Statute of limitation for Reparations
Is there no statute of limitations for reparations? good point.Just who would decide that? Imagine if I robbed someone and tied them up for 4 years and then when they took me to court said the statute of limitations just
European benchmarks
If we are limited then naturally our languages are limited, not to mention biased. It means that our understanding of anything is only according to our terms. Best example would be intelligence. When Europeans went around the world they defined
What did the first “Africans” look like?
This is the new conversation. But it is not a new topic for us. A lot of content like this requires support to keep researching and bringing it into the light.Every word we use distorts the discussion. 200,000 years ago
The Problem with Darwin and Evolution
At the heart of scientific racism towards non-White people is Darwinism. We would do well to understand it is so much more than just science. Nothing is innocent in these "race wars" and while there are few who will explicitly
Struggle and Human Fitra (Nature)
Our fitra (nature) is to struggle. As nomadic people struggle was a central part of our life. As Africans in the 60s we struggled for basic human rights. Before that the right to be human.Whites had their struggles also. But
Disassembled Identities (Advanced)
At some point when you take out all the parts of a phone or a camera, at some stage it stops being a camera or a phone. And our identity is like that. When you pull out our culture, our
The History of Africa: Largely unknown
The African past started with the birth of human beings some 200,000 years ago. Our earliest records on Africa are not even 1% of this time period. What Eurocentrics call Pre-history on account of no written records being found. So
The problem with the past and even the present
Every generation reinvents history in their own imageWe struggle to understand ancient societies because we dig at them with our contemporary tools. We use ridiculous terminologies which we treat as absolute for understanding people in different cultures and periods in
Afrocentrism on Trial
On Quora, someone asked: Do you think Afrocentricism is more rooted in myth than history?And we need to get smart and realize the enemies of our people are never going to be our friends. Afrocentrism is a problem but do
From Black to White
Can you imagine going to Andalusia today, looking at the Native Spanish population, and drawing the conclusion that they are Ancient so-called Moors? And just ignoring 1492? Well, Native African populations like the Kanuri were driven South for over 1000s