African Pride

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  • Ajackson17
    Ajackson17 Members Posts: 22,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    janklow wrote: »
    Ajackson17 wrote: »
    Passed the coastal parts. Let me get some references for you, so you can understand.
    i really just want to hear an example or two of what's "past the coastal parts"

    I thought about what I was talking about and I mean the mainland.
  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
    Ajackson17 wrote: »
    I thought about what I was talking about and I mean the mainland.
    okay... but just give me one example.

    not even arguing the point, i'm just curious

  • Ajackson17
    Ajackson17 Members Posts: 22,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    janklow wrote: »
    Ajackson17 wrote: »
    I thought about what I was talking about and I mean the mainland.
    okay... but just give me one example.

    not even arguing the point, i'm just curious

    I live in ohio it's not coast but inland, while most of the kidnapped africans were close to the coast like New York and Miami and San Diego while it took much longer to get inland like Nebraska. You get my example.
  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
    Ajackson17 wrote: »
    I live in ohio it's not coast but inland, while most of the kidnapped africans were close to the coast like New York and Miami and San Diego while it took much longer to get inland like Nebraska. You get my example.
    well, i understand what "not a coastal area" means. what i'm wondering is "what's an example of a colonized nation in Africa we couldn't call coastal on some level?"
  • Ajackson17
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    http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/dialogue/general-history-of-africa/

    In 1964, UNESCO launched the elaboration of the General History of Africa with a view to remedy the general ignorance on Africa’s history. The challenge consisted of reconstructing Africa’s history, freeing it from racial prejudices ensuing from slave trade and colonization, and promoting an African perspective.

    UNESCO therefore called upon the then utmost African and non African experts. These experts’ work represented 35 years of cooperation between more than 230 historians and other specialists, and was overseen by an International Scientific Committee which comprised two-thirds of Africans.

    The result was the elaboration of the General History of Africa into eight volumes (Phase I of the project). This huge task, completed in 1999, had a great impact in Africa and, beyond, within the scientific and academic circles and is considered as a major contribution to the knowledge of Africa’s history and historiography.
  • Splackavelli
    Splackavelli Members Posts: 18,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    African pride is some dope hair pomade
  • Cleveland7venty6
    Cleveland7venty6 Members Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    im a former afrocentric. but learning about the copper colored people changed my whole life within 2 months. Now im hammering the old people in my fam with questions. grandmas gettin it too. pause.
  • bbkg79
    bbkg79 Members Posts: 613 ✭✭✭✭
    That's cool, more info about the 1.5trillion contributions we've made to humanity. I can't lie though, a piece of me hates hearing about my culture from white people.

    A friend of mine shared this article with me http://bittergertrude.com/2016/02/08/white-people-shut-up-about-beyonce/

    And after watching this video, this comment which was written (in regards to the article) by a white person came to mind.

    "When a person of color tells me the story of their cultural experience, whether or not they are painting an ugly image of those who share my whiteness, I listen. Because if you are American you have to realize that our nation was built, quite literally, on a foundation of institutionalized racism. It lies in our nation’s DNA and the active awareness of that ugly truth, told through the stories of those who suffered it, should always be at the forefront of our national consciousness.

    But when another white person wants to yell at me that I don’t “get it” (“it” being some ill-defined aspect of the African-American experience) because I’m not black, here’s what I want most to say to them: Guess what? NEITHER ARE YOU. And no matter how much you proclaim that you DO get it… you really don’t. And neither do I. And we never will. Because we’re not black.

    The difference between you and I seems to be this: I’m fully aware of the limitations my ethnicity imposes upon my perception of the very race-particular struggles undertaken by all American people of color. You, on the other hand, seem to perceive yourself as all-knowing in regards to issues you can not possibly have personally experienced.

    While I always hesitate to speak for anyone else, I’m reasonably certain the African-American community neither needs nor wants you to ride in on your white horse and speak for them with the presumption that other whites won’t listen to THEM, but will only listen to YOU. And I can, again, only speak definitively for myself, but other white people screaming about how great they are because THEY ARE THE ONLY WHITEZ WHO REALLY, REALLY UNDERSTAND BLACK PEOPLE… these people come across as perhaps the most clueless lot of all.

    The African-American community has for half a century spoken loudly and proudly for themselves. They certainly don’t suddenly need YOU in all your glorious whiteness to do it for them.

    Frankly, you probably owe them an apology.

    P.S. – I didn’t even realize those were supposed to be Black Panthers with Beyoncé. I thought she was doing a RHYTHM NATION homage.

    That would have been dope."