Monthly Archives: December, 2019
- Kaytranada feat. Durand Bernarr — “Freefall”
- “Slavery is a horrific, irremovable stain on US history. But Americans disagree on how to handle its legacy. While nearly 75% of black respondents in an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said they believe the US government should pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved black people, just 15% of white participants supported the idea…. The underwhelming support for reparations is most evident among the white people who were questioned, and just over half — 54% — said they believe the history of slavery continues to impact black Americans ‘a great deal.’ Meanwhile, 83% of black respondents said slavery still deeply affects them.
- “The first man being born in Africa doesn’t mean anything because the first man was not ‘modern.’ The first man did not have our brain. What [researchers] have found, is that the last man, was born in Africa. Not just the first. ‘Modern man.’ What scientists have recently discovered as a result of the study of DNA polymer prisms is that all men now living on this planet descended from a black woman who lived about 140,000 years ago. The African actually contains all of the genetic material and they know at what point he begins to mutate into other types. That mutation has nothing to do with evolution of other types, it has to do with changes brought about by ecological conditions.” — Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- “You do not have any Europeans on the Earth until about 55,000 years ago and those Europeans are black. Pink people, that is people who drop pigmentation, do not occur until around that time in Europe…[T]here are no people on Earth except black people — not just in Africa. Africa produced six stages of man. All six stages of man are found in Africa. Only three of those stages are found in Europe and Asia. The first three stages died off in Africa, they never got anywhere; the last three stages not only spread across Africa, but moved out into Europe and Asia.” — Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- Luther Vandross — “A Kiss For Christmas”
- watch Dr. Ivan Van Sertima’s lecture titled “Egypt: Revisited”
- “The admiration of the Greeks — the first Europeans — for the Africans was real. There was no racism then. Racism started to creep in with the Romans and then later on when Africa was conquered, then racism became right because it was necessary to prove that blacks were inferior in order to keep them down. If people think they are equal, they are going to fight you. If people think they are inferior, they are going to stay still because they are going to take it as God’s will that they should operate in that way.” — Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- “Human beings are equal. What makes human beings unequal, for example, they could be forced to believe they are unequal and then they start acting unequal. Or they could be forced into certain economic disadvantages so that they don’t make the full use of their capacity. Or they could be made to think that they are inferior and therefore they behave inferior and begin to think inferior. Those are passing things. As they become aware of their capacity, that they are equal to all other human beings, changes occur dramatically.” — Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- “The pink African becomes the European.” — Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
- “America is the first country…that can actually have a bloodless revolution.” — Malcolm X