So, sub-saharan Africans left west Africa headed to Egypt, built civilization and then invaders kicked them back to west Africa?😂😂 You consider that to be historically accurate?!! Yeah, I have my doubts... 1- how did they survive the Sahara desert, in the first place? 2- why isn't it mentioned in any history book? 3- why didn't they build another civilization in west Africa? 4- why almost all black African countries had no presence in global history at all? 5- why Egyptians today and ancient Egyptians have high DNA similarities according to scientific papers? 6- why did they represent themselves with caucasoid facial characteristics and light skin colors than their black Nubian neighbors? And the list goes on...

Thanks for sharing with us .Nice shirt

Amen brotha

I admire you, your teachings and that shirt!

This is so true that its actually humorous. Exactly,tell me what the slaves in the kitchen at the Constitutional Convention thought and discussed, tell me about the folks who built the White House…thats MY legacy. Im watching this for a class but man this was some real spill in just 8 minutes 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Priceless & Incredible

@blackmore4

6 жыл бұрын

Incredible indeed. It's categorically tribalistic nonsense.

why nobody mentioning any other history in Africa but the Egyptian one? yes We Egyptians are African but Egypt doesn't make 1 percent of the usual population of Africa so why not mention the history of Angola for example

@pits.893

3 жыл бұрын

I mean honestly... You are Africans only on the account that you live in the African continent... Egypt, demographically and historically is more closely related with north Africa, southern Europe, and most importantly the middle east

@mostafaamin3701

3 жыл бұрын

@@pits.893 you are hundred percent correct, Egypt is North African, but we still in Africa and our African brothers are more beloved to us than other countries that is normal,Egypt has been all the time North African brown but this doesn't mean we mean we ignore all other African history and steal the Egyptian history for self esteem

@pits.893

3 жыл бұрын

@@mostafaamin3701 Your African brother's unless Ethiopians I guess 😂

@mostafaamin3701

3 жыл бұрын

@@pits.893 even Ethiopians are our brothers, it has been the case for centuries but the current conflict is more about each side's understanding of the situation and I believe they will reach a solution, even war can be a solution but the war will be forgotten after sometime and then peace prevail, African nations had wars before but peace will come when we all understand that we need each other, My best wishes to all African nations even starting with Ethiopia and hope we reach solution that is best for all

@pits.893

3 жыл бұрын

@@mostafaamin3701 You do you... I hope Africa gets more prosperous... Peace

A great Teacher and Brother

Nice shirt. I feel exactly the same feelings; confusion, dislocation .How is this possible then?

@RonHeartt

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@lamialc

Жыл бұрын

He says nonsense

As far as I know , Africa is not a nation is a continent, are African Americans a nation? if yes then what kind of nation do they represent, the Egyptians for example? The History of Greece and Rome etc is taught because it was documented, do you have anything of historical and cultural value documented from Africa? Not really, and this is not related to race and colour , finally why don't African Americans start their own culture (which they started already actually) and build upon this new future, the roots and history that you are searching for are already inside them, why are African Americans trying to associate themselves to Arabs and other African nations who took advantage and sold Africans to slave traders? In my Opinion, things are simple, if you want the future, then start building it, you can make it a bright one not only for African Americans but for everyone but don't rely on other cultures and undocumented information, it will only hold you back...

Good job my brother, keep on teaching! may the God of ours ancestors bless you always!

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

Do you want to live in Africa? No? Then learn to value the advanced culture you do live in. You won’t even get clean water in most African states.

Thanks to Dr. Asante for all the good work he's doing on educating African minds!

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

Deceiving African minds more like it.

Western Civilization begins with Mesopotamia and that’s exactly what is taught in schools today and was taught to my grandparents. The idea that we were taught that it all started in Greece is false.

What is the” african population?”

People need to understand that Afrocentric History is just as important as EuroCentric history. It’s not about right or wrong. But a European should not be the authority of African History and an African should not be the authority on European history. Read Both. And understand it’s about perspectives. Appreciate the contradictions. Appreciate the narratives. But the Europeans will have you believe that their version, and only their version is right. And that could not be more incorrect.

@kwanzx8514

5 жыл бұрын

Damn right!

@JW93581

4 жыл бұрын

Well when you look at the world scale I think European history plays a bigger part than Africa if you take in advancements in all the fields like science, architecture and art. Africa has amazing history in itself but if you live in Europe or a America, which is more based in European history, why be surprised if the history they teach doesn't involve the history of African people, when they played such an insignificant part in any of these fields...

