Problem
The forced erasure of one's identity can remove a person's sense of agency and control. In the case of Black people in America, that which was Eurocentric in orientation was to be imbibed and accepted as ideal. A series of false narratives, such as the quote given above indicates, were and are used to reinforce ideas of African American inferiority. These people had to be "educated" or, rather, "re-educated," to eliminate their "primitivism" and put them on a path to progress.
Use precise examples from David Ikard's text to illustrate and discuss that the main problem is not that Black people are suffering from a lack of education, but that there must be an improvement in the education of their adversaries in order to eliminate false assumptions. Santa Claus is white.