Chancellor Williams: The Destruction Of Black Civilization(audiobk)pt1

the destruction of black civilization great issues of a race from 4500 BC to 2000 a by Chancellor Williams copyright 1974 dedication to the black youth of the 1960s for beginning the Second Great emancipation The Liberation of our minds and thus changing the course of history preface while this book is still a summary of more detailed research it seemed necessary to amplify certain questions and the answers to them the widespread interest in and study of the book is deeply appreciated and rewarding to the author and the letters from the prisons have been most touching and revealing as noted elsewhere I am keenly aware of many repetitions throughout the work unavoidable because of comparative methods used and others for emphasis which may have turned out to seem overemphasis part one what became of the black people of Sumer The Traveler asked the old man for ancient records show that the people of Sumer were black what happened to them ah the old man sighed they lost their history so they died a Sumer Legend the preview this work is a summary of the 16 years of research and field studies which were intended for a two volume history of the African people the writing plan for the two volumes would have required at least another five years even if the serious impairment of my vision had not occurred in the meantime there had developed an urgent need for the results of my research which concentrated on crucial areas in the history of the blacks that had been either Unknown Known and misinterpreted or known but deliberately ignored my own history classes were only a part of the Rebellion against the only kind of textbooks available it was a general Rebellion against the subtle message even from the most liberal white authors and their negro disciples you belong to a race of nobodies you have no worthwhile history to point to with pride the destruction of black civilization therefore could not wait another 5 years just to be more detailed impressive or massive in scope for a reinterpretation of the history of the African race could be compressed in into a smaller work for background reading and so written that black John Doe cab driver or laborer and Jane Doe housemade or waitress can read and understand the message from their forefathers and foremothers as well as college students and professors origin and development of study in a small town surrounded by cotton fields in South Carolina a little black boy in the fifth grade began to harass teachers preachers parents and grandparents with questions which none seemed able to answer how is it that white folks have everything and we have nothing slavery how and why did we become their slaves in the first place white children go to find Brick Stone and Marble schools 9 months a year while we go to a ran Shackled old barn likee building only 5 and 1/2 months and then to the cotton fields why in the sixth grade one of our teachers Miss Alice Crossland helped me to become a sales agent for the crisis and the North Folk journal in God this was like turning on the flood lights of Heaven for the books on our race listed on the back pages of the crisis started me off on this never ending search but raised more questions as I progressed through school raised more perplexing questions than were answered for having read everything about the African race that I could get my hands on I knew even before leaving high school that one the land of the blacks was not only the cradle of civilization itself but that the blacks were once the leading people on Earth two that Egypt was not not only once all black but the very name Egypt was derived from the blacks three and that the blacks were the Pioneers in The Sciences medicine architecture writing and were the first builders in stone Etc the big unanswered question then was what had happened how was this highly Advanced black civil ization so completely destroyed that its people in our times and for some centuries past have found themselves not only behind the other peoples of the world but even the color of their skin a sign of inferiority bad luck and the badge of the slave whether Bond or freed and since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa for blacks only in short no books or other studies in high school and college answered or gave Clues to answers to the problems that puzzled me most for no matter what the factual data were all the books written about the blacks by their conquerors reflected the conqueror's viewpoints nothing else should have been expected and considering how thorough going was the capture of the minds of the blacks also it is really not surprising that so many negro Scholars still Faithfully follow in the footsteps of their white Masters I was convinced that what troubled me and what I wanted to know was what troubled the black masses and what they wanted to know we wanted to know the whole truth good and bad for it would be a continuing degradation of the African people if we simply destroyed the present system of racial lies embedded in world literature only to replace it with glorified fiction based more on wishful thinking than the labors of historical research my inquiry therefore was concerned with black civilization alone what the blacks themselves achieved independently of either Europe or Asia this was an entirely new approach to the study of the history of the blacks it meant first of all segregating traditional African institutions from those later influenced by Islamic Asia and Christian Europe in this way and in no other we can determine what our heritage really is and instead of just talking about identity we shall know at least precisely what purely African body of principles value systems or philosophy of life life slowly evolved by our own forefathers over countless ages from which we can develop an African ideology to guide us onward in other words there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is it is all hidden in our history but we are ignorant of that history so we have been floating along basking blissfully in the Sunny Heritage of other peoples my research was a quest for some specific answers to very specific questions some of these were one how did all black Egypt become all white Egypt note at this point that molad were classified as white in Egypt all North Africa and the Middle East a fact that still confuses blacks in the United States where the very opposite policy was adopted two what were some of the specific details in the process of so completely blotting out the achievements of the African race from the annals of History just how could this be done on such a universal scale three how and under what circumstances did Africans among the very first people to invent writing lose this art almost completely four is there a single African race one African people five if One race or one people how do you explain the numerous languages cultural varieties and tribal groupings six since as it seemed to me there are far more disunity self-hatred and mutual antagonisms among blacks than any other people is there a historical explanation for this seven and how imp puzzling contrast is the Undying Love of blacks for their European and Asian conquerors and enslavers explained these questions along with those stated earlier constituted the core problems for 16 years of study and while the outcome did not eventuate in the more detailed work as planned I think I succeeded in summarizing the most significant highlights of my findings in the chapters which follow this preview origin and steps in the study one review of world history believing that the history of the race could not be understood if studied in isolation I began a slow and deliberately unrushed review of European history ancient and modern and the history of the Arabs and Islam I say review because by 1950 I had already studied and taught in the three fields of American European and Arabic history a most fortunate circumstance for the task ahead two began the formal study of Africa and Europe not Africa I did not know how very wise this was when the decision was made for I did not then know that Europe and Asia had been hauling Out of Africa over the centuries just about