@teddytulk6200

4 жыл бұрын

Understand or study it to what end? For the the purposes of rebuking, rebutting or correcting inaccuracies, slants or unflattering portrayals by others about Africans or Africa? Beyond that I see no intrinsic value in studying or familiarizing myself with a patchwork of dead or an obsolete past, ideas or ideals parading as Afrocentrism. I am African. Born in Africa under the Apartheid regime. There is TRIBAL or ethnic centrism in Africa, and not even a romanticized version of Afro-centricity. There is the African Union. But, It is nothing like the EU. African people are damn tribal and incredibly xenophobic toward other Africans or each other. That is the living history or present state of affairs or life for African people. Afrocentrism, if anything, is perhaps a romantic fantasy, or always was, going back to Kwame Nkrumah. A pursuit from which perhaps only scholars can derive some value from. Given that it is not even presented as an ideal or aspiration for Africans to strive for or pursue, but as a "snapshot" or portrait of what was or is. I see no value or purpose in learning or understanding it. Skin color or ethnicity has made no man or peoples, or uniquely endowed or blessed them in a certain way over others with a different skin color or complexion or ethnicity. Skin color, features and things like that can help one or make a difference when it comes to climatic conditions. It can give one unique advantages in a given or unique climatic conditions over someone with a different skin color or a skin color or features that evolved over eons in a different climate or climatic conditions or environment. The reason why we have different skin or eye colors, features, etc, is because of these external evolutionary changes spurred on by climate or environmental conditions. I have big lips compared to others from different parts of the world. I do not know how that would help me or would have help me trying to survive in an icy or cold environment with something that prominent in the most exposed part of my body. My face. Over time and with evolution, it would make pretty damn sense for my lips to grow thinner if exposed to a cold environment over eons. Underneath all those changes is the same human being whose ancestors left, those that left Africa, that certainly looked very different from what their descendants look like today externally. There certainly are still people in Africa that looks exactly like the ancestors of these far flung human beings. DNA certainly trace all human beings to Africa and to people alive in Africa today. They may be dwindling in numbers, but they are still there. If Afrocentrism is expanded beyond skin color and ethnicity to include all man or human beings, given Africa is the birth place of all man or human beings, it perhaps can unite all human beings without regard to race or ethnicity to a common origin or home. A spiritual calling to man or the human race. At present, we Africans or black people should learn or study the stupidity or foolishness of tribalism and find ways of getting rid of it. I do not believe tribalism and Afrocentrism are mutually inclusive.

@ghassencsetwow

4 жыл бұрын

Just don't claim north africa it was always berber and shall remain berber

@chuckdaman1509

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute rubbish. Afrocentrism is presented as black history. It is a pseudo intellectual endeavour that aims to co-opt the history, achievement and racially impose on other peoples. It is racist.

GOLDEN ENLIGHTENMENT!.....

@minalameey4366

3 жыл бұрын

More like Golden ignorance and self-denial

Dr. Asante keeps the pathways to the future of education well lit with the flames of recognized Black excellence, past and present.

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

Can you give me a list of African inventions, great literature, great art(as good as or better than European art) , African philosophers ,great composers not writing European style music using European musical notation, African Nobel prize winners , one or two maybe. ? I don’t mean Egyptian either because they are totally different people.

@lisaharris452

2 жыл бұрын

@@forthfarean I honestly wish I could but since I was never taught this history, I don't have it to share with you. I really hope to change that, as my ever-growing stack of books shows. Just the fact that human history began in not-Europe, there's so much we miss when we focus only on one continent as the basis of our history. And what's with the insistence on differentiating between Egypt and Africa? (It lies on two continents, Asia and Africa. It's both.) Because the way it reads to me, and the familiar names who jump to assert it, makes it sound pretty racist. Your entire vibe is racist, just fyi. You really don't want to give any black people credit. You want to gerrymander history. Also, do you see the problem with having European organizations in charge of figuring out what's "best" in the world? Off the top of my head I can think of one Nobel winner, William Shockley, who was grossly racist. Would it shock you to learn members of the various Nobel committees also do or have held noxious, wrongheaded views, too? Be serious. The continent of Africa and many of its constituent countries have been repeatedly invaded and exploited by outsiders. That's resulted in instability in many of those countries, along with poverty in some areas, lasting to this day. Instead of acting like Africans couldn't possibly invent or produce anything of note, you ought to treat Africa with gratitude, respect, and curiosity. Make it a project to learn about African greatness. Come back and let us know what you find!

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisaharris452 I can’t find anything that doesn’t have European roots.

@lisaharris452

2 жыл бұрын

@@forthfarean Do you mean you haven't discovered that recorded history begins in Africa and the Middle East? You know the bible wasn't recorded in France, right?

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisaharris452 recorded history begins in the east and in the North African civilisations of Egypt . It doesn’t begin in sub Saharan Africa, they didn’t have writing there for a start and hadn’t even invented the wheel , when Europeans went there. North Africa was part of the Mediterranean world , Europeans tribes also settled there like the Vandals and the Berbers who were ,and still are , white . Arabic invasion changed the Berber people. The Greeks and Phoenicians had an advanced culture . Civilisation certainly didn’t come from sub Saharan Africa.

Would love to meet him, and thank him for thinking of US.

Promoting, cultuvating and studying the identity of the Black people in America is a well worthying aim. A discussion is probably needed as to the reasons that this identity should be based on Africa. But we should make a distinction between a Black or African identity, and Afrocentrism. Unfortunately, or perhaps tragically, the historical claims that Afrocenrtrism is promoting are not grounded in any historical facts. These claims are that the origins of some important cultural aspects started in Africa. These aspects are philosophy, politics, mathematics, religion. Also, Egypt is in Africa, but the Egyptians were not black people. I am very surprised to see Asante, a person promoting pseudo-historical claims, holding a chair in a university. Then again..., are we not aware that social and political struggles also affect what is presented as science? The rather long list of his academic positions, journals, programs, books, etc, do not change the fact that the claims of Afrocenrtrism are not grounded in historical facts. They are false, they are pseudo-history. In our times, the social position of the Blacks in America has been raised, and racism has received many strong blows.. These can only be welcomed and celebrated. But despite this, it seems that this ideological and political wave became a vehicle for Afrocentrist pseudohistory to be promoted and gain titles in many American universities. But it is still a pseudohistory.

