The Boy Scouts organization is based upon the model and values of British youth during the Second Boer War, in 1899, at the "Siege of Mafeking," a community that Robert Baden-Powell commanded while in Southern Africa for England in the war.
The "Boy Scouts Manual " that he wrote in 1908, I read in the 1960s. That book explained that he had copied these South African based British youths' outdoor craftsmanship, moral code, creative communications efficiency, and realized then their benefit for English youth, in order to toughen them.
Some similar -type organization is needed for African American youth, now, in order to develop and preoccupy them, to prepare them for leadership, to enable them to be of immediate service in the stricken communities that are now almost devoid of youth-based organizational structures, except for street-gangs.
Such boy and girl-based organizations, whether created or copied from existing ones, surely would help to promote the lives of these promising or ambitious young people and their communities. They are needed, now! Many black American communities are also "under siege"-- economic, political, legal, educational.social, as were the British at Mafeking, Zimbabwe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafeking_Cadet_Corps
Friday, March 16, 2018
BOY SCOUTS/GIRL COUTS NEEDED FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH
The Boy Scouts organization is based upon the model and values of British youth during the Second Boer War, in 1899, at the "Siege of Mafeking," a community that Robert Baden-Powell commanded while in Southern Africa for England in the war.
The "Boy Scouts Manual " that he wrote in 1908, I read in the 1960s. That book explained that he had copied these South African based British youths' outdoor craftsmanship, moral code, creative communications efficiency, and realized then their benefit for English youth, in order to toughen them.
Some similar -type organization is needed for African American youth, now, in order to develop and preoccupy them, to prepare them for leadership, to enable them to be of immediate service in the stricken communities that are now almost devoid of youth-based organizational structures, except for street-gangs.
Such boy and girl-based organizations, whether created or copied from existing ones, surely would help to promote the lives of these promising or ambitious young people and their communities. They are needed, now! Many black American communities are also "under siege"-- economic, political, legal, educational.social, as were the British at Mafeking, Zimbabwe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mafeking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafeking_Cadet_Corps
