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25-03-08, 04:21 PM
"Knowledge of race history, is to that race, exactly as an individual's memory is to that individual. Without memory, an individual lives in an eternity of unconnected moments, totally dysfunctional and unlearned.
He cannot do even the simplest task, for every task requires some memory.......The masses of African Americans suffer from partial cultural amnesia because of a certain