all of the historical materials I needed to see and study at the very outset and which of course could not be found in Africa certainly I knew from reading in all about the rape of Africa but to know the scale on which this was done one must see at least some of it in Europe with his own eyes and be amazed the museums in various cities of the European Colonial powers are the repositories of much African history three documentary sources these are available in both Europe and America reports of colonial administrators in Africa parliamentary debates reports and letters from geographers explorers captains of slave ships and especially rewarding the reports and letters from missionaries to their respective societies home offices for the earliest record on ancient Africa and Europe Greek and Roman sources were the most useful four field studies the field studies covered two years of work in Africa armed with a rather solid background in written documentaries the primary concern now turned to oral history and the developing methods of historical criticism applicable to it several chapters will be required just to detail the methods and procedures in this relatively new and rewarding field of oral tradition every region of black Africa was covered 26 nations in East West Central and Southern Africa and 105 language groups scope of the study we began in the lands bordering the Mediterranean on the North and extending Southward on both sides of the Nile below the 10th parallel thus including axom and neighboring kingdoms this vast territory was the ancient Ethiopian Empire a federal ation of autonomous and semi-autonomous kingdoms the study began here firstly because this was the heartland of the African race where evidence of that first black civilization is to be found there still despite all the centuries of efforts to destroy it from the researcher's Viewpoint the most important part of the investigation was the beginning of the task of singling out and clearly setting forth the precise nature of Africa's own independently developed civilization a continent wide study of the traditional customary laws of the blacks for example enabled us to learn for the first time that a single constitutional system prevailed throughout all black Africa just as though the whole race regardless of the countless differences in language and other locally determined cultural patterns lived under a single government a similar continent-wide study of African social and economic systems through the millenniums reveal the same overall pattern of unity and sameness of all fundamental institutions that there is a historical and fundamental basis for real Brotherhood and unity of the black race could not have escaped the notice of all of those Europeans who have been investigating and writing about Africa over the years but they are shed massive black Unity would be massive black power which of course would reduce white power and its domination of the whole earth so white africanist writers always concentrate on the ethnic differences among Africans tribal antagonisms hopeless language barriers the cultural varieties Etc they even make a separate ethnic group of their own malat offsprings from black women by classifying them as white in some areas and colors in others hence a system of thought and practices were developed and superimposed on an already divided race to keep them permanently divided no one can deny that in this too the whites have been most successful we have presented in chapter 6 enough of the traditional African Constitution and the fundamental rights of the African people to be specific beginning points for the identity and the discovery of the Heritage we talk about with any definite frame of reference chapter 7 views the long drawn out migrations as continent wide movements that help to explain many of the most important factors in the destruction of black civilization for the migrations helped to answer the question what happened to the African people or what caused them to descend from the highest place to the lowest among the peoples of the world even though the work was radically Abridged an innovation in historical research was introduced by going beyond the mere documentation of sources in order to validate beyond all questions of doubt the principal viewpoints of the work this was the case study method by which a representative number of states from every region of the continent was studied North East West Central and southern Africa in the view from the bridge and the final chapters I make a more definite break from the old line School of historians to be objective and scientific this school insists the research scholar should do no more than present the comprehensive and fully documented results of his investigations there should be no subjective commentaries no editorializing just present the factual data and leave the work to the readers to interpret or evaluate as they choose this may not only be the correct viewpoint but it is even beautiful for historians who represent the already arrived people who control the world they can well afford the luxury of historical knowledge for knowledge's sake the great satisfaction that comes from just knowing how things came to be but the black histor iian member of a race under Perpetual Siege and fighting an almost Invisible War for survival dare not following these footsteps of the master quite the contrary after Faithfully researching and piecing together the fragmented record of the racist history the task of critical analysis and interpretation should begin what were our strengths in the past in what respects were we most vulnerable where did we go wrong and all this like the study of history itself must be for the express purpose of determining what to do now in short the black historian if he is to serve his generation must not hesitate to declare what he thinks the results of his studies mean for even when our history shows us where we have been weak it is also showing us how through our own efforts we can become strong again the white Arabs the Relentless search lights of History were turned on the roles played by the use of both Islam and Christianity in the subjugation of the blacks this confused many and outraged those who do not pause to distinguish evil men who use Rel religion to disguise their real aims from religion itself so the unthinking Muslim or Christian is likely to think that his religion is being attacked rather than the conquerors and enslavers who disgrace it in covering their drive for wealth and world domination the blacks in the United States seem to be more mixed up and Confused over the search for racial identity than anywhere else hence many are dropping their white Western slave masters names and adopting not African but their white Arab and Berber slave masters names for the Arabs themselves are a white people the citic division of caucasians and therefore Blood Brothers of the Jews against whom they are now arrayed for war the confusion will continue however as long as the fact that Millions of molat in Arab countries are considered white is ignored along with the other fact that countless unmixed sunbaked desert dwelling Arabs are not only brown but some are very dark in color all this darkening of the skin in spite of their ages old tradition of the thick cloth covering the face from the scorching Sun indeed not only do molat consider themselves 100% % Arab but jet black Africans whose forbears were in Arabia for Generations speak Arabic and call themselves Arabs just as black Americans speak English and call themselves Americans in both cases neither the black Arab nor black American thinks he is white to repeat then the blacks are in Arabia for PR precisely the same reasons blacks are in the United States South America and the Caribbean islands capture and enslavement in studying the actual records in the history of the race therefore the role of white Arabs must not be obscured either by their Islamic religion or by the presence of the Africans and afro Arabs among them anymore than we should permit white Europeans and white Americans to use Christianity to cover their drive for power and control over the lives of other peoples the European journey I arrived in