djaleksandr
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To the OP specifically, I know exactly what you mean. We grew up in a different age. In our younger years we were on a much higher wrung of the social-economic ladder. It was not all that long before your birth that it became legal to teach Black people to read and write. Not everything we knew then was false, but things have changed. In record time I might add, in fact at this rate White people will be intelectually inferior, on the average, in a much shorter time than most expect. We have had thousands of years, they get two hundred years. At this rate we will be sunk in a few short decades and it will be we who hold the brooms in industry, if there ever is anymore industry.
Historically speaking, i find this quite unsettling.
Obviously, you've never heard of Imhotep(over 2,000 years before Hippocrates, he was the true father of modern medicine), Mansa Mussa, Khufu(2551-2528B.C.), Nefertiti, Timbuktu, King Menes.... the list is long, and covers thousands of years. my point is, it's from a very deeply ingrained false ideaology of Black people to think our history started in the diaspora, or after slavery, or Christian indoctrination. The wealth of history, science, religion,and art of the African continent was long established. Civilization started there...were there no Badarians, there'd be no Egyptions, were there no Egyptian culture, what of the Greeks or Persians? Were there no Greeks, no Romans...and so on, until you have Western society as we have it.
i understand if one isn't familiar with world history than statement like the one i highlighted in red might seem factual. my intent isn't to belittle anyone for what they think or what they don't know. But perhaps to enlighten and encourage people to learn more about what thay might not have known before.
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You live nearby. Very nice. I'm glad you have the same well wishes for our President Elect and our country. Hopefully sooner than later, the US get its chance to exhale. .gif){kind=avatar}
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