The Glory of Africa

The glory of Africa is still a reality today as it was in the past. Scientists from numerous quarters
pronounce Africa as the precise continent where human life originated from. Africa has gone through
trials and tribulations. Likewise, Africa is accumulated with a lot of positive stories and histories to tell.
Africa has some of the most beautiful and diverse fauna and flora in the world. Its residents are made
up of very humble, strong, intelligent, resilient, and imaginative human beings. Africa is apart of my
blood since my ancestors came from Africa. Therefore, it's certainly time to present an accurate, fair
description about the great land of Africa. Also, I wanted these words to be a reference point in
showing the world the truth. My mind have been entrenched in this subject of studying real African
history since I was a child. My mother and father brought books on black history back in the 1980’s
and the 1990’s for us to look at. I’ve looked at various websites & books to comprehend a clear
picture pertaining to the magnificent cultural aspects of Africa as well. Certainly having
confidence in our hearts, yet having a sense of promoting justice in your deeds are great deeds to
perform. So, I do encourage you who read these words to become doctors, lawyers, engineers,
technicians, writers, teachers, musicians, architects, athletes, business people, a true activist for
truth & justice, computer software experts, political leaders, religious leaders, and other
endeavors of life in order to fulfill your own life destinations. I will never a hate another human being
for any reason. Yet, I will fight against corruption and injustice whenever they manifest in the world. I
really can't speak about Africa without discussing about Darfur and Sudan. For decades, the
regions of Northern Sudan (who are mostly Arabic and Muslim. These aren‘t all Muslims and
Arabic people worldwide, so I want to make that clear) and South Sudan (who are mostly black
being Christians and animists) have fought with each other. The North readily enslaves those
of the South to immorally force Arab, Islamic culture unto them for centuries. A peace treaty
was "signed" in 2005, but conflicts are still occurring in Darfur. Darfur is a region in Western
Sudan with a mostly black, Muslim population. Muslim Arab radical "Janjaweed" militias are
murdering those in Darfur. Some of these Arab imperialists are still enslaving my people in
Africa (The good news is that brothers and sisters are fighting against these imperialists day
in and day out). The genocide is therefore extremist Muslims killing innocent Muslims. I saw a
protest in Washington, D.C. talking about Darfur from CSPAN on April 30, 2006. People from
the Left and Right agree that something must be done to stop this genocide. There is the issue
of blood diamonds. What is that? It's about how diamonds in Africa (in places like Sierra
Leone) are readily created by the work of poor Africans (even children). These workers are
typically given bad working conditions, abused, and some die. These diamonds are owned by
several corporations and spread globally. Some activists have taken a stand to oppose blood
diamonds. Many fights and conflicts come about in creating diamonds as well. The blood in
blood diamonds represent the death and bloodshed many Africans have suffered by certain
corporations' lust for diamonds along with huge profits. West Africa and other region have
this problem. An African professor taught me and others about blood diamonds. Pallas,
Lecepede, Hunter, Dornik, and Link believed that all of humanity existed from the tropics or
Africa. Africa is still here and it will continue to exist here on Earth.

Also, it’s important to not promote hatred against anyone since on many times,
certain factions among Western powers (that embrace the lie of white supremacy.
White supremacy is facilitated by monopoly capitalism as brothers and sisters have
exposed for a long time now. You have to create real economic equity if you truly
desire freedom & justice) use a divide and conquer strategy to promote tension in the
Third World and even in America. Hence, people of color shouldn’t fall into the trap of
showing bigotry against each other, which is promoted by outsiders in numerous
cases. So, I’m not hating anyone of any color. I want to mention this too. There is
nothing wrong with cultivating black culture, having black families, rejecting
political correctness, and learning about real black history too (that history
includes our strong ancestors and heroes living amongst us today in the 21st
century). LEARNING ABOUT THE WISDOM OF SELF IS VERY IMPORTANT. So,
I want to make their perfectly clear. As Malcolm X said:

“…My own -- when I was in East Africa, I noticed that there was a strong feeling among the
Africans along the East African coast against the Asians. When I went to West Africa, I
noticed that there was a strong feeling among the Africans against the Arabs. And in parts of
Africa where there were neither Asians or Arabs, I noticed a strong feeling among Africans --
if they were Muslim, it was against Africans who were Christian, or if they were Christian, it
was against Africans who were Muslim. And when you study the divisive forces at work on
the African continent today, you'll find that these divisive forces are not indigenous to the
African or the African continent, but they are coming from outside. And the powers that
have ruled Africa in the past are aware that the real independence of Africa began to
take its impetus from the Bandung Conference, 8 which was a forging together of the
Asian-Arab-African bloc. And this bloc, with no nuclear weapons or weapons of modern
warfare, were able to gain a great deal toward independence against the European powers,
because of their numerical strength, their unity. So these powers realize that they've been
pushed against the wall during recent years and the only weapon that they have against this
force that has been pushing them against the wall is divide and conquer -- the tactic that
they've always used. So that, if I may finish, so that in every area where you find people who
have been colonized and oppressed today striving toward freedom, you find that whereas in
the past they got along, today they're fighting each other. Just like in British Guiana -- it's the
Asians against the Black man. And this is not indigenous trouble that stems from the
people themselves. It's instigated by outside forces. And then it's blown up to give the
impression that the fight that's going on among them or between them is something
other than what it actually is…”

*Great cultural legacies of Africa (that exist among our people back then and
now) include the appreciation of our ancestors (which is a key part of Black
culture), the unapologetic expression of our creativity & rhythm [inside of the
confines of art, music, dance, science, mathematics, athletics, oratory,
comedy or humor, literature, politics, engineering, computer skills, etc.], our
intellectual development, the building up of our communities, the respect for
our elders, the respect for our people among all genders, and the realization of
the worship of One Supreme God (which existed in Africa for thousands of
years). I believe in fighting against evil and fighting for my liberty as a man. In
the 21st century, a lot of black people in America are calling themselves
Africans. Yes, I am an African. It’s fine to stand up for one’s self. Although, it’s
also important to stand up for others when other people need our dedicated
assistance in the experiences of life.
This statue is the image of Menes or Aha-Mena. Menes is ancient Egypt’s first
Pharaonic Monarch.

According to many people, the Egyptian pharaohs in its first 12 dynasties (from 3150-1783
B.C.) were all Black Africans. Some would disagree with that view. Even White Archaeologists
and Egyptologists like Gerald Massey have found evidence that Nubian Pharaohs pre-date the
first Egyptian Dynasties by at least 300 years. In ancient Egypt, there was a diversity of people
from the Semitic Shepherd Kings, Caucasians, to the black African Nubians. Yet, a Black
African presence in ancient Egypt is even acknowledge by the most potent racist. The
pyramids were built in this region and great literary texts (i.e. the Book of the Dead) were
written. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (an Anthropologist), in a lecture delivered to the Institute of
Karmic Guidance, found iron and steel production in ancient throughout Africa (like Egypt with
Tutankhamen, Zimbabwe, Tanzania [1500 years ago]), and other places with achieving
temperatures of 1850 Degrees Celsius and using advanced machinery. Dr. Van Sertima also
displayed a series of photographic slides proving that ancient Africans have attained a high
level of scientific achievement. Count C. F. Volney accompanied the French Imperial Colonial
Forces under the control of General Napoleon de Boneparte. De Volney was a French nobleman
who was much troubled by the institution of slavery. His expressed the opinion that the ancient
Egyptians were black Africans. This was much departed from the typical European view of the late
eighteenth century (because many Europeans in that time believed the lie that black African never did
anything significant in human civilization), but it gave many people cause for reflection. Here are his
words on ancient black civilizations in ancient Egypt, etc:

"It was, then, on the borders of the Upper Nile, among a Black race of men, that was organized
the complicated system of worship of the stars, considered in relation to the productions of
the earth and the labors of agriculture; and this first worship, characterized by their adoration
under their own forms and national attributes, was a simple proceeding of the human mind."3
"...THERE A PEOPLE NOW FORGOTTEN DISCOVERED WHILE OTHERS WERE YET
BARBARIANS, THE ELEMENTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. A RACE OF MEN NOW
REJECTED FOR THEIR BLACK SKIN AND WOOLLY HAIR, FOUNDED ON THE STUDY OF THE
LAWS OF NATURE THOSE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS WHICH STILL GOVERN THE
UNIVERSE..." (THIS QUOTATION IS EXTRACTED FROM PAGE XVII OF Count C.F. Volney's
masterpiece of the 19th Century C.C. Ruins of Empire)

Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race

of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to
Herodotus' discovery when he said: “..The ancient Egyptians were true
Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can
see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and
Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none
the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general
principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in
many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of
the people."

"When I visited the Sphinx, I could not help thinking that the figure of that monster
furnished the true solution to the enigma (of how the modern Egyptians came to have
their mulatto' appearance). (It's features) were those of the Negro.. (the Egyptians
therefore must have been) real Negroes, of the same species of the natives of Africa…How
are we astonished when we reflect that to the race of negroes, at present our slaves, and
the objects of our extreme contempt, we owe our arts, sciences, and even the very use
of speech; and when we recollect that in the midst of those nations who call themselves the
friends of liberty and humanity, the most barbarous of slaveries is justified, and that it is
even a problem whether the understanding of Negroes be of the same species with that of
white men!" (M. Constantine de Volney, Travels through Syria and Egypt in the Years
1783, 1784, and 1785 [London: 1787], p. 80-83).

Fabre d’Olivet in his 1915 book entitled, “The Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social
State” wrote that: “…The Black Race more ancient than the white was dominant upon the earth and
held the sceptre of science and power, it possessed all of Africa and the greater part of Asia…”

Here’s other sources on ancient Egypt having an African origin:

Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the
World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh
evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of
the Negro." (p 251)

Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in
1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin
of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."

Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their
complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the
Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

Many Scholars say the Pharaoh who was on the throne of Egypt at the time
of Moses' birth, was Pharaoh Seti I. He was the father of Rameses II, the
Pharaoh of the oppression, also known as Rameses the Great. George
Rawlinson, an English author wrote a book entitled History of Egypt. On page
252, he gives a description of Seti I. He states: "SETI'S FACE WAS THOROUGHLY
AFRICAN. HE HAD A STORMY FACE WITH A DEPRESSED FLAT NOSE, THICK LIPS
AND HEAVY CHIN."

Basil Davidson wrote, "Egypt was not born into a void; it emerged from a Neolithic
womb, and this womb was African. The peasants of the Fayum Lake, those who laid the
foundations of old Egyptian society, were not without their own ideas about like and the
cosmos; the provenance of these ideas, or of most of them, was undoubtedly more
African than Asian. "God's Land" with all it great ancestral spirits lay, for dynastic
Egypt, neither in the east nor in the north, but far to the south and west. There is
nothing to show that the earliest forms of ram and sun worship or of other cults made
famous along the Nile did not take their rise in this obscure "God's Land" of "upper
Africa." (Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa. Boston: Little Brown, 1959, 75).

This is the Egyptian Pharaoh of Amenemhet I

Diodorus (63BC-14AD), an ancient Greek historian, recorded the popular belief that Egypt was an
Ethiopian colony:

"The Ethiopians (black people), as history relates, were the first of all
men…They also say that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the
Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony…And the larger part of
the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still
preserving their ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are
gods, the very special attention which they pay to their burial, and many other
matters of a similar nature are Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their
statues and the forms of their letters are Ethiopian." (Poe, Richard. Black Spark
White Fire. Rocklin, CA: PRIMA, 1997. 352).
Stephen of Byzantium wrote that: “…Ethiopia was the first established country on earth and the people
were the first, who introduced the worship of the Gods and who enacted laws…” Lucian said the
Ethiopians were the first astronomers and Strabo said that geometry came to the Greeks form the
Ethiopians. Aesculepides was the erotic Greek poet Aesclepides wrote in praise of black women back
then writing that: “…With her charms, didymium has ravished my heart. Alas, I melt as wax at the
sight of her beauty. She is black, it is true but what matters? Coals also are black but when alight they
glow like rose-cups…” Many of the ancient Greeks were less prejudice against black people than the
Romans and even some Americans in the 1800’s. Yet, racism existed in ancient Greece and all over
history. So, I want to make that clear. It isn’t a secret that the black woman has
excellent beauty and an exquisite, down to Earth (plus lovely) personality.
That is certainly why a real man will always love a black woman. I am a black
man and I will appreciate & love black women forever.

Tutankhamun from the back of his gold throne

Therefore, according to French scholar C. F. Volney (1757-1830) in the Ruins of Empires, (from
pgs. 16-17 in his 1991 version), he mentioned that that black people with frizzled hair founded
the study of laws of nature, civil and religious system with the metropolis of Thebes and other
places in Egypt and Ethiopia. Herodotus in his “Histories, Book II” acknowledges that the
Egyptians had Black skin and Wooly Hair. The pharaoh Tuthmosis III was the son of an
Egyptian father and Nubian mother. He founded the 18th Dynasty and crucial in expanding Egyptian
land overseas. Pharaoh Rameses II had Black African features and one sign of that was that his hair
was kinky as represented by the coils embossed on his helmet. The Egyptian King Sewosret who
colonized Greece was the founder of Athens. The civilization of Cush existed for thousands of years
B.C. From 3,300-2,200 B.C., the A, B, and Pan Group developed to form Iron making, trade, and
commerce. The Kerma culture arose in 1800 B.C. One of its most prominent construction was
the deffulfas which were massive towers made of mud bricks to store goods. Kerma, Meroe,
and other cities in Cush had pyramids, gold trading, and elaborate forms of government to flourish. In
Nubia, the black Nubians created an alphabet called the Meriotic script in the time of B.C. Piye
(Piankhy or the living one) in 724-660 B.C., Shabaka (660 B.C.) Tannetamani (698-653 B.C.), and
other kings ruled the land. Piankhi was famous for conquering lands from Nubia to
the mouth of the Nile River. The black man Taharka (698-690 B.C. and mentioned in the
 Bible) was a famous king who ruled Egypt. He was also called Taharqa. Taharqa was the son and
third successor of King Piye. Some classified him as the greatest of the Nubian pharaohs.

These images of the Black Nubians existed from Tomb of Huy from about
1342-1333 BC.

King Taharqa empire even expanded up the Mediterranean Sea to as far as Spain. King Taharqa of
the 25th Dynasty of Egypt was one of the ancient world’s greatest military tacticians. Queens came
along as well like Teritekas (30 B.C.) and in the time of the Romans, they were called the Cancades.
Axum came in ca. 500 B.C. at Ethiopia where many of them came from Saudi Arabia and migrated to
Africa. They spoke in wrote in the language of Ge'ez. In their sophisticated agricultural system, they
domesticated crops like coffee, grains, okra, etc. Before Axum, many tribes and kingdom existed in
Ethiopia.

The Black African Presence in ancient Asia is important to investigate. James

Brunson said that the first Emperor of China’s Xia Dynasty was a wholly haired black
man named Fu-His (who lived from 2953 B.C.-2838 B.C.). In Southeast Asia and
southern China, ancient skeletal remains represented the earliest inhabitants to be Austroloids
and Negrillo/Negrito. H. Imbert, a French scholar in 1928 in Les Negritos de Chine, observed
that "In the first epochs of Chinese history, the Negrito type peopled all the south of this
country and even the island of Hainan, as we have attempted to prove in our study on the
Negritos, or black men of the land.” There are many references to these Negritos in Chinese
literature. According to T. De Lacoperie, the Chinese first met these tribes in 2116 BC, when
they advanced eastwards of the great southern bend of the Yellow River. They are spoken of
in the Zhou Li, composed under the Zhou dynasty (1122-249 BC), as "black and oily
skinned." Negroid skeletons dating to the early periods of Southern Chinese history have
been found in Shangdong, Jiantung, Sichuan, Yunnan, Pearl River delta and Jiangxi
especially at the initial sites of Chingliengang (Ch’ing-lien-kang) and Mazhiabang (Ma chia-
pang) phases (see: K.C. Chang, The archaeology of ancient China, (Yale University
Press:New Haven,1977) p.76). K. C. Chang is the late John E. Hudson Professor of
Anthropology at Harvard University, was the author of many books, including The
Archaeology of Ancient China, published by Yale University Press. Chang wrote that in
ancient times that, “The skeletal remains from southern China are predominately
negroid.” (Chang 1964, p.70). Kwang-chih Chang, writing in the 4th edition of Archaeology
of ancient China (1986) wrote that:" by the beginning of the Recent (Holocene) period the
population in North China and that in the southwest and in Indochina had become sufficiently
differentiated to be designated as Mongoloid and OCEANIC NEGROID races
respectively...."(p.64). By the Upper Pleistocene the Negroid type was typified by the Liu-
chiang skulls from Yunnan (Chang, 1986, p.69). The actual sub-heading of Prof. Wei Chu-
Hsien paper, A SEARCH FOR THE REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION IN
SOUTH-EAST CHINA in the Hong Kong Naturalist is titled, “ANCESTORS OF YIN
TRIBE WERE BLACK.“ Back then and today millions of Blacks live in isolated parts of
Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Australia, Melanesia, and the
rest of the Pacific Isles. Ivan Van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi wrote a book called "The
African Presence." It shows sources, images, documents, and other pieces of facts to prove
that a black presence was in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, China, and the Pacific region
of the world from ancient times into the present time. The Agta are Black people who live in
the Philippines (there are also the Negritos of Southeast Asia and other tribes living in the
Northern Islands). Black Negritoes flourished in the Andaman Islands. Papua New Guinea had
black in the Western part of the island, yet Papua New Guinea is facing racism and genocide.
Eugene Chen was a famous political figure. He was the Minsiter of Foreign Affairs for China in
1927. He was born in Trinidad, West Indies in 1878 (as of African/Chinese descent). He was a
secretary to Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who was the first President of the Republic of China.

There was a Black African presence in Britain:

“Excerpt from J.A. Rodgers - Sex and Race: 'Were the first Britons, Negroes? There is considerable
evidence that the might have been. Grimaldi relics have been dug up in England. 1 Very ancient huts,
strikingly like those of Africa and the South Seas have been unearthed at Glastonbury. Ring money of
the kind used by the Negroes of Sudan to pay tribute to the Pharaohs, which is still being hammered
out by African goldsmiths, has also been found. 2 Blue beads of 1500 to 1200BC, that are common in
the Egyptian ruins, have been found in considerable numbers in the Stonehenge district. [See article
on Druids].3'
In regards to color - J.A. Rodgers quotes Tacitus, a Roman historian of 80AD: 'The dark
complexion and the unusual curly hair' of the Silures or Black Celts, who occupied England
together with the 'fair-skinned, fair-haired' people. He believes the Black Celts migrated from
Spain [pre-Moors]. According to Gerald Massey in his book ' A Book of Beginnings' to the
Egyptian origins of the British Isles' He thinks that Stonehenge, the most famous ancient
monument in England, was built by a Negro architect, named Morien. [that is Mor or Moor,
from the ancient Egyptian]. JA Rogers also writes that:

"David McRitchie, a folklorist and researcher of British history - says' the best proofs of the
Negro origins of some of the noble (blue-blood) British families are 'the thick lipped Moors'
on their Coat of Arms. Some families are still named MOORE or MOHR, or MOOR. Berry 's
encyclopedia Heraldia says; ' Moor's head is the heraldic term for the head of a black or
Negro man,' (Sex and Race, pg 198)." JA Rogers was a great author writing researching on
real Black History since 1915.

