The Reason Europeans Erased Africans from History

Historian Robin Walker breaks down the difference between racial and self-esteem in the context of Africans being erased from history:

A Brief History Of European Colonization in Africa

George Hawley. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas

The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential crisis as the nation's demographics shift away from its core constituents--older white middle-class Christians. It is the American conservatism that we don't know that concerns George Hawley in this book. During its ascendancy, leaders within the conservative establishment have energetically policed the movement's boundaries, effectively keeping alternative versions of conservatism out of view. Returning those neglected voices to the story, Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism offers a more complete, complex, and nuanced account of the American right in all its dissonance in history and in our day.

The right-wing intellectual movements considered here differ both from mainstream conservatism and from each other when it comes to fundamental premises, such as the value of equality, the proper role of the state, the importance of free markets, the place of religion in politics, and attitudes toward race. In clear and dispassionate terms, Hawley examines localists who exhibit equal skepticism toward big business and big government, paleoconservatives who look to the distant past for guidance and wish to turn back the clock, radical libertarians who are not content to be junior partners in the conservative movement, and various strains of white supremacy and the radical right in America.

In the Internet age, where access is no longer determined by the select few, the independent right has far greater opportunities to make its many voices heard. This timely work puts those voices into context and historical perspective, clarifying our understanding of the American right--past, present, and future.

George Hawley. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. 366. $34.95 (cloth).

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/694190?journalCode=apt

The San People are 1 of the oldest humans on earth, who are indigenous to Southern Africa.

The San people are members of various indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Southern Africa, whose territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The san are 1 of the oldest humans on earth, who are indigenous to Southern Africa.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people

Walter Heasley — Killing Me Softly

Amanirenas - Queen of Kush

Amanirenas ( Queen of Kush)  effectively resisted an incursion by the Roman army, keeping the Romans from extending their Roman-Egyptian border into Kush.

Akil Alleyne — No, Libertarianism Isn't a "White Supremacy" Theory

Born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Montreal, Akil Alleyne is a 2008 graduate of Princeton University and a 2013 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where his major areas of study were constitutional and international law. He most recently worked for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the civil liberties of free speech, freedom of religion and association, and due process.

One of the most frustrating things about being a libertarian is the likelihood that much of your time will be spent correcting mischaracterizations of the philosophy and the movement it spawned. Perhaps the most common calumny hurled at libertarianism in recent years is the claim that it is an ideology of white supremacy. “Libertarianism is for white men” is just one example of the headlines screamed by left-leaning websites such as Salon and AlterNet in the past decade alone. As Cato Institute vice president Gene Healy once wryly remarked, “Never before have so many been so intimidated by so few, with so little political power.”

Now comes The Baffler’s Andrew Hartman to join in the chorus of hysteria with his recent article “The Master Class on the Make: How the White Backlash Found Its Academic Bona Fides.” His central thesis? “Libertarianism is a political philosophy shot through with white supremacy. Public choice theory, a technical language nominally about human behavior and incentives, helps ensure that blacks remain shackled.”

Read more: https://home.isi.org/libertarianism-white-supremacy-theory

Chidike Okeem Takes on Ben Shapiro — 'Ben Shapiro sees blackness just as he sees leftism'

Chidike Okeem, the black conservative writer and thinker at VOICEOFCHID.COM takes on Ben Shapiro, a conservative activist.

Ben Shapiro sees blackness just as he sees leftism: He views it as an object to revile. When you understand that, his racist commentary about everything black (from Trayvon to #BlackPanther) makes perfect sense. He is absolutely vile and immoral.

— Chidike Okeem (@VOICEOFCHID) February 15, 2018

Stevie Wonder ft George Michael - Love in Need of Love Today (Live @Apollo Theatre 1985)

One of the best duets of George Michael. Together with Stevie Wonder at the 80s, two voices powerful in every way, they sing this duet and please enjoy it, its amazing!

Kyle James Howard — American Racism & The Dangers of Color-Blindness

“The answer to racism is not colorblindness. The answer to racism is to embrace a worldview that says diversity is beautiful.”

The American church (and society) has yet to have a real and honest discussion concerning racism. For one group, there is a tremendous amount of pain. For the other group, there is a tremendous amount of shame and embarrassment. If the American church (and society) doesn’t have a real and honest conversation about racism, it will be do nothing but perpetuate the pain and shame. We have to get to a point where white Christians are able to embrace Historical embarrassment in light of the cross and truly be humbled by it. This humility will allow them to enter into a posture of learning rather than insist that they are the ones who need to teach minorities.

On the other side, blacks have to truly bring their pain to the cross and allow Christ to swallow up bitterness and resentment that racism has caused them. Honestly, I am no longer optimistic that I will see this happen in my generation. I believe the American church has had a beautiful looking bandaid placed over an infected wound that has yet to be truly healed. I pray that the next generation will pick up the baton and carry it on.

Read more - http://kylejhoward.com/blog/american-racism-the-dangers-of-color-blindness/

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