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.
Monday, September 10, 2018
TRUTH OBLITERATES OBLOQUOY
TRUTH OBLITERATES OBLOQUY
The antiquity and ubiquity of the racist evil that we blacks confront into the 21st century did not just begin in the 1500s American slave trade, nor in the 800s Islamic slave trade. It began sooner than either.
Our black oppression being mental, physical, moral, social, spiritual, intellectual, and commercial, dates all the way back the fall of the Rome in the 400s and its Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium aka Constantinople, Turkey, in 1453).
By the 500s, the literary, technical, scientific appropriations of black culture were completed by the Greeks, who passed them on to Rome . Obliteration of the remains of the last black gods: Osiris, Isis, Horus (whence the "trinity" transfigured) had been effected.
Our black scholars of the earliest Christian era in Africa, whether from Augustine of Hippo, Origen, Terrtullian, were all Christians . Their scholarship was the perfection of Christianity.
More ancient black civilizations that had preceded, that had produced, these legendary Christian black scholars were lost, apparently were unknown to them, having perished a thousand years before them.
So too gone were the old African nations (now "pagan"); their arts, crafts, sciences, astronomy, music, distilling, writing, religion, building, mathematics, law, agriculture, etc., renamed Egypt (Kemet), Ethiopia (Nubia), were also gone. All were raided by waves of invaders who plundered and plagiarized at will.
Lastly, when the enslavers came for us, neither we (nor they) had any knowledge (then or now--in too many instances, sadly) of who we blacks were, what we came from. We suffered the opprobrium of oppression in a new land, in a new world. In it we were hewers of wood, drawers of water, miners, soldiers, explorers; sowers and harvesters of tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, sugar cane, corn, wheat.
In short, as slaves, American blacks built the infrastructure of the new nation. Its laws, infrastructure of its governments ' checks, balances, power allocations, taxes, and of those of the society itself were all built upon the premise of, the fact of, our continued ancient spiritual, intellectual, ignorance of who we really are and were, facilitating our further, continued, exploitative "enslavement", in its myriad forms.
Thus the way out for them and for us is to know, is to live the truth. It is what shall free all from obloquy.