Response to Edward Boulogne author of "Afrocentrism as hell"
We must believe that the methodical unveiling of the origin of anatomically modern humans undertaken by scientists of good faith, as well as the role of Africa in the training, backup, and transmission of universal science, should certainly be part of the current halo bright light that now illuminates the path of knowledge which was often obscured by the imaginary construction of a prolific literature on racial inequality and infallible ideology on the prioritization of colors of nature. "The truth is eternal," wrote Joseph Antenor Firmin in his essay On the Equality of Human Races (1885). The work of vanguard presented to a public electrified by the laborious praise of Gobineau and the fanciful autopsies of Broca, some few black nuggets buried under the mud of the Enlightenment. However, the revolution of the facts reported by the newest member of the Anthropological Society of Paris called an increased virulence on the part of scientists who fought him. The “dissent” voice was lost in the tumult. But now she appears alone, standing, clarion, unshakable, proclaiming everywhere people live that the Greeks, educators from across Europe, have been students of Africa. Now that we see clearly the extent of the error in these recent centuries characterized by an official science reasoning to determine the inequality of human races, now that we know what barbarism that tormented science has put in the brains of the most enlightened members of the Caucasian race literally radiated by its baneful influence, one can only measure with great dejection the immensity of work to be done .... dare we say, on behalf of the Humanism. Challenge worthy of occupying all men who care about justice and truth.
A century is nothing, they say, if one considers the several thousand year history of black people. For nearly a century, in fact, the simple vision of Benito Sylvain, brother of Haiti, was necessary to represent the solidarity of all blacks against "color prejudice" to the "social uplift of Blacks. That year, the indefatigable proponent of "African Regeneration" began as he himself wrote "the journey to Abyssinia which represents ten days at sea and thirty-one consecutive days of overland route to mule, trip during which I could die miserably more than once, either by the ball throws by a marauder of Dankali desert or by the tooth of one of those wild beasts, one evening, ate my horse; I started, I said, a trip too costly, too painful and dangerous only for the private satisfaction of seeing a famous peer, the Negus Menelik, whose magnanimous virtues are truly honored not only the black race, but all mankind. "
Edward BOULOGNE perpetuates the error in which researchers place, sometimes in good faith, who still play analysis of African philosophical and sociological concepts with European glasses. To say that Afrocentrism - I recall that the term "Afrocentrism" is not the appropriate term to describe the paradigm that justifies this text. It instead speaks of Afrocentricity - Saying that "Afrocentrism is a form of Hitlerism", knowing that Hitler was European and not African, spreads naturally the psychological weakness of these constructions. In addition, Boulogne poses Mr. Gaston Kelman as a model and universalism as an ambition! pretty ambition shared their time by the authors of the Enlightenment, Voltaire's first, and we know the disastrous conclusion for the black race. As I have said elsewhere, let us know that large volumes in Europe, in Arabia, are intended to offer enlightenment on the "darkness" of Africa are the work of authors that characterizes primarily paternalistic, colonialist and racist look, paradigm inherently incapable of understanding a reality that eludes him. Will it be a Malinke that capture the intimate Celtic thoughts to the point that the Celt makes him his only reference ? and in the Malinke language? An African thought, even shaky, worth a thousand European thoughts about Africa.
The Black disturbing. But who? In Europe, slavery became a “crime against humanity”, at least so say the media without reminds us how to include the crime, who were the criminals and what humanity is spoken. And it enacts commemorative days ... and here are some Blacks who, on French television, revile against the French history books and call the "real" history of black slavery to be teach to the little French in French schools, perhaps they will finally understand that "visible minority" is not in France by chance! "For most French, says Françoise Verges, slavery belongs to history. The descendants of slaves are French citizens, their territories are integrated into the Republic (...) why rake up the past? Just look at the future! Really, you think it so important? 'And they say "Blacks, always in the past! "... And I asked a question : but how do you, Blacks, want a story that revere Colbert, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Napoleon, Jules Ferry, Jules Verne, Rousseau, all notorious racists, the same which restores the dignity of your strictly anonymous ancestors, dignity they have been removed so violently? There's even among you who name’s Rousseau, Voltaire, Napoleon! How do you marry these two historical realities, that of the white man and that of the black man, without raising embarrassing questions for French teachers? While one was in heaven, the other was in irons. France, Europe, it is Toussaint Louverture against Napoleon! How do you make it "universally" in the works to historic vocation? Schoelcher here! The Liberator! he was white himself, brandished like a trophy in the West. By himself, it happens to play the song that all Whites were not for the enslavement of Blacks, this "nefarious." Schoelcher was cons, if Blacks are free, thanks to him. Ah! Good story. Where is Dutty Boukman? Where is Harriet Tubman? Where is Adandozan? And the others? Where are they? These Qilombo brothers, these Blacks of the plantations, these Black of the wedges, humiliated, raped, paraded, beaten, mutilated, broken alive, those Blacks who did not wait Schoelcher, the Humanist, the Universalist! Schoelcher is a sham that we absolutely want to dilute all in soft and immature minds of France. Schoelcher and many others... That is the bothering thing on Afrocentricity.
