Excellent points!WHICH WAY FORWARD IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
When are WE GOING TO TEACH ALL of our people THE TRUTH?
Have you ever heard of the GAP African American community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA [why not Google them]?
The destruction of the GAP community of Tulsa on June 1st 1921 is still marginalised and ignored TODAY in a similar manner to the way the pivotal role Fidel Castro and the 55 000 Cuban volunteers [which was funded by Gaddafi/Libya]he sent to fight with the MPLA in Angola against UNITA and the South African Expeditionary Army destroyed Apartheid’s military backbone, were you aware of these FACTS?
The Greenwood, Archer and Pine community of Tulsa is STILL a truly superb template of the WAY TO GO in the 21st century because of their DO FOR SELF ethos so rather than re-invent the wheel why don’t we just use it rationally?
Would you agree that our community’s in the UK, USA rest of the Diaspora and specifically our country’s Education departments NEED to take over and refocus the schooling of our youth in general, the History curriculum being taught at ALL levels in particular, to curb the ongoing pollution of our knowledge base with the Euro-centric GARBAGE as opposed to TRUTH that we previously had no option other than to ingest?
Would you also concede that being CRUSHED and marginalized as sub human in your homeland by STRANGERS who have conquered YOU and YOUR country and made it theirs, [which is exactly what Colonialism/Apartheid did to Africa and Africans]; is comparable or possibly even more spiritually and intellectually traumatizing and debilitating than the HOLOCAUST which enslaved/delivered my ancestors and [their tortured, mutilated and murdered siblings] over 35 million others to the USA and the rest of the Diaspora in general [Guyana with regard to ME specifically]?
Can you NOW relate to why the peoples of African ethnicity in general, in the USA and the rest of the Diaspora [along with the Africans in Nigeria, South Africa] and the rest of Africa in particular NEED the so uplifting TRUTHS of an African centred History Curriculum as the core of resurrecting both the individual and collective self esteem necessary to kick start the African Renaissance in the 21st century?
When are WE going to fully update the History Curriculum taught in our communities and even more critically in AFRICAN countries TODAY at ALL levels with the works of Dr Ivan van Sertima They Came Before Columbus, The African Presence in Ancient America (circa 1200-400 BCE as highlighted by the Olmec Heads, have YOU ever seen them) and Blacks in Science, Ancient and Modern etc; or even the still alive Anthony T Browder's Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization as ready made textbooks?
Couldn’t we also utilize the Browder Files and Dr Frances Cress-Welsing’s “The Isis Papers for ordinary and advanced level African Studies textbooks, with the truly superlative “Yurugu- An African centred critique of European Cultural thought and behaviour” by Marimba Ani as the Doctorate level textbook?
Given the example of how successfully the Asians in general, the Japanese, and even the formerly colonised Chinese and Indians have coped with this burden with comparatively limited natural resources in a consistently hostile environment, with even their communities in the Diaspora outperforming OURS; isn't the so consistently CLUELESS/TRECHEROUS performance of our socio-economic elite an ongoing DISASTER?
Isn't the functional intelligentsia of any ethnicity responsible for deducing the strategic policies for moving the group forward collectively [whereas many of us are expecting our underclass to be the first on the planet to do so]?
Even the well meaning members of our Elite like Cosby, Oprah, and many other actors/celebrities do not have the resources spiritually or intellectually or focus to perform this function by themselves, but at least some of them are trying, EH?
You don’t see the current administration relying on Bill Gates, the recently deceased Steve Jobs or any of their IT/Business leaders to organise the USA’s social and political leadership and direction, though I must concede I know they would do a much better job than the retarded dimwits who were pulling G.W Bush's strings who are now doing the same with Obama, aren't THEY?
Moving our elite from their current dysfunctional state or forming a new one which is rationally intelligently functional for our collective best interest is OUR greatest challenge of the 21st century, because as highlighted by the ongoing African HOLOCAUST of over 500 years now isn't it obvious that brilliant individuals will ALWAYS be just VICTIMS IN WAITING when existing/warring/competing with intelligently organised and led collectives?
Isn’t anyone who genuinely believes they are not programmedgraphically illustrating that their programming is COMPLETE!
Now the 60 trillion dollar question is, since 75% of our youth in The US, Canada and the UK, have this enormous resource of the wisdom and Knowledge of our African history,
at their fingertips 24/7,
on devices in their school bags, pockets and pocketbooks,
how do we make the reading and embracing The Knowledge of Self; the new In Thing?,
like sagging among the guys and tattoos among the girls?