Yep, Black History Month!

[Dhadnot]

this is why we need to be aware of history in general and black history in particular, in this country especially:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0130072clemson1.html

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125072uconn1.html

 

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i think his point is, black history month actually segregates black history, making a seperate month to teach about black history instead of integrating black history with the rest of the history taught. there is no chinese/persian/greek/spanish history month, they are just integrated with "history" or "world history" in general. why should black history be seperated, is that not in itself segregating?

 

[Dhadnot]

They not gonna give a nigga shit anyway, we gotta work with what we could/can secure.

 

[ParkBoyz]

i think his point is, black history month actually segregates black history, making a seperate month to teach about black history instead of integrating black history with the rest of the history taught. there is no chinese/persian/greek/spanish history month, they are just integrated with "history" or "world history" in general. why should black history be seperated, is that not in itself segregating?

I still don't see the logic in that though.. There is already a separation, and Black History Month is basically a way of forcing over all equality back into the public consciousness. As someone just so eloquently put it, every month is "White History Month", one month is in no way leveling the playing field. And also "chinese/persian/greek/spanish" history is indeed integrated into general academia, but African studies aren't.. Not to mention that these people were immigrants, not (for the most part) descendants of American slaves, who generated income for this country's welfare and future prosperity with out compensation.

 

[Dhadnot]

Egypt or rather KMT is the missing link. They want to keep that as hidden and convultued with bullshit as much as possible. Egypt will reveal everything to us about who we are and what we are capable of, and what we should be doing now.

 

[kingsvillektp]

A Dream Deferred (by Langston Hughes)

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

LOL DAMN I REMEMBER RECITING THAT WAY BACK IN JR HIGH... good memories...

 

[ParkBoyz]

Egypt or rather KMT is the missing link. They want to keep that as hidden and convultued with bullshit as much as possible. Egypt will reveal everything to us about who we are and what we are capable of, and what we should be doing now.

This is exactly what Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop taught... Actually, the whole debate over Egypt had a huge over all impact on the field of Anthropology, as Eurocentric teaching has been exposed in recent decades. Skull measurements proven unreliable, information fabricated, bogus theories of a mysterious "Mediterranean race" from the north who swept into northern Africa and civilized the pagan savages. Yet, recent archaeological evidence show the Predynastic/Old Kingdom Egyptians (Especially Upper Nile Egypt) were indigenous to Africa, and belonged to a Nilo-Saharan culture, as that of Nubia. DNA analysis also shows that the Ancient Egyptians are most closely related to "The Tigre People" of Northern Eritria, which gives credence to the claim by the Egyptians that they were descendants of the "Puntites" whose kindgoms were in East Africa.

Tigre woman:
http://www.joshuaproject.net/profiles/photos/p110051.jpg

Egypt is indeed the link, as is Nubia. They're the mothers of Ethiopia, Songhay, Ghana, Ancient Mali, and Timbuktu among others.. Don't let anybody tell you that the Egyptians were white, Arab, or anything other than African. The people there now are descendant of invaders over thousands of years, yet even so the rural Egyptians, and Upper Egyptians near Luxor still show strong affinity with their ancient ancestors, and can be seen in their darker skin, curlier hair, and more Africanized traits.

 

[Dhadnot]

This is exactly what Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop taught... Actually, the whole debate over Egypt had a huge over all impact on the field of Anthropology, as Eurocentric teaching has been exposed in recent decades. Skull measurements proven unreliable, information fabricated, bogus theories of a mysterious "Mediterranean race" from the north who swept into northern Africa and civilized the pagan savages. Yet, recent archaeological evidence show the Predynastic/Old Kingdom Egyptians (Especially Upper Nile Egypt) were indigenous to Africa, and belonged to a Nilo-Saharan culture, as that of Nubia. DNA analysis also shows that the Ancient Egyptians are most closely related to "The Tigre People" of Northern Eritria, which gives credence to the claim by the Egyptians that they were descendants of the "Puntites" whose kindgoms were in East Africa.

Tigre woman:
http://www.joshuaproject.net/profiles/photos/p110051.jpg

Egypt is indeed the link, as is Nubia. They're the mothers of Ethiopia, Songhay, Ghana, Ancient Mali, and Timbuktu among others.. Don't let anybody tell you that the Egyptians were white, Arab, or anything other than African. The people there now are descendant of invaders over thousands of years, yet even so the rural Egyptians, and Upper Egyptians near Luxor still show strong affinity with their ancient ancestors, and can be seen in their darker skin, curlier hair, and more Africanized traits.

Thanks brotha. I know. I actually had a Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist tell my friend and I in private (at the King Tut exhibit in LA, like 2 years ago), exactly what you said. She said they have known about the origins, and migrations of the original Egyptians for about 50 years now. But then she said that she sympathizes with Zarqawwi, that they teach all teh Arab kids that they were the original Egyptains, and what would happen if we took that away from them. Only at the expense of my people huh?