Here’s another source on this issue: 'He says, as a Negro is still known as Morien in English [British
tongue], may not this indicate that Morien belonged to the black race, the Kushite [African] builders?'
The word 'moor' is derived from Latin 'maures' meaning black. Maurice, Morris, Morrero, Moore,
Maureen, Morien, Mary, Marie are the names of ancient African people in Europe. Also; Blackwell,
Blackwood, Cole, Coker, Lenoir, Brown refer to Black people. Coke is a derivative of Coal. Old King
Cole was a merry Black Soul. From the same root we derive: Maur, Maurus, Marra, Moro, Morisco,
Mohr, Moritz, Moor, Moru, Maru, Morelo, Maureta, Mauretania, Morocco, Maurice, Morien, Morin,
Moryan, Moreto, and so on….BTW: Ashan is also the word used for Jerusalem and it's environs after
the destruction and dispersion in 70AD - The Ashan tribe or Ashan-Ti of Ghana derived their name
from this even, since they were part of the tribe of Hebrews that ran from the destruction and
relocated in what is now Ghana, Africa” (From www.essaysbyekowa.com/black_Britian.htm)

Plus, Gerald Massey (a poet and Egyptologist), Godfrey Higgins (who traced religious origins), and
David McRitchie (who worked from folklore) are archaeologists who found data of Blacks in Ancient
Britain. Moors in Scotland came as late as 827-1016 A.D. They were written about in McRitchie’s
“Ancient and Modern Britians” Also in J.A. Rogers’s Sex and Race, Vol. 1, there were wholly haired
black leaders as the paramount king of Transmarine, Scotland. The British writer Peter Fryer
argues in his interesting book; Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, that
blacks had been performing at the Scottish court from 1501. In 1507, Moors were at the court of
King James IV of Scotland. Ellen More acted in a main tournament of the black Knight and the Black
Lady. There were blacks in Sicily and Italy in the middle Ages like Allesandro, the DeMedici Duke of
Florence (1510-1534). Allesandro was a biracial child of an African serving woman (a slave) and the
17 year old Cardinal Giulio de Medici (Pope Clement VII). This black African woman was identified
in documents as Simonetta da Collavechio. Allesandro was a patron of the leading artists in the
area and the first duke of Florence. He was the first black head of state in the modern Western World.
Four African musicians were invited to the marriage of Princess Ann of Denmark in
Oslo in November 23, 1589. Many black people in Europe worked with royalty as far
as Russia. Some European royalty even today are related to many black people even.
 This is a Black man who lived in early Rome. Roman paintings and statuary, like a
small statuette from the third century A.D. depict men and women with African
features.

There was also a Black presence in Rome. Even in ancient Greece, there was the mention of
Memmon, who was the black Ethopian King of the Illiad story. The Illiad was a fictional story
written by the Greek author Homer. In the story, Memmon came to the aid of Priam at Troy with
a noble character. In a battle, Memon slays Antilochus, then, in one of the more
sympathetic moments of the epic, Memmon spares Antilochus's defenseless father.
Greco-Roman writers described the black Ethiopians as noble and trustworthy. There
were so many blacks in ancient Rome that in 61 B.C., Nero allowed only blacks into the
theater to watch 100 Ethiopian huntsmen perform (according to scholar Frank
Snowden). Many black Africans in the Roman empire would be craftsmen, boxers,
acrobats, actors, soldiers, business people, and even government officials. This is similar
to the variety of jobs black people have today in the United States of America (which is
similar to ancient Rome in numerous ways). Intermarriage among black people (who were
called Ethiopians and Moors by the ancient Romans) and ancient Romans were
common like in America today. Some ancient Romans supported it and other
disapproved (one ancient Roman who disagreed with it was the racist Claudian.
He lived from 365 – 408 AD.) of it like in America. Nothing is new under the sun
indeed. According to Yosef-Ben Jochanan, Septimus Severus was an indigenous African (a Black
Man). Septimus died in York at February 211 A.D. Africans had many contributions to Rome. There
were far more Africans in the Roman Empire than what is shown indeed. The ancient Greeks and
Romans did not display any hardcore race prejudice as is evidenced today in America (with
exceptions of course like slavery, etc.). Juvenal of the ancient Roman Empire was a racist against
black people. Anti-Semitism expressed against Jewish people were done by Emperors Cladius and
Tiberius who expelled Jewish people from Rome. Ancient Rome has Britons, Celts, Gauls, Teutons,
Slavs, Spaniards, black people, and others from across the world.

This well-preserved coin depicting a black man, circa 208-207 BC, and dated by
some at 217 BC., was found in the Chiana (Clanis) valley. This coin was in
circulation in the vicinity of Lake Trasimeno and in the Chiana Valley. Could this be
the face of Hannibal?

Here’s more information describing this vital topic:

“On the contrary, some were writers, generals, philosophers, and emperors (a good example of a
Roman general was Septimius Serverus, whom the Antiochene chronicler, John Malalas, said was
dark-skinned). Moreover, a number of African slaves in Rome became prominent citizens and
contributed to Roman culture. The African in the Roman Empire worked, lived without fear of racial
animosity, entertained, and in many respects worshipped the same gods at the same place of worship
together with other slaves, servants and freedmen. Seneca, the Roman statesman, philosopher, and
intellectual said that among his own people the African's color was not noticeable… Tiro, an African
born a slave about the year 103 B. C. in Arpium, a city of Latium. He was born on the estate of Cicero,
the Roman statesman and lawyer. In fact, it was Tiro who invented shorthand. When Cicero, who was
still his slave master died, Tiro opened a shorthand school in Rome. He died in 4 B. C.

Terence, another African was born about 190 B. C. He was sent to Rome as a slave and was bought
by a Roman Senator, Terentius Lucanus, who named Terence after him. He was emancipated
because of his extraordinary talents. He wrote six plays and his works were studied with great interest.
He was/is highly regarded as one of the greatest humanists of all time. He wrote: "Homo sum, humani
nihil a me alienum puto" (I am a man and nothing human is alien to me). Terence died in 159 B. C.

Fronto was another exceptional African writer; he taught the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who
was up to a point depicted accurately in the movie. There was Apuleius another African writer, and
Slavius Julians, an African who edited the Paraetorian Edict. On another note as it relates to our
subject, Lusius Quietus was one of Rome's greatest African generals (in the movie it is Maximus, he
was of minor significance). Quietus served under Emperor Trajan. The Emperor named him his
successor to the Imperial Purple. Quietus and other African soldiers defended the Dacians. Moreover,
when the Jews revolted, Trajan sent Quietus to suppress the revolt, which he did with extreme
severity. The Jews called the rebellion "The War of Quietus." Similarly, African soldiers distinguished
themselves under the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Interestingly, at least ten Africans became
Emperors of Rome. They are listed on the historical record as the following: Macrinu, Firmus,
Emilianus, Septimius Serverus, Pescennius Niger, Aquilus Niger, Brutidius Niger, Q. Caecilus Niger,
Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in Spain… Africans were authorities on
medicine and they were often quoted by Caelius Aurelianus and Galen. Other noted Africans were
Domituis Afer, orator, Arnobius Afer, Christian writer; and Victorianus Afer, a scholar of rhetoric whose
statue was erected in the forum of Emperor Trajan…” (“Africans
Contributions to Rome” by Adib Rashad at June 13, 2001 From
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/rome.htm)

The following website talks about African Emperors and other Africans in the Roman
Empire:

“.."Interestingly, at least ten Africans became Emperors of Rome. They are

listed on the historical record as the following: Macrinu, Firmus, Emilianus,
Septimius Serverus, Pescennius Niger, Aquilus Niger, Brutidius Niger, Q.
Caecilus Niger, Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in
Spain. Africans were authorities on medicine and they were often quoted by
Caelius Aurelianus and Galen. Other noted Africans were Domituis Afer,
orator, Arnobius Afer, Christian writer; and Victorianus Afer, a scholar of
rhetoric whose statue was erected in the forum of Emperor Trajan...Fronto
was another exceptional African writer; he taught the Roman Emperor,
Marcus Aurelius, who was up to a point depicted accurately in the movie
Gladiator. There was Apuleius another African writer, and Slavius Julians,
an African who edited the Paraetorian Edict." (From
http://www.edofolks.com/html/pub68.htm)

Lloyd A. Thompson wrote a book called “Romans and Blacks” describing the history of black people in
the ancient Roman Empire also. Jerome and Sophronius in the 4th century A.D. called Colchis a
second Ethiopia because of its large black population. Here’s more facts on the black Presence in the
Greco-Roman world according to scholar Frank Snowden:

“…The exact number of Ethiopians who entered the Greco-Roman world as a result
of varied military, diplomatic, and commercial activity is difficult to determine, but all
the evidence suggests a sizable Ethiopian element, especially in the population of
the Roman world….The black population in Greece and Italy was larger than has
been generally realized…” (Snowden, 183, 184)
 The person on the left is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The person on the right is
the black man Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was Alexander’s great-grandfather.