England in the fall of 1953 to begin formal studies at Oxford University primarily through the Institute of colonial studies and at Road's house which might be more properly called Africa house in addition to the study of documentary sources on Africa I had other objectives one I wanted a more direct closeup view of the European mind its real attitude toward the black world two the extent to which European wealth and power were derived directly from Africa three the nature and philosophy of the European education that was shaping and determining the mentality of Africans for I was already fully aware of the disastrous effects of the white American education system on black Americans who not having any other frame of reference had to adopt the ideologies and viewpoints of the whites to survive at all even when these viewpoints are against themselves this meant visiting various classrooms in elementary and secondary schools teacher training in institutes and classrooms of lecturers and professors in a selected number of colleges in the universities note the term black was given a rebirth by the black youth Revolt as reborn it does not refer to the particular color of any particular person but to the attitude of Pride and Devotion to the race whose Homeland from times IM Memorial was called the land of the blacks almost overnight our youngsters made black co-equal with white in respectability and challenged the anti-black Negroes to decide on which side they stood this was no problem for many who are light or even near White in complexion for they themselves were among the first to Proclaim with pride call me black those who hate the term but hold the majority of leadership positions feel compelled to use it to protect their leadership roles end of note these were not look in and leave visits but all day studies at the schools visited remaining throughout the period in the classrooms and talking with students teachers and principles thereafter in such a study one learns very quickly that the textbooks and other works describing education do not tell the same story as the schools in action tell for finally I wanted to know and again from direct study exactly what made Oxford probably the greatest University in the world what are the specific elements of that greatness was great teaching a factor and if so who are the great teachers nature or teaching or in short what made them great teachers from just the foregoing aims of the study it must be obvious that I was still examining various aspects of the probable reasons why the whites became the masters of the globe in both France and England I found that the system of Education fostered a new kind of aristocracy an aristocracy of the educated college graduates constituted the new upper classes the son of a carpenter or railroad conductor became estranged from his family and former friends upon receiving his University degree a case in point was JL a young Englishman in my college at Oxford Lincoln and who was one of my close friends there he refused to go home during any of the long vacation breaks because to quote him I can no longer associate with my family and old friends wouldn't know how to talk with them we have nothing in common now you know this British and European philosophy of education fitted in ideally with those Africans from the continent and elsewhere who unlike JL came to Europe from the privileged class at at home some of those studying in England became more British than the British just as many from what was French West Africa became more French than the Frenchmen the first tragedy to note about the effects of this class education on blacks is that it further reinforced colonialism's policy of Perpetual disunity in Africa and elsewhere the line dividing these black upper and midd classes from the black masses and their basic aspirations is more originally drawn and this Superior class mentality becoming even more crystallized since Independence is an almost certain guarantee of future uprisings on a scale never seen the Second Great tragedy is in the nature of what is called education it is merely wrot learn learning the ability to memorize phrases Concepts and other required data thinking is neither required nor expected critical analysis and evaluation of subject matter are not required but the ability to absorb and recall is required the brilliant scholar then is one who can readily quote authorities and remember well his bibliographical sources so we have a generation of black Scholars who continue to amaze students by mouthing the doctrines and viewpoints of their white teachers like So Many Robots without minds of their own yet study under white teachers and professors should be most rewarding and it can be if you do not enter white institutions with a head like an empty picture going to a fountain to be filled I was safe and richly rewarded during my studies in white universities only because I happened not to be so naive that I expected the viewpoints of the conquerors to be the same as those of the conquered on matters relating to our place in the world elsewhere I have emphasized by repetition that some of the most fruitful sources for study came quite unintentionally from White Scholars a case in point was at Oxford the course was the history of colonialism in Africa the presence of two or three blacks in the class while obviously uncomfortable to some was generally ignored for African studies were of long standing as an integral part of the imperial system they were not planned for Africans at all but for the future administrators of the empire in Africa so Professor Madden was pointing out in his lecture how difficult and even impossible it was to rule Africans in view of their wild and most primitive system of democracy for just as fast as African kings or chiefs undertook to carry out British laws which displeased the people the people would remove them from Office therefore this primitive African democracy had to be destroyed before the British system of indirect rule could be effective the point here is that these sneering remarks by an eminent British historian revealed to me an entirely New Field of research that lecture led me into the study of one of the most significant developments in the entire history of the black race an ancient system of democracy existing before Greece evolved from a continent wide Constitution that governed the whole African people as a single race this all important finding was arrived at by comparative studies of African customary laws in every region of the continent the Europeans were confronted with a real social democracy that existed long before the terms socialism and democracy were invented in the West for Dr Madden it was Savage because the people were the real rulers in fact and not merely in der the field studies in so far as the study of African history is concerned I reg direct investigation in the field and in Africa as of the highest import importance this field work should be undertaken only after thoroughgoing research in written and other documentary sources the study of available written sources their evaluation and the mounting archaeological records are all the first major phase of African research and I would say a prerequisite for fieldwork the fieldwork was mainly concerned with oral history I had noted in my study of sources of noted historians that many who decried oral tradition as unreliable never failed to use it themselves to supplement or give added validity to their works the fact is that neither written nor Unwritten records should be accepted as true without verification although two years were devoted to the fieldwork the ground covered was possible only because of careful Advanced planning and the scheduling of areas and groups in each country months ahead of my arrival these had to be in the hinterland or bush country generally far away from the westernized urban centers for our Quest was not for the long-standing tradition of either Islam or Christianity in Africa but for the more ancient tradition of Africa itself so vast and untapped is the Real History of the African race that I myself only scratch the surface of what is yet to be done some of the areas to be explored by Future historians are