarters, pit schools, and even eavesdropping on white classrooms to seize the opportunity to learn.