The African Presence in Russia is interesting to discuss about. African presence in Russia
and its surrounding regions existed in the ancient past. I didn’t even realize this information
until a few years ago. There are more account of Black Colchians. In 522-443 B.C., a Greek
poet named Pindar described the Colchians, whom Jason and the Argonauts fought, as being
"dark skinned.” Apparently, in 1912, a Russian natualist by the name of V.P. Vradii
found a small colony of Black people in the area of Batumi, which is on the
southwestern coast of Georgia in Southern Russia. Vraddi noticed that they were quite
black in skin color and had very African features, while others were mixed with black and
Russian. Vradii published a book about the Black tribe called, Kavkaz. After the publishing
of his book, reports of other Black populations around the Black Sea began to flood local
media. As other scholars began to travel the land, here in modern times, they too began
reporting tribes of Black populations. There is another source on this information:

"Passing for the first time through the Abkhazian community of Abzhiubzha... I was
struck by the purely tropical landscape: Against the background of a bright green
primeval jungle there stood huts and sheds built of wood and covered with reeds; curly-
headed Negro children played on the ground and a Negro woman passed by grandly
carrying a bundle on her head. Black-skinned people wearing white clothes in the
bright sun resembled a picture of some African scene." (Allison Blakely, Russia and the
Negro: Blacks in history and Thought, Howard University Press, Washington, DC,
1986, p.78). Moreover, a black Colchian writer, historian, and ethnographer, Dmitri Gulia
(1874-1960) asserted that his peoples heritage stemed from Sesostris. He published a book
called, History of Abkhazia, which shows that the black Colchian people of Southern Russia
were really an Abyssinaian people of Egypt. he proves this by putting together a vast array of
Abkhazian words that matched that of ancient Egypt. He also chronicles "family names,
names of rivers and mountains, anems of pre-Christian deities, and much more." (Poe, 58).

Alexander Pushkin is a famous author in Russia (whose name in Russian is АлексаJндр

СергеJевич ПуJшкин). A.V. Lunacharsky said that: “Pushkin was the Russian spring.
Pushkin was the Russian morning. Pushkin was the Russian Adam." Alexander Sergeievich
Pushkin was born in Moscow, Russia. Pushkin's great-grandfather, a page raised by Peter the
Great (who lived from 1682 to 1725), was Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who was born in
Eritrea. Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal was a Black African Prince who was
brought to Russia by Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer and
governor of Reval. He is perhaps best known today as the great-grandfather of Alexander
Pushkin, who wrote an unfinished novel about him, Peter the Great's Negro. In an unfinished
work, The Moor of Peter the Great, Pushkin paid great homage to his illustrious ancestor,
repeatedly referring to Hannibal as "the Moor", "the Black" and the "African." Gannibal’s
first wife was Evdokia Dioper, a Greek woman. Alexander is a patriarch of Russian literature.
In his day, most Russian writers composed their writers in French. Feodor Dostoevsky wrote
that, "No Russian writer was ever so intimately at one with the Russian people as Pushkin."
Maxim Gorky wrote that, "Pushkin is the greatest master in the world. Pushkin, in our
country, is the beginning of all beginnings. He most beautifully expressed the spirit of our
people." I. Turgeniev wrote that, "Pushkin alone had to perform two tasks which took whole
centuries and more to accomplish in other countries, namely to establish a language and to
create a literature."

According to N.A. Dobrolyubuv:

"Pushkin is of immense important not only in the history of Russian

literature, but also in the history of Russian enlightenment. He was the first
to teach the Russian public to read."

Czar Nicholas I even hated and fear Pushkin, but called him the most intelligent man in
Russia. Pushkin wanted to have social reform and that was why he was exiled from Russia.
The Czars back then were apparently pro-authoritarian. Alexander Pushkin made many works
like Eugene Onegin, the Ode to Liberty, the Captian’s Daughter, and Boris Godunf. To this
day, bronze images of Pushkin exist around Moscow and St. Petersburg. His portraits are
everywhere. Pushkin died on January 29, 1837 from a duel in defending his honor. In 1937,
the town of Tsarskoe Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honor. Today, many black people still
live in the nation of Russia.
Antarah ibn-Shaddad al Absi was a famous poet. He was a black man that lived in
the Arabian Peninsula. His father was an Arabic person and his mother was an
black Ethiopian mother. He is a famous figure in history. He supported heroism
and chivalry. He believed in protecting the weak and the oppression while
protecting women. He was a famous Knight as well. His poetry dealt with the
subjects of war and love. Antarah wasn’t ashamed of being black. He wrote that:
“…In blackness there is great virtue, if you will but observe its beauty…Black
embergis has the purest fragrance…” He died in 615 A.D. The Eastern world was
influenced by the stories from Antarah. The essence of his chivalry spread into
Europe, Africa, and Asia. There were many Black people in the Arabic cultural
history. There was the poet in the court of Baghdad named Abu Dulama Ibn Al
Djaun from the 8th century. He went into Spain in 822 A.D. to reside in the court of
Cordoba. There was the Ibn Durray, and others. I’m not naïve either. I don’t agree
with the slavery being perpetrating by radical Muslims against people in Africa at
all. A black person should embrace their black heritage period without terrorism
in Darfur. Yet, big contributions were made by black people in Saudi Arabia
though.

Now, here's some history of Sub-Saharan Africa. Western Africa had many advanced
civilizations. The culture of Nok came about in Ghana in the time of 200 B.C. Nok was
definitely composed of complex artwork and various tools for resources. Benin and Ghana
came up by ca. 200 A.D. The origins of Ghana existed in the time between 600 B.C. and 400 B.C.
according to scholar Basil Davidson. Kings in Ghana settled disputes among different clans. He was
the supreme leader in military affairs, religious rituals, and other parts of the atmosphere of the nation.
A Moorish nobleman named Al Barki (from the 1000’s A.D.) described the Ghanaian King as setting
near gold and plenty of horses. Ghanaian typically refused to convert to Islam, but they had a cordial
relationship with Muslim merchants. They offered Islamic legal advice. The ancient Kingdom of Ghana
traded in plenty of items like cotton cloth, metal ornaments, and leather goods. Of course, the gold
and salt trade was a vital resource in Ghana’s trade procedures. Ibn Hawkal once called the King of
Ghana the richest soverign on Earth with reserves of gold, 1,000 horses (with their own supplies), etc.
Al Barki (El Berki) described Ghana's city of Aoudaghast as:

"A very large city with several markets, many date palms and henna trees as big as olives,
filled with fine houses and solid buildings." (Davidson, Basil. The Lost Cities of Africa.
Boston: Little Brown, 1959, 84)

In 1067 A.D., Al Barki also described the king Ghana possessing the capability of putting
200,000 warriors in the field (with more than 20,000 of them being armed with bows and
arrows). In ancient times, Africa was a rich land full of Kings and Queens of renown indeed.
One was Tenkamenin of Ghana. His reign was from 1037 to 1075 A.D. He instituted religious
tolerance, he promoted the great gold trade across the Sahara desert, and promoted justice in
Ghana. Timbuktu was a large city with an University where scholars from around the world
went into during the Middle Ages. King Askia Toure King of Songhay (from 1493-1529) had a
historical record of efficiency and administrative genius. Mahnud Ka'ti wrote, "the great men
of the Songhay were versed in the art of war. They were very brave, very bold and most
expert in the deployment of military stratagems." (Africa from the twelfth to the sixteenth
century/ editor, D.T. Niane [London; Heinemann Educational Books; Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984], 200). During the Middle Ages, Donald Levine and Almeida
described the Ethiopians as "very amenable to reason and justice…intelligent and good
natured…mild, gentle, kind…" (Hunwick, John, "Black Africans in the Islamic world: an
understudied dimension of the Black Diaspora," Tarikh 5.4, 27). A Portuguese chronicler
described an ambassador from Benin as, "a man of good speech and natural wisdom." (Lost
Cities, 136). Here’s another source on West African history:

"The Negroes are of all peoples those who most abhor injustice…Complete and general
safety one enjoys throughout the land (Mali Empire in West Africa)."
-Ibn Battua, 14th century Arab scholar who had traveled to China, India, East Africa, North
Africa, and finally Mali (Davidson, Basil. African Kingdoms. New York: Time, Inc., 1966,
82)

El Berki, writing in 1067 about the City of Aoudaghast in Ghana recorded that it is, "A very
large city with several markets, many date palms and henna trees as big as olives, filled with
fine houses and solid buildings."

King Alfonso I of the Kongo (who reigned from 1506 to 1540) made his area to possess
advanced knowledge and technology. Although a Roman Catholic, He opposed the slave trade
because many European powers worked with traitorous native African tribes to kidnap people
for slavery.

Writing in 1622 about the Kingdom of Benin, a Dutchman, Olfert Dapper, recorded that,
"These Negroes…are people who have good laws and a well-organized police; who live on
good terms with the Dutch and other foreigners who come to trade among them, and to whom
they show a thousand marks of friendship." (African Kingdoms, 104). There is the man
named Jose Vasconcelos. He was born of African Congo parents in Almologna, Mexico in
ca. 1710. He wrote works that were so popular that they have entered greatly in the Mexican
literature lexicon. In fact, most African Americans who live in America today are
descendants of the West Africans (especially among the tribes of the Yoruba, Benin, in
the national of Senegal, etc.).

