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\nRempson graduated with a doctorate of education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and retired as Dean of Students at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. A non-practicing Interfaith Minister, he received a degree as Minister of Spiritual Counseling from The New Seminary in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n Rempson’s 41 years of professional experience include:\u00a0 elementary and junior high school teaching, undergraduate and graduate teaching, authorship and administration of various grant programs, program evaluation, and, in addition to Dean of Students, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College.\u00a0 A summa cum laude Master’s degree graduate, his previous publications include:<\/strong><\/p>\n Booker T. Washington, 1908; courtesy of the Library of Congress<\/p><\/div>\n Rempson views Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) as the father of what he calls our Self-Responsibility Tradition, William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963) as the father of what he calls our System-Responsibility Tradition.\u00a0 They are the most prominent and famous symbols of each tradition, as well as its most influential representative, yet, neither was its initiator; both were the product of their time, reflecting prevalent and previous modes of thought.\u00a0 In the allegory which follows, Rempson attempts to provide a perspective of the historic significance of Washington’s tradition and, therefore, the regard in which he holds it.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Somewhat like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we African Americans began our life of freedom in our own African American Garden of Eden.\u00a0 In its midst were planted trees which were good for foundation-building:\u00a0 a tree of brains, a tree of property, and a tree of character.\u00a0 Also in its midst was planted a tree that was good for acquiring equality:\u00a0 a tree of civil rights.\u00a0 From among us in the garden arose a leader, Booker Taliaferro Washington, and an aspiring leader, William Edward Burghardt DuBois.\u00a0 So that we would surely prosper, Washington, a self-help apostle, commanded us to eat freely from the foundation trees, but not from the equality tree of civil rights.\u00a0 Although he himself ate from it, he did so mostly secretly and seductively, fearing that, otherwise, Southern fury would provoke further turmoil and derail our progress.\u00a0 While the equality tree was the most alluring among the trees, Washington felt that we were unready to eat from it, as the enchanting and blinding powers of its fruits would cause us to fix our hunger on it, and surely to suffer due to neglect of the other less attractive, but\u00a0 foundation trees.\u00a0 He acknowledged the value of “sane agitation and criticism,” which the civil rights tree triggered, “but not to the extent of having our race feel that we can depend upon this to cure all the evils surrounding us.”\u00a0 At first, BuBois more or less echoed our great leader.\u00a0 But after a time, he himself came to eat freely from the forbidden civil rights tree, and to declare that if we did not do the same, we would never prosper, it being futile for Washington to urge us to eat freely of the foundation trees but not from the most important one among them, the equality tree of civil rights.\u00a0 “Mr. Washington’s programme,” BuBois proclaimed, “practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races.”\u00a0 During his lifetime, Washington was <\/em>heeded, but upon his death, DuBois, a civil rights apostle, took his place in the garden, and it was his command which came to be heeded.\u00a0 Years later, Martin Luther King Jr. led the successful movement to secure the civil rights so paramount to DuBois.\u00a0 At the same time, as an admirer of Washington, King tried to renew the self-help legacy so paramount to Washington, shackled, he failed, and his attempt goes unrecognized.\u00a0 That is the story of the origin of our continued suffering as a free people:\u00a0 the fruits of the alluring, but forbidden, equality tree of civil rights, with its enchanting and blinding powers, came to be too freely eaten, leading — as Washington warned – to the neglect, by our leaders, of the\u00a0 foundation trees of brain, property, and character, the result of which is a civil-rights fixation and a failure to confront our three major demons:\u00a0 IQ lag-fatherless families-crime. From that civil-rights fixation and failure, Victimology has emerged as our second bondage.\u00a0 Our first bondage, slavery, <\/em>bounded us physically; its replacement, Victimology, binds us psychologically.\u00a0 Victimology inhibits and vitiates our manhood and, thus, produces fathers without children and family dysfunction.\u00a0 As a result, many of our children grow up in unstable homes, prevented thereby from acquiring a positive core identity, which they must possess if they are to forge the sound character on which school and life success depends.\u00a0 That they – and their family members – do not possess sound character lies at the root of AMSAC and its inseparable social problems.\u00a0 Thus is the price we pay for our sin.”\u00a0 \u00a0(<\/em>Rempson book, p. 104-05)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n the founder: Joe L. Rempson The Foundation reflects the lifelong desire of Joe Louis Rempson, an African American male, to contribute to the progress of his people. Named after heavyweight champion Joe Louis, Rempson was born in a sharecropping family of eleven children in Henning, Tennessee, in 1937, during the depression and at a time,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
\n\t\tInspiration\n\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tThe Foundation attempts to uphold the legacy of Booker T. Washington, the hero of its founder, Joe L. Rempson. \n\t<\/h4>\n\t
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\n\t\tThe Board\n\t<\/h2>\n\t
Joe L. Rempson, President and Treasurer<\/h4>\n
Joseph H. Rempson, Vice President and Secretary<\/h4>\n
James Venezia, Trustee<\/h4>\n
\n\t\tAdvisors\n\t<\/h2>\n\t
To Be Named<\/h4>\n
\n\t\tStaff\n\t<\/h2>\n\t
Currently run by founder, Joe L. Rempson<\/h4>\n
Director, based on national search, to be appointed as warranted by growth of Foundation grants<\/h4>\n
\n\t\tFinancial Records\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\n
Charitable Foundations are required to file annual information returns.\u00a0 Click the link which follows to see Rempson Foundation New York State and federal returns by entering the registration #, 07-25-91:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.charitiesnys.com\/RegistrySearch\/search_charities.jsp<\/a>\u00a0 If federal return is not attached to the state return, click the following link and enter Foundation EIN 300045641 to find it:\u00a0 https:\/\/apps.irs.gov\/app\/eos\/<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n
\n\t\tcontribute to the cause\n\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tLearn how you can move forward the mission of the Rempson Foundation.\n\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"