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Post by topdog on Jun 13, 2005 5:27:12 GMT -5
I mean without getting all political and emotional how does one define Afrocentric and Afrocentrism? People on this board[Crimson Guard and Ponto Hardbottle ] have been calling me an Afrocentrists in a negative sense but I challenge them or anyone else to prove that my sources I cite are *BIASED* Afrocentric sources. Calling someone a raging biased Afrocentrist without exactly refuting or addressing the topic at hand amounts to an ad-hominem attack, unless there's suffiecient evidence to use such an argument.
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Post by mike2 on Jun 13, 2005 5:48:03 GMT -5
You are not an Afrocentrist, but I suppose you could be called an Afrophile because you obviously love to talk about Africa.
In its negative light, Afrocentrism could be defined as centering or putting an undue amount of focus on black Africans or crediting the achievements of other non-black peoples to black Africans.
So, you are borderline Afrocentrist because that's almost all you talk about, but you haven't gone so far as to say the Olmecs were black or the Khmers were black or some other silly thing.
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Post by Melnorme on Jun 13, 2005 5:51:21 GMT -5
Charlie is an Afrocentrist, but he doesn't really have time to express it, since he's pretty much constantly on the defensive.
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Post by mike2 on Jun 13, 2005 5:55:24 GMT -5
In fact, you could almost say that it is Afrocentrist to use the word "Afrocentrist," because the prefix "Afro" takes on the meaning of black Africa as opposed to Africa as the whole continent.
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Post by topdog on Jun 13, 2005 6:13:59 GMT -5
Charlie is an Afrocentrist, but he doesn't really have time to express it, since he's pretty much constantly on the defensive. I am *NOT* and Afrocentrist, covert nor overt, any proof?
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Post by eufrenio on Jun 13, 2005 8:20:19 GMT -5
Alright, Charlie, what is your definition of afrocentrism?
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Post by rodhos on Jun 13, 2005 12:29:07 GMT -5
Afrocentrists, People who blackwash and who are in denial and bias.
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Post by iberomaurusian on Jun 13, 2005 18:09:10 GMT -5
Keita
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Post by mmmkay on Jun 13, 2005 21:34:05 GMT -5
My observations of mister charlie is that is that it seems he's on the defensive just from looking at the various posts here. But thats just my initial take, im new.
he does'nt neccessarily strike me as an afrocentrist, I now thats a buzz-word nowadays on internet forums, just a dude defending erronous or biased claims here. Why can't people look past themselves and see objectivity?
Folks have alot of social development and growing up to do. I hate when people just throw that word around like that. Call him something more fitting or define what it means to be an afrocentrist personally.
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Post by topdog on Jun 14, 2005 2:11:57 GMT -5
Ad-hoinem once again, I've already posted links confirming Keita has been the most objective of all those who have studied Egyptian crania. What you do not know is that he even criticised Diop and Bernal's methods for identifying Egyptians through literature. I posted the article on egyptsearch that confirms this in this thread: www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/002167.htmlYou're just an ignorant person who labels anyone as 'Afrocentric' when their views do *NOT* agree with the views you hold. You nothing about Shormarka Keita nor his works.
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Post by amksa on Jun 14, 2005 7:08:56 GMT -5
Charlie is an Afrocentrist, but he doesn't really have time to express it, since he's pretty much constantly on the defensive. this Charlie isn't an afrocentrist, he's not even Black i think, just like Berter isn't really Berber but a sly agent of the moroccan government, a spy : i think that "she", Charlie a.k.a Mrs. Charlotte, is an old racist Swede lady who loves to pass as this rough African man to whom she dreams days and nights. Charlie is just an Africanfetichist... don't put inappropriate "centrism" in the discussion, it's just perversion and lewdness .
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Post by lurker4now on Jun 14, 2005 7:24:48 GMT -5
Afrocentrism- skepdic.com/afrocent.htmli dont think delta man is afrocentric i think he just likes to argue.he sorta reminds me of "Jeff" in SubUrbia.
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Post by Wadaad on Jun 14, 2005 7:30:54 GMT -5
well if Afrocentrism means making Africa a cardinal part of your studies of the ancient world, and the degree Africa influenced it...then you can call me an Afrocentrist
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Post by mike2 on Jun 14, 2005 7:33:22 GMT -5
If Afrocentrism can take on a good context, then so can Eurocentrism.
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Post by Wadaad on Jun 14, 2005 7:41:14 GMT -5
agreed...its the blurry lines where those spheres conjunct that will cause conflict. I believe removing biases from your learning will help greatly in furthuring history
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