This is Johannesburg, South Africa in the 21st Century

Malcolm X (he was a man so far ahead of his time. He predicted a lot of things
occurring today. Malcolm X was definitely vigorously strong until the end of his life.
Brother Malcolm X was so ahead of his time that some of his words read like a
newspaper in 2010. He never sugarcoated his views at all even after he left Mecca) said
in January of 1965 that:

“…But those of us who come here, come here because we not only see the importance of
having an understanding of things local and things national, but we see today the importance
of having an understanding of things international, and where our people, the Afro-
Americans in this country, fit into that scheme of things, where things international are
concerned. We come out because our scope is broad, our scope is international rather
than national, and our interests are international rather than national. Our interests are
worldwide rather than limited just to things American, or things New York, or things
Mississippi. And this is very important…And I've got to point out right here that what I'm
saying is not racist. I'm not speaking racism, I'm not condemning all white people. I'm just
saying that in the past the white world was in power, and it was. This is history, this is fact.
They called it European history, or colonialism…And the average Black American who
has been real brain-washed, he never wants to be accused of being emotional. You ever
watched them? You ever watched one of them? Do that. Watch them, watch the real
bourgeois Black Americans. He never wants to show any sign of emotion. He won't even
tap his feet. You can have some of that real soul music, and he'll sit there, you know,
like it doesn't move him. [Laughter] I watch him, and I'm telling you. And the reason he
tries to pretend like it doesn't move him is that he knows it doesn't move them. And it doesn't
move them because they can't feel it, they've got no soul. And he's got to pretend he has none
just to make it with them. This is a shame, really. And then you go a step farther, they get you
again on this violence. They have another trap wherein they make it look criminal if any of
us, who has a rope around his neck or one is being put around his neck—if you do anything
to stop the man from putting that rope around your neck, that's violence. And again this
bourgeois Negro, who's trying to be polite and respectable and all, he never wants to be
identified with violence. So he lets them do anything to him, and he sits there submitting to it
nonviolently, just so he can keep his image of responsibility. He dies with a responsible
image, he dies with a polite image, but he dies. [Laughter] The man who is irresponsible and
impolite, he keeps his life. That responsible Negro, he'll die every day, but if the irresponsible
one dies he takes some of those with him who were trying to make him die….But the Black
man by nature is a builder, he is scientific by nature, he's mathematical by nature.
Rhythm is mathematics, harmony is mathematics. It's balance. And the Black man is
balanced. Before you and I came over here, we were so well balanced we could toss
something on our head and run with it. You can't even run with your hat now [Laughter]—
you can't keep it on. Because you lost your balance. You've gotten away from yourself.

But when you are in tune with yourself, your very nature has harmony, has rhythm,
has mathematics. You can build. You don't even need anybody to teach you how to
build. You play music by ear. You dance by how you're feeling. And you used to
build the same way. You have it in you to do it. I know Black brickmasons from the
South who have never been to school a day in their life. They throw more bricks
together and you don't know how they learned how to do it, but they know how to
do it. When you see one of those other people doing it, they've been to school—
somebody had to teach them. But nobody teaches you always what you know how
to do. It just comes to you. [Applause] That's what makes you dangerous. When you
come to yourself, a whole lot of other things will start coming to you, and the man
knows it…And actually Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid—there's no such thing.
These are so-called anthropological terms that were put together by anthropologists
who were nothing but agents of the colonial powers, and they were purposely given that
status, [Applause] they were purposely given such scientific positions, in order that they
could come up with definitions that would justify the European domination over the
Africans and the Asians…So all of this Carthage, Sumerian, Dravidian, Egyptian,
Ethiopian history took place B.C., before Christ. In this era that you and I are living
in after Christ, right in West Africa, one of the most highly developed civilizations
was Ghana. Ghana wasn't located where she is today geographically, she wasn't
limited to that geographic location. She covered pretty much a great portion of West
Africa, and dates the early history of that empire at almost up to the time of the birth
of Christ. And it was a highly developed civilization, highly developed society, that
prevailed right up until I think around the eleventh century, or perhaps it went out
of existence as an empire just before the tenth or the eleventh century. But this was
an empire in Africa that was the source of gold and ivory; and other art objects,
what would be called today art objects or items of luxury, came from Ghana. They
had one of the most highly developed governmental systems, tax systems, cultures,
period, at that time when people in Europe— When President Nkrumah (he wasn't
president then, I don't think) visited New York (I think it was in 1959; Harriman was
governor) they had a banquet for him downtown, which I attended. Governor
Harriman, Abe Stark, Mayor Wagner, all of them were there. At one point when
they were introducing Nkrumah, they were congratulating him. I remember Abe
Stark said this: That Nkrumah comes from Ghana, a country which was highly
civilized, wearing silks, at a time when we, he said, up in Europe, were painting
ourselves blue.

Pick up on that. Abe Stark at that time was right under Wagner, and he's Jewish,
which means he knows a whole lot of Black history, and here he was admitting
that a civilization existed in Africa, where you and I came from, that was so highly
developed that the people were wearing silks when his people, the Europeans,
were up in the caves painting themselves blue…The so-called liberal element of the
white power structure never wants to see nationalists involved in anything that has to do with
civil rights. And I'll tell you why. Any other Black people who get involved are involved
within the rules that are laid down by the white liberals. And as long as they are involved
within those rules, then that means they're only going to go as far as the liberal element of the
power structure will endorse their activity. But when the nationalistic-minded Blacks get
involved, then we do what our analysis tells us is necessary to be done, whether the
white liberal or anybody else likes it or not. So, they don't want us involved…There's a
place for them, there's some work that they can do. I'm not saying cut them out—there's
something that they can do. But I say, find out what the whites can do, and let them do that;
and find out what we can do, and we'll do that. Let them go their way; you take the low road
and we'll take the high road, and so on and so forth. [Applause]…Still, when I see a Black
man knocked in the mouth, I feel it, because it could happen to you or me. And if I was
there with King and I saw someone knocking on him, I'd come to his rescue. I would be
misrepresenting myself if I made you think I wouldn't. Yes, and then I'd show him, see,
he's doing it the wrong way—this is the way you do it. [Applause]…Okay, I say let's get
involved. But let's get involved all the way. Let's don't get involved in a compromise way.
That doesn't mean we're going to get involved in just anything. But a man has a right to vote,
a man has a right to be registered. In areas, especially in the South, where our people
outnumber whites, if they were registered they could put all the whites out of office. But you
know, this is between you and me, I just want to say—between you and me, and the stool
pigeons present [Laughter and applause]—even here in Harlem, where we have the right to
register and vote, we don't register and vote. If all the people in Alabama could register and
vote, they probably wouldn't register and vote. So, you see, you have to have a multiple
program, a many-pronged program. And so when I say that we're for that, that doesn't
mean that we're not for some other things, too. It takes a many-pronged program to get
this problem solved….”
Dr. Martin Luther King corrected outlined that a revolutionary embrace of real values is
pristine answer to our fundamental complications among our people (and all of humanity.
This speech is called “Beyond Vietnam” and it was delivered on April 4, 1967):

“…I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a
nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin [applause],
we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented
society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are
considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme
materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of
values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and
present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s
roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the
whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly
beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is
more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which
produces beggars needs restructuring. [Applause] A true revolution of values will
soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous
indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West
investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the
profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is
not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say:
"This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others
and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on
the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This
business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with
orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples
normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically
handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice,
and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on
military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual
death. [Sustained applause]…And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to
transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the
right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able
to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down
like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. [Sustained applause]…”

The Kongo Kingdom lasted from the 14th to 17th century. It had a provincial government with
an advanced system of checks and balances. The Bornu Kingdom was a long lasting kingdom
in Africa. It was renowned and feared for its armored knights and cavalry. The Bornu state
resides in Nigeria and the Lake Chad region between the Niger and Nile Rivers. It has a long
field of all of the Sudanese states. It lasted from the 700’s A.D. to the 1600’s A.D. It has
many Islamic black leaders like Mai Dunama Kebbalemi (1221-1259) . He used military
expansions utilizing Islam as a rationale for his campaigns. Later, Bornu became a world
power focusing as an intellectual center of learning. By the 17th century M. Ka'ti (1591-
1655) described Borno as the fourth Sultanate of the world. The people of Borno were
metal workers that grew copper, bronze, iron, and jewelry. B.M. Barkindo tells us,
"was also becoming a great centre of learning visited by scholars from the Bilad al
Sudan (black Africa) and other parts of the Muslim world." Basil Davidson writes that,
"Arrayed in armor like medieval European knights, the cavalrymen of Bornu terrorized the
central Sudan for more than 200 years, attacking in close formation to the shrill sound of
long war trumpets. As early as the 16th Century, Europeans had heard about Bornu's yearly
marches." (The Heritage of World Civilizations: Volume One: To 1650, 4th ed. Editor,
Owen, Cralyce. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Simon & Shuster, 1997,
505). Bornu was certainly an advanced black African civilization indeed. El Masudi, a 10th
century Iraqi historian recorded that the Zang, a black people in East and South Africa, "are
elegant speakers."

