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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: ^^^ Yeah, but Honestly from reading the first few pages of Africans and NAtive Americans Lioness is on to something, but Im sure she will be equally shocked because according to forbes(and he back his claims up) The Term Negro was applied to "Black Africans, Indians of India, Native Americans, Japanese and Slaves of any color" [/QUOTE]I read some of the book via google and I don't believe that it is particularly well argued. The way that Forbes uses his sources to make logical leaps is astounding. For instance, he argues that the pre-Inuit Dorset culture may have reached Greenland, based on old European Sagas of contact .Since they are no longer there, he assumes that they must have been ran out by the Norse and that since the Norse were slave traders, they probably took them as slaves and that these were the slaves described later as "Indigo" in Iberian markets. These are huge leaps considering the fact that we haven't even established that the Norse found Inuit there in the first place (that's an argument in and of its self that needs to be explored and substantiated before we proceed to the next step). Also, the way he brushes aside the evidence of trans-Atlantic crossings from Africa is just plain lazy and equally non-nonsensical. For instance, in response to a claim that the Americans possessed alloyed spears of the type known in Sierra Leone, he cites Alviso da Ca'da's observation that the people of Jolof carried swords and iron (not alloyed) spears and that the inhabitants possessed dugout canoes for fishing, but mentioned no large ships, and because of this, it is unlikely that West Africans (presumably all Africans from Senegal to Nigeria) were crossing oceans around this time. LMAO.. I mean he completely ignored historical evidence showing for instance, that the Mandinka were making alloyed spears and large boats just down river. How he can cite Van Sertima a few pages back and still come to that conclusion is beyond me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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