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A must for Asante fans, and a greta book for essayists, debators and peopel who love challenging, original thought.
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Dr. Molefi K. Asante has never been a favorite of anyone who wants African Americans to not gain victory over their plight in America(especially in the academy. As a teacher and a student, I've witnessed hundreds of students become more encouraged and realistic about their future and their history.
Afrocentricty is not for the timid or the meek. It was written for those persons who recognize the atrocities of our educational system and realize African Americans must view themselves as competent, creative, sensitive, and humane people, who have contributed much to humankind. A white American scholar named Ulrich C.Reitzug (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)wrote a a chapter in Theodore Kowalski's Public Relations in Educational Organizations (1996), entitled Changing Social and Institutional Conditions, stating that: "Prior to becoming a university professor I worked in K-12 schools for eleven years as a teacher and principal. The schools in which I worked wre attended by primarily white students from upper middle class, two-parent families. Nonetheless, there was sufficient diversity in these schools that there were also children in attendance from economically disadvantaged families and single parent families. As I reflect back on those days I realize that while overall I was well respected as an educator, i also know that education in the schools in which I worked was like a cheap tube sock-one size fit all...I believed in euity and justice. I cared for my students and their families; I wanted a top quality education for all students. However, I viewed these concepts through the narrow lens of a white middle class male living in a period of time when white maleness so dominated education that our focus was seldom challenged. Thus I was insensitive to cultural differences in learning style; I was unaware of certain aspects of student diversity; i did not now enough to question the Eurocentric content of the textbooks we used. I thought equality of educational opportunity meant providing the best "white" education for all children. If nonwhite children or other children who were culturally different from the mainstream "didn't get it," we would team them in a group with other children who also "didn't get it." There we would help them by providing white education in finer, more discrete increments. I was never sensitive enough to realize that the Eurocentric focus of the education we provided delegitimized the culture of children of color and ensure inequalitiy of educational opportunity for most of these children. This educator references in his bibliography, Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentricity, as a book used in his research. For those of us who grew up under a system of Jim Crow and segregation, and now the eradication of Affirmative Action (thanks to African Americans like Ward Connelly), it is major that scholars like Asante, Patricia Liggins-Hill (author of the anthology Call and Response), Clenora Hudson-Weems (author of Africana Womanism and Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement),Tony Martin (volumes of books of the life and contributions of Marcus Garvey) and so many other African American scholars, continue to be Afrocentric in their research, writing, and actions. It doesn't mean they are against anyone. Afrocentricity means we as Africana scholars (some of these scholars have been white who have gained their scholarship the Temple University, thanks to Dr. Asante and others), want to correct the miseducation of all students from preschool to college; What will our future leaders think and say, if we do not make our voices heard and our writings sound to wipe the onslaught of racism and incorrect books about first world peoples? Afrocentricity is a spirit movement and a paradigm which Molefi K. Asante challenged the system and was victorious. For those who do not or cannot understand Afrocentricity, try praying for understanding and wisdom. Dr. Asante, on behalf of our children of the world, thank you. Oh, by the way. One year ago, the first Chinese student to earn his doctorate under Dr. Asante returned to China, to teach in the Afrocentric way. Need I say more.
Asante Sana! Thank you.
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Even if the ancient Greeks started by copying basic culture from the Middle East and Africa, they then expanded on it to create their own wonderful civilization. Did the blacks create philosophy, drama, or organized warfare? How do the sculptures of the Greeks compare to those of Africa? Are the Iliad and the Odyssey really African tales? Was Aristotle trully black? Did Plato sail down to Africa, copy ideas for his debates, and sail back to orate at the Acropolis? Did the phalanx come from Egypt?
Please people,how about a reality check? This book constitutes pure drivel. While different perspectives are always welcome, let them be based on fact, not someone's FANTASY. The way this book was embraced in a few quarters really demonstrates people's racism and their inability to think for themselves.