Posted on 11/12/2006 7:03:58 AM PST by Valin
Africa, home of the "Sun People", was once the lost continent of Atlantis where the Mother Wheel was built.
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Africa, home of the "Sun People", was once the lost continent of Atlantis where the Mother Wheel was built.
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I think they have pretty much proven that Thera/Santarini has that distinction.
Do you think anyone objective is going to translate these? We probably will end up an Ebonics form of picture writing now....
Come on, be fair. What's wrong with admitting the facts presented clearly by this archaeology--that there was once a center of culture, art and learning in Africa? Certainly it no longer exists as such today, but remember that other great civilizations have turned to dust, and so might ours someday.
and that new picture writing will be a PhD program at Harvard in 5 years.
The story of Mali, Mansa Musa, etc. is no hidden secret.
Apparently it is to some.
the texts will force the West to accept Africa has an intellectual history as old as its own
Yeah, right, and the dolphins are as smart as us too.
4 posted on 11/12/2006 9:31:22 AM CST by aynrandfreak (I hate the Left)
Of course I was being facetious, but I was having fun at the expense of so-called scholars like Black Studies professor Leonard Jeffries who make all sorts of outlandish historical claims for Africa. For an interesting perspective on this, read "Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History", by Mary Leftkowitz.
I don't doubt there are texts there, and some intellectual history. My issue is when they try to make it seem like their intellectual history is as old as ours. That's just not accurate. Western civilization goes back to Ancient Greece at least. These texts are from the middle ages.
For an interesting perspective on this, read "Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History", by Mary Leftkowitz.
You took the thought right out of my head as I started reading this thread. Good suggestion.
I absolutely agree with you about Leonard Jeffries. He's psychotic and does great damage. Black kids have enough to feel pride about in their own heritage without any political opportunist making stuff up. And if they don't have enough, then they should go to school, work hard, and become something great.
Nah. It's in SE Asia.
North Africa was unquestionably an important part of the Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman empires. Civilization seems to have continued there, after barbarians destroyed Rome and peaked in the 11th century, the golden age of Islam. However, this civilization was completely color blind and race did not mean what it does now. I just hope that they microfilm any documents that have value before Islamic militants bomb the library.
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