WE HAVE A RICH HISTORY

BLACK HISTORY 2015 (AN ACADEMIC PRESENTATION)

A PUSH IN A NEW DIRECTION........NO RACISM NO POLITICS, JUST THE TRUTH THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE A HISTORY NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, HERE IS THE VERSION I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT......................

AMOS WILSON 
       
        

"Why does the Black man say, 'freedom is doing what I want to do!' and why is it that every thing he 'wants to do' enriches the European?" - Dr. Amos...

When we get into SOCIAL AMNESIA, into forgetting our history, we also FORGET or MISINTERPRET the history and MOTIVES of others as well as our motives. The way to learn of our own creation, how we came to be who and what we are, is getting to know ourselves. It is through getting to know the self INTIMATELY that we get to know the forces that shaped us as a self. Therefore, knowing the self becomes a knowledge of the world. If we don't know ourselves, not only are we a puzzle to ourselves, other people are also a puzzle to us as well. We assume the WRONG IDENTITY and identify ourselves with our enemies. If we don't know WHO WE ARE, then WE ARE WHOMEVER somebody tells US WE ARE! – Dr. Amos Wilson
AMOS WILSON

TEACHES ABOUT THE MENTAL STATE OF BLACK CHILDREN

 

We must recognize deeply in our hearts, in the very bottom of our psyches, our Afrikanicity. Much of the pathology of Afrikan people today is this vain hope that somehow we will be able to escape our Afrikan heritage, that somehow the white man will become colorblind and will not see us for whom and what we are, that somehow we will be looked upon as some kind of abstraction — as just a man [woman]. Not as an Afrikan man [woman], not as a black man [woman], but as a man [woman], a human being only — without culture, without recognition, without identity. Too many of us want to shed our Afrikanicity for this kind of bogus abstract existence, which is no existence at all, and which is the ultimate acceptance of invisibility. We must recognize that we are an Afrikan people and we will be Afrikan people to the end of time — and we must accept all that goes with that. We must accept the GOOD, the BAD, and all of the POSSIBILITIES that go with being Afrikan. We must accept the fact that this white man is never going to accept us totally, AND GET USED TO THE IDEA! – Dr. Amos Wilson (1985)

 

 

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WE HAVE A RICH HISTORY

BLACK HISTORY 2015 (AN ACADEMIC PRESENTATION)

A PUSH IN A NEW DIRECTION........NO RACISM NO POLITICS, JUST THE TRUTH THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE A HISTORY NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, HERE IS THE VERSION I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT......................

 

 

DR. CHEIKH ANTA DIOP

 

 

 "In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility." --Cheikh Anta Diop 

 

The African Origins Of Humanity - The Historical And Scientific Evidence!

Cheikh Anta Diop, a modern champion of African identity, was born in Diourbel, Senegal on December 29, 1923. At the age of twenty-three, he journeyed to Paris, France to continue advanced studies in physics. Within a very short time, however, he was drawn deeper and deeper into studies relating to the African origins of humanity and civilization.

Becoming more and more active in the African student movements then demanding the independence of French colonial possessions, he became convinced that only by reexamining and restoring Africa's distorted, maligned and obscured place in HowComYouCom could the physical and psychological shackles of colonialism be lifted from our Motherland and from African people dispersed globally.

His initial doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1951, based on the premise that Egypt of the pharaohs was an African civilization--was rejected. Regardless, this dissertation was published by Presence Africaine under the title Nations Negres et Culture in 1955 and won him international acclaim.

Two additional attempts to have his doctorate granted were turned back until 1960 when he entered his defense session with an array of sociologists, anthropologists and historians and successfully carried his argument. After nearly a decade of titanic and herculean effort, Diop had finally won his Docteur es Lettres! In that same year, 1960, were published two of his other works--the Cultural Unity of Black Africa and and Precolonial Black Africa.

During his student days, Cheikh Anta Diop was an avid political activist. From 1950 to 1953 he was the Secretary-General of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA) and helped establish the first Pan-African Student Congress in Paris in 1951. He also participated in the First World Congress of Black Writers and Artists held in Paris in 1956 and the second such Congress held in Rome in 1959.

Upon returning to Senegal in 1960, Dr. Diop continued his research and established a radiocarbon laboratory in Dakar. In 1966, the First World Black Festival of Arts and Culture held in Dakar, Senegal honored Dr. Diop and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois as the scholars who exerted the greatest influence on African thought in twentieth century.

In 1974, a milestone occurred in the English-speaking world when the African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality was finally published. It was also in 1974 that Diop and Theophile Obenga collectively and soundly reaffirmed the African origin of pharaonic Egyptian civilization at a UNESCO sponsored symposium in Cairo, Egypt. In 1981, Diop's last major work, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology was published.

Dr. Diop was the Director of Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN) at the University of Dakar. He sat on numerous international scientific committees and achieved recognition as one of the leading historians, Egyptologists, linguists and anthropologists in the world. He traveled widely, lectured incessantly and was cited and quoted voluminously. He was regarded by many as the modern `pharaoh' of African studies. Cheikh Anta Diop died quietly in sleep in Dakar, Senegal on February 7, 1986.


         





     

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