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R. E. Vincent Daniels BS & MS college degrees. Born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant community in Brooklyn, New York. I am a parent of three and a grandparent of three, four boys and two girls of African descent. The adult children are all products of a public school system with standardized curricula and syllabuses with Eurocentric inferences. The theme of this book draws from first hand experiences in a public school classroom environment that shows little to no respect for any people of color, whether they be Native American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, or from the African Diaspora. The false lesson learned by the student body is that those of European heritage are inherently superior to all peoples of color, and therefore it regards people of color as less than human beings. America in particular is the current incubator for such thinking and exports this mind set around the world. This work is designed to contradict this false narrative from the perspective of youthful minds when they are helped to do the due diligence to research their true history of their family homeland of origin. The resulting self-esteem upgrade translates into a life changing thirst for all world knowledge, and the students then reach for their personal academic pinnacle. It is this curriculum gap for students of color that short changes their aspirations for academic excellence going forward. The available educational metrics, both locally and nationally, confirms this theory many times over, when assessing the classroom performance of students of color versus students of European heritage.