@Mauromoustakos

4 жыл бұрын

Η προβολή, η καλλιέργεια και η μελέτη της ταυτότητας των Μαύρων στην Αμερική είναι ένας πολύ θετικός σκοπός και ευχής έργο. Χρειάζεται, μαλλόν, συζήτηση για το κατά πόσον και με ποιάν έννοια μια τέτοια ταυτότητα σχετίζεται ή πρέπει να αναφέρεται στην Αφρική. Πρέπει όμως να γίνει μια διάκριση ανάμεσα στη καλλιέργεια και προβολή της ταυτότητας των Μαύρων στην Αμερική, και του Αφροκεντρισμού. Ατυχώς, ή μάλλον τραγικώς, ο Αφροκεντρισμός προβάλλει ορισμένους ιστορικούς ισχυρισμούς που δεν βασίζονται σε ιστορικά γεγονότα και στοιχεία. Αυτοί οι ιστορικά αβάσιμοι ισχυρισμοί είναι πως πολλά πολιτισμικά επιτεύγματα, όπως η φιλοσοφία, η πολιτική, τα μαθηματικά, η θρησκεία, ξεκίνησαν από την Αφρική. Επίσης, το ότι οι αρχαίοι Αιγύπτιοι ήταν μαύροι. Με εκπλήσσει πολύ που ο Μολέφε Κέτε Ασάντε, ένα πρόσωπο που προβάλλει ψευδο-ιστορικούς ισχυρισμούς, κατέχει θέση σε ένα πανεπιστήμιο. Και μάλιστα σε μια αναπτυγμένη χώρα στη σημερινή Δύση. Αλλά και πάλι... γιατί να εκπλησσόμαστε; μήπως δεν ξέρουμε πόσο οι κοινωνικοί και πολιτικοί αγώνες επηρεάζουν αυτό που παρουσιάζεται με το ένδυμα της επιστήμης; Ο μακρύς κατάλογος των ακαδημαϊκών θέσεων, των περιοδικών, των βιβλίων, των εκπαιδευτικών προγραμμάτων, που έχει κάνει ο Μολέφε Κέτε Ασάντε, δεν αλλάζουν το γεγονός πως οι ιστορικοί ισχυρισμοί του Αφροκεντρισμού δεν βασίζονται σε γεγονότα και στοιχεία. Είναι ψευδείς, είναι ψευδο-ιστορία. Στις μέρες μας, ο ρατσισμός έχει δεχτεί σοβαρά πλήγματα, και η κοινωνική και πολιτική θέση των Μαύρων στην Αμερική έχει ανεβεί. Αυτά είναι εξελίξεις που μπορούμε μόνο να τις καλοσωρίσουμε. Ωστόσο, φαίνεται πως αυτό το ιδεολογικό και πολιτικό ρεύμα ανόδου των Μαύρων έγινε επίσης και όχημα για τη προβολή και επικράτηση σε πολλά αμερικανικά πανεπιστήμια της ψευδο-ιστορίας που προβάλλει ο Αφροκεντρισμός. Αυτή η προβολή και η ακαδημαϊκή επικράτηση, όμως, δεν κάνουν τους ισχυρισμούς του πιο αληθείς.

@zshakur

2 жыл бұрын

you're wrong on SO many levels. You definitely need to do more research.

@markosgelos3321

2 жыл бұрын

These clowns also claim our greek ancestors like Platon , Sokrates they can only be laughed at

Wonderful teacher...

Thank you. I've come to the conclusion, that the home we grew up in, passes to us the historical traditions that make us what we are, including everything from our perception of the world to behaviors, personality etc. But many of us have no awareness of how important this is. We are not a blank sheet when we go to receive education at school. I think what the professor says here kind of lines up with that.

This is what I’m talking about we need to control our narratives the eurocentric lens is not the worldview we have to abide by we just need to invest in our anthropologist and historians find substantial evidence to back all claims and topple these eurocentric narratives.

Africa is not a country ,,,black people were never Egyptians ,,, never forget that

Yeah, good one! Africology ...

@zshakur

2 жыл бұрын

"ology" means the study of, so Africology- "the study of Africa" makes perfect sense for an African studies department.

@MrBoazhorribilis

2 жыл бұрын

@@zshakur OK, I guess it is like the famous department of Caribbean Basinology.

Is this guy supposed to be a psychologist or a historian? What are his degrees in?

@malikmuhammad8399

6 жыл бұрын

Laverne Johnson Because I'm sure ur quite educated lol

@malikmuhammad8399

6 жыл бұрын

in other words, you shoot ad hominem attacks to mask r the fact that you are in fact less educated than him far less intellectually astute and perspicacious. is that about right?

