Part 1, Bephnati5 Said : 5 days ago
I do not doubt what these scholars said, although truthfully no one really knows. Research has been proven wrong before. And besides, is this really the point? The fact is these civilizations failed, and if they did not have serious fissures in their foundation we'd be practicing them today. We need to admit that. And we need to learn from these things instead of defending them even though right now, we are the victims of Empire. Empires start crumbling from within, and my problem with Black scholars is not their facts. It is their attitude. They praise Black imperialism, while putting forth that white imperialism is somehow different, far worse than our brand. Everyone touts the benefits Europeans got as a result of Moorish colonialism; but when Whites speak of how "colonialism was 'good' for Africa, we go crazy. Africa has (and had) a class system just like every other empire; and if we were the first people (and we were) then the rest of the world learned from us. We are not responsible for the entire mess that has been made, but we do bear some responsibility, and it is a grave error to ignore this, substituting self-criticism with how "great and powerful" we were. We didn't know it then, and I doubt if any other people knew it either, but imperialism, class systems, and slavery is nothing to be proud of, and has crippled the souls of humankind to the point that we can't seem to break the cycle. This is not to discredit Black people, because if we had not been the first people, and someone else had, they would have made the same errors. For our own good, this phenomena of conquering and controlling must be viewed as a problem in human development. And if we're honest, then we realize that the chickens really do come home to roost, and that we are, responsible, in part, for our own demise and subjugation. We believed in empire, slavery, all of it; because, you can't enslave a man who does not believe in slavery, who has no attraction to it. He'd rather die first. But you can (temporarily) enslave a man who believes in slavery as long as the slave is someone else; you can enslave a man who is a product of a class system, which, like all hierarchies insists that certain people are superior to others. And it is in this that I take issue with Black historians. They do not report things critically so we as Black people can learn from our mistakes; it's like a male pissing game, like "whose the baddest conqueror on the block?" If we were so "superior," and we brought civilization to the world, then why isn't the world a good place where people are kind to each other, where people love each other no matter the race? As the parents of the entire human race, what were we teaching our children, and their children, and their children? What did the less "developed" world see when they observed us? What did they suffer because of us? What did they learn from us? Why do they still hate us?