 

[ParkBoyz]

Thanks brotha. I know. I actually had a Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist tell my friend and I in private (at the King Tut exhibit in LA, like 2 years ago), exactly what you said. She said they have known about the origins, and migrations of the original Egyptians for about 50 years now. But then she said that she sympathizes with Zarqawwi, that they teach all teh Arab kids that they were the original Egyptains, and what would happen if we took that away from them. Only at the expense of my people huh?

LOL! Word? that's crazy..

 

[Dhadnot]

LOL! Word? that's crazy..

No lie. It was actually my Jewish friend who asked her the question. HIs father is an alumn from the university. He asked if they were scared to do DNA test on king Tut cause they would find out he was black? Some whites know and acknowledge the truth. But seriously, what happened? Others used to respect us, now 4000 years in the future they despise us after they've stolen our shit and treated/treat us like dogs. The truth is beautiful, thanks for those videos.

 

[ParkBoyz]

No lie. It was actually my Jewish friend who asked her the question. HIs father is an alumn from the university. He asked if they were scared to do DNA test on king Tut cause they would find out he was black? Some whites know and acknowledge the truth. But seriously, what happened? Others used to respect us, now 4000 years in the future they despise us after they've stolen our shit and treated/treat us like dogs. The truth is beautiful, thanks for those videos.

Haha, that is pathetic. Even if I were to entertain some mythical "white egypt", history still will tell you that Tut was a part of the 18th Dynasty, a Dynasty scattered with Nubian admixture, so that isn't a good argument. Nubians helped Egyptians fight off the invasion of the Hyksos, so there was alot of admixture between Nubian nobility and Egyptian royalty in that Dynasty. Queen Nefertari is the most famous example of that. Many of his family members were black, what sense does that make? They try hard, but you can't deny history, it won't work.

 

[|GOD|||ZILLA|]

timbuktu.. HA.. my fault.. i just like sayin' that word.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

Your hard on for me makes you look sexually confused and pathetic.

My GOD, princess, that was so gee darn original that I think you should patent that and put it in your sig so when anyone else clowns the shit out of you, you can just point to your cute, little sig and act as if no one has ever used gay inuendos to attempt to belittle someone.

Nice comeback, Cathy.

ANYWAYS

Its sad that America has a "white standard" and history only teaches from a "white" perspective. If this really were the Land of Oppurtunity, there would be no "days", there would just be a "now".

 

[ParkBoyz]

Clitus Niger-Niger (Clitus The Black):
The black king who saved the life of Alexander The Great, only to be betrayed and killed by the same hands of whose life he saved..

http://www.marcusgarvey.com/wmview.php?ArtID=447

 

[JLMACN]

@JLMACN


this is Irrelevant to the subject matter..

When the subject is “Black History Month” how can the discussion of its need/existence/importance be irrelevant?

thats like me asking...should there be white people?

Far from it actually.

becuase...you are questioning its existence....which is doing nothing positive to the subject at hand and in essence is the PURPOSE of the THREAD.

PERIOD.

If you want to question its existence make a thread of your own...dont destroy this one with Rightwingish ignorance..


have a nice day.

5000

 

[Y-S]

A black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus. She was brutally attacked and thrown off...and she took the case to court.

Rosa Parks? No. Her name was Elizabeth Jennings. It happened in New York City, downtown on the corner Pearl and Chatham Streets.

 

[ParkBoyz]

Sundiata Keita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundiata_Keita

And

Mansa Musa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa

A black woman refused to give up her seat on a bus. She was brutally attacked and thrown off...and she took the case to court.

Rosa Parks? No. Her name was Elizabeth Jennings. It happened in New York City, downtown on the corner Pearl and Chatham Streets.

^^Aye, that's crazy though because I always hear about people doing that before Rosa Parks, just never had any names. I assume $225 was a lot back in those days..

 

[Deadpool]

My GOD, princess, that was so gee darn original that I think you should patent that and put it in your sig so when anyone else clowns the shit out of you, you can just point to your cute, little sig and act as if no one has ever used gay inuendos to attempt to belittle someone.

Don't short change yourself Yishai, no one works so hard yet, fails so badly as you. There are still a few threads of mine out there that you haven't posted in. Keep trying and you'll hold onto that number one fan spot for a long time.

 

[ParkBoyz]

"In the rapidly moving, high-tech world of the 21st century, the subject of history is increasingly being downplayed and even neglected by schools, corporations, institutions, churches, and in the home itself. If this trend continues, today's children may not have the basic knowledge they need to teach future generations, and much of our collective history may be lost or forgotten."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzgoF6N8p8&mode=related&search=

 

[Dhadnot]

"In the rapidly moving, high-tech world of the 21st century, the subject of history is increasingly being downplayed and even neglected by schools, corporations, institutions, churches, and in the home itself. If this trend continues, today's children may not have the basic knowledge they need to teach future generations, and much of our collective history may be lost or forgotten."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeEatG719k

good video.