Heru
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“Dimensions of African cultural continuity produced the most successful slave revolts in the history of the world.”
-John Henrik Clarke
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“No people can be spiritually, politically, or psychologically free when they worship an image of god assigned to them by another people. The new revolution in Africa that will usher in real independence will start when Africans begin to look at all aspects of their life based upon their spirituality, their culture, and their cultural…
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“History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography.”
-John Henrik Clarke
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The notion that Africans/Blacks in the US can advance by asserting their “Americanness” & denying their “Africanness” is an old idea, visible in the poetry of Phillis Wheatley in the 18th Century. Wheatley and many who would come after her reflect Cruse’s integrationist stream.
Cruse also acknowledged another stream, the Black nationalist stream,…
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On Cruses’s Two Streams – African deep thought
On Cruses’s Two Streams – African deep thought
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Abibitumi Points
There are also the verbal nationalists-physical integrationists.
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“If you are a man of worth
Who sits in his master’s council,
Concentrate on excellence,
Your silence is better than chatter.
Speak when you know you have a solution,
It is the skilled who should speak in council;
Speaking is harder than all other work,
He who understands it makes it serve.”
-Ptah Hotep
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