Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
DISPARAGING AFRICANS IS DUMB
DISPARAGING AFRICANS IS DUMB
Those who disparage African roots as ugly , tangled, mangled, messy, are liars! Such persons know next to nothing of a proverbial wisdom, beauty, mathematical genius; holy passion for truth, justice, balance, order that were practiced by early Africans in the daily, ordinary course of life. These spiritual acts, iconic public works, artifacts, sacred secrets were then, and still are, celebrated in Greeks' writings, plays, legends by such men as Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Solon, Aristotle, Pythagoras, who drank freely, deeply at Africa's seemingly inexhaustible rivers of knowledge.
The Greeks came first as pupils, students, supplicants, immigrants; later as settlers, usurpers, thieves, conquerors, plunderers, plagiarists. Greeks were not alone: Assyrians, Persians, Romans, barbarians; then came Muslims, French, and British, following, reprising ancient Greeks.
Even now eons after the Egyptians fell from glory, all nations of the earth still study the ancient African civilizations, in quest of more exact knowledge, in every field of study.
African soils, the primordial home of African people, in fact, original home of all human beings, continue to reward these modern-day nations' foreign seekers' spectroscopic, microscopic, telescopic inquiries, that yield relic after relic, mummy after mummy, amulets, building foundations ; gold, electrum, silver, copper, faience, iron, DNA, tombs, art works, all manner of tools, gems, implements, stelae, paintings, boats, ships, songs, poems.
Disparaging Africans deprecates mankind, as all of mankind are of African origin, nearer or remotely.