Kenya Suwedi
A century is nothing, they say, if one considers the several thousand year history of black people. For nearly a century, in fact, the simple vision of Benito Sylvain, brother of Haiti, was necessary to represent the solidarity of all blacks against "color prejudice" to the "social uplift of Blacks. That year, the indefatigable proponent of "African Regeneration" began as he himself wrote "the journey to Abyssinia which represents ten days at sea and thirty-one consecutive days of overland route to mule, trip during which I could die miserably more than once, either by the ball throws by a marauder of Dankali desert or by the tooth of one of those wild beasts, one evening, ate my horse; I started, I said, a trip too costly, too painful and dangerous only for the private satisfaction of seeing a famous peer, the Negus Menelik, whose magnanimous virtues are truly honored not only the black race, but all mankind. "
Edward BOULOGNE perpetuates the error in which researchers place, sometimes in good faith, who still play analysis of African philosophical and sociological concepts with European glasses. To say that Afrocentrism - I recall that the term "Afrocentrism" is not the appropriate term to describe the paradigm that justifies this text. It instead speaks of Afrocentricity - Saying that "Afrocentrism is a form of Hitlerism", knowing that Hitler was European and not African, spreads naturally the psychological weakness of these constructions. In addition, Boulogne poses Mr. Gaston Kelman as a model and universalism as an ambition! pretty ambition shared their time by the authors of the Enlightenment, Voltaire's first, and we know the disastrous conclusion for the black race. As I have said elsewhere, let us know that large volumes in Europe, in Arabia, are intended to offer enlightenment on the "darkness" of Africa are the work of authors that characterizes primarily paternalistic, colonialist and racist look, paradigm inherently incapable of understanding a reality that eludes him. Will it be a Malinke that capture the intimate Celtic thoughts to the point that the Celt makes him his only reference ? and in the Malinke language? An African thought, even shaky, worth a thousand European thoughts about Africa.
The Black disturbing. But who? In Europe, slavery became a “crime against humanity”, at least so say the media without reminds us how to include the crime, who were the criminals and what humanity is spoken. And it enacts commemorative days ... and here are some Blacks who, on French television, revile against the French history books and call the "real" history of black slavery to be teach to the little French in French schools, perhaps they will finally understand that "visible minority" is not in France by chance! "For most French, says Françoise Verges, slavery belongs to history. The descendants of slaves are French citizens, their territories are integrated into the Republic (...) why rake up the past? Just look at the future! Really, you think it so important? 'And they say "Blacks, always in the past! "... And I asked a question : but how do you, Blacks, want a story that revere Colbert, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Napoleon, Jules Ferry, Jules Verne, Rousseau, all notorious racists, the same which restores the dignity of your strictly anonymous ancestors, dignity they have been removed so violently? There's even among you who name’s Rousseau, Voltaire, Napoleon! How do you marry these two historical realities, that of the white man and that of the black man, without raising embarrassing questions for French teachers? While one was in heaven, the other was in irons. France, Europe, it is Toussaint Louverture against Napoleon! How do you make it "universally" in the works to historic vocation? Schoelcher here! The Liberator! he was white himself, brandished like a trophy in the West. By himself, it happens to play the song that all Whites were not for the enslavement of Blacks, this "nefarious." Schoelcher was cons, if Blacks are free, thanks to him. Ah! Good story. Where is Dutty Boukman? Where is Harriet Tubman? Where is Adandozan? And the others? Where are they? These Qilombo brothers, these Blacks of the plantations, these Black of the wedges, humiliated, raped, paraded, beaten, mutilated, broken alive, those Blacks who did not wait Schoelcher, the Humanist, the Universalist! Schoelcher is a sham that we absolutely want to dilute all in soft and immature minds of France. Schoelcher and many others... That is the bothering thing on Afrocentricity.
Kenya Suwedi