Omg we are in a state of Emergency. I went to Howard University, I’m from Brooklyn & this RACIST sickness is happening all over our country. We must stand with our “Elder-Professor” & support the Black students @ Temple Un, with their mission for our people. These “Racial Traumatic Stress Injuries” are harming our health on a cellular level. By any means necessary we must stand & fight together ✊🏾🦋

Revolution- by any means necessary- in the streets, in the boardrooms, and in the universities because racism is widespread, pervasive, and systemic! 🎯💯👊🏾❗️

This is insane! How come a great scholar like Dr Asante be treated like that. This is beyond racism.

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

How come he spent his life at a white institution instead of building his own?

@guibriltraore4562

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@muskegontribuneHow come you didn’t help him build it?

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

@@guibriltraore4562 I built one in my own community, I don't live in Philly

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

@@guibriltraore4562 See, as soon as we ask more from our scholars besides books and lectures, groupies get offended. I am sure he made a great salary for years in the University setting. There is no excuse for not having your own place to rule as you see fit.

@guibriltraore4562

3 ай бұрын

@@muskegontribunehold on! I'm confused, what's your community? Here we are talking about Kemtiyu(Africans, Black)

As a former student of this department I’m sadden to see this great department at odds with one another and with the University. Would love to be at any meetings going forward

That's why we must focus on our historically black colleges and universities which we control. But we must fight for African studies at all universities with African American students who want the programs

@drapetomania2156

3 ай бұрын

We control? Stop it, white folks control HBCUs.

@jasonwinn7416

3 ай бұрын

We don’t control the hsbcu or the naacp

@WehemyMesuProdsCRC

3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, many HBCUs are white or immigrant run as well.

@afroblewmedia

3 ай бұрын

I’m at an HBCU. I wish that was the answer.

@bang8534

3 ай бұрын

@@afroblewmedia You mean they are cancelling African studies at HBCUs as is happening at temple university?

What I Tell Ya !, Temple U. has always been an Apartheid University when it comes to African American Studys .

This is horrific and I’m so sorry this is happening to everyone. Seriously WTH!!!

Most graduates of this prestigious department, and HBCUs don't go or return to where they're needed the most (at the grassroot level of predominately black neighborhoods that are crying out for scholar warriors to assist in the guidance of building Afrocentric-Afrikan Centered Cultural Centers). Thus, if there is no Afrocentric Agency and Advocacy support at the grassroot level, White and black Eurocentrist will continue to dominate via arrogance, divide and conquering, and ongoing strategic planning to defeat Afrocentricity. Why? Because they know that "Afrocentricty Saves!."

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

Afrocentricity is not saving anything. Let's see it build independent institutions. The problem at Temple and anywhere else is, its not theirs, they are guess in that house that was given a small budget and space to operate

So disappointed by the fallout between Ama Mazama and MK Asante!

Informative.

Where is the Dream Team of AfriKan scholars Dyson, Gates and West and what has been their response?

Oh my...

13:53 " africa adds nothing to relationships with temple "

There's a line in afrocentricity/pan africanism/black culture that I've found, which bothers me, and is alluded to by some of the experiences spoken of here. For some reason, people claim that same sex relations were and are an anathema to our ancestors and is an indication of something inexplicable, which was never practised in ancient times by our ancestors. I think this perspective is a result of a few things. Firstly, religious ideas perpetuated and reinforced by the abrahamic traditions and practices. Secondly, the unhinged eurocentric application of sexuality, regardless of stance. A memory and reputation which will last long after their empire has fallen, will be their outright absurdity and delusion around everything they claim they're so great at. As afrocentric people's, some hang on to ideas which have no basis in all encompassing realities of past, present and future, which in my opinion is not fully accepting who we are, where we came from and where we're going, ideologically speaking. If we covered the earth from the beginning, seeded numerous civilisations and are technically the most indigenous people on the face of the earth, then it isn't much of a leap to connect ourselves to every kind of human behaviour, from one extreme to the other and and everything in between. To all achievements, again applying the same principles. So how do we get to the point where any of us derides other people's sexual orientation and prevent another person's progress on that basis claiming it isn't afrocentric?! Yet polygamy, wife sharing, androgynous relationships and other kinds of relationships can be found on the African continent, presently and historically. We must decouple morality, religion, spirituality and sexuality from their current paradigms and relations to each other, because the evidence isn't there to support their presumed inter-relatedness. How has empire after empire, dynasty after dynasty, ruler after ruler, managed to claim and exert ascendancy and power, yet practice all kinds of alleged immorality, sexuality, spirituality and religious behaviour and still succeed in their adventures? From 2hat I've heard in this discussion, I feel that the strategy taken against the Africology department, is rooted upon this 'grey' yet highly emotive and charged area of division, to overturn the progress made thus far, and to discredit those scholars and students who wish to free themselves mentally from the final bastions where eurocentricity has it's strongholds and can find common grounds to work upon and recapture the minds of those freeing themselves unknowingly.

