COMMENTING ON AFRICAN APPELLATION AND COLOR.
Why don't you guys address yourselves as Africans? Why do you stick to the racist color of Charles Darwin of the lighter your color the more of a human being you are? Peoples from the continent of Africa are of all sorts of color of the spectrum and for that reason should be called Africans and not referred to by the color of their skin. There are Caucasian Africans who are not black in complexion... such as, peoples of the Horn of Africa, Arabs who were born and live in Africa, Choa Arabs, Fula, the San people of Southern Africa who could by pass you for Chinese. The last group were referred to in the past by the racist imperialists as Bushmen. Dont we Africans want to use a more engulfing term "Africans", that is persons born in the continent of Africa or of African descent to be known and called AFRICANS?I am just thinking aloud as an Africanist who is interested in making us advance and be united instead of being fragmented where others are called BLACK and others AFRICANS out of naivety?
Europeans who had the media in the days of darkness could apply any terms to designate us, now that we have that power media in our hands, why can we tell our children and the rest of the world the right way they should address us? We are Africans no matter our gender, religious inclination, wherever we live in the world, be it in Russia, Iraq, Britain, South America, Caribbean, North America, Australia or back in mother Africa. You do not call SE Asians, YELLOWS. Do you? Why do you think it is right to call people who come from the continent of Africa BLACKS? Are we still accepting our false inferiority the slave traders and colonialists enforced on us so as to feel no regret when enslaving or colonizing lower class peoples of Africa? I know you will tell me that slaves also came from Indian subcontinent. Their number was ,minuscule compared to yours, Africans and that support to use the term Africans does not hold.
Dear author of the article below and others, there are some Caucasians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs... who were born in Africa and had never been out of Africa. Do you want to exclude them from Africa by using the instrument the racist colonialists and slave peddlers introduced donkey years ago because that was instilled in your heads? We got to upgrade our appellation and the correct term is AFRICANS. Anyone who has African blood in him or her, be he yellow, red, white, tar-blue black, light skinned, born in African or is a descendant of African parentage wherever in the world should be called African.
Some of those you call blacks could be bypassed for Caucasians. Are we fair in our choice of the word BLACK when slavery that denigrated Africans to the bottom of the races had been abolished or are we simply being naive? From my perspective when you call me black when I am light-skinned I see you as a color blind person yearning for slavery and colonialism to re-visit Africa. You are longing to be called Nigger. Can we stoop that low in the present century? Did you see what race and color did to Rwanda in 1994? Did you see what it did to the world during the Second World War? Did you see what race and color did to peoples in Southern Africa under apartheid? Did we as African of all colors not learn a thing from the history of racism? Why do you want to adhere to color when you already know scientifically why we have different colors and that all of us living in other continents and islands once are from parents who emigrated from Africa?
How do you long for African Unity and when it comes to living together you start calling others yellow, red, white, black, light-skinned, tanned, swarthy and so so as to make that unity difficult? Let us wake up. For instance, President Barack Obams of the USA is African-American and not BLACK. If you insist on calling him black you are myopic and require an eye operation to correct your eyesight.
Dr VIBAN VIBAN NGO
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Dr. Valentine Ojo
From: Dr. Valentine Ojo
Subject: [Naijanet] FW: BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY!
To: AfricanTalk@yahoogroups.com, Africare-Newpublications@yahoogroups.com, Edo-Ciao@yahoogroups.com, Nidoa@yahoogroups.com, Naijanet@yahoogroups.com, Naijaintellects@googlegroups.com, TalkNigeria@yahoogroups.com, "'Voice Of Uganda'"
Cc: "''USA Africa Dialogue Series'"
Date: Sunday, 8 February, 2009, 2:05 AM
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From: On Behalf Of Runoko Rashidi
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:18 AM
Subject: BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY!
By Marvin X
Before the Earth was
I was
Before time was
I was
you found me not long ago and
called me Lucy
I was four million years old
I had my tools beside me
I am the first man
call me Adam
I walked the Nile from Congo to Delt a
a 4,000 mile jog
BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY
I lived in the land of Canaan
before Abraham, before Hebrew was born
I am Canaan, son of Ham
I laugh at Arabs and Jews
fighting over my land
I lived in Saba, Southern Arabia
I played in the Red Sea
dwelled on the Persian Gulf
I left my mark from Babylon to Timbuktu
When Babylon acted a fool, there was me
I was the fool
When Babylon fell, that was me
I fell
BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY
I was the first European
call me Negrito and Grimaldi
I walked along the Mediterranean
from Spain to Greece
Oh, Greece!
Why did you kill Socrates?
Why did you give him the poison hemlock?
Who were the gods he introduced
corrupting the youth of Athens?
They were my gods, black gods from Africa
Oh, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Whose philosophy did you teach
that was Greek to the Greeks?
Pythagoras, where did you learn geometry?
Democritus, where did you study astronomy?
Solon and Lycurgus, where did you study law?
In Egypt, and Egypt is Africa
and Africa is me
I am the burnt face, the blameless Ethiopian
Homer told you about in the Iliad
Homer told you about Ulysses, too,
a story he got from me.
BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY
I am the Chinese
China has my eyes
I am the Aboriginal Asian
Look for me in Viet Nam, Cambodia & Thailand
I am there, even today, black and beautiful
BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY
I used to travel to Americ a
long before Columbus
came to me asking for directions
Americo Vespucci
on his voyage to America
saw me in the Atlantic
returning to Africa
America was my home
Before Aztec, Maya, Toltec, Inca & Olmec
I was here
I came to Peru 20,000 years ago
I founded Mexico City
See my pyramids, see my cabeza
in Vera Cruz and Yucatan
that's me
I am the Mexican
for I am mixed with all men
and all men are mixed with me
I am the most just of men
I am the most peaceful
who loves peace day and night
Sometimes I let tyrants devour me
sometimes people falsely accuse me
sometimes people crucify me
but I am ever returning
I am eternal, I am universal
Africa is my home
Asia is my home
Americas is my home
BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY
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