IGNORANCE BEGETS RACISM

With all the public anger displaced by the Tea Party movement in New Orleans and the celebration of the Confederacy by the Governor of Virginia, one is forced to conclude that the underlining reason is the feeling of loss of racial superiority. With Barack Obama, a self identified African American, as President of the United States of America and Michael Steele as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, it is must be very hard to be A White Anglo Saxon Protestant living in these United States in 2010.
Whatever happened to the post-racial society we are supposed to be living in? Why do some people, even in political leadership, wish the Obama administration to be a failure?
To me personally, it is simply a question of some people could not get over the fact that they have an African American as the President of the United States. Their refusal to accept that fact is also due simply to their sense of racial superiority. How times have changed? But the level of education has not. Some people are still not aware of the origin of the human race and that we are all the same family no matter how different our skin colors. And that is why I am republishing the understated from two years ago to wit:

"Today, for most people - the truly educated class - it is an accepted fact that Ethiopia/Africa, far from being a "Dark Continent", was indeed the cradle of Humanity. The legendary River Nile - from the Ethiopian Highland source of the Blue Nile and the Ugandan source of the White Nile, all the way through the Sudan and what is now called Egypt, to the Mediterranean Sea - was the life line that nourished the early humans who inhabited the Nile Valley territory.

The origins of Ethiopian/Egyptian Civilization go way back into remote antiquity to the predawn of history over five thousand years ago. The pyramids of Giza and the Sphinxes of Luxor as mystical and scientific symbols and also as practical architectural design and building structures, go back to the beginning of recorded time and to the Ethiopian/Egyptian/African roots of world culture. In 1184 B.C., Ethiopian warriors were among the valiant ones who travelled to what is now Turkey and fought in defence of Troy when it was attacked by the Greeks. We must also make mention of the ancient Empire of Ghana - subsequently Mali and Songhay - which held sway in West Africa from the 7th Century B.C. until the 12th Century A.D. The Ghanaian University of Sankore in the college-city of Timbuktu achieved world wide fame as a leading center of learning and scholarship. The Greeks were the first Europeans to benefit from the learning and wealth of Africa. Rome of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony was next in line. In those days, the Black Culture of Africa was the most highly regarded to be found anywhere. This esteemed Culture and Civilization came up the River Nile from the Ethiopian interior towards the Mediterranean, and not down the Nile from outside of Africa as many would have us all believe. So instead of introducing a superior culture to Africa as they have always claimed, Europeans, beginning with the Greeks and the Romans, actually came away from Africa with a better knowledge of science, culture and civilization than they previously possessed.

Yet in the 1700s, many philosophers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment were vexed by the question of what kind of creatures Africans truly were - that is, were they human beings, descended along with Europeans from a common ancestor and fundamentally related to other human beings, or were they, as David Hume put it in 1753, another "species of men" related more to apes than to Europeans? How ignorant is that? And this is what David Hume wrote: "I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all other species of men to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturers amongst them, no arts, no sciences". Ten years later, Immanuel Kant, responding directly to David Hume, expanded upon his observations: "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in whcih a Negro has shown talents, and assents that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from the countries, although many of them have been fet free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble, and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in colour".

Not to be outdone, Thomas Jefferson even had associated Africans with apes: "Black males find white women more beautiful than black women, as uniformly as is the preference of the Oranootan for the black woman over his own species". And this came from a man who could not keep his hands off his black female slaves at night!
Fast forward to today! How is it possible that with all the knowledge that modern man or woman has at the finger tips, we are still misinformed about the origins of the human species. I am therefore of the opinion that it is not by accident that we are where we are. There is a plan from the beginning to pull the wool over the eyes of the people. A people could not be exploited if they are considered equals. And we have to lay the blame on the people who translated the Bible - Word of God - and their descendants and to question their motives.
The fastest route to change and open the minds is to reform the educational systems around the globe. It is time to do away with the lies however difficult the process gets since the entrenched ruling classes who benefit from the ignorance of the miseducated masses do not want change. Change we must have however long the process!"