set forth in Pages which follow in this chapter a major research project should not be undertaken by a single individual this was my mistake hence the 16 years of work that a research team of eight or 10 persons might complete in three or four the kind of well-organized research teams required for indepth studies may be difficult to promote because of our pitiful goit alone individualism a research project such as mine should have had a team of highly trained experts from the fields of History archaeology anthropology medicine Linguistics tropical agriculture Poli iCal science Etc the widely ranging scope of the study minus a team was possible only because of the interest and active support of certain African governments and the unforgettable help of the people in every region and Country for all kinds of help were needed as indicated above much had been pre-arranged the United States Department of State had notified the American Embassy in each country that I was coming requesting our ambassadors to give any required assistance accepting the Sudan where Embassy officials appeared to be under some kind of fear the embassies everywhere went all out to be helpful the embassies had the very important work of making the advanced arrangements for trips into the interior through the appropriate Ministries in each country these in turn had to contact the various provincial Governors or District Commissioners who had to make living and Conference arrangements with Village Chiefs Elders the keepers of oral traditions and other specified groups the amount of time all this advanced work saved for the study itself is obvious but volunteer work of our African brothers who accompanied me into the field was what I referred to above as Unforgettable some of these were teachers who as in the case of my previous fieldwork 1956 to 57 had secured leave for the purpose without any trouble at all indeed even the people we call illiterate had that Storehouse of wisdom which made it easy for them to understand that I was working not for myself but for them for the whole black race I am trying to make it clear here that although I did not have the kind of research team referred to above many people 128 in number participated in this work and made the outcome possible so when at various places I say we it is not the editorial or Royal we but references made to individuals and groups that actually worked on various parts of the study however I had to decline the services of many highly recommended Africans because of their upper class attitudes toward the common people for I had learned quite early that the people in the interior can spot the arrogant and Superior African just as easily as they recognize the arrogant and Superior white investigator they will give answers to questions readily enough but not the right answers I therefore selected only those whose heartbeats seemed to be tuned to the heartbeats of the great common people from whom all of us came the interpreters were generally assistants who spoke two or three of the languages of the country an entirely new kind of assistant was the verifying interpreter this is to double check the interpreters for sometimes they do not convey your question precisely or give back the exact reply there were training sessions before and during the field work in those fortunate cases where we had four or five competent assistants one of the interpreters remained with me while the others worked on special assignments in different places in the area the documentary research preceding all this in the United States was not done entirely alone some of the most important areas of my study of ancient sources were rechecked in independent studies by a select group of graduate students in history their assistance and reappraising such early sources as maneno Herodotus Josephus sto Abu Sal at all was invaluable foremost among these were Reverend Carlton J Hayden and Mr Donald W key Hefner in concluding my remarks on the field studies in Africa some comments on four of the countries visited are in order in the Sudan the authorities did not want me to work in or even visit the all black southern provinces there 15 years of rebellion against the Arab North caused the whole vast area to be officially sensitive and therefore barred to Outsiders the suggestion was that I confine my studies to the northern Sudan this I refused because I had been previously assured that the Rebellion had been completely crushed and that peace and quiet prevailed everywhere besides I could only find Islamic institutions in the north institutions of which I already had full knowledge by years of special study and teaching as indicated above the American Embassy in cartoon did none of the Preparatory work about which I give the US embassies throughout Africa so much praise although it had 6 months notice before my arrival and they maintained a strictly hands-off policy after my arrival I therefore prepared to leave at once but announced that I do not beg to study anywhere and that the world would learn that this was the only African state where an African scholar was borred the ministry of the Interior reacted swiftly Not only was permission to do field work in the South quickly granted but all the necessary arrangements were made with dispatch this included establishing my Southern headquarters at malikal the simple fact was that that while they were quite familiar with European research people roaming freely all over the country a black doing field studies in the Sudan is a phenomenon indeed Ethiopia the new name for abisinia like the Republic of the Sudan is also ruled by people of mixed blood who not only do not consider themselves African by race but who maintain a privileged class Society based based upon color to them all black skinned Africans are ban to to these they feel Superior by reason of white blood and their discriminatory practices are just as subtle and real as those of the whites and although the enslavement of black skinned Africans continue in both countries Even in our times both the Sudan and the new Ethiopia have adopted the Brotherhood front since the sudden rise of so many independent African States the Sudan to serve as the bridge between the Arab world and the New Black States and thus control or influence their International policies through the UN and Ethiopia to more directly control or influence black Africa through Western backing in establishing the headquarters of the organization of African unity in Addis Ababa and pushing hel salassi into the key role of continent-wide leadership thus blocking the quote dangerous influence of quame and Kuma it is because of my steadfast refusal to either skip or gloss over these aspects of the historical record that I am criticized by many negres and I know exactly when to use this term note one of the Fateful Illusions among blacks is that the white world does not know about the very weak areas in the race which are the basis for its power and control over them when we reach the point where we begin to seek out and turn the search light on the things that divide and hold us back at that point the white oppressors will have reason to tremble the white man stays on the alert keeping a sharp lookout for any signs of strength and development among the blacks exploring for real obstacles to Unity would be a disturbing sign of growing strength end of note and now Southward to the fully white ruled lands where hostility to a black face was fully expected rodesia and South Africa long before reaching southern Africa I was told that I might as well Skip rodesia and that even if admitted into South Africa I would not be permitted to work but rodesia to the surprise of just about everyone pulled out all stops as though it had resolved to outmatch all the black States in amenities and various kinds of assistance beyond all expectations or needs there was the usual press conference followed by front page headline coverage of my mission the other surprise was invitation for TV and radio broadcast to the nation our Zimbabwe friends were somewhat suspicious of the motives behind all this red carpet treatment of a black American especially when it continued after my uncompromising replies to questions on a