Not
Out of Greece
A Review
by Junious Ricardo Stanton
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Were
it not for the contributions of Egyptians and Sumerians
to mathematics we would definitely not have progressed
to the present level of science. We would still be in
the dark age Europe of 2000 years ago. In other words,
the origin of logic, science and mathematics is NOT OUT
OF GREECE. --Ra Un Nefer Amen |
Ra Un Nefer Amen author of
the best selling
Metu Neter (Vols. I and II) and follow
up books
Tree of Life Meditation System and An
Afrocentric Guide To A Spiritual Union has written another
book demonstrating what Dr Jacob H. Carruthers has called
"African Deep Thought."
Much to the chagrin of the
Eurocentric white supremacist establishment, Ra Un Nefer Amen
not only has written a book that compliments George G. M. James'
Stolen Legacy detailing how the Greeks could not have
possibly originated the ideas attributed to them but shows how
continental Africans and their Sumerian counterpart's creation
of mathematics, logic, and astronomy raised their use far beyond
that of the Greeks who borrowed their ideas but lacked their
depth of both insight and application.
In addition to what he
says, the way he presents it, and the sequence in which he
discusses it is so plain and easy to understand that he further
buttresses the arguments the Greeks were not the great creators,
originators, and innovators of high culture and civilization
their Indo-European relatives claim they were.
Many of us are familiar
with George G.M. James seminal work,
Stolen Legacy in
which James irrefutably proves the Greeks were not the creators
of philosophy or metaphysics the West credits them with being,
but rather were students of and in many cases plagiarists who
took credit for African and Asian discoveries, ideas and bodies
of knowledge that pre-dated Greece by thousands of years.
Ra Un Nefer Amen examines
the areas of logic and mathematics the way James researched
philosophy and came to the exact same conclusion, the Greeks
were not the first civilization to create and use abstract
thinking, logic, geometry and algebra, nor were they the
greatest.
Not content merely to use
the available information and time lines to show that Egypt and
Sumer were thousands of years older and more advanced than the
Greeks, Ra Un Nefer Amen also examines how the mind processes
outside world sensory stimuli and ties these processes to the
fields of critical thinking and logic.
The good news is he does it
in a way that is easy to comprehend which sets the stage for his
arguments that the Egyptian and Sumerian looked at the world
differently from the Greeks and their language and use of
mathematics reflected these differences, differences which the
Greeks who studied what the Egyptians and Sumerians created
could not fully grasp.
He uses historical time
lines and supplemental material some by contemporary Greeks
themselves to look at logic, mathematics, astronomy and science,
the uses the Egyptians and Sumerians applied them to in their
culture and their spiritual orientation to stars and cycles of
nature like the annual innundation of the Nile River that the
Greeks did not. In so doing Amen debunks the myths (lies) of
Greek superior thought and higher mathematical understanding.
Like James, Amen looks at
Greek mathematicians like Thales, Pythagorus, Democritus and
Plato who are credited with significant discoveries and
innovative ideas and unequivocally shows they got their learning
not from existing Greek schools, institutions or social factors
and circumstances but via exposure to the Cretans, Canaanites,
Egyptians and Babylonians.
In a later chapter Amen
shows the importance of the Library in Alexandria, which was a
repository of much of the world's knowledge. It contained
manuscripts that had to be translated by Egyptian scribes and
priests so the Greeks who frequented the library could learn
(and subsequently claim it as their own).
The first part of the book
was technical but it was necessary to explain the differences in
thinking and the language of mathematics so we could see how the
Greeks approached mathematics and how they altered their
perception after coming into contact with Africans, Babylonians,
and others.
Like James, Ra Un Nefer Amen clearly demonstrates that
the Greeks were not what subsequent generations of
Indo-Europeans claimed they were. He shows how the West has
suppressed African mathematical advances. Amen's latest book is
only sixty- four pages long, nevertheless it is another valuable
asset by an African scholar, researcher and thinker who sets the
record straight and gives credit where it is properly due. It is
a book well worth your time, one you should be familiar with and
have ready access to.
posted 5 June 2003
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Incognegro: A Memoir of
Exile and Apartheid
By Frank
B. Wilderson III
Wilderson, a professor,
writer and filmmaker from
the Midwest,
presents a gripping account
of his role in the downfall
of South African apartheid
as one of only two black
Americans in the African
National Congress (ANC).
After marrying a South
African law student,
Wilderson reluctantly
returns with her to South
Africa in the early 1990s,
where he teaches
Johannesburg and Soweto
students, and soon joins the
military wing of the ANC.
Wilderson's stinging
portrait of Nelson Mandela
as a petulant elder eager to
accommodate his white
countrymen will jolt readers
who've accepted the
reverential treatment
usually accorded him. After
the assassination of
Mandela's rival, South
African Communist Party
leader Chris Hani, Mandela's
regime deems Wilderson's
public questions a threat to
national security; soon,
having lost his stomach for
the cause, he returns to
America. Wilderson has a
distinct, powerful voice and
a strong story that shuffles
between the indignities of
Johannesburg life and his
early years in Minneapolis,
the precocious child of
academics who barely
tolerate his emerging
political consciousness.
Wilderson's observations
about love within and across
the color line and cultural
divides are as provocative
as his politics; despite
some distracting
digressions, this is a
riveting memoir of
apartheid's last days.—Publishers
Weekly
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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