There is also the great black civilization of Zimbabwe in Africa. There were a small
number of Iron Age people living in Zimbabwe by the 300’s A.D. Bigger
settlements existed by the Middle Ages from the 1000’s to the 1300’s. In the
1300’s, Zimbabwe became a powerful kingdom. Gold of course was a major source
of wealth as they traded with Africans, Arabic people, and others. There was the
development of cattle there as well. From about the late twelfth century," Peter
Garlake tells us, "diversification, expansion, affluence, and a concomitant of these,
increased social, economic and functional specialization took place in both cultures
so that in the end, entire settlements could, like areas within sites, be built and used
for limited functions by certain groups or clusters of people." (Africa from the twelfth
to the sixteenth century/ editor, D.T. Niane (London; Heinemann Educational Books;
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 533). The territory of Zimbabwe back
then reached from the Zambezi River to Transvaal. Their architecture was complex:
“All serious scholars now perceive Great Zimbabwe as an essentially African development,
built of local raw material and according to architectural principles that have endured from
the use of these media over many centuries." ~B.M. Fagan, Oxford Archeologist

Zimbabwe’s stonewalls were well constructed and had sophisticated drystone masonry.
Great Zimbabwe is a sixty acre site having 2 massive stone structures. There was a royal
palace and a fort. An Acropolis existed or a succession of stone buildings on a high hill that
overlooked a much larger enclose (which was called the elliptical building). The elliptical
building is over 300 ft long and 220 ft wide-somewhat larger than a football field. In 1929,
Gertrude Caton-Thompson was the first to conclusively state that the site was indeed created
by Africans. Archaeologists generally agree that the builders probably spoke one of the Shona
languages, and so were members of the Bantu family. There are racists and others who
believe that Phoenicians or Semites created the structures, which are lies. As noted by
Connah, "There was never any doubt about its African origins in the minds of those
who real understood the archaeological evidence.” The Heritage of World Civilization, a
book compiled by Harvard and Yale historians, asserts that the, "civilization was a purely
African one sited far enough inland never to have felt the impact of Islam." (The Heritage of
World Civilizations: Volume One: To 1650, 4th ed. Editor, Owen, Cralyce. Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Simon & Shuster, 1997, 512). The ancient Zimbabwe
civilization ended by the 1500’s mostly believe people migrated up north (because of
land exhaustion), Portuguese colonialism, and other reasons. Zimbabwe, Ghana, Songhai,
and other Kingdoms remain as some of the most complex civilizations in the ancient world.
Also, these areas are a testimony to the great, advance civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa.

Many passages from the Talmud and from other racists contributed to promoting the lie that being
black was a curse. The Talmud was an interpretation of the Torah, but it is highly contrary to what the
Torah states on many levels. Religious people form across the spectrum have criticized the Talmud’s
contents. Colonialism against Africa didn't just occur by Europeans. Many Asian and Arabic people
stole land in Africa and made slaves of black Africans as well back in the 700's A.D. European
colonialism were more entrenched in the African continent with the British, French, German, Dutch,
Belgium, and other nations lusting after the continent’s resources . These criminal colonists and
imperialists later in the 20th century tried to glamorize their savage behavior. The good news is that
now, we (me and people of other backgrounds & from across the political spectrum. I believe in loving
my own people and all people too) know that this imperialist criminal activity has no justification at all.
The evilness and vileness of population control is still promoted in Africa now in 2009. Steven Ranson
wrote an article entitled, "AIDS and Population Control," in describing this problem succinctly. The deal
is that pharmaceutical industries are trying to promoting cheap drugs under the guise of "helping" the
suffering people of Africa (including the fight against AIDS). Yet, the catch is that sterilization, abortion,
and population control is promoted in the process. Some of the drugs in Africa and other Third world
nations are toxic in their cosmology. The World Bank and the IMF are using this same catch of
population control under the guise of using loans to Third World nations. Many Africans are suffering
through very treatable diseases. One of the old international bankers involved in these actions was
population control adherent J.D. Rockefeller. Bill Gates. Steven writes:

"...The Durban 2000 AIDS conference, held on July 9-14th 2000, had the funding of fifteen
sponsors, eleven of whom are pharmaceutical industries and/organizations who have a direct
interest in population control. That the Ford Foundation was one of the sponsors of Durban
2000 will come as little surprise to readers au fait with the population control 'league of
friends'. They are billed on their web-site as 'providing grants and loans to projects that
strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international co-
operation, and advance human achievement....Whilst The Ford Foundation funds a number of
worthwhile projects across the globe, it also funds various 'reproductive health' programs that
do not best serve the interests of the recipient. Also, the Ford Foundation's longstanding links
with the Rockefeller Institute, coupled with its own history of CIA collaboration in various
destabilization programmes across Africa in the early 1970s, makes the purpose of the
corporation's attendance at the Durban convention highly questionable...."

I’m not assimilating my blood to a wicked, beast system. It isn't just the Rockefellers involved with this
agenda. The Gates Foundation, the Bilderbergers, the IMF, the World Bank, the WHO (or the World
Health Organization), the Rothschilds, and others are involved in population control (and economic
imperialism against the people of Africa). Kissinger's NSSM 200 from the 1970's blatantly calls for the
population control of the Third World (including using food as a weapon to control people). Bill and
Melinda Gates support abortion and have giving at least $24 billion to population control activities.
Numerous vaccines are dangerous. You can only look at Gardasil to see evidence of this. Bill Gates
regularly attends former Communist party boss Mikhail Gorbachev's annual State of the World
Forum held at the former Presidio Army base in California. Bill Gates supports Planned
Parenthood. The American Life League, a pro-life organization, confronted software mogul Bill Gates
years ago. The AFL told him that a World Health Organization (WHO) tetanus vaccination program
(undertaken with Gates' sponsorship) bears striking resemblance to a similar WHO program (which
was exposed as a measure to involuntarily sterilize young women in the Philippines). Gates has
donated $26 million to a WHO tetanus program in several developing countries. Bill Gates is a slick
man indeed. Black people in the world have come a long way. Although, we have a long way to go in
making a better world for our people. There are still police brutality and murder, unjust imprisonment,
neo-imperialism (in the format of cartel, vulture capitalism), depression level unemployment, slave-like
labor in prison, and disenfranchisement in the world. The good news is that black people
then and now are trying their best to battle against these problems in order to
be true light of hope & determination against evil. Famous and Great Black
leaders include Denmark Vessey, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, James T. Holly,
Martin R. Delany, of course Steve Biko (I saw a movie about him that starred Denzel
Washington years ago), Pap Singleton, Edwin McCabe, and Henry McNeal Turner.
Black History Month is important to recognize the contributions among those of
black descent indeed. Virgie M. Ammons (he created the fireplace chimney device
called a damper to allow smoke upward out of the house), W.A. Lovette (He invented
the advanced printing press), W. Johnson, W.B. Purvis (He created the fountain pen
and the hand stamp), W. H. Sammons, and dozens of others were great black
inventors of various things. It was a black man named Garret A. Morgan who invented
the Automatic Traffic Signal in 1923. There are great modern black inventors and
scientists today as well. For example, Dr. Philip Emeagwali (a Black Nigerian man)
solved 100 math problems in one hour. Dr. Daniel Williams was a Chicago surgeon
and he was an African American. He died in 1933 and he was the first person to
perform a successful operation on the human heart. The African American inventor
from Virginia named Dr. James E. West (with his colleague Gerhard Sessler) invented
the Electret Microphone, and a Black American woman who is named Dr. Shriley
Jackson made many advances in science and mathematics. Percy Gulian is another
famous black American inventor who lived from 1899-1975. He contributed to the
preservation of thousands of people’s lives. He found a way to form large amounts of
synthetic cortisone. This was formulated in order to alleviate arthritis pain. Only
wealthy people could afford cortisone for arthritis before his discovery. Now, Julian’s
synthetic cortisone is so cheap and widespread that almost anyone can afford it. He
discovered how to make synthetic physostigmine, which is used to treat glaucoma sufferers.
His discoveries of substitutes for male and female hormones are credited with saving the
lives of thousands of unborn children and cancer victims. He invented aero-foam, which
is used to put out gasoline and oil fires--it proved especially useful during WWII.
 I will always love all of the Black Queens forever. You are
apart of me and my heritage. Your dignity, tenderness,
perseverance, honesty, your lovely souls, and strength are
definitely blessings from God.
In our generation, there is a revolutionary change growing. Real black people are showing to the world
their culture, their self determination, their freedom, and their great history plus legacy. A lot of
brothers and sisters worldwide are making businesses, being leaders, and contributing greatly in the
world stage. My ancestors came from Africa, so I am a Black African who lives in
America. The famous leaders Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King accurately
pointed out that there is nothing immoral about black people acquiring real Power to
help their own communities & their people. King was right that love without Power is
anemic or weak and Power without love is reckless and abusive. Malcolm X was
correct to point out that a person with Power has respect and can build his or her
own life’s responsibilities. So, there is nothing wrong with having Power. You show
respect to people. Although, you should never allow anyone to patronize you. You
never act so-called “respectable” (or “acceptable.” You know what I mean) to the
elite, but we should act honest & real to our people including God. We should love &
promote our souls. We should not apologize in expressing our natural soul to the
world. When our soul, our intellect, our strength, our spiritual power, and our rhythm
come alive, then it causes something great. It‘s like a gunpowder of inspirational
power to help ourselves and others. We should help others. Examples of assisting
other human beings include: mentoring people, building businesses, have an active
role in trying to prevent crime, helping your own people with illnesses (or diseases),
going out and educating people on the truth, have compassion for your own people,
and other legitimate actions. The relevance of learning about the past is a key avenue
in transforming our present and the future. In the end, black unity will grow stronger
Black love is beautiful indeed. I am a total product of
in the future.
a black man and a black woman. Keeping it real is a great philosophy to
live by. We as human beings have no choice, but to say the truth plain. So, it’s fine to
promote black unity, black businesses, black families, and black culture, so there is less dependence
on the wicked establishment (and more improvement to black people in general).

