Thanks for stopping by and adding your thoughts

N

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Your words are very kind and I’m beyond flattered by your compliment. Thank you. Writing is one of the crafts I enjoy the most and I am happy to hear it’s fulfilled it’s purpose: entertainment and education.

Quite frankly, you’re not a bad writer yourself. I’ve visited your pages as well and have enjoyed the posts on your blogs. Not only are you incredibly varied in your writing, but you bring up some really great points when discussing history and current articles. I’ve bookmarked your blogs and plan to return to read any updates so keep up the good work!

Thank you again for your kind words and for your time

Nanu

We are of a mind when speaking of history. The conquering culture gains nothing by allowing the conquered to express their point of view and all too often items that would hold significant value and information for future generations are destroyed as part of the colonization process. We are working from some very limited pools of information. Added to this is the fallacy of taking history at face value and overlooking some very important details; mainly that history is an opinion, usually written by someone who wasn’t there, who is commonly a member of the conquering culture and will write in a way that either justifies the actions of their ancestors, regardless of how heinous they may have been, or glosses over the worst of it. And, although we live in very “modern” and “sophisticated” times, the reality of racism and the lack of value given to “certain histories” cannot be overlooked.

I also agree when you say that “blowing African achievement out of proportion is inexcusable”, however, you mention something else that is, in my opinion, very important; that Afrocentrics are “essentially doing what they accuse Europeans of doing”. What I have learned through readings in psychology as well as what I have lived in personal experience and observation, has been that dysfunctional and abusive patterns become inter-generational and will be perpetuated unless a conscious decision is made to change it. Fact is that we, as conquered people, have been lied to and imposed upon for so long, and very often in such a brutal manner, that the continuation of the pattern is not surprising. But hope springs eternal, and I believe that by dissecting the information we do have, seeking further knowledge and being open to the possibilities, we can overcome these patterns of behavior and find some measure of “truth”. I, for one, would rather have a distasteful truth than a pretty lie, any day of the week.

Thank you again for visiting my blog and posting your thoughts. I hope to hear from you again.

N