Today on coffee talk: Is teaching African American history the Satanic Verses of the United States? I never read the book " the Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie but I have read the Quran and have been outspoken about the history of African Americans and the need to share this information with African American people. The study of history gives us positive examples to emulate to be better people in our society. However, conservatives are trying to prevent the American people from learning this perspective of history.
Denying African Americans, the ability to study our history and culture in public schools as mainstream curriculum is a disservice to the American people. According to Chairman Omali Yeshitela the leader of the African People Socialist Party the "primitive accumulation of wealth" which Karl Marx discusses in Das Kapital in which "parasitic capitalism" rests on the free labor produced by stolen humans from the continent of Africa. Before I discovered Chairman Omali Yeshitela rhetoric concerning slavery, I thought Adam Smith description of capitalism to be valid, but I was mistaken.
The American economic engine would not exist without kidnapped Africans. Historians have portrayed Africa as a "backward and dark continent" and the arrival of Europeans onto the scene brought Africa out of barbarism and a lawless society of uneducated brutes which are lies. For instance, Europeans had no idea how to produce rice, and the stolen humans from Africa were forced to produce the labor intensive "cash crop" for free in the Carolinas.
According to the founder of the Methodist tradition in the United States of America, John Wesley, lies were told about Africa, and the people of West Africa, where people were being kidnapped, had a thriving civilization based on law and order. For instance, Wesley describes how Europeans would kidnap Africans in "Thoughts Upon Slavery," using unscrupulous methods, from West Africa and sale them into bondage to produce "cash crops" for an ungodly amount of wealth. He suggested people should not engage in "men stealing" because it was a horrible and vile means to earn a living.
The ungodly amount of wealth produced from the blood, sweat, and tears of Africans is the capital that allowed the United States and other New World countries to prosper and grow. Furthermore, after laws were passed to free those Americans in bondage another series of legislature was enacted, Jim Crow Laws, to force African Americans into a condition of second-class citizenship to maintain the American caste system based on race and wealth. However, no matter how much wealth an African American gathers they are still in a position of second-class citizenship. Do you remember when Oprah was denied service at an exclusive retail boutique?
Finally, what did the Moors do to Europeans that warranted chattel slavery? Moreover, what happened to all the humans Julius Ceasar captured when he conquered Western Europe?
No comments:
Post a Comment