As the Sister Fannie Lou Hammer mentioned:

“…Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether
you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight
to try to liberate ourselves from the men -- this is another trick to get us
fighting among ourselves -- but to work together with the black man, then we
will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as
 human beings in our sick society…”

“…It’s quite a few people, black people in Sunflower County that have young
people that’s no married with children. But these are still our children. And we
still love these children. And after these babies are born we are not going to
disband these children from our families, because these are other lives…God
breathed life into them just like he did into us. And I think these children have
the right to live. And I think that these mothers have a right to try to support
these children in a decent way…”

"Nobody's free until everybody's free…I‘m fighting for human rights"

One of the many lessons about the sister Fannie Lou Hamer is that you don’t have to be a man to
fight for freedom. You can be a human being and desire the necessity of justice. Many believe in order
to fight Africa's poverty is a return to basics. There needs to be a promotion of modernization in Africa,
real trade, economic liberty and the promotion of real, personal liberty to those that are suffering.
There is nothing wrong with voluntarily sending money and aid to help Africa. Yet, if a comprehensive
solution isn't done, money will only have a limited reach to develop the continent of Africa. Now, there
is some good news in Africa. Far too often, the mainstream media and other factions would
focus too much on the negative news going on in Africa. There are positive news in Africa.
According to a study from the United Nations report, in Zimbabwe, there has been a drop in the
infection rate among pregnant women from 26% in 2002 to 18% in 2006 (and that abstinence is
playing a role in encouraging people to have less casual sex). In nations like Burkina Faso, Ethiopia,
and others, younger people are reportedly waiting longer to begin having sex. In Cameroon, the UN
study says the percentage of children under 15 having sex has dropped from 35% to 14%. Fewer
people are dying -- a decline of 200,000 from 2006-2007 -- and new infections dropped by 300,000
last year. "The global HIV epidemic cannot be reversed, and gains in expanding treatment access
cannot be sustained, without greater progress in reducing the rate of new HIV infections," the report
says. George W. Bush (I don‘t agree with Bush on every issue, so I want to make that clear. George
W. Bush used token tactics in claiming that he loved radical changes in Africa) witnessed some
improvements in Africa, yet there is still a very long way to go in improving Africa.
There are other positive news in Africa. In
2007, 23 African economies were growing
individually at 5% or more; in total 18 non-oil producing African countries have averaged
growth of 5.5% between 1995 and 2005. African ingenuity and entrepreneurship attracted
a new wave of foreign investment of approximately $30.5 billion in 2007, up from $22
billion in 2006 and just $4 billion in 1995. Inflation in sub-Saharan Africa decreased
from 18% in 2000 to approximately 8% in 2008. Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Botswana
were among the top ten business climate reformers in the world in 2007-2008. The
timeframe of 2010-2020 is now considered the decade of African prosperity by the World
Economic Forum. There are rural areas in Africa and urban cities with Internet and other
technological marvels.

There are also black people living today in Asia, Latin America, Mexico, and all of South Africa.
So, I will never forget about those black people as well. Tons of sub-Saharan Africans (who
include whites, blacks, Asians, etc.) possess a high level of contributions in the world
whether people believe that or not. It's funny that many folks want to harbor hatred
(especially against people of color) by using slick, condescending stereotypes, but rarely offer
real solutions to help people the world over. I'm over stupid stereotypes and dehumanization.
I'm all for solutions. Tons of believers in God and leaders still exist in Africa.
Africans of many colors and ethnic groups in the past, present, and the future
will continue to fight for liberty, truth, and justice for all human beings. These
are good news. Black people like all people came from leaders and strong, very intelligent
human beings that created elaborate contributions in human history. That great legacy
of
Africa from the past will continue in the present and the future. I am a man, so
I don’t back down from challenge. I fight my own battles on my own.

By Timothy
 Jewels of Advice of Encouragement from Brothers and Sisters:
Lately, I’ve been thinking about something. I envisioned this for weeks. Here are words from
brothers and sisters legitimately wanting freedom, unity, and strength for our people. Their
words gave me comfort and motivation to do better in my life and to have more black
solidarity. I’m a smart man, so I know how the game is played. In my late 20’s, I am beginning to
awaken my consciousness on many subjects in my life. I thank God for waking me up, but I have a
long way to go in developing my spiritual life. Higher and higher in moral strength, intellectual power,
an social power are still credible goals of mine. I hope to finish The Glory of Africa Part 4 in early
2011. By that time, it will discuss more about unsung heroes, more history, more political issues, and
other subjects. I want to mention this. My intension here isn’t to promote hatred of other people
regardless of what their background or skin color is. I don’t believe in any form of bigotry. Promoting
black love, black families, and black culture are apart of common sense. With that being mentioned,
I will respect the brothers. I will love forever the essence and great value of black sisters too
(including honor black love). Without the black woman, I wouldn’t be born in the Earth. So,
black women will always have a special place in my heart. Nothing will change that. It’s
describing the views of black people (or my people) on legitimate points. Here are their jewels. The
first commentary is from a brother:
“….This is for the brothers to come in and tell what you love about your black women....

Their was a thread made on your behalf, so lets do it right.....

I dedicate this thread to my wife and the future black woman in my daughter, and all black
women everywhere!

**********

A Black Woman's Smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBH57BWhpE

I Love Black Women

I LOVE Black women because they are the mothers of our

Black future.

I love Black women because of their

enduring strength, a strength that at times has risen
above the failures of Black fathers.

I love their
curly hair, their braided hair, their straightened and
even kinky hair.

I love their full lips and, of

course, their brown sugar skin.

But most of all, I

love Black women because I am the product of a Black
woman. Black men are born of Black women and
influenced by the Black women in their lives.

I have
to love Black women in order for me to love myself."

D- Angelo

Black Love And Unity Forever

BAPF

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I appreciate this thread.

It makes me feel warm and wonderful!!!

Brothers, you are appreciated in our lives...

as husbands, sons, brothers, uncles, fathers, lovers...and most of all...OUR FRIENDS AND
TEACHERS!!!!

Peace

-Donalia
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Beautiful posts brothers and sisters, and make sure you you show that love and respect,
and make it an example to your children, relatives, and any other brother or sister you come
across!

Black Love And Unity Forever

One thing I adore about Black women is their unconditional love! That's why I plan to
make one my wife one day.

Lets see. I love their essence. Their beautiful chocolate skin that glows of
youthfulness. Strength and resilience. Versatility and diversity.

-Drogba (a Brother)

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COSIGNS....1,000,000%

YOU KNOW IT BRUH!

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING!

*I LOVE SEEING THAT SISTER ON THAT LEVEL...IN THAT PLACE...THE WORLD

SEEING HER BEING TREATED LIKE THE QUEEN THAT SHE IS....AND HE CHASED
HER...SHE DIDN'T JUST JUMP WHEN HE PURSUED HER...
AS IT SHOULD IT!

-The Moor

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111Treasury said the following: “…Oh it is too much to tell. I have straight white teeth that
give me a lovely smile and I have dimples to add to that smile. I love the fact that I can just
go outside and absorb vitamin d without turning red. In the spring and the summer, I love
how I can watch the sun rays hit my skin and just make rainbows against the contrast of my
skin. There is a certain flavor that black people have that everyone wants to obtain. It's the
Charisma and the happiness we have for being black…”

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I LOVE BLACK WOMEN'S SENSE OF HUMOR...

WHEN IT'S INTELLIGENT AND CHARMING...WHEN SHE CAN LAUGH AT LIFE

AND ALL OF IT'S UPS AND DOWNS....AND JUST KEEP ON ROLLING!

I DEDICATE THIS TO MY QUEEN:

*http://www.youtube.com/watch...

*SEEING YOUR SMILE IS BETTER THAN SEEING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

SUNRISE OVER THE BLUEST WATER AND THE WHITEST WARMEST SAND IN
THE ISLANDS...

AND TO HEAR YOU LAUGH BRINGS ME MORE JOY THAN ANY SONG THAT I
HAVE EVER HEARD!

-The Moor

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1.a real man will sit down,listen to, and comfort his woman when it hurts.
2. a real man will respect and honors his woman's opinions.

3.a real man will be there for his woman and will make sacrifices twhen she needs him
most.

4. a real man will always shelter and provide for his woman and children.

-KC Redux

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111Treasury
5 months ago 2
@ryan519636 Oh it is too much to tell. I have straight white teeth that give me a lovely smile
and I have dimples to add to that smile. I love the fact that I can just go outside and absorb
vitamin d without turning red. In the spring and the summer, I love how I can watch the sun
rays hit my skin and just make rainbows against the contrast of my skin. There is a certain
flavor that black people have that everyone wants to obtain. It's the Charisma and the
happiness we have for being black.

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From Nixakliel - 08/26/2010 - 03:42:

Lets learn the right lessons from our history & properly critique our historical leaders.
Booker T Washington had a more assimilate tone but he built institutions for Blacks to hone
trade crafts & skills for building up our communities & businesses without having to rely on
white folks [self-reliance / independence]. WEB Du-Bois was quite the integrationist & rather
elitist in the beginning, & the institution he's most remembered for, the NAACP, from the
beginning was influenced & financed by whites w hidden agenda's, & according to Glen
Ford & his colleagues at BAR is today quite neo-liberal & beholden to Corp funding. Further
both Washington & especially Du-Bois attacked Marcus Garvey [who you failed mention] in
vicious language due to Garvey's non-assimilatist Pan African Nationalist position. Of
course Du-Bois essentially affirmed the legitimacy of Garvey's position by moving to Africa
in his latter years up to his death in Ghana as Kwame' NKrumah's honored guest [but
unfortunately after Garvey was dead & the UNIA movement destroyed]. We see this being
played out again w the Martin vs Malcolm debate. The 'sanitized' version of MLK is OK w
most Whites [or so they say]- while most Whites aren't OK w Malcolm. So they expect
Blacks to choose 'their version' of MLK & reject Malcolm. But ultimately both Martin &
Malcolm realized the importance & legitimacy of one another & that theirs was a difference
in tactics - not Objectives. It is said that MLK in his last year sounded like a 'non-violent
Malcom X [but then Malcolm X was non-violent]. The lesson is - we need Afro-centric
Intellectuals building institutions & movements that learn the appropriate lessons of history
seeking to incorporate the best ideas of our past [& current] leaders while avoiding their
errors & pitfalls.

