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6 Books Obama Should be Reading on Summer Vacation to Change His Views About Africa and Black People
August 14, 2015 | Posted by ABS Staff
President Obama is going on summer vacation and is planning to do some summer reading. He has reportedly selected six books to read of his own.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/08/14/6-books-from-president-obamas-summer-reading-list/
However, most of the time when the president speaks exclusively to African audiences, he tends to lecture Africans on how to behave as if they are the source of their collective problems as a race. Therefore, this list of books should help the president better understand the true source of the major sociopolitical and economic issues in the world.
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop, a Senegalese Egyptologist, makes the case that both mankind and civilization started with Black people. His book argues that ancient Egypt was largely Black African in race and culture during the first 2,000 years of its existence. Before Diop, the world believed that ancient Egyptians were not Black, and that the great Egyptian civilization that gave so much to the world, could not have come from dark brown-skinned Africans.
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams 16 years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of the African race, was intended to be “a general rebellion against the subtle message from even the most ‘liberal’ white authors (and their Negro disciples): ‘You belong to a race of nobodies. You have no worthwhile history to point to with pride.'” The book was written at a time when many Black students, educators and scholars were starting to piece together the connection between the way their history was taught and the way they were perceived by others and by themselves.
Read more:http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/08...ange-his-views-about-africa-and-black-people/
August 14, 2015 | Posted by ABS Staff
President Obama is going on summer vacation and is planning to do some summer reading. He has reportedly selected six books to read of his own.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/08/14/6-books-from-president-obamas-summer-reading-list/
However, most of the time when the president speaks exclusively to African audiences, he tends to lecture Africans on how to behave as if they are the source of their collective problems as a race. Therefore, this list of books should help the president better understand the true source of the major sociopolitical and economic issues in the world.
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop, a Senegalese Egyptologist, makes the case that both mankind and civilization started with Black people. His book argues that ancient Egypt was largely Black African in race and culture during the first 2,000 years of its existence. Before Diop, the world believed that ancient Egyptians were not Black, and that the great Egyptian civilization that gave so much to the world, could not have come from dark brown-skinned Africans.
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams 16 years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of the African race, was intended to be “a general rebellion against the subtle message from even the most ‘liberal’ white authors (and their Negro disciples): ‘You belong to a race of nobodies. You have no worthwhile history to point to with pride.'” The book was written at a time when many Black students, educators and scholars were starting to piece together the connection between the way their history was taught and the way they were perceived by others and by themselves.
Read more:http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/08...ange-his-views-about-africa-and-black-people/