TV broadcast panel session the ministry of the Interior had an interpreter flown 300 miles to join me when I visited his particular language group The demele the only objectionable incidents were when on two different occasions in different places two District officers wanted to attend my meetings with Chiefs and the Council of Elders I objected and the matter was closed finally South Africa the situation in this country is so ridiculous that far from allowing myself to be incensed with rage I found it amusing the unremitting brutality of these whites against the blacks leaves them in a state of permanent fear they seem to consider every black man not a potential but an actual threat and what they are preoccupied with every hour is unbelievable until you are actually in South Africa my passport was a mistake made somewhere I of course had no intention to do field workor in South Africa but had to pass through it to reach the surrounded countries then under British rule no one at all was supposed to be barred from passage to and from these countries but it required the action of the US ambassador at Petoria and an angry American Consul General at Johannesburg to free me from the airport room where I was held and checked on every 30 minutes even when the console General arrived in person the authorities insisted that I must not enter the city but be taken under guard to the train for swasiland Mr Riley the console General then decided to defy South Africa by not only driving me leisurely through Johannesburg but 200 miles around the country stopping at different towns and finally on to Switzerland what I referred to above as amusing were incidents such as excited policemen rushing to flag down the big Cadillac because they could so quickly spot a black face before they saw the seal of the United States emblazoned on the sides of the car or the American flag flying from the hood an African is a member of the black race and from times emorial he was known as such by all the peoples of the world throughout this work the term refers to blacks only it should be noted also that I write about the African people not African peoples as Western writers do I am dealing here with essentially one people one race if you please the African race in ancient times African and Ethiopian were used interchangeably because both meant the same thing a black this of course was before the Caucasians began to reorder the Earth to suit themselves and found it necessary to stake their Birthright over the land of the blacks also in line with this some Western historians have recently wondered where the Africans came from the reasons given for beginning formal studies of Africa at Oxford implied much more than was stated reference was made to studying the Caucasian mind for therein may be found many clues that lead to a better understanding of the history of the blacks and how the systematic blackout of significant portions of that history occurred this is why I urge those students who intend to accept the great challenge of basic research in this discipline to go into enemy territory linger there study and critically analyze their lectures and their scholarly writings for they are some of the most rewarding sources for African history precisely because in the shly attempting to delete disguise or belittle the role of the blacks in world history they often reveal the opposite of what was intended they are fruitful sources of unconscious evidence supplying the very evidence they thought to suppress or recording facts the significance of which they were totally ignorant a fairly good example is the written account of a European explorer in East Africa he was outraged because he and his party had to wait two weeks to present requests to explore the country to the African king the black autocrat the account went on had the presumption to keep white men waiting in order to show his people how high and mighty he was the whites were denied even a brief audience while the king would quickly receive any old black that wandered in from the countryside now the Explorer without knowing it was actually reporting How African democracy worked and how it had been working before there was in Athens or Greece where westerners think democracy was born the Explorer would have been surprised to know one that King in Africa meant something entirely different from what it meant in Europe and Asia two that this black king far from putting on heirs did not have the right to receive them even socially without the presence of at least three senior Elders three that to consider a petition to conduct Explorations in the country the full Council of state had to be called and that this could not be done by the king without the advice of the first Minister who happened to be on tour when the Explorers arrived in the capital for and that the old blacks they saw wandering in from the countryside and being quickly received were the counselors who had been summoned some from distant provinces to pass on their request to explore they were the direct representatives of the people the voice of the King was in fact the voice of the people without which he could not act at all on any matter of importance or even talk alone with strangers it should be clear therefore that our guidelines for research must lead to a critical analysis of all sources whether original secondary or oral in particular we should seek out those works with a special mission to prove the superiority of Whites by proving the inferiority of blacks all in language so subtle scholarly and scient ific that to the uncritical mind their truths seem self-evident but it is also noteworthy that while the most hostile racist writers usually prove the very opposite of what they intended their Works inevitably contain useful factual data that must be accepted indeed it is doubtful whether anyone even a devil could write a book completely devoid of truth research in African history is more tedious laborious and timec consuming than is true in other unsuppressed fields for in developing the underdeveloped history of the blacks one has to explore the most unlikely sources for a fragment here and a fragment there and in Works in no way concerned with African history and just as often no kind of History sometimes it is a paragraph or two in an Explorer's account at other times significant items may be found in the numerous missionary reports to the home office explaining the mission's task but also the native institutions to be overcome all of these may be valuable and most valid sources precisely because they were not intended to be such at all the writers were detailing bigger European interest any references to Africans were merely incidental to larger purposes just piecing all these fragments together could be a research field by itself in my work in European and American history I ran into no such problems and the research task were easier in Egyptian history to give a final example of Caucasian road blocks to be overcome one has the extra time consuming job of identifying the numerous black Giants of History who have been classified and effectively disguised as Caucasians over the centuries first of all one must know the various names that refer to blacks exclusively and by which they were known throughout the ancient world for in addition to the more widely used African and Ethiopians they were also known as thians libyans thit Nubians kushites meites numidians Etc even before white Asians gained the ascendancy in any of these areas their very presence in relatively small numbers was sufficient to identify them as the leaders and achievers of whatever attracted the attention of the world another trick the very opposite of the American law and practice was to classify Africans with Caucasian blood as Caucasians if any of those so classified turned out to be notorious characters pro- African or anti-white they were loudly proclaimed and contemptuously called half breeds the millions of early blacks who were forced either by circumstances or expediency to replac their own names with Asian and European names only added to the problems of historical identification far from becoming baffled and discouraged by the more painstaking basic research required the