@Brenda629

6 жыл бұрын

Dr. Asante is world famous. He has written over 81 books on afrocentricity, over 200 publications and over 200 doctorates has been conferred through his program. He is world famous and an international black scholar. If you knew your black history, you would not question him.

@Brenda629

6 жыл бұрын

I spelled his name wrong. It's Dr. Molefi Kete Asante and he heads the Afrocology Department/Black Studies Department at Temple University. He is over qualified.

@Brenda629

6 жыл бұрын

This tablet is causing me to type incorrectly. His name is Molefi Kete Asante.

An excellent presentation which introduces us to the elements of Afrocentricity and the African centered paradigm.

The anger in these comments show the nerves you’ve struck. Keep teaching the truth,they hate it 😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Dr. Asanti, I need a curriculum for a 9 year old.

Sub Saharan Africans had nothing to do with the development of dynastic Egypt.

@dovetonsturdee7033

2 жыл бұрын

True enough, the mummy DNA proves that. But having listened to the video, I doubt this particular chap has any interest at all in facts or evidence.

@destinm3851

2 жыл бұрын

@@dovetonsturdee7033 Ok I’m noticing that there are a few negative comments on this video who keep criticizing this scholar, hey man you tell me, Where is the misinformation? Like I genuinely want to know.

@destinm3851

2 жыл бұрын

Ok while that is a true point, may you please tell me how that’s relevant to this video.

@destinm3851

2 жыл бұрын

And how does it depreciate the value of what he said.

@dovetonsturdee7033

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 It is easy enough to find the misinformation. Just listen to what he says and then search for the 'evidence' which should, but doesn't support it.

Africology??? ahahahahaha omg African philosophy ??? aaaaahahahahahahahahah rolf what about African space technology??? ahahahaha

@maverick6775

3 жыл бұрын

WE WUZ KANG. I Love the Horn and North of Africa though! they dont claim other people's history and achievements. Okrrr! Gurl!!!!

@RonHeartt

Жыл бұрын

Lol

No no no... Your naratives were not destroyed. Fact is you never had your own narratives documented. You keep relying on Western historical techniques to recreate your own narratives. Which is not only ironic but in many occasions factually incorrect

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All African Americans come from west Africa, there used to be some minor civilisations there but there is no recorded history, if people want to learn northern African history like Egyptian or Ethiopian i mean sure what ever but it's still not their history, that's saying that North African history is yours it's like being from Scardinavia and saying South European history is yours, schools usually start from Greece because IT'S THE OLDEST RECORDED HISTORY, or else they would start from the first kingdoms of Greece at the Minoan civilization if they were obsessed to stay strictly in Europe which stated at 3.000 bce, there was a period of time in Mediterranea were every record if history is lost for about 1.000 years before we have records of history starting again i. Greece and the rest of Mediterranean, before that all history is based upon ruins and small fragments of records, speculations about this period of time change all the time, it's not something you can teach as history

@GidiLad

2 жыл бұрын

You clearly haven't heard of the Mali empire, Benin empire, Songhai empire Ghana empire. Mansa musa, the richest man in recorded history was from the Mali empire. Also, the original settlers in Egypt were blacks, those that built the pyramids are were sub Saharan african. The evidence is clear with the artifacts, especially when you see the private collections. Egypt has been conquered too many times and by different nations over thousands of years for that to be a true reflection of the origins. Similar work was done is the Benin empire, with the walls of benin. This was the largest earthwork carried out by humans before the mechanical era. Even surpasses the pyramids.

@AR-ul5hs

2 жыл бұрын

@@GidiLad yah but they aren’t African American Decent most to all African Americans come from West Africa , ancient Egypt was multi ethnic throughout many periods, the blacks of ancient Egypt were Horn Africans, Cushitic East Africans, and Nilotes/nubian(sub Saharan), as well as Semitic peoples and Native North Africans not described as black. Eurasian peoples also lived throughout the ancient Mediterranean and frequented the ancient deltas of Egypt. Also those empires you mentioned were all Muslim Empires, before Islam there is no records of pre Islam west Africa. In fact we know those Muslim empires became organized around the slave trade, including the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Bono State and Songhai Empire. It was these empires that began many of the pre-existing local African slave systems and began supplying captives for slave markets outside Africa. The Africans Americans were enslaved because they were non Muslims such as the Akan people, the Ewe people, the Ga people, the Yoruba people, and the Edo people were all enslaved among so many more, Slavery amongst these empires only increased when Portuguese Europeans arrived with the help of Arabic translators. Also the walls of the Edo people in Benin does not predate the pyramid, oral tradition and travelers' accounts suggest a final construction date of 1450-1500 CE. Again west Africa had no formal written history so it’s easy to claim so many things

@GidiLad

2 жыл бұрын

@@AR-ul5hs if you read carefully you'll see I said they were sub Saharan African . I didn't mention African American descendants. Also, so what if the pyramids came first? The great Benin walls still preexist the mechanical era, which was the point. The Benin empire had the first street lighting, the first university was in Mali. Etc to negate these facts are absurd. Most billionaires today are American and Chinese, because these are two biggest nations economically. If the richest man in the past was from Mali, what do you think the empires were like.

