The history of a noble race, running roughshod over bondage, obstacles and time eternal. Fearless, proud and infinitely hopeful, that is the essence of our heritage. In honoring Black America we celebrate the rebirth of the nation’s most maligned ethnic group.

We celebrate the present by expounding on our achievements and reliving great moments from the past. We celebrate our ancestors who toiled in the midday sun, under the sweltering heat of oppression. Exhausted, their hands covered with abrasions from the cotton’s prickly thorns, they refused to buckle under the indignation, creating courage of the highest magnitude.

We celebrate the legacy of Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Dubois, crying out against injustice. We celebrate the NAACP, National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference in their crusade to remove the insufferable stench of racism gone awry.

We celebrate the strength of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Ida Wells-Barnett, women of unrelenting persistence, rebelling against the savagery of hate and inhumanity. Continue

Back To School Back To The Little White Lies

Let the brainwashing began again. Most American school children are indoctrinated with European thoughts ideas and values. A Eurocentric education is one in which Europe and western thought is the foundation, focus, the center upon which all others revolve. In essence, the history of the world is merely a study of Europeans in the world and their interactions with other peoples. This is what students in American schools are taught. They are taught that European and western thought is superior to all others and furthermore, the rest of mankind has done little to advance human civilization. This narrow thinking and fake scholarship has done an incredible amount of damage to African Americans, who are taught this in school houses everyday. African Americans are unable to see themselves in what they’re being taught and are often bored and uninterested in what is being taught. They see themselves as objects rather than subjects of history. African Americans are taught this, “You have done nothing. You are nothing. You will always be nothing.” This is often the beginning of a deadly cycle, dropping out of school, unemployment, crime, drugs, jail/death. Africans and African Americans have made many significant contributions to the world, and these contributions should not be marginalized, ignore or placed into the shortest month of the year.

Fortunately, many African American scholars within the last 15 years have begun to tear down the racist wall of Eurocentrism and build a curriculum based on Afrocentrism. Afrocentrism is viewing the world through African eyes for African Americans. It entails placing Africans at the center of what is being taught. This change of perspective provides a transforming new world for African Americans and white students alike. It allows African Americans, who have long been denied the opportunity to learn about themselves, to have a true understanding of where they came from, that they were not just slaves who were then freed. Of course this change of perspective and thinking is met with a considerable amount of criticism. One criticism is that Afrocentrism simply wants to replace Eurocentrism as the dominant doctrine of educating. I will go into greater detail about this later, but there are many differences between Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism. The fundamental problem of Eurocentrism is that it poses as a universal view of philosophy, psychology, education, anthropology and history, whereas in actuality it is simply one perspective amongst many in the world as the Afrocentrist believe. Eurocentric traditionalist are, as Dr. Molefe Kete Asante, one of the foremost scholars of Afrocentrism, states in his work The Afrocentric Idea, “captives of a peculiar arrogance, the arrogance of not knowing what it is that they do not know, yet they speak as if they know what all of us need to know. To know the African foundations of human societies would be to possess a built in check on such arrogance.” (Asante p.5) Afrocentrism is about placing oneself in the center of what is being taught. It is based on an ancient Egyptian philosophy of holism. Holism is a view in which one views the universe, all reality from a single principle, called the Nun. The Nun is both spiritual and physical from which flows the universe, gods, humans heavens and Earth. Furthermore this view claims that all reality is a unity and are thus connected to one another.

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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:

The act entitled "An act for the release of certain persons held in service or labor in the District of Columbia" has this day been approved and signed.

I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory way. Hence there has never been in my mind any question upon the subject except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances. If there be matters within and about this act which might have taken a course or shape more satisfactory to my judgment, I do not attempt to specify them. I am gratified that the two principles of compensation and colonization are both recognized and practically applied in the act.

In the matter of compensation, it is provided that claims may be presented within ninety days from the passage of the act, "but not thereafter;" and there is no saving for minors, femes covert, insane or absent persons. I presume this is an omission by mere oversight, and I recommend that it be supplied by an amendatory or supplemental act.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Once Again its time for Black History Month the time of the year when thousands of school children across the U.S. dedicate less than 28 days to the study of a people who began civilization. From science to mathematics to art and politics those who originate from the African continent ruled this planet. But those who espouse Black History will teach scholarship resembling crap, "a people who were once slave and then became free." One sentence.

Black History is world history it is the history that should be taught in school children around the world not some hollywood manufactured version of history that begins with the rise of the so called British Empire. Black History goes so far back European scholars deem it "pre-history" whatever that means. Black people did not only start civilization they spread it through out the world. See works by Ivan Van Sertima author of They Came Before Columbus outlining in incredible detail (sometimes relying on Columbus' own diary accounts) the African presence in modern day Latin America. Compare the pyramids in Egypt to the temples in Mexico and Peru and India. Don't listen to us do your own investigating be prepared to challenge what you have been indoctrined to believe to be true. The truth is out there.

This Black History Month pay homage to the African Diaspora, Black poeple throughout the world not just Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass. Pay respect to Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Mansa Musa, Ramses, the Olmec civilization and the struggle of people of color throughout the world fighting poverty and economic oppression.