student of African history must accept the challenge as a 20th century man mandate that is essential to the Salvation of the race in the most literal sense they will need the active support of black governments and predominantly black institutions of learning these should be actively sponsoring one comprehensive basic research programs two research teams for field studies especially in history and archaeology three and a thoroughgoing teacher training program for history and other related disciplines what indeed are black institutions of learning waiting for the young people to show the way the simple truth is that what is needed first is active pioneering initiatives financial assistance would then be forthcoming even from unexpected sources black inertia is the main problem there is still too much dependence on white Scholars to do our work for us I have written elsewhere that as long as we rely on white historians to write black history for us we should keep silent about what they produce they write from the Caucasian Viewpoint and we are naive indeed if we expect them to do otherwise all the balyo about their scientific objectivity to the contrary not withstanding the theoretical framework over the years of studying African history certain prepositions and theories evolved quite naturally as guiding headlights in the explorations and few of them are set forth here some previously stated or implied one that Africa all Africa is the native homeland of the blacks note an important fact that should be well known is that all unmixed Africans are not jet black for while the great majority are black skinned countless thousands who lived for centuries in cool areas have lighter complexion and no Caucasian blood at all end of note and that the Asiatic peoples who occupy North and Eastern Africa even though they may have been there for centuries are no more native Africans than are the Dutch and British who likewise occupy and control the southern regions of the continent the question of where the homelands are from which all these Invaders came is not debatable two that the blacks were among the very earliest Builders of a great civilization on this planet including the development of writing Sciences engineering medicine architecture religion and the Fine Arts three that the story of how such an advanced civilization was lost is one of the greatest and most tragic in the history of mankind and should be the main focus of research studies in African history four that Asian imperialism though rarely ever mentioned was and still is even more devastating for the African people than that of either Europe Europe or America and that the Arabs white superiority complex is not one wit less than that of Europe or America although their strategy of Brotherhood deceives naive blacks five that the forces behind the continuous splintering of already small groups and even the breaking up of Kingdoms and Empires followed by the equally endless migrations included the steadily increasing death of the soil and the advance of the deserts the drying up of lakes and rivers along with the attending change of the climate and the always certain internal strife all combined with invasions and famine to become a way of life six that the strength and greatness of the African people can be measured by how in the face of what at times seemed to be all the forces of hell they fought through to survive it all and rebuilt kingdoms and Empires some of which endured a thousand years seven that within the framework of even the smallest surviving States they adhered to and kept alive the basic principles of the traditional African Constitution and held on through all the passing centuries to the fundamental elements of its ancient Democratic social political and economic systems all over the continent eight that Africa was the Cradle of a religious civilization based on the conception of one supreme god creator of the universe and that this belief in one Supreme Being anti-ed that of the Jews by several thousand years before Abraham and that the role of the numerous sub deities on whom Western writers dwell was exactly the same as that of patron saints in the Christian world I Advance further the theory that the early wandering Hebrews so numerous in Africa received many of their religious ideas there for there it was that Abraham sojourned Moses was born Joseph lived and some of the early years of Jesus Christ were spent there is no question either that even centuries after molat and Asians emerged as the only Egyptians they still regarded black Africa as the chief source of the spirit spiritual the land of the gods or the land of the spirits nine that not withstanding the remarkable civilization they did develop even millenniums before Christ and the amazing rebuilding of Empires in spite of the great dispersions not withstanding all of this African people fell far behind in the forward March of the rest of mankind because in addition to the destructive forces of nature on the continent and the Hostile forces from without they the African people further and shackle themselves with their own hands through certain aspects of their social institutions and beliefs that stood as road blocks to progress even where conditions were favorable the scholars wore on the blacks this work begins with the history of the blacks began in Egypt Northern Ethiopia and the Sudan Southern Ethiopia thus at the very outset I clash headon with the Caucasian version of African history my focus then is on the great issues in the history of the blacks that emerg from this confrontation with white scholarship for while I have covered much of the same ground explored by Scholars before me I generally reached different conclusions than theirs and from the same body of facts let us pause for a moment at this point I have made a blanket indictment of white Western scholarship on Africa if it cannot be sustained it should never be made they are brought Under Fire at various points throughout this work the kind of work as I also stated should be absolutely needless in the closing years of the 20th century the case against Western africanist is rather fully set forth in the work itself but may be outlined here as follows one first of all they are not ignorant of the true history of the blacks including their achievements as Builders of one of the first great civilizations on this Earth ancient writers say it was the very first and they the Western Scholars know all about the authentic early and modern sources they simply ignore and refuse to publish any facts of African history that upset or even tend to upset their racial philosophy that rest so solidly on premises Sanctified by time that they no longer need to be openly proclaimed two they are unwittingly promoting the steady March toward a world conflict between the races yet they are doing what they feel must do in faithful obedience to their Caucasian culture the racial pattern of which emerged in the 17th century the steady conquest and enslavement of a whole people made it imperative to create both a religious and a quote scientific Doctrine to assuage the white conscience their phenomenal success in the industrial world at once supports and justifies their philosophy the the supremacy of the fittest the danger now arises from an entirely new and unexpected development a sleeping and submissive nonwhite World while all this white power was being amassed is no longer either sleeping or submissive three even the African revolt against colonialism and the Worldwide Challenge to White domination of the entire Earth even these signals of change do not disturb these Scholars of imperialism they represent the Lords of the earth controlling all levels of Education science and research they control the education of blacks throughout the world therefore they see no need even in the 1970s to take a new look at the history of the blacks from its beginning and start the work of restoring the pages they deleted it or ignored they are doing the very opposite their histories and other quote scientific studies of the blacks are presented just as they have been for 300 years with the rise and spread of independent African States and the black revolution in the United States these