@AR-ul5hs

2 жыл бұрын

@@GidiLad I mentioned this because of the original comment, African Americans claim some sorts of alternative history such as they colonized the Americas and King Rameses II led an expedition which formed the Olmec High society and taught them how to construct pyramids etc. lol. We must be careful and critical, and yes Africa had many great aspects as you mentioned. The walls and oil lamps of the Benin empire are impressive nonetheless but again oral tradition is hard to date so we can’t claim them to be first, we must be careful with Anachronism here. We could claim many things to be much older than they are

@GidiLad

2 жыл бұрын

@@AR-ul5hs I think your fixation is on 'African Americans'. There were already Africans in the Americas before the Atlantic slave trade. Black indians are also equally very important to understanding native American history. A Kenyan American today is still an African American, even though he might not necessarily have the traditional west African ancestry. sub Saharan Africans are of essentially the same race. From Nigeria to Zimbabwe to Congo to Kenya. We might have thousands of tribes and ethnic group in between but are essentially the same people. That's the uniqueness of Africa. Africa as a continent is more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Sub Saharan Africans civilized the world. When Africans were building ancients civilizations, Europeans didnt even know they needed to take showers lol queen Isabella of Spain famously bragged about only taking a bath twice in her entire life

Yes !!! and now Africans will take us to Mars !!! The first electric car in production is African!! Paypal is African as well!!! Elon Musk is from Africa!!!

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

You and me are both really African.

@mvcg-cl4cr

2 жыл бұрын

South africa

Well spoken. But he needs to speak about the African diaspora because it isn't only the African Americans that were miseducated.

@kwanzx8514

5 жыл бұрын

Thx bro! Exactly I feel that same way I never called myself African~American Or American!

@nthabisengsetlhabane9294

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you.. I am an South African yet even our education is eurocentric because we were colonized by the British...

@canaris32

2 жыл бұрын

@@nthabisengsetlhabane9294 But was there any formal education system in what became South Africa before the Dutch and British arrived? If it was Europeans who created the education system then it kind of makes sense that it would be Eurocentric.

@nthabisengsetlhabane9294

2 жыл бұрын

@@canaris32 But it is time for change hey..

@canaris32

2 жыл бұрын

@@nthabisengsetlhabane9294 That may be so, still the Europeans deserve some credit for establishing the education system.

Love this Afrocentric Scholar work

Again absolutely no proof

@symphonydinkenssexii

5 жыл бұрын

what proof is needed for what he said? lol you can literally find multiple sources. this is no secret that africa is the motherland & all early advanced civilizations were a product of the region. What does he need to prove ?

@gangshitz9495

5 жыл бұрын

Symphony Dieudonné-Love That’s is a joke right there wasn’t a VALID proof your again giving a “Truth” which is made up lol

@kiloechomongoyacongo7123

4 жыл бұрын

The liar undermines the truth by bringing the truth into disrepute. We know the truth. It is all that matters to us not the denial of Euro-slavers and their brainwashed descendants

@DaranteLaMar

3 жыл бұрын

You came to youtube looking for proof??? BRILLIANT! #notethesarcasm

Africans in usa in 1690???

He is a brilliant scholar. This is why I was shocked about his essay on Afro-Germans being so extremely Eurocentric, imperialistic and saturated with Colorism. And African-Americans are not the only ones with the lack of Afrocentric education - it's a global issue sadly

@giannarosize

3 жыл бұрын

African people are a very small minority in Germany, they are getting education in full german schools, you can't compare it to America

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

What is there to teach that is any use? African history is entwined with white culture and has been for several centuries. Many if not most Black Americans have the blood of whites in them.

@azazelmejia9472

Жыл бұрын

Y'all just wannabe everyone but what u were. Poor u

@azazelmejia9472

Жыл бұрын

Did you know that Egyptians were the original Egyptians. And not people from other ethnic ground that claim to be?

@legoat8818

Жыл бұрын

@@azazelmejia9472 your trying so hard to convince us 😂 give it up the truth is coming to the light you cave beast need to crawl back in your caves already. Why aren’t y’all trying to find out where you cave dwelling organisms come from? Without using the evolution theory,bible or the ice age. Sad history u guys have. That’s the only reason Europe conquered other lands because their land sucks 😂

Everybody is from the garden of eden in the phillipines. Theres a channel called “the god culture “ That tells us where history comes from

@lisaharris452

Жыл бұрын

I've never heard that, but it makes as much sense as anything else in the bible. I'm glad you found an enjoyable channel.

@pyophyo8901

Жыл бұрын

How rare to find a religious nutcase in this random video? You must affiliated with the nutjob pastor quiboloy or some deluded Christian sect in the Philippines to spout such nonsense. Ibang level ng kaulolan lol

Pathetic how all these trolls are barely intelligent enough to find Molefi Kete Asante. And then they have nothing intelligent to say of any substance.

Afrocentricity Saves!

@jesle7090

2 жыл бұрын

Cap

Hilarious !!

@RonHeartt

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Pure bullshit! Man, Greece is the source of European culture not the White man! You seem to ignore that many greeks visited and studied in Egypt and in Mesopotamia. You should read some books to educate you...

Yes, African people built the pyramids, but they were non-black African people. They were caucasian peoples who built the pyramids. Look at the bust of Nefertiti. They recreated her bust based on her skeleton and she was a white woman.

