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Using Our Past History To Solve Today’s Problems
Surely, talking about the greatness of our Afrikan civilization certainly should make us feel good; and we should feel good about ourself as Afrikans. But as I have said on so many occasions, you going to die feeling good about your Afrikan self. Drug addicts die feeling good. It’s not enough just to feel good about yourself to survive. Feeling good about your Afrikan self is not going to save your life. Knowing that you did great things in ancient Kmt, ancient Nubia, ancient Ghana, Mali, Songhai and other parts of Afrika is Wonderful, Great, and Necessary; but it will not solve our current problems. It is now time to look at our heroes/sheroes, our great Ancestors, in terms of their culture; in terms of the great achievements they made; in terms of the mistakes they made; in terms of the missteps they took; in terms of other kinds of issues that involved their lives so that we can get the kind of information we need to survive as a people. And believe me Black people our survival as a people is in very very very serious trouble today, in very serious trouble.
We must understand that history has a thousand faces; that it is designed to answer a thousand questions and that looking to our heroes and sheroes, our great Ancestors, is only one function of history, only one. Therefore, the history of our people can be used to provide many of our answers; economic answers, political answers, cultural answers, social answers, spiritual and religious answers, educational answers, etc. All kinds of questions can be answered by history, but the problem is you have to ask the appropriate questions to get the appropriate answers from history.
-The Great The Honorable The Light
Nana Amos N. Wilson