scholarly representatives of white supremacy quickly reformed their techniques of Mind Control they set up in Europe and America highly financed African studies associations societies institutes history journals and quote African periodical of various kinds all under complete white control and Direction their African studies programs were pushed in the colleges and universities far ahead of the general Demand by black youth for black studies as the latter demands developed black youth discovered that white professors not only had the field occupied but were still teaching their traditional viewpoint on race in the continuing crusade to control the minds of the blacks through the nature of their education American and British Scholars lead they are as ruthless and aggressive in their scholarly Pursuits on Races as their co-partners in seizing and controlling the wealth and peoples of other lands having a established strong National and international quote African associations and journals that even attempt to control research activities on Africa they proceeded to flood the world with hastily thrown together African quote histories pamphlets and publication on just about every subject that could stand a black title for from their all powerful position of strength L they continue to arrange and rearrange the world as it pleases them naming and classifying peoples places and things as they will in the United States whites known to have any amount of negro blood no matter how small are classified as Negroes in Africa North Africa in particular they do the very opposite blacks with any amount of Caucasian blood are classified as white this the scheme was rigorously applied in the history of Egypt for example where even unmixed Black Pharaohs became White and the originally black population was never referred to as Egyptians at all the black kings who founded and ruled from the first dynasty are disguised as such while the saite Kings whites of the small areas of Lower Egypt are presented as the Pharaohs of all Egypt even when African Pharaohs were on the throne of Upper Egypt blotting the blacks out of History included replacing African names of persons places and things with Arabic and European names one wave of the Master's magic wand and black hamites and even kushites like their early Egyptian brothers are no longer Africans their period of ation of African history is carefully arranged in such a way that the history becomes the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa and not the history of Africans in African history a recent publication of the American historical Association as a guide to teaching their purpose becomes clear in the arrangement itself first period is from the fall of the Roman Empire to 700 AD Arab invasions the second period of African history is the period of Islamic civilization 700 AD to the coming of the Europeans in 1500 the European period from 1500 to 1960 is subdivided at 1880 to Mark the period of colonialism there is no period of black civilization in Black Africa such is the Caucasian Viewpoint almost a religion their very first period eliminates 4,000 years of black civilization and the Very greatest periods of African achievements their second period is devoted to the Arabs and berbers in Africa and in their third period the focus is on European civilization and it is all done under the heading of African history where it was imp possible to deny black achievements equal and often above the whites such achievements were attributed to some kind of Caucasian influence even if imaginary yet the AHA publication number 56 uses the same strategy that makes Western scholarship so very triumphant the main thrust of its racist presuppositions are for the unw completely hidden by much highly welcomed factual materials but what is certain to disarm almost anyone is racism's forthright attacks on racism throughout the publication I suppose no one is expected to notice the implied incapacity of black historians to deal with African history objectiv they are not referred to as historians of course they are quote some Modern African intellectuals who have tried to show great civilizations in the past grander than anything that ever existed end quote as a direct result of this continued Universal enslavement through education black youth are in Revolt that Revolt will become increasingly dangerous as as they increasingly realize how completely they are blocked from self-realization in the very institutions that should further it how difficult it is to find suitable textbooks in black history or even quote negro teachers who do not limit themselves to the viewpoints of the white Masters who train them the frustrations become more intolerable as the young find themselves between two fires the white racist who determine the very nature of their education and negro Educators who also see the world through the blue eyes of the Saxons in short they are forced to turn to their own devices because they find so many of their own race who should be working with them in the camps of the enemy in so far as periodization is concerned no one should be so naive as to expect a proper division of African history while the field is almost completely preempted by the enemies of that history a proper division would tend to encourage a more allinclusive research and a less biased interpretation of the results neither will happen until a new generation of black research Scholars and historians take to the field becoming the foremost authorities in their own right black historians not a single one of whom will fall in Professor Philip D curtain's category of black intellectuals who tried to show quote great civilizations in the past grander than anything that ever existed the new research efforts call for black experts not only in the field of history but also in the Allied fields from which African history must heavily draw are theology anthropology Linguistics Etc the new approach the first period would begin with prehistory primarily because no way one of the oldest cities on Earth was begun by the blacks before recorded history another important reason is that the Canaanites and other white agents had invaded the Nile Delta and established a stronghold in Lower Egypt then Northeastern Ethiopia or Kim in prehistoric times this early concentration of whites along the Sea Coast of the land of the blacks is a circumstance of crucial importance in black history because it was exactly from this development that the achievements of the blacks were overshadowed by later writers or blotted out entirely the call is for black Specialists for one period in one area what for example was the actual influence of the white agans rigidly held back for centuries in the lower 14th of the country upon the blacks who held the 34ths that came to be known as Upper Egypt review and indepth studies of this period are required the general historian is out the best General histories region by region can be written only after the work of the specialist is done the second period might well be from the conquest of Lower Egypt by the Ethiopian leader manise in 3100 BC note earlier dates such as 4500 BC are also given and accepted by many authorities for conflicting dates do appear in ancient records I do not debate the point end of note to the end of the sixth Dynasty 2181 also the end of the Old Kingdom this was the period that gave birth to Egypt and before which there was no Egypt it was the period during which black kings United the two lands started the dynastic lineage system and began the building of the greatest civilization the greatest in-depth review and concentration of research should be focused on this second period it was in fact the golden age in the history of the blacks the age in which they reached the Pinnacle of the glory so dazzling in achievements that Western and Arab writers felt compelled to erase it by the sheer power of their position and begin black history over 3,000 years later limiting such as they allowed to quote Africa south of the Sahara the third period of black history in Egypt should begin with the seventh Dynasty 2181 BC and be subdivided into the tragic periods of internal turmoil and white invasions the first subdivision