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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [qb] I choose to build on what was left, not sanctify it. I'll throw out the bathwater but keep the baby and the tub too. Lol [/qb][/QUOTE]This means retain and build on what remains valid and factual while discarding the other stuff. Who throwd out Copernicus and Newton 'cos we got astrophysics? We need to get to them or look at them (have them under our belt) to move on and understand science today. Same with Wms, Diop, Doc Ben, Karenga, Madhubuti, van Sertima, Snowden, Hansberry, Rogers, Osei, Jackson, Ajayi, P Goldman, et al. This comes natural for other peoples not to start from square one each succeeding generation. They move forward from an accumulated base of knowledge with no shame. For example they been running the same white man's north and east Africa game since the Napoleonic Expedition and refined it with each new tool/methodology that's come along since. Interpretation is key. But we lack the womb to tomb institution system to ingrain a weltanschauung. In fact we tear down what was built for us to inherit. We try to build on anti-this or anti-that never realizing we must define on the positive. If ones goal is simply countering negatives one becomes dependent on that negative to exist. Remove that negative and ones whole reason for being is swept from under them. Besides Square Oneing, these generations never experienced a liberation struggle and many imagine the playing field is level. As if somehow a mere 50 years of 'independent' Africa, purported equal rights and a physically half Luo potus, completely erased or even healed the 500 year legacy of the Triangular Trade, colonialism, genocide, apartheid, Jim Crow, etc; and the 1500 year weight of the Hham Mythos. No. We don't have the luxury to divorce ourselves from reality. Our very quality of life is impacted by the way our history, ethnology, molecular biology, and so on is perceived by those matriculating European and Semitic institutions. At least give our own a chance as we try our best to objectively develop an authentic Africana of a World Class status without skewing interpretation toward self bias. [QUOTE][b] Page opening posted by don Cardova : [i] We must form a scientific spirit capable of[URL=http://ndrln] seeing even the weaknesses of our own proofs[/URL], of seeing the unfinished side of our work and committing ourselves to completing it. You understand? Therefore we should then have a work which could honestly stand criticism, because what we’ve done would have been placed on a scientific plane." [/i] —Cheikh Anta Diop, Interview with Harun Kofi Wangara (Harold G. Lawrence), 1974 [/b] [/QUOTE]. PS just imagine form schools where the tested and best from our past scholars are taught, learned, and launched from. Wow! To enter college with that and the brightest and best of all the ES opinions no matter from who? Already multidisciplinary and multi ethnic minded. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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