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Post by lurker4now on Jun 14, 2005 7:48:38 GMT -5
anything thats politically motivated is wrong thats the point.
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Post by iberomaurusian on Jun 15, 2005 14:13:28 GMT -5
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 What the hell are you telling here, Amksa!?.I havent noticed what you wrote till now ... What I'm then!?
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Post by amksa on Jun 16, 2005 14:14:39 GMT -5
you're like james bond... un "homme de l'ombre."
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Post by Curious6 on Jun 16, 2005 16:06:38 GMT -5
I won't limit myself and quote or paraphrase a dictionary entry, but just attempt to express a definition of the term that is unbiased and applicable to the ways the term referring to this particular ethnocentrism is used nowadays .
In my view, Afrocentrism is an archetype of ethnocentrism; therefore ineluctably imbued with narrow-minded, bigoted views that claim many of the greatest civilisations of the past are fruit of the labours of West African Negroids.
Afrocentrists try to claim East Africa, Egypt and (even!) North Africa as territories of W. African Negroids. This of course, this is not corroborated by any evidence, and therefore lacks scientific validity. It's honest to say that East Africans, as well as Egyptians and North Africans are not a product of Western Africans' actions, but are a people in their own right, with their own respective histories, languages, cultures, traditions, religions, and political and social systems.
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Post by mike2 on Jun 16, 2005 16:32:52 GMT -5
Hardcore Afrocentrists even go so far as to claim the Olmec and Khmer civilizations. They try to inflate the black racial grouping to include peoples who have nothing to do with the Negroids of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Post by eufrenio on Jun 16, 2005 16:33:38 GMT -5
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Post by mike2 on Jun 16, 2005 16:44:28 GMT -5
Ugh... Legrand Clegg. He's a know-it-all dumbass who doesn't know how to tell the difference between Negroid and Australoid.
What's scary is that he can get away with this because he is scholarly. Somethings he says are true (such as his denouncement of the true Negro), but his broader ideas are completely false and totally politically motivated. This stuff really unnerves me. He thinks he's improving black self esteem. He is doing nothing of the sort.
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Post by iberomaurusian on Jun 16, 2005 16:48:42 GMT -5
Lol at these ... 'the ancient Egyptians were black people' 'Do not deprive black children of their heritage!' ;D
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Post by eufrenio on Jun 16, 2005 16:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by mike2 on Jun 16, 2005 16:58:23 GMT -5
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Post by eufrenio on Jun 16, 2005 16:59:28 GMT -5
" an African-centered universe " ?
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Post by mike2 on Jun 16, 2005 17:02:34 GMT -5
He's a friggin' loon. Charlie, THAT'S what Afrocentrism is.
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Post by hs on Jun 16, 2005 17:18:50 GMT -5
Afrocentrism is an attempt by US Blacks to get self empowered in the hostile environment they live. However wrong I find their ideas I understand why it exists.
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Post by Educate Me on Jun 16, 2005 17:23:32 GMT -5
What do you mean by hostile enviroment?
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Post by hs on Jun 16, 2005 17:51:23 GMT -5
What do you mean by hostile enviroment? I mean a lot of things.
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