Afrocentric Attack?

What people have to understand is that practically all the history we know of today has been taught written and recorded, and then rewritten by the Eurocentist. That is why so many people are brainwashed. The people who rule most of the world will control the history most people learn.

Well, I was talking about you... and others. Precisely.

The big deal is when that fact is acknowledged, then some idiot takes it to the next level and tries to claim an entire civilisation is purely black African, such as Egypt. Then they take it to even dumber levels, trying to claim the most important people were black African because of some flimsy link to a piece of circumstantial evidence e.g. Septimius Severus was born in Africa, he became Roman Emperor, therefore Romans were ruled by black Africans. The complete absence of any form of rational logical in preference for wishful thinking is so obvious in claims such as these.

Afrocentrism is something so many people bring up. Really there is no such thing. Its just history from a different perspective besides the usual one written from the European perspective. Humans must realize that we are all apart of history and are all one race the human race.

Thank you  

[quote=Surmount]Afrocentrism is something so many people bring up. Really there is no such thing. Its just history from a different perspective besides the usual one[/quote]

You are right, it is history from a different perspective. The WRONG perspective. That's what history is when it makes a claim about something citing a tiny piece of unpersuasive evidence which contradicts a much larger amount of valid evidence.

This forum has seen a range of crank theories from the original Irish being black African, to South American civilisations, to classical Greek thinkers born from Greek families, to a range of others.

In our post-modernist world many people like to believe that reality is all subjective and everyone has a perfectly and equally valid viewpoint. People who think that are dreaming. Perspectives don't become valid or convincing until they are backed up with evidence of sufficient volume and in sufficient quality to become proof. So far none of the Afrocentrist theories I have seen have even a fraction of the credibility that conventional historiography possesses.


Edited by Constantine XI - 18-Aug-2007 at 03:11

One issue about it is that it's also bound to today's political correctness and positive discrimination - it's almost like they want white people to feel guilty because of the wrongs that were done to them by whites. I mean, Great Zimbabwe, Songhai and others were great civilzations, that's a fact. So why do they need to try and seemingly turn more civilizations black (Yes, I'll bet an afrocentrist is going to call me a rascist after this...) I realise that there are different historiological viewpoints, but when these viewpoints try and go against solid fact, then that goes too far - you can try and interpret those facts in a different way, but to try and change the essense of them (As Constantine XI showed in his example...), then it really does go too far. I'm just so bl**dy fed up of reading race-centric posts like "Did the Assyrians look like modern day Arabs?" and "How poweful were blacks in ancient times?" (well, I know they're not real ones, but you get my point - I wouldn't be suprised if I saw titles like that ion this forum.

Edited by Aster Thrax Eupator - 18-Aug-2007 at 03:49

Originally posted by Surmount . A lot of the evidence outweighs the dominant Eurocentric perspective, but it's just we all are trained and taught since a young age in school a narrow minded view of history.

Originally posted by Constantine XI The big deal is when that fact is acknowledged, then some idiot takes it to the next level and tries to claim an entire civilisation is purely black African, such as Egypt. Then they take it to even dumber levels, trying to claim the most important people were black African because of some flimsy link to a piece of circumstantial evidence e.g. Septimius Severus was born in Africa, he became Roman Emperor, therefore Romans were ruled by black Africans. The complete absence of any form of rational logical in preference for wishful thinking is so obvious in claims such as these.

I totally agree with what you are saying. Sometimes people just take it too far to make one better than the other. Especially saying things that were acknowledged and then saying it was something else entirely. Its completely absurd almost like changing history about when one have such accurate detail about it. And Surmount, its not talking about blacks in history that makes people mad, its just the things that people change when its well established that makes others mad.


Edited by Kamikaze 738 - 18-Aug-2007 at 05:13

When Markus Garvey first spoke about the Greeks stealing from the Africans he was not creating a new historiography, he was creating a new mythology. The reasons are not far to seek.

Edited by akritas - 18-Aug-2007 at 10:53

Originally posted by pinguin  Absolutely Agree!   Some are claiming Black Vikings and Black Japaneses already.... gosh!   Pinguin