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Photo reblogged from the floacist
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Video reblogged from Black History
Ancient African Civilizations in the Sahara.
Historian Basil Davidson looks at ancient rock paintings in Zimbabwe of civilized black-skinned African peoples. “The evidence of these paintings suggests a continuous community of peoples, living right across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the valley of the Nile.”
As the Sahara was overtaken by desert around 2000 BCE, these peoples moved southwards and eastwards. -
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“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” — Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)
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What makes the royal family of a country differ from the peasant? Royalty knows its ancestry. Royalty knows its history. This is what makes them royal. You can’t have a king who can’t trace his history back to his fore-fathers. The only way he can be king is to be born a king. But if you take away his history, and he doesn’t know who his fore-fathers are, what does he become? A peasant. A common, ordinary man.Malcolm X
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Photo reblogged from Black History
(As a black girl born into the ghetto & 25 years later, still working to get out) I concur!My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people. We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must do so cognizant of the circumstances into which people are born and under which they live. By overlooking these circumstances, the new black conservatives fall into the trap of blaming black poor people for their predicament. It is imperative to steer a course between the Scylla of environmental determinism and the Charybdis of a blaming-the-victims perspective.