would be from 2181 BC to 2040 BC the seventh 8th 9th and 10th dynasties thereafter strict chronology should be ignored in order to focus on a single issue the role of invasions and Conquest in the destruction of black civilization with the resulting ethnic transformation of Egypt from black to Brown afro Asian and afro-european to White this means that the second subdivision would bypass the restoration period of the great 11th and 12th dynasties for the next period of invasion and Conquest the Hebrew hxos rule 1645 to 1567 BC again bypassing the new Empire the other subdivisions would study the periods of the Assyrian Persian Greek Roman and Arab invasions and the impact of their conquest and rule on the blacks the fourth major division would begin with the skipped over 11th and 12th dynasties 1786 to 1233 BC the great 18th 1567 to 1320 and then continue from the age of Ramses to the end of the 24th Dynasty 1330 to 7:30 the fifth period should be from the last of the Black Pharaohs to the destruction of the remaining Southern division of the Ethiopian Empire below the first cataract 730 BC to the fth century ad the sixth period from the reemergence of successor black states in the 5th Century ad to their final destruction by the Arabs in the 13th century the seventh period like the second should not be a time division of neat and largely irrelevant chronological sequences it is a study of migrations of the blacks that covered many centuries but which became more widespread and desperate after the Arab conquest of the original Center of black civilization in the Sudan the long periods of wandering all over the continent often aimlessly was the great historic race of the blacks for survival a race that tried to outdistance famine disease slavery and death the period that should have an intense closer up study and critical analysis extend from the 13th century to colonialism in the 19th elsewhere I have posed the most perplexing question if the blacks were among the very first Builders of civilization and their land the birthplace of civilization what has happened to them since that left them at the bottom of world society precisely what happened the Caucasian answer is simple and welln the blacks were always at the bottom this answer is clear even in the histories and other educational material they so busily prepare for the blacks themselves almost all of the true answers will be found in the study of the causes of the migrations and the tragic results stemming directly from those seemingly endless movements of fragmented peoples how was the art of writing lost by one of the first peoples to invent it study the migrations how and why did a once great people with a common origin Splinter off into countless little independent societies and Chiefs from which 2,000 different languages and dialects developed study the migrations what caused the brother against brother inosine Wars hatred slavery and mutual suspicion among the various black societies again study the migrations there would be several subdivisions of great importance slavery and the slave trade for example would include Africa Asia and Americas this would be the background for later periods covering black history in the United States South America and the Caribbean areas the eighth division is the re-emergence of African kingdoms and Empires by regions between the 10th and 19th centuries this was the period during which there were attempts in every region of Africa to restore the glory that was Ethiopia it is doubtful if any of these black States realized that they were being slowly but steadily surrounded and hemmed in from all directions by Invaders from the Sea Coast and across the Sahara the ultimate fall of the black States first under Islamic and then under European Christian blows closed this period with the Triumph of [Music] colonialism the final period is the black Revolution that ended political colonialism with the rise of politically independent states this would take us from 1950 to the present and should be subdivided for developments in Black America South America and the islands of the Seas from the new approach and plan for research study and development of African history presented above periodization while recognized as highly important is not allowed to so fragment a great movement or development covering many periods and millenniums that their real significance is lost examples are the ethnic transformation of Egypt from black to Brown to White and the long centuries of the great migrations these defied periodization in any meaningful sense I only made passing reference in the work to blacks scattered outside of Africa over the world not from the slave trade but but dispersions that began in prehistory this fact alone indicates the great task of future scholarship on the Real History of the race we are actually just on the threshold Gathering up some important missing fragments the biggest jobs are still ahead ancient China and the Far East for example must be a special area of African research how do we explain such a large population of blacks in southern China powerful enough to form a kingdom of their own or the black people of Formosa Australia the Malay Peninsula Indochina the andamans and numerous other Islands the heavy concentration of Africans in India and the evidence that the earliest Arian chiefs were black which will make Hitler rise from his grave open still another interesting field for investigation even the negroid finds in early Europe appear not to be as challenging as the black population centers in Asia for again reference is not made to small groups which may have wandered anywhere over the Earth rather Our concern is with great and dominant populations these are the blacks who have so puzzled Western Scholars that some theorize that Asia or Europe may be the homeland of Africans after all the African populations in Palestine Arabia and Mesopotamia are better known although the many centuries of black rule over Palestine South Arabia and in Mesopotamia should be studied and elaborated in more detail all of this will call call for a new kind of scholarship a scholarship without any Mission other than the discovery of Truth and one that will not tremble with fear when that truth is contrary to what one prefers to believe nothing is clearer than the tragic fact that Africa like the rest of the black world has only the illusion of being free and independent it is only about onethird free it is still as economically in Shackled as it ever was in some respects more so the study of this period and the conditions it presents will confront the blacks of the world with the final challenge the response to that challenge will be the test of the genius of the race the outcome and indeed the whole future of the race depends upon the extent to which we have become intellectually emancipated and D Caucasian IED enough to Pioneer in original thinking those who do become free and fact will no longer readily grab the white man's ideologies and systems whether capitalism the Western version of democracy or communism without a critical review and Analysis to determine whether Africa's own traditional system when updated may not be truly Superior and best fitted to meet that aspirations of the black world this last period Then is the time of great decisions it may well be the black Race's last chance for a rebirth and salvation the division proposed above for a new approach in the research teaching and study of African history will outrage most western and Arab Scholars along with their subservient negro followers because I have shifted the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves a history of the blacks that is a history of blacks they will be coming back Center Stage into their own history at last but to what end will it be just for the intellectual satisfaction of knowing our true history knowing it yes but so what the answer is nothing unless from history we learn what our strengths were and especially in what particular aspect we were weak and vulnerable our history can then become at once the foundation and Guiding Light for United efforts in serious planning what we should be about now

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