@erichawkins5738

3 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. They were not caucasian. How dumb can you be!

@rayarena879

3 жыл бұрын

@@erichawkins5738 What is this then? That's a white woman: www.today.com/video/get-an-exclusive-first-look-at-the-face-of-king-tut-s-mother-queen-nefertiti-1153878083619

@realitycheck1092

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao Jesus Christ, you KZread scholars are so gullible and uninformed 🤦🏽‍♂️. Will you be down to have a live debate in this issue? 😇.

@minalameey4366

3 жыл бұрын

Not a white or black We are Mediterranean people stop pretending to be us WE ARE Not YOU

@pits.893

3 жыл бұрын

@@minalameey4366 They fail to understand that the North African population and especially the Egyptians have more to do with the middle eastern and even with us southern europeans than sub Saharan Africans... The real sea Which isolates people is the Sahara...

Or you can jus hit the 33 dynasties of ancient kemet and mesopotamia

@RR-ri4vn

2 жыл бұрын

They were not black

@damiendehorn6350

Жыл бұрын

mesopotamia was/is in Iraq, how is that African?

Teaching Southern and Western African history is quite different than teaching Northeastern African history. Trying to equate Egyptian history with the rest of African history is just as bad.

For the few antagonistic commenters on this video and for the ones in the future, don’t try to knock what this man is saying just because you’re uncomfortable with these ideas and concepts. If you feel uncomfortable with anything he says, this video is probably not for you, and you should be wise enough to not try to make it appear as something wrong.

@dovetonsturdee7033

2 жыл бұрын

I feel similarly uncomfortable when I read accounts of the Second World War as they appeared at the time in 'Volkischer Beobachter.' Both are propaganda based on prejudice rather than factual evidence, and both deserve treating with equal disdain.

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

It is not totally inaccurate but one sided. The people brought to the Americas to do slave labour were already slaves in Africa . The blacks that went to America were much better off than the blacks that went to the Islamic countries . The blacks there were normally castrated, The people who built the pyramids were North African and certainly not black. They were Mediterranean people. The Egyptians were more Mediterranean. Some of the Berbers were white, the Germanic Vandals who settled there were white. If a person is living in America he needs to know about American culture ,how to prosper in America. This man obviously had an American/ European education. The so called African civilizations were not what we would recognize as civilizations. They were very limited . The Egyptian culture was of course advanced but this man seems to be talking about sub Saharan Africa which was backward and did not really advance in thousands of years. Only when Europeans turned up did they have the benefits of a modern world. The whole premise of this man’s thesis is rather silly . The British had a fairly good Celtic civilization but it did not compare to the Roman civilization. The Britons very quickly realized that there was many benefits to being ruled by Rome and adapted quickly to enjoy the benefits. They did not pretend that they had invented Roman culture, that would be stupid. The celts were even so much more advanced than Sub Saharan Africa, Africa today is still lagging far behind ,in spite of the billions given to it. What black American would rather live in an African country? Even Africans don’t want to live there and trek thousands of miles to get into a Western country. Just accept that Africa did not develop . The North African civilizations actually stagnated thanks to Islam It is a disservice to black Americans to feed them untruths or a false history , they will not prosper in America unless they learn and accept the basically Anglo Saxon culture of America which they should think of as their home. Those blacks who do ,do prosper.African history has nothing to offer other than as a study into why advanced culture passed Africa by.

@destinm3851

2 жыл бұрын

​@@forthfarean "Advanced culture" passed by Africa, as you like to say, because of European interference. The simple truth of the matter is that this statement is simply not 100% true. What you say is just as one sided if not more. What you're telling me is based strictly on a European colonizer's point of view. Because of European interference we have no way of knowing all that our ancestors have contributed to the world but based off the little we DO have we know that the ancient Egyptians were indeed black people. The mummies' bone structure should've been enough, but the reason I can say that using such absolute phrasing is because we have documentation from the mediterranean people themselves. The greeks wrote about these people with dark skin and curly thick hair (commonly compared to a sheep's wool). Europeans of that time knew little to nothing about Sub-Saharan Africa but most of the historical documentation we have of this region came from European people who honestly just ignorant of their civilization as a whole. Also, I hear this one before, "The Africans that were brought to America were already in slavery." While that is also somewhat true it is an audacious and somewhat ignorant statement because it doesn't explain the whole truth. While yes, there were black people slavery in Africa at the time that the European colonizers came to Africa, these black people weren't always in this predicament. The europeans write about the black people who were already in slavery but their documentation explicitly states that there was no slavery in no shape, form, or fashion of any kind that was similar to the slave labour they were familiar with back at Europe. The reason these Africans were already in slavery when the Europeans came to colonize after they'd visited and charted the land, established themselves as familiar faces, is because they spark wars between tribes, and eventually it gets to a point where are essentially holding these African leaders at "gunpoint", if you will, forcing them to sell their own people into slavery( If only they had more insight and weren't caught in such a predicament). If not for European colonization Africa wouldn't have got behind then and wouldn't be behind now. (Cutting off the testicles was also a very popular punishment for slaves in America as well). Point and case is just that, one can't simply make these audacious claims about Africa and its unfortunate past and act as if Africa was just behind on it's own. And to make even bolder claims as to suggest it simply because of our own shortcomings when in reality it is the same white supremacy that existed back then has crept its way into our modern day life. Not anyone can simply thrive in America just by knowing American culture and knowing how to thrive in America. Do you've any idea how many people now very much well how to prosper, but get nowhere because of our botched system. And to say something as aimless as "know American culture." That is such a broad, general statement. What even is "American culture". America is such a jumbled mesh of different people, how do you correctly define American culture? Or wait you, but what you had in mind was European culture actually. This subtle message, or better yet, mindset, of white supremacy has been programmed so well into society that when we have this black scholar in the community who realizes that it is because of the programmed mindset that we are less than, that we come from less than, where we trust the white man to give an accurate recollection of the black man's history when he is the very one responsible for tearing it apart. (Sorry for typos, grammatical errors, etc. I hastily typed this up and didn't proofread. For any clarification just ask.)

