You Should Not Bear Insults.

If I Lead The Field In Any Way, It Is In The Area Of Curricula Development, Study Guides And Other Teaching Materials.

It Is Too Often Forgotten That When The Europeans Gained Enough Maritime Skills And Gunpowder To Conquer Most Of The World, They Not Only Colonized The Bulk Of The World's People But They Colonized The Interpretation Of History Itself. Human History Was Rewritten To Favor Them At The Expense Of Other People. The Roots Of Modern Racism Can Be Traced To This Conquest And Colonization.

We Probably Have, Right Now, After The Civil Rights Movement - And This Was Very Unfortunate - The Most Glaring Time Of Giving Up On Africa, Saying We're Americans. We Are Americans. I'm Not Arguing That Point. So Are The Italians. So Are The Germans. So Are The Jews. We're Americans With An Historical Geography Of Origins Outside Of The United States As All People, Maybe Except The Indigenous Americans Who Came Here So Long Ago, Who Have Generations Of People Whose Historical Origins Are Right Here But Whose Initial Historical Origins Are Somewhere In Asia.

I Saw No African People In The Printed And Illustrated Sunday School Lessons. I Began To Suspect At This Early Age That Someone Had Distorted The Image Of My People. My Long Search For The True History Of African People The World Over Began.

The First Light Of Human Consciousness And The World's First Civilizations Were In Africa.