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@ WowTheBoogieDown

In my opinion, BW are being ATTACKED by the white supremacy system, which leads to
"misunderstanding" by those who do not recognize the signs of WAR. One thing I always
tell sisters is -- nobody spends the tremendous amount of energy on someone who is NO
ONE.

Just the fact that they need to make movies like Precious, the Blind Side, The Color Purple,
Norbit, Big Momma's House, She-Na-NA, etc on endless TV shows, commercials, promote
rap music, images, all that degrade BW (and sometimes the BM)

to DIVIDE and CONQUER the BM and BW and derail our efforts to save ourselves and the
black family...

So, we need to be MINDFUL, that nearly EVERY TIME we see a negative article about BW,
or an ugly comment on a website, or some faceless poster POSING as a BM, trying to start
a flame war by posting some ugly comment about BW --

MORE THAN LIKELY IT IS NOT A BLACK PERSON OR A BM AT ALL, BUT A PRO WHO
IS TRYING TO DEMORALIZE BW AND CREATE HATRED BETWEEN THE BM AND BW.

-cram masters (who is a Brother)

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7even wrote:

You are on point with every line sis...well said!!

You see, this post here is an example of why I love black women. You understand the
struggles we have from day to day.
Your support gives us the mental strength to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down and
keep persevering with fortitude in this beastly system. Of course black men should have
that inner strength and “self” responsibility to be the best he can be. Two halves make a
whole, and love and appreciation from both parties should be reciprocated. I can guarantee
if men took a biology class and got to learn the physiological workings of the woman or the
womb…..he would have nothing but awe and respect for a woman.
A righteous man would be a liar if he said he didn’t argue with his woman. However once
you have argued, you look at the queen standing beside you, brush yourself
down….humble yourself and give her a big hug. I wasn’t always like this, but I have had to
learn this is the better way.
If a man or woman have love for themselves, this love will ebb and resonate around them. I
am not going to give up on a black woman just because I had a bad experience from a
black woman in my past; one does not represent all.
I would feel cheap, cheated and pathetic if the love that was given to me by my mother was
taken away by one person. My inner “self” or spirit gravitates towards a black woman and I
can’t help that; I am being true to my “self“.
There is no doubt that a woman like you will transfer positivism, worldly knowledge, female
wisdom (which is important) and profound love to her kin. You see this word TRANSFER is
very important. The mindset of the parent(s), will be transferred to the child. This is why this
beastly system is attacking the minds of the black woman/man; instilling self loathing to
divide us and bring up negative thinking children.

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You are correct, it is just the media that likes to blame the crumble of society and financial
economics on the "black crime statistics", when black crime has no real bearings on the
economics as most black people are working people, also as a whole, we commit less crime
than white people, but you know the media always needs a scapegoat and it is us black
people every time. Propaganda is used as a weapon against the minorities, to ease the
minds of the majority in order to stop them from looking at who are causing the real
problems. I mentioned earlier that many blacks are kept in a state of poverty for some
reason, and it could be, so they always have an easy target to blame when things go
wrong,(scapegoats).

E.G I’m not sure if you are aware of this but out here in the UK news they were at one point,
trying to blame poor people, especially blacks, for the crumble of the financial system in
America, due to them being given mortgages or house loans that they could not pay back.

They completely overlooked the fact that it was actually down to greed in the Banking and
financial industries why this happened. They are not going to help poor people out of
poverty at all, as they serve a purpose to the system! If our people want anything done for
the bulk of our people, we need to organize and structure ourselves into a cooperative unit.

In other words UNITE!!!

Since Marcus Garvey, this is what we have been talking and talking about, but it never really
gets off the ground. Why?

-The Revolutionist

Cambridge, UK

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Unraveled was a strong word.

Black People WORLD-WIDE share a commonalities...

...Ancestry...
...physiology (we are actually more of a homogeneous whole than most would dare to think
and that irrespective of our global positionings, cultures or societies...)...
...And, especially now in the present time in terms of social status.

Locale should not stop we from Unification and Nation Building.

-litte richard
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Words from 216 Elite:

You can do nothing but love our sisters, i couldn't fathom HATING the women that have
gone through more sexual, gender, and societal abuse than any other human being on this
earth!

Never lose sight of the goals brothers and sisters, Black Love, Unity, And Power.

Amerikkka is built on many diverse cultural contributions, individual nationalities staying

proud of their heritage. It will NOT thrive when everything is all jumbled together as a
uniculture./........ White supremacy is a misnomer./........ Without Blackness there is no life!

We must not only make Black People conscious of Black Nationalism, We must make them
aware of the need for it. In many regards, Black Nationalism can be compared to breathing
and eating, natural acts that are so critical that Nature will not allow persons to ignore them.

Since Black Nationalism is about freedom and self determination, which are as critical to Our
development as breathing and eating, Black People must be made to appreciate them to the
fullest. We must realize that self-determination is to Our development what breathing and
eating are to Our survival. Since We want to do much more than survive, We have to value
Black Nationalism above all else.

BAPF!

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I love seeing brothers and sisters together in happiness, and when me and my wife and
daughter go out, we make sure to smilke their way, and when we pass, we let our daughter
know that thats what black love and unity is about.....

Like i always take them to this soul food spot up in the 216, and the atmosphere is
beautiful....nothing but brothers and sisters hugged up, smiling and laughing with their
young.....

I tell you being around and with your own, is beautiful, the cohesion, and unity is something
we always put our daughter around.....;)
-216 Elite

BAPF

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Words from a Sister:

It seems, Soul Brother, that when one tries to encourage and be positive, particularly on this
forum, it's not well received. I don't quite get it. To me, Black Men are some of the most
Beautiful and Gorgeous creatures that God made and I celebrate them every chance that I get.
Even when things are not looking so great for them, I still encourage them and love them. It
saddens me that so many people can't see the forrest for the trees.
I hope this thread will catch on so that Black Men can see that not all sisters/women think
lowly of them or don't support them. I have your back 365 + 1!!!

-One Just Wondering

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Hello My friend, how are you? no matter what, keep writing, and remember that there are
those that will try to put you down and not encourage you, but remember what you are doing
the poem for, its for enlightenment, its for the edification of all those that wished to be raised
with the profile of hope and real happiness, not to brow beat anyone, but to embrace love for
all races and how the black man has come through all the struggles and is still here. Don't
listen to the negative, keep doing the positive and see the fruits of the peaceful and hopeful
words that you have put on paper and remember that there are a lot of people that need
reassurance, never forget that there are people that need to see how important they are,
through the care of another humans eyes, such as yours. so don't be despondent. Keep writing
and know that you have done a great service for all those that benefitted from your wonderful
connotation. Take care my friend.

-Soul Brother in London (a Brother in responding to the Sister One Just Wondering)

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TrinidadLineage
9 months ago 4
Those Ants= Our community and the people within our community,who are doing everything
within their God given ability to raise and take care of their families,to the best of their
abilities,as well as lending a helping hand when needed.
The fungus=The negative ones amongst our people,who no matter what you do for the
betterment of black people will always have something negative to say,or won't step up to the
plate,when the time arises.

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you're welcome...:-)

a lot of brothers take our women for granted, but we'd be lost and desolate
without you, and most of us know that even when we fail to show any
appreciation...so please forgive us for that...

brother, they cannot STAND for BM and BW to love each other. it is a 24-7
assault, from TV, to music, to politics, to movies, to black buffoons and clowns
that sell out the black nation to make a few dollars, to phony statistics and
distorted "news" articles to get us to hate each other

they are jealous of anything and everything we have, say, think, and do because
they know WE CAME BEFORE THEY DID on this planet and much of what they claim
they created, they stole from people of color...

you have to wonder what kind of pathetic folks have nothing better to do than to
come on a black thread and try to poison it....sad ain't the word for it....

-Crammasters

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 The brother and the sister are a credit to our people and a credit to athletics. Of
course, these 2 people are New York Giants cornerback Aaron Ross and Olympic
Gold Medalist in Track & Field star Sanya Richards. They were married in Austin,
Texas recently in February 26th, 2010.

Kemi8 (who is a sister) wrote:

As ever, the moor always goes straight to the point and lays it down, plain and simple. True
and wise words for black people to stand up and take notice. I don't feel that no one can ever
understand me and my culture than a BM.I will continue love and support BM.

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Anna Lisa wrote:

Black luv......i luv it:) It's amazing how 216 is being attacked for starting a thread like this.
What's wrong with bm and bw loving each other? Look at how many people have come to
this thread and have tried to convince us that we don't luv each other....pathetic. I do believe
that people should luv and date whom ever they choose. But when it comes to black people
being with each other, some act as though it is a crime. Like we are wrong for trying to
promote luv amongst ourselves. That is so lame.
They can attack all they want, they will always fail....the love between the black man and
black woman is original, and never ending........
BAPF

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More from the Revolutionist:

So what is best and most important for any race?....SURVIVAL...The survival of the black
race in any land we abode in, no matter whether it is Europe, America, Australia or Asia!!!
This is basic human instinct, we are supposed to be free to live wherever we want without
being erased, this is a "dirty tactic" used by the racist white media to phase blacks out of their
lands methodically without throwing us out bare faced which would draw too much negative
attention!!

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"If the enemy is not doing anything against you, you are not doing anything"
-Ahmed Sékou Touré

"speak truth, do justice, be kind and do not do evil."

-Baba Orunmila

"Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it

political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question:
is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor political, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right."
--Dr. Martin L. King
The truth is here and will remain forever. You can believe that. The Black Family is a
great form of human existence indeed. When it’s all said and done, black people will
still be here functioning, living their lives, and having families.
Real Black History ought to be learned 24/7 365 not just in the
month of February

This is dedicated to all people of the world. Thank you for

reading my words.