Remember Leon Dixon Jr. of W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center? Y'all need to patch things up create AFRICAN CENTER EDUCATION in all Communities of A.A. throughout USA. Dr. Neely Fuller told Y'all this will continue to happen.

Michelle is always into something.😒😒

I just need ONE QUESTION answered: "Why does those that HAVE THEIR OWN, schools, housing, companies, businesses, banks, money, laws, etc., NEVER scream racism?!"🤔

@rbggwapo

21 күн бұрын

because no other group controls their collective sustainability

🤜🏿🤛🏾💪🏿👍🏾💯🤘🏿✊🏿✊🏾👍🏿👊🏿👊🏿🔥🔥💯

To misquote the eminent Scott Williams, "...they need the Tetractys..." Hotep!

The Afram dept has been under attack since yhe nineties. Back when William Bennett was Secretary of Education, white America sounded the alarm over multicultural education. Twmple University's contribution to that white pushback was called the "Intellectual Heritage Requirement" , mandatory coursework designed to reinforce the idea that Europe was the birthplace of scholarship and civilization itself.

If you want to learn about Africa and Caribbean Go to they countries and learn from they education system

Was San Francisco State University the first Black Studies program in the country ? I thought I saw a documentary showing the police and the governor Reagan deploying violent assaults on the students and faculty. And they even had a coalition of students of color(3rd world liberation front) , teacher and faculty strike that lasted for 1yr. I also think that’s where the first Asian American Studies department in the USA started too. The video was called “turning point San Francisco 1968 strike “. However, to get the real flavor see “San Francisco state on strike.(1968) it shows Blk students and leadership role more….Point being, blood was shed to get African/African American studies department in these universities- As well as other people of color ethnic studies departments.

@brendaedwards1615

2 ай бұрын

They did not creat a doctoral progrm.

Chickens coming home to roost. Remember Dr. Anthony Monteiro?

@XuanDi

3 ай бұрын

No, that issue waas a different one...

Why was an African chair to Black American studies. You made a comment that they people that had to deal with the police were not professional people. Only a foreigner/immigrant would make such a ridiculous ASSumption.

Nah Feminista you couldn't be an ancestor...we see what this is all about....I support Dr Ama Mazama all the way

@XuanDi

3 ай бұрын

Yep -- Arthur Smith (so-called Asante) is all about humanism and tryna pimp the anti-racism game to hide his hypocrisy

we not africans.. we been here

@TheRealAfricanist

3 ай бұрын

He's talking about something much bigger than some petty bullcrap about what you call yourself. Trivial concerns like this is the very reason that black people have absolutely no power irrespective of what they identify as.....always preoccupied with pettiness and divisiveness.

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

You can't speak for all black people. Even if you are partially right some black people come from Africa. For example, Shannon Sharp said he did a DNA test that he is 90% Nigerian

@freepapuatv9268

3 ай бұрын

@@muskegontribuneim speakin for all blacks from america.. they have been lied to , history changed, usurped from there lands , and misclassified as african american.. if u have a problem with that then speak for yoself

@freepapuatv9268

3 ай бұрын

@@muskegontribune second of all.. nigeria was invented by the uk.. a white lady named the place and england colonized it so saying that u are from nigeria does not impress me none

@muskegontribune

3 ай бұрын

@@freepapuatv9268 Obviously you can't read, I NEVER said I was from Nigeria, Try again

First srep. Change name to FBA Studies if you want support.

@TheRealAfricanist

3 ай бұрын

He's talking about something much bigger than some petty bullcrap about what you call yourself. Trivial concerns like this is the very reason that black people have absolutely no power irrespective of what they identify as.....always preoccupied with pettiness and divisiveness.

ADOS rises …………

@TheRealAfricanist

3 ай бұрын

He's talking about something much bigger than some petty bullcrap about what you call yourself. Trivial concerns like this is the very reason that black people have absolutely no power irrespective of what they identify as.....always preoccupied with pettiness and divisiveness.