In the Spirit of Sankofa and Real Truth!
Thank you brother abdurratln,
All that you have said is duly noted. My point to ocacia was the irony in the logic of establishing that a people can be identified geographically by their native environment and then deny that designation for no apparent reason. In this case, Egypt/Kemet is considered the Black Land, through which the term Black properly identifies the region and its offspring.
The term "black" speaks to race which is a European invention. It opens us up to all kinds of confusion and manipulation by the enemy. For instance, brwon skin Africans are played against dark skin Africans and vice versa. That is the enemy's most effective weapon agiants us: divide and conquer. They tell the Arabs and Berbers that black Africans do not like them, blah, blah, blah. Then they tell black Africans that Arabs and Berbers do not like them, blah, blah, blah. The onl;y one to benefit from thsi color games is....yoy guessed right: the white man.
So, from a smart perspective we need to learn to think of ourselves in geo-political terms and not racial terms or skin color. When thast happens, we will not be tripping when an African from Morocco or Algeria marries and African from Mozambique od Zimbabwe. We will correctly see this as building better ties and stronger Unity among Africans. Like Abdel-Nasser and Nkrumah, the offspring from succ marriages will serve African Unity well for generations to come. Consider H.E. Samia Nkrumah, for instance (
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=176856 and http://www.samiankrumah.org/) Her dad is Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. Her granddad is Gamal Abdel-Nasser (http://images.google.com/images?hl=...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQsAQwAw) So, she emans a lot to Egyptian Arabs and to black Ghanaians and the rest of us as well. The same is true of Dr. Gamal Nkrumah who lives and works in Cairo. Both have made and continue to make immense contributions towards African Unity. It simply is not about race or skin color.
This is why I have come to see Islam as such a Unifying force in Africa. Islam is not Christianity in this regards. Christianity has such a racist culture and racist reality. Blacks congregate in one church while whites congrgate in a different church. So, Christians come to think that that is the natural order of things. It is hard for a Christian to visulize people from different skin colors socialing tohgether and sharing the same cultures and every day life. but, Islam is not like that. All Muslims from different cultures and races congregate together. Everybody is simply a Muslim, not a white Muslim or a black Muslim. So, if an Arab marries a Bantu, the kids are mixed and simply Africans Muslims. There is no issue involved. In this sense, Islam promotes Unity, not divide and conquer.
In places like Somalia, for insance, many families have both Arab and Bantu culture and race. This is true in all Muountries in Africa. So, I think the Muslim countries have always done more for African Unity than have Christian countries. This is not being said to put down Christians. But, I think Christians need to come to understand this and sop dissing Muslims for having a different attitude on race and culture.
Thank you brother abdurratln,
All that you have said is duly noted. My point to ocacia was the irony in the logic of establishing that a people can be identified geographically by their native environment and then deny that designation for no apparent reason. In this case, Egypt/Kemet is considered the Black Land, through which the term Black properly identifies the region and its offspring.