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Note by Me: I don't believe that Herman Cain is a total Uncle Tom. I think Herman Cain has a chance to wake up. I do believe that Herman Cain is brainwashed about certain issues relating to race, poverty, and likeminded issues though. I believe that he's dead wrong about those issues. He's being used by reactionaries in order for the reactionaries to promote poor-bashing, race-baiting rhetoric, and a myraid of other anti-poor rhetoric in the American political landscape. Real Uncle Toms are people like Jesse Lee Peterson, the person who set up Fred Hampton, and Pastor Manning, no doubt.
By Timothy
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kissypop wrote:
Hello NearFuture,
I have been studying African History for about a year or so. There is so much more I need to learn. Thus far, the most intriguing information I have received was about a man named Mansa Musa.
He was in America hundreds of years before Columbus, the historical fraud and embarassment that has graced the American history textbooks.:)
http://www.blackhistorypages.net/pages/mansam...
I would like to find a book about him to buy for my little brother, as a Christmas gift (though I'm rethinking celebrating Christmas once I'm on my own).
-Near Future
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TDL wrote:
I love seeing little black kids who look up to me...for some unknown reason without even knowing me...maybe bc I am taller than them and an adult but anyway...I like being able to tell them how beautiful they are and how they have so much potential. Who knows the last time they were told such things, or if they would ever hear it from anyone?
Always makes them smile and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
-Near Future
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http://www.topix.net/forum/afam/TIPTG77UL0LFSU80B/p41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWU8zTO8-I
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NearFuture wrote:
I've thought over things and instead of blacks making multiple positive black threads we should try and just talk about all things positive and black here. I think it would be better because obviously everyone is not going to go around looking for positive black threads to find and post on and very few will be talked about any how. I see this thread going to the top because we can talk about multiple positive black things all at once and the subject can change at any time keeping this thread alive.
But it is EXTREMELY important that we give no attention to racists and trolls, their posts are invisible on this thread. they are not worth it.
Now one thing I have noticed is that many blacks never actually learn about African history. We are mainly taught only about the slave trade and the hardships afterward or the apartheid. We never learn much about the great ancient African civilizations besides Egypt(Kush)like Mali. I find it funny because after studying some of the ancient African civilizations they break all of the stereotypes that are associated with blacks now. The stereotype of blacks being poor is thwartred by the fact that Mali was one of the richest Kingdoms of its time, and all of its residents had high amounts of wealth. The Africans living mainly in mudhuts stereotype is destroyed by the fact that civilizations in ancient Nigeria had various styles of architecture that were massive and their civilizations had outer walls for protection that were as high as 70 feet, not to mention African tribes such as the bushmen and masai account for an etremely small part of Africa yet when we think of Africa (yes us blacks do this too) we think of black people wearing loin cloths living in huts with spears. The stereotype of blacks being "genetically" violent is bashed by the fact that the African civilization of Mali abhorred violence. And the infamous stereotype I hear all of the time that blacks are ignorant is immediately dismissed by the fact that blacks made some of the most intricate and well constrructed civilizations in history, and created Timbuktu the educational center of that time period that held thousands of books filled with all types of information on math and sciences for black students. And all of these facts together destroy the most notorious black stereotype of all; that blacks have no history and they contributed nothing to society. We are really doing ourselves a disservice in not learning our true worth and potential on this great Earth. What I'm trying to say is if our African ancestors who come from a time without modern technology can create and develop these great structures and keep honorable values, we most definantely should be able to pull our true potential and lead ourselves out of this perpetual state of oppression. So my question to you is how do you think blacks can tap into this potential that our ancestors displayed outwardly and gave them some of the greatest civilizations on Earth? How do we hel pother blacks realize that without our history to show us that we can be better than we will fall for the same traps? andhow do we get our young people interested in these things?
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But it is EXTREMELY important that we give no attention to racists and trolls, their posts are invisible on this thread. they are not worth it.
Now one thing I have noticed is that many blacks never actually learn about African history. We are mainly taught only about the slave trade and the hardships afterward or the apartheid. We never learn much about the great ancient African civilizations besides Egypt(Kush)like Mali. I find it funny because after studying some of the ancient African civilizations they break all of the stereotypes that are associated with blacks now. The stereotype of blacks being poor is thwartred by the fact that Mali was one of the richest Kingdoms of its time, and all of its residents had high amounts of wealth. The Africans living mainly in mudhuts stereotype is destroyed by the fact that civilizations in ancient Nigeria had various styles of architecture that were massive and their civilizations had outer walls for protection that were as high as 70 feet, not to mention African tribes such as the bushmen and masai account for an etremely small part of Africa yet when we think of Africa (yes us blacks do this too) we think of black people wearing loin cloths living in huts with spears. The stereotype of blacks being "genetically" violent is bashed by the fact that the African civilization of Mali abhorred violence. And the infamous stereotype I hear all of the time that blacks are ignorant is immediately dismissed by the fact that blacks made some of the most intricate and well constrructed civilizations in history, and created Timbuktu the educational center of that time period that held thousands of books filled with all types of information on math and sciences for black students. And all of these facts together destroy the most notorious black stereotype of all; that blacks have no history and they contributed nothing to society. We are really doing ourselves a disservice in not learning our true worth and potential on this great Earth. What I'm trying to say is if our African ancestors who come from a time without modern technology can create and develop these great structures and keep honorable values, we most definantely should be able to pull our true potential and lead ourselves out of this perpetual state of oppression. So my question to you is how do you think blacks can tap into this potential that our ancestors displayed outwardly and gave them some of the greatest civilizations on Earth? How do we hel pother blacks realize that without our history to show us that we can be better than we will fall for the same traps? andhow do we get our young people interested in these things?
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@ Janae,
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop’s life story is just as fascinating as his writings. He earned his Ph.D. in 1960 from the University of Paris by writing a dissertation that PROVED that the Ancient Egyptians were black Africans.
With all the full color portraits and statues that the Ancient Egyptians left of themselves, one might wonder why there was any need to PROVE they were black. Racist Eurocentric historians during the time of European colonialism, apartheid, and racial segregation just could not swallow the fact that one of the greatest civilizations in human history was developed by black Africans. It went counter to their philosophy of the black African as a depraved, barbaric savage who was only good for physical labor and servitude.
The images and statues of Ancient Egyptians that had dark skin, wavy, curly hair and other “Negroid” features were dismissed as being created by a black undercla$$ who lived in Egypt and who only imagined themselves in their artwork as being of a higher or even royal clas$$. Royal mummies that had unmistakable “Negroid” features were dismissed as being the occasional mixed-race person who was adopted into a royal family.