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Link to biography of John Henrik Clarke: Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Author, Historian, Educator ★
Slide the excerpt below to read.
While he was teaching at Hunter College in New York and at Cornell University in the 1980's, Clarke's lesson plans became well known for their thoroughness. They are so filled with references and details that the Schomburg Library in Harlem asked for copies.
Clarke plans to provide them, he said, "so that 50 years from now, when people have a hard time locating my grave, they won't have a hard time locating my lessons." In 1985, the year of his retirement, the newest branch of the Cornell University Library- a 60 seat, 9,000 volume facility- was named the "John Henrik Clarke Africana Library."
Quotes by the late John Henrik Clarke on religion and Africa~
“We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.”
“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.”
“My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.”
“Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world’s people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.”
“The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless… Islam was as guilty as all the rest.”
“When the European comes to a country, the first thing he does is to laugh at your God and your God concept. And the next thing is to make you laugh at your own God concept. Then he don’t have to build no jails for you then, cause he’s got you in a jail more binding than iron can ever put you.”
“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”
“Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.”
“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.”
“The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word ‘Africa.’ According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.”
“She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek… Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.”
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Oh, not that Cleopatra…
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Sorry.
Still won’t save you.
Cleopatra was a favored name of a Ptolemaic dynasty that is much younger than 3000 years.
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Columbus did not set sail from Spain and go directly across the Atlantic. He left Spain, sailed to the Canary Islands, rested and prepared his vessels, then set sail across the Atlantic from the well-known departure point, the Canary Islands, off the west coast of the African country of Morroco.
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I was responding to:
Yes, Columbus set sail from Spain, and stopped in a Spanish controlled port in the Canaries along the way. Are you sure that educational systems don’t teach about the route Columbus took? How would you verify whether most curricula include a map with a route? I can’t speak for the general state of public education, but I remember seeing maps of the four trips with little lines showing the routes like this one:
In the end, if students were unaware of the fact that Columbus stopped in a Spanish controlled port in the Canaries, what would that mean? If they were aware that Columbus stopped in a Spanish controlled port in the Canaries, do you think that would change the way they saw Africa, and if so, how?
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It’s all copypasta all the time!
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It was that idiot’s only eructation I was compelled to like. I kind of hope to never see its like again.
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Here is a summary of A Certain Scientific Railgun: A Certain Scientific Railgun - Wikipedia
A Certain Scientific Railgun (とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン Toaru Kagaku no Rērugan?) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Motoi Fuyukawa, which began serialization in the April 2007 issue of ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Daioh magazine. The manga is a spin-off of Kamachi’s A Certain Magical Index light novel series, taking place before and during the events of that series. The manga is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment, who began publishing the series from June 2011. An anime television series adaptation by J.C. Staff aired in Japan between October 2009 and March 2010, followed by an original video animation released in October 2010. A second season titled A Certain Scientific Railgun S aired between April and September 2013. The anime are licensed in North America by Funimation.
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I have already posted the answer to your question regarding navigational reasons, trade winds, trade currents and the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa being a well known departure point.
Here is another excerpt from a linked biography of Columbus.
Columbus participated in several other expeditions to Africa gaining knowledge of the Atlantic currents flowing east and west from the Canary Islands. Muslim domination of the trade routes through the Middle East makes travel to India and China difficult. Believing a route sailing west across the Atlantic would be quicker and safer, Columbus devised a plan to sail west to get reach the East.
Why do you think Columbus went in the direction of south, into he Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa.?
Your map is why students need to be taught accurate history – it is titled “Columbus’ routes to the New World” This is the height of mis-education and dogmatic arrogant supremacy, because there was already people living in the Caribbean region when Columbus landed there.
Columbus was a international terrorist and a butcher; besides thinking he was in Asia when he landed. Columbus and his brothers were arrested on charges of committing atrocities among other charges. They should not have been released as soon as they were; they should have been imprisoned for life or given the death penalty for their atrocities.
Here are three more links about Christopher Columbus.
http://m.livescience.com/16468-christopher-columbus-myths-flat-earth-discovered-americas.html
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You didn’t yet answer the question about why you were extensively quoting neo-Nazi and used canard salesman Jeff Rense. Is he your goto source for this kind of information?
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Are we really at it again this early in the morning?
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Have you ever taken a boat across the Atlantic Ocean? Trust me, you want to do it as close to the Equator as possible.
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What would it mean to you if I didn’t ask a question about navigational reasons, trade winds, etc., but actually asked some things about whether students were being taught a thing you claimed they weren’t being taught?
The phrase “Columbus’ routes to the New World” doesn’t suggest there weren’t already people living in the Caribbean when Columbus landed there. I’m unaware of any curriculum that doesn’t mention that there were people living in the pre-Columbian Americas. The map does illustrate that at least in some curricula students are taught accurate history about Columbus leaving from Africa (or at least stopping in the Canaries) to cross the Atlantic Ocean, though. That was something you claimed wasn’t the case.
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He’ll tell you when he’s had enough.
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That was comment 777, and if ever there was a comment to sum up god’s attitude towards creation, that was it.
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Well, as a great man once said: “If man is 5, then the devil is 6. And if the devil is 6, then god is 7.”
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