Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys by Dr. Umar Johnson

by Umar Johnson

Psycho-Academic The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys discusses such topics as the movement to eliminate public education, the role of Black language/Ebonics in the mis-education process, the psycho-pharmaceutical control of the mental health establishment, the intentional mis-diagnosing of Black boys for economic gain, mandatory high school graduation exams and schoolhouse racism. This book is the first of its kind to take readers on an inside tour of the special education machine and how it operates. It is also the first book of the 21st century to explore each of the four major disruptive behavior disorders (ADHD, CD, ODD, DBD-NOS) and how these diagnoses poorly discriminate between normal and abnormal behaviors amongst Black boys. A very easy yet powerful read, Psycho-Academic Holocaust has been written for laypersons with everyday language, and should be read by all adults who care about the future of young Black males in America, England, Canada and the Caribbean. An entire chapter has been dedicated to teaching parents and teachers how to eliminate challenging and disruptive behaviors without medication. Still another chapter, entitled “Frequently Asked Questions,” provides African-American parents, youth workers, and advocates with vital information they can use to help protect African-American males from psychiatric racism and educational Jim Crowism. The author is a doctor of clinical psychology, certified school psychologist and child therapist, with 15 years of experience working with at-risk children of color. As an expert educational diagnostician, Dr. Umar works with Intellectually Disabled, Autistic, Emotionally Disturbed, and Learning Disabled children and their families. Dr. Umar is on a mission to build an independent residential school district for African-American boys and girls who have been academically abused by the American Public and Charter School System.

Genres: Education, Adhd, Psychology

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Jeff Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must read for parents of young black males

[Keisha Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was not suggested to me in the traditional manner, it is not listed on any list or won any awards but it is one of the best books that I have read regarding special education and black boys.
The book was a true account of special education and how to navigate public education. The book is a good how-to guide. It provided examples of scenarios and highlighted what a parent should do should a parent disagree with the school or if special education services are not provided. The book takes a deep look at the climate and culture of special education. The book is independently published. I liked how the book was categorized, it takes parents thru the process of special education from referral to IEP to annual IEP, to the evaluation process, it also includes how to request an independent evaluation. There was also a section on behavior modification without the use of medication.
I enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to black parents all across America.

[Roy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dr. Umar gets the diagnosis right, and even the treatment for the problems that plague the American educational system right, but the reason for the problems themselves wrong. If only it were as simple as everything is the white man's fault just by virtue of his supposed insecurities and bigoted tendencies. No, the Carnegies, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and every other industrialist/banking family that had a role in birthing the educational system as we know it wanted nothing to do with a critically thinking, independent population of people capable of competing with them in any shade. Thus why you don't learn too much of anything of actual importance in school, simply how to correctly recite their story given back on paper.

He is right about the Cocaine Import Agency, as he calls it (CIA) and FBI cointel programs deliberately crippling black America through illicit drugs creating fatherless homes, and legal psychiatric drugs for the boys in order to create lifelong slaves to the state, and school serving as the boot camp for their assured lives in the joint/psych ward.

He provides great detail on how to protect your child from all the methods that schools will use to derail your child's life, the strong arm tactics they will use to intimidate you to unnecessarily medicate based on diagnoses in all actuality that probably don't exist, and the names and effects of said dangerous drugs.

Umar strikes me as belonging to any one of the divine nine fraternities, or Prince Hall Freemasonry, just based on his belief that almost everyone of virtue in history was black, and his new age desire to connect with the ancestral spirits of old, so you really can't expect to fully harmonize with the Truth in a way that an author of an Orthodox Christian persuasion would, had they written a similar book, black or white. It's a good book overall, and a valuable resource for combating the lies and manipulatiom of modern education .

[SHA-KIM A-GOD ADAMS]

Great book for understanding the dynamics of what's taking place and the syndrome so-called theoretical application that stamp upon the mindset of blacks. In all wonderful book!