1) Spread knowledge about advanced African kingdoms and black
inventors and scientists who have helped shape and change our
world.
2) Get
the real African history into our classrooms when appropriate.
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Many schools cover the advanced kingdoms of Europe, Asia,
the Middle East and the Americas, but focus only on the most
primitive people in Africa; ignoring Africa’s advanced civilizations,
which better represent the continent.
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Africa’s
most primitive people—the Bushman, Pygmies,
and Maasai—make up less than .001% of Africa’s
population, yet those are who we see the most on TV,
in movies, in magazines, etc.
3) Act as watchdogs
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History books, encyclopedias, TV documentaries,
movies, and the like often don’t include the advanced
kingdoms of Africa and black inventors and scientists. They
will list the
ethnicity--Scottish-America, German-America, for instance--of
a white inventor, but not say when an inventor is black;
we have to make sure this practice stops. Furthermore,
encyclopedias
may only have 2 paragraphs on an advanced African kingdom,
but have 4 pages on a similar non-African kingdom.
That must change.
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