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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [QB] [QUOTE] Originally posted by anguishofbeing: The problem with book reviews intended to **ridicule** instead of clarify is that they end up misinforming the reader. [/QUOTE]Their intention is irrelevant, what matters, is whether their redicule, if present at all, is justifiable. Did the following happen, yes or no? [i]Molefi Kete Asante appropriated the term, [b]insisting that he was the only person equipped to define it,[/b] and [b]asserting that even the holy archangels Du Bois and Cheikh Anta Diop had an imperfect and immature grasp of a concept[/b] that finds ultimate, unfalsifiable expression in his own pontifications.[/i] [QUOTE] Originally posted by anguishofbeing: Neither Van Sertima, Diop, DuBois or Rogers defined themselves as "Afrocentric". [/QUOTE]^Strawman One doesn’t have to publically align oneself with a given mindset to be held accountable for flaws and inaccuracies that are characteristic of it. [b]They all[/b] made themselves guilty of claims that were not unlike claims made by contemporary Eurocentrics, in terms of incorporating other peoples history into their own. [QUOTE] Originally posted by anguishofbeing: The term may have been "employed" by DuBois and appropriated by Asante but there was [b]no "change of plans"[/b] at least where empirical study of African history was concerned. [/QUOTE]Exactly, the bogus notions I mentioned went on undisturbed from there, and it’s still around today as is exemplified by Ironlions ‘’black Romans’’ and you cheering right beside him in his thread. The distinction made by Altakruri to rid ‘’Afrocentrism’’ of its assumptions that were typical of it’s time are in vein, since ‘’Afrocentrism’’ is not the property of Asante, that he or anyone else can dictate that their interpretation should be the correct one. You can dislodge the flawed research and claims from the worldview, but you still end up with the fact that they [b]all[/b] made themselves guilty of flawed scholarship, period. Some claims couldn’t have been self corrected at that time at that time, because of the juvenile state of Anthropology. Other claims were the result of willful ignorance, wishful thinking and floppy scholarship. [QUOTE] Originally posted by anguishofbeing: So it is not, contrary to your attempts, about advancing ideological views about Africa in spite of empirical evidence. In fact, its methodology follows the empirical tradition of the west but not its racist assumptions. [/QUOTE]If the findings are acquired by empirical evidence, why is it ‘’Afrocentrism’’ and not just science? I asked you the following before but you Ignored it: [i]Can you give me an example of an ''Afrocentric'' claim that can be demonstrated to be truthful, but exclusive to Afrocentrism, i.e. only accepted by Afrocentrists?[/i] Can you give a detailed description of what Afrocentrism entails, if it not includes the notions I mentioned? Can you show me how WEB Dubois used it, what he meant with it, and how his usage is corroborated my modern science? Can you show me **HOW** and on what areas of research Afrocentrists, according to your use of the word, used the empirical method to arrive at their conclusions, and what these conclusions were? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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