Can anyone define Afrocentrism?

[mike2]

hs said:

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.

I'll give you that, but it's also an environment which is equally hostile to white peoples and cultures.

[hs]

mike2 said:

hs said:

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.

I'll give you that, but it's also an environment which is equally hostile to white peoples and cultures.

I agree that whites can feel threatened as well. To blacks, though, it is even more threatening... I would not like to spend a whole life as a black man in the south of the US...

[mike2]

I would. So I could stand testament to the fact that blacks are not all the same. That acting white and being white are two different things. I would love to be a black guy. That way I wouldn't be called a racist if I criticized blacks. And that way I could serve as an example to black kids who would otherwise fall prey to false ideologies like those purported by that Legrand Clegg character.

[mmmkay]

I think we have pretty clear examples here of what an afrocentrist truly is. Charlie does'nt seem to cross those boundaries, give him a break.

Lets face it people, without him, this board would a bunch of lower-to-middle aged white guys whining about political correctness and talking about europids and the various classifications of berbers.

He brings a little something else to this board, it is centered on africans, but not afrocentric in that sense of the term. Call it balance. Respect diversity, is'nt that whats this boards about?

[mike2]

I agree, compared to Clegg, Charlie looks like a white supremacist! lol...

Even though Africa is all he seems to like to move on to other things, as evident in the Uralic thread. I think he's a valuable member who doesn't bullshit, even if his zeal rivals that of Berter. Not an Afrocentrist by my definition, anyway.

[amksa]

for me, an afrocentrist is a dready fat woman in bubu who try to learn Swahili.

[humantag]

topdog said:

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.

When people talk about Afrocentrism, they generally mean people who engage in historical and anthropological revisionism in such a way as to place Africa, Africans, and more generally black people at the center of all significant world history and culture.

After all is said and done, I don't think Charlie could fairly be classified as an Afrocentrist.

I also don't see how a biased perspective can ever be a good thing, as some have curiously suggested. It's never a good thing to compromise objectivity.

[jojohalo]

humantag said:

topdog said:

I also don't see how a biased perspective can ever be a good thing, as some have curiously suggested. It's never a good thing to compromise objectivity.

Everyone thinks they are more objective than the next. I don't think anyone is ever as objective as they think they are. It is quite humorous to see fact after fact listed off in an objective manner. But then when you look at which facts are chosen or how the events are reported you can see just how subjective the history is.

[topdog]

hs said:

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.

You're mixing up black nationalism with Afrocentrism, they not the same thing.