@forthfarean

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 I am sure you believe what you say but you are very wrong. European culture is more advanced ,that is the way it is. Africans benefit from it. Most of Africa did not advance in any meaningful way. Egyptians were not black,they were pale brown and some upper class women were almost white. That is the same in India the higher the caste the whiter they are. Africa left to its own devices does not advance. Even today the African countries rely on Europe ,America and increasingly China. Slavery was endemic in Africa ,it was once all over the world. A slave’s life was worthless in Africa, the “owner” could do as he liked. The British had to insist that African countries stopped slavery. Castration was not general for slaves in America. The plantation owners were quite happy for the slaves to have children. This was because c1808 America banned the importation of slaves and in 1810 the British navy set up the West Africa squadron whose sole purpose was to catch slave ships and take the captured people back to Africa. The captains of the ships could be hanged for piracy ,and the crew. The ships were confiscated. This deterred many from the Atlantic trade and any ships that did it and got through the squadron had to smuggle the slaves ashore. This why slaves were encouraged to have children as it was harder to get fresh slaves. Britain freed tens of thousands of slaves in this way. When Britain abolished slavery she had to borrow vast sums of money to liberate them. The British people only recently finished paying this back. The Muslims took many,many more black slaves than the Europeans and nearly always castrated the men , a lot would die from this. The white race has done a lot for the black race and always had much more sympathy for them. The British were the kindest people in general. The Lancashire cotton mill workers often refused to handle slave grown cotton which lost them work. Britain would not help the Southern states in the American civil war because they held slaves. Your resentment against the whites is misplaced and really the blacks are used by White Marxists to further their agenda. Obviously the whites created a culture for themselves ,the only way to live in an African culture is to live in Africa. I doubt many American blacks would enjoy that. Stop letting these agitators lead you on. The left doesn’t care about the black race.

@mvcg-cl4cr

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 🤣

I stopped the video from that first "AfRiCoLoGiE 🤤" good-bye Felicia 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahahahaa! Even funnier than FawwltyTowers.

Real name: _Arthur Lee Smith Jr._ Probably took that Asante name to appear Afrocentrically woke.

@melchizedekwarrior

5 жыл бұрын

Or you know he just liked the names more because of his history?

Pre-contact, Sub-saharan Africa was Neolithic. Just admit it.

Egyptians were black when building the pyramids? I thought that they had brought slaves from the south and that was way later than the pyramids being built. I thought the DNA / RNA testing showed they showed up only about 1000 years ago.

@spogb6899

2 жыл бұрын

They weren't black, history and science proof that

@joeel-shazly8326

2 жыл бұрын

The only black in ancient Egypt is Anubis...

More like brainwashing.

We

Greeks didn't start western civilization that would be the Mesopotamian civilizations like Sumeria, Babylonia, etc. If he doesn't even understand that how can he teach any form of history? The public school system is crap but your reason for it is just an unfortunate circumstance not a racial one, it just so happens that Europeans were involved in more "important" or dire situations. I don't mind the idea of a segregated public school system, I believe this whole Afrocentrism movement came about due to black people not feeling capable as they never learned anything positive about their race. But fantastical theories about black Africans being the ancient Egyptians is far-reaching at best, there are even ancient texts from Egypt that categorized races (showing that they knew of black peoples but they weren't a major race within Egypt). The pyramids were built by well-kept "slaves" and they were buried at the base of the complex, they did DNA testing and it turns out they were Arab like people have been believing for centuries.

