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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Well there's definetly a difference between Afrocentricity a healthy philosophy and Afro-Eccentricity which the white media dubs Afrocentrism and most people have accepted as the definition -- which it is [URL=http://www.][i][b]NOT[/b][/i][/URL] Afrocentricity's main concern is seeing Africans (at home and abroad) as active agents in their own affairs and not mere passive objects on the periphery of European and Asian history and movements. Most of the characterizations one finds labeled here as Afrocentrism has nothing in the least to do with Afrocentricity but is Afro-Eccentricity, i.e., eccentric ideas about Africa and African peoples at home but especially abroad. I dare any of the Afro-name callers here to actually read works like [i]The history of Africa: the quest for eternal harmony[/i] or [i]Culture and customs of Egypt[/i] or [i]Classical Africa[/i] all by [b]Molefi Kete Asante[/b] and cite anything even remotely close to the stuff you label as Afrocentrism. If somebody here is posting Afro-Eccentricism don't turn around and mistake it for true Afrocentricity. If you do then you're just lying to make some points. Who would accept an obfuscation of Plato's philosphy as the real deal? Yet when it comes to the philosophy of Afrocentricity nearly all readily accept any and all characterizations made about it by people who don't even as much know who its modern authorities are or what they have written and can't even list just one central tenant of Afrocentricity but jump on the bandwagon to besmirch its name. I used to be one of these people myself. Even though given a copy of Asante's Afrocentricity by a bookshop owner when it first came out I had a hard time reading it, as I do with books on philosophy in general, so set it aside and as the years rolled along just accepted the white media contrived definition. But this past summer after pulling some hysterics against Afrocentricity with some 'net colleagues I went actually obtained sat down and read authentic Afrocentric works by Asante. I am not an Afrocentric, but I no longer judge it by the forces shouting mad dog mad dog and the people who hearing the shout mad dog cast stones. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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