PHILOSOPHERS

I received in the mail recently the book, AFRICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS AND PHILOSOPHY (2019) by John H. McClendon III and Stephen C. Ferguson II. Though having barely begun my reading of It, I was chagrined by its tentative first steps into this divine temple being a tedious reference to David Hume that Hume "is apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Later the authors compound their Hume faux pas by saying that : "It is perhaps because of the philosopher's aversion to history that the reconstruction of the history of African American philosophers has lagged behind other disciplines." To make matters worse, they say "The book was born in 1981...For nearly twenty-five years , we have been on a journey to recover and reconstruct the history of the Black philosopher. This work is only a preliminary presentation of our collective research. "Introduction," p.1-3. Thus, given the foregoing, I have asked the questions: "What is philosophy" And "Is there an African American philosophy?"