asiactic - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T05:03:52Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/asiacticThey Came before Columbus - Dr Ivan Van Sertima (Video)https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/they-came-before-columbus-dr-ivan-van-sertima-video2016-09-27T04:10:52.000Z2016-09-27T04:10:52.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div style="color:#2a2e2e;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5rb_v4ZPs0s/V84dLWSXN6I/AAAAAAACeTg/5e-0Q53w-0k2eYQMzi9qA3oBGap-TqcEwCLcB/s400/Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG" target="_blank" style="font-size:18.6667px;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5rb_v4ZPs0s/V84dLWSXN6I/AAAAAAACeTg/5e-0Q53w-0k2eYQMzi9qA3oBGap-TqcEwCLcB/s400/Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG?width=320" width="320" class="align-left" alt="Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG?width=320" /></a></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB Commentary:</span> Searching for the origin of man on this crazy planet. I once saw a vide<span style="font-size:14pt;">o where a man was being interviewed and he said the original African was "green". So in searching, I found this article written in 1994. The author really tries to sound like he ain't being racist but it is clear that he is merely parroting what he was taught. It made me look up Ivan Van Sertima. <a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/09/they-came-before-columbus-dr-ivan-van.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">One thing I want to add, is that folks tend to make it seem like Africans migrated <span style="font-size:14pt;">on foot all across the globe. I find that very interesting. It would seem logical to me, that with all the wood around them, somebody would have thought of making a boat, in fact, Ivan Van Sertima wrote in his book, "They Came Before Columbus" that there were seafarers.</span></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Just saying, people tend to forget about the libraries burned in Timbuktu, the Great buildings and structures, the riches man in the world was from Mali, the</div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Songhai Empire, etc. That's why I am grateful to our African historians who <span style="font-size:14pt;">took the risk to expose our real history. And many of them, got their research </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">from whites who also took the risk of telling the truth about African history.</span></div><br /><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">But yeah, 1994 was an interesting year.</div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">How Africa Became Black</blockquote></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Africa's racial history was not necessarily its racial destiny. To unravel the story of<br /> Africa's past, you must not only look at its faces but listen to its languages and harvest its crops.<br /> <span style="color:#666666;">By </span><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/authors/jared-diamond">Jared Diamond</a><span style="color:#666666;">|Tuesday, February 01, 1994 </span><span style="color:#666666;">RELATED TAGS: </span><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/tags/archaeology">ARCHAEOLOGY</a> <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331">http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331</a></blockquote></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;line-height:21px;">Excerpt: "Most Americans think of native Africans as black and of white Africans as recent intruders; and when they think of Africa's racial history they think of European colonialism and slave trading. But very different types of peoples occupied much of Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago. Even before the arrival of white colonialists, the continent harbored five of what many consider to be the world's six major divisions of humanity, the so-called human races, three of which are native to Africa. To this day nearly 30 percent of the world's languages are spoken only in Africa. No other continent even approaches this human diversity, and no other continent can rival Africa in the complexity of its human past." To Read more <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331" target="_blank">click here</a></span><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;"><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331" target="_blank"> </a></span></blockquote></div><p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="459" height="344" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x1ZeK4ecHKU?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div>