Death of the Dream

Abstract

This thesis seeks to assert that the American educational model is a symptom of overarching systemic racial oppression resembling a Trojan horse in the sense that it is designed to appease Black Americans in the present day and lull them into a false sense of security regarding their social positions in America. The analysis is primarily based on the American civil rights movement and argues that through the over fixation on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the omission of Malcolm X, African Americans are being indoctrinated into White supremacist schools of thought which aim to convince them that their racial struggles are over, and teach them to value the chance to be part of American society over being fully respected as human beings.