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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] The Egypt Search Forums have been a fountain of Knowledge about Egyptian and Black Civilizations. The first forum to bring a renaissance to research about Egypt, was the Egyptology Forum. This forum allowed researchers to redefine Egyptian society as an African Civilization, Overtime, people began to post threads on non-Egyptian Black societies and history. This forum was the Ancient Egyptian Forum of ES. On this forum we regularly presented Threads on the ancient Black Civilizations and made this forum a site for Afrocentric truths. This upset the original posters at the Egyptology Forum, who practice the research methods of contributionism and the method of Authority. Contributionist researchers are Afro-Americans who write about the contributions of Blacks to Egyptian history. These researchers acknowledge the role of Egypt as a Black Civilization. The Contributionists use the research Method of Authority to conduct their research. The Method of Authority is a method in which Afro-American researchers find research conducted by any white researcher that suggest Egypt was a Black Civilization. Although they accept the research of whites as valid and reliable, they ignore the 200 years of research in the African roots of Egypt presented by Dubois, J.A. Rogers, John Jackson and even Anta Diop. [b]The major researchers on the Ancient Egypt Forum: Clyde Winters, Mike, Marc Washington. Ironlion, Ish Gebor, and Narmerthoth practice Afrocentrism and Africalogy, instead of Contiburtionism. The major Afrocentric researchers are Clyde Winters, Mike, Marc Washington. Ironlion, they base their research on the Afro-American researchers who have firmly grounded their research on Black Civilizations on historical and anthropological sources. These researchers acknowledge that races exist, and that we are members of the Black race. Narmerthoth is the site’s Philosopher. He revisits the themes that Afrocentrism are founded from a scientific bases like his research on melanin . He also highlights the important role business acumen could play in giving the Black Community independence. He also ask the questions relating to our history that makes us think. Ish Gebor is the Ancient Egypt Forums bibliophile. Ish finds the articles and books that support Afrocentric themes. He presents the data in a thoughtful way which cause one to think and reevaluate the data to make sure it is saying what we believe it is saying. Another important researcher here was the original ‘the lioness Inc.’ Granted ‘the lioness Inc’ is a[i] provocateur[/i], s/he/they provided great research sources in s/he’s debates that made you think. It appears that the pressure we put on 'the lioness Inc.' was so great that around 9 months ago the original ‘the lioness Inc’ disappeared. Today’s lioness is just a stupid Euroloon that contributes very little to Ancient Egypt debates.[/b] Most of the other contributors here are not original thinkers. These researchers came from the Egyptology Forum. They are jealous of the fact that the main Ancient Egypt researchers: Clyde Winters, Mike, Marc Washington. Ironlion, Ish Gebor, and Narmerthoth have the courage to write what they believe , citing sources and interpreting the sources from a scientific perspective. [b]The other researchers on the Ancient Egypt Forum cite sources without any evaluation of the source they cite for validity and reliability. They assume that if an article was published in a peer reviewed journal, or any research done by whites it is/has to be the whole truth and nothing but the truth, just because it was done by a white researcher.[/b] The science the other researchers practice is called: "Science by Authority". People who practice science by authority believe that any research done by a European--no matter who they are, or done by Black researchers found acceptable by Europeans in the academy, e.g., Gates, Mboli and Keita is recognized as correct while they ignore research from "alternative African scholarly sources." not recognized by the "mainstream" i.e., "Europeans". A coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside. [IMG]http://meghantelpner.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/40709058coconut.jpg[/IMG] A coconut represents Blacks who are confused about their identity and need someone white to verify they are thinking correct and scholarly.These people spend their time citing any white scholar that happens to claim that Blacks have contributed anything to history. The best example of this is references to Bernal's Black Athena-- which was promoting a Semitic-centric [Hyksos] origin for the Egyptian influence on ancient Greece--as an "Afro-Centric text". These pseudo-coconuts they are pseudo-coconuts because they don't don't consiously see themselves as uncle TOMS because they support their views by citing any European who promotes an idea they feel illustrates a contribution of Blacks to world history. They don't realize that they continue to practice the old Afro-American saying, "If you're "white you're right.If you're black get back. If you're brown [or acceptable to whites] stick around. The "alternative African scholarly sources." would represent the heroes of the Afrocentric Social Sciences: DuBois, J.A. Rogers, Diop, John Jackson and etc. In the 1990's, the media in articles published by Newsweek, the New York Times, and Time magazine, was able to show that Ivan van Sertima and Hunter Adams were Charlatan [QUOTE] A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception. [/QUOTE]Ivan was shown to be a Charlatan because he could not back-up what he had wrote in the books he edited in the 1980's.Hunter, pretended to be a scientist working at Argon National Laboratory when he was really a Janitor. This was pure deception on the part of conservatives. The attacks on Ivan were unfounded because Ivan, as the editor of the books only wrote about the upcoming chapters in the books you were about to read. Hunter, was wrong to pretend he was a scientist. At the time Hunter was employed by the University of Chicago and could have got his degree through the University--but he refused to do eventhough I advise him to do so as early as 1979. Young researchers who write on this site accept that Afrocentrism lacks any foundation because of the media attacks on Ivan and Hunter. These young people have an inferiority complex, and seek out any white/European authority to support their work. They do this out of ignorance. They don't know that Hunter and Ivan were not Afrocentists. Ivan was not an Afrocentrist's, he made a name for himself popularizing the work of others. As a result, eventhough no one has falsified the research of DuBois, John Jackson, J.A. Rogers Diop , and the other heroes of the Afrocentric Social Science, young people here spend all their time citing anything written by "whites" that show some sort of contribution of Blacks to ancient history.This is sad. I have taught research methods at the Graduate school level for years. One of the things we teach Graduate students is to become expert consumers of research literature. They become expert comsumers by understanding the foundations and theories of learning and pedagogy.Using this as the knowledge base you crtically analyze eucational research based on these theories. Young researchers here don't know the roots of Afrocentrism or they read this literature with a jaundice eye, colored by Europeans who hate Afrocentrism because it shows history has been white washed--to white out African people from history. This is a sad situation because we have a 200 year tradition of the Afrocentric Social Science that was mianly contructed by Afro-American scholars who held Phds and MAs, most from Harverd, e.g.,Carter G. Woodson, DuBois and Hansberry. Because of the tradition of an Afrocentric Social Science, young researchers should base their understanding of the African origin of Egypt, based on the research of Afrocentric social science like DuBois and Diop. But instead of doing this the young researchers here seek out any white authority or Black recognized by these whites, to support the African origin of Egypt. This is not the way research should be done. Good research should cite the original research done by the heroes of Afrocentric research, and then cite the recent research that confirms the original findings of the Afrocentric researchers. This would promote the continuity of research, instead of acting like every "new" publication on the African origin of Egypt is so significant or outstanding. The research of Marc and Mike is a good example of confirmation studies, that is the major occupation of professional researchers. They have confirmed the theory of J.A. Rogers that the families of many European elites were of African origin. They also created a new hypothesis: Many early Americans were Black Europeans who immigrated to America from Europe. This was an important hypothesis, which Mike confirmed, because it added more evidence to the fact that all Afro-Americans were not slaves. You can find out more on the Structure of the Afrocentric Social Science at: http://olmec98.net/Structure.htm As a result, in science new research should illustrate continuity with past research. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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