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Overstating ones achievements reeks of desperation and insecurity; and insulting other people's achievements to make yours seem more worthwhile carries the same aire.
I ask these questions not to derail the thread but to provoke thought. Half the stuff being said is being posted with no consideration of the implications of some of the statements. To say that 'African science' is the birth place of modern medicine is, dare I say, quite a provocative statement; and to think that you can say something like that without being checked speaks to your overall naivete.
I'm curious what your point of view is. Human origins, culture origins etc. I'm aware some of the stuff isn't presented with undeniable truth. But I genuinely would like to know where your perspective is coming from and what your objective with the thread is besides the obvious rejection of stuff posted this far
My perspective is that all men are created equal, no one man is greater than the other. We all come from the same ancestors.
I believe that African history is poorly researched and catalogued (for whatever reasons).
I don't believe in 'convenient' history, i.e. 'all African Americans descended from kings, and are responsible for mode t n science, if it wasn't for Africans space travel wouldn't be possible etc'.
I do believe that it is possible to have a sober dialog on the history of Africa without trying to claim every sign can't discovery known to man.
And! When I started this thread my focus was on bringing to the fore some of the issues that Africa faced during pre colonial and post colonial times; a parallel of the civil rights movement ( notice the date of the threads creation).
If anything the Egyptologists and we are kings crowd are the ones derailing the thread, and could easily be reported.