@destinm3851

3 жыл бұрын

First off my G I'd like to respectfully check a few things with your little self-opinionated response. Uumm well first your first statement is a very bold statement when you are making a presumption to what this well-respected scholar means. I have never been much of a history fanatic, but I am very detail-oriented, sociological, and psychological advocate, and as the latter suggests I pay attention to patterns in the thought processes of people individually and how they are affected in groups. And while I may not be a John Henrik Clarke when it comes to history, I am able to recognize misinterpreted or misunderstood info. But the point of aggravation is where you assume that this man is saying that greeks started western civilization. He did not say that and didn't even mean anything remotely similar to that. That is literally way off topic, he isn't even talking about the development of western civilization. The only thing he said about the Greeks is that they were not the first. Now who started western civilization? 'TWAS NOT THE MESOPOTAMIAN PEOPLE, these people date thousands of years before the concept of western civilization was ever even conceived by an individual, let alone an organized group. The Mesopotamian people are considered to be the precursor to ALL civilization in general, and they were more so the example for later on Middle Eastern civilization than western. The first generalized concept of western civilization that we are aware was the Greeks but that is not the point (and that is the problem right there, all education in this country is self centered and you automatically made this discussion about European origins, when the point of this video was literally to educate black people that we have our own history). And then you say his reason for addressing this problem is an unfortunate circumstance and not a racial one. Look player ,I'm sorry man, but you IS a BIG OLE dummy. There are so many ignorant things about this statement I don't have the time to type 'em all. Even if it is merely an unfortunate circumstance that doesn't make it any less of a problem. The public school system intentionally focuses on European history. White people make up the majority of the US's population, they have every right to do that, but it is a problem when you want to be claim that this is the "land of the free" or the "greatest country" or "a diverse country" yet you use the public school system to belittle them [people of non-European background] mentally which will, in time, belittle them socially, economically, and suppress them as a people. THAT is the problem my G, and THAT is the root of racism, which makes it the BIGGEST racial problem. What kind of sick messed up bull crap do you have to believe to believe that Europeans have more/more important history than anyone else? I'm about to show you just how sick and self-centered that statement is. Europe makes up less than 10% of the population, yet there wars are called "World Wars." Do you see how ignorant that is? Now you were partly right when you said this whole Afrocentrism movement came about due to black people not feeling capable as they never learned anything positive about their race. But the those "fantastical theories" about African people are true. African people came before the Arabian people. The pyramids were built by healthy black civilizations who were far from enslaved.

@CIMAmotor

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 Why are there no pyramids in Sub-Saharan Africa then? Why was there nothing but mud buildings and the occasional dry stone wall until the Berbers came south?

@chuckdaman1509

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 You fool.

@chuckdaman1509

2 жыл бұрын

@@destinm3851 Hey mate, have you heard of the Dunning Kruger effect? Look it up, it's you.

@destinm3851

2 жыл бұрын

@@chuckdaman1509 Actually I’d like to suggest that our little 5th Floor right here is more responsible for displaying signs of this Dunning-Krueger Effect than I myself have shown. I didn’t necessarily make any subjective statements as he did and it was mainly because he/she kinda missed the point of the video and used one statement out of context. I’ll be real with you for sec, when I saw his comment, I went and did a little bit of research before responding to maintain an objective voice and not subjective. So I do a bit of reading, of course I scanned through several articles just to assure that what I got was at least somewhat stable/true results. He/she overestimated their self (the low ability factor) and underestimated Mr. Asante (the high ability factor).

5:16 u discredit yourself sir. Human civilization started along the Nile river valley sure… but what about sub-Saharan Africa? Western education has said that oral history lacks validity thus why we cling to Egypt because they where one of the only African civilization to keep written records. I challenge great scholars like yourself in the field of Afro centric antiquity to challenge the current staus quos and dig deeper to discover the truth

Jesus Saves

HOTEP!

well this is a bunch of bunk

African Americans should reflect on how lucky they are that they have ancesters who were brought over as slaves. They enjoy a far higher standard of living an better prospects than if bourne in Africa. It is utterly crazy to rewrite history. Your ancesters may have been victims but you are , most certainly , not.

@AngeIofContempt

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up

@zshakur

2 жыл бұрын

Who's trying to re-write history? You are most certainly NOT a black person living in America. Your statement is SO misguided, ignorant, and wrong. Our ancestors were victims. We are victims of the power structure that came out of reconstruction. Africa would have been better off if the Portugese, Spanish, English, and Americans had left her people ALONE!! Don't dare blame Africans for European treachery! There's nothing lucky about the black experience in America! That's like saying "you're so lucky you get to live in a penthouse...I know it's on fire, but still you get to live in a Penthouse!" That's how stupid your statement sounds.

@oldmanxanliquidrageyotka9857

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't cover the real African history before all the civilizations. The out of Africa theory has been debunked by DNA testing they actually tested the DNA of early modern human bones in Europe and found they contained the same holo groups of white Europeans 36,000 years before the so called African march to Europe. There was life in Africa to. These people were archaic hominids who migrated out of Africa 100,000 years ago and breeded with neanderthals they back migrated to Africa and shared this DNA with the others then that's when Europeans migrated to Africa and hybridized with these African hominids.

@zshakur

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenvayssie9635 This is too stupid. Do your research. I refuse to do your work for you. All I know is EVERYTHING you just typed is SO wrong you'd FAIL any AA Studies class. Go educate yourself. The answers to ALL your questions and the rebuttal to ALL you idiotic statements are easily found. Happy hunting.

@zshakur

2 жыл бұрын

@@karenvayssie9635 Oh, and just because you can't accept a thing doesn't mean it didn't happen. History doesn't work like that

Complete rubbish.

Youre continuing the miseducation. Everyone has the same history. Garden of eden, Ophir Tarshish, all in the phillipines

Rubbish

I disagree...we are still enslaved

@melchizedekwarrior

5 жыл бұрын

Please substantiate your claim.

@kwanzx8514

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly I agree with u completely we still enslaved because we never have own new government..Once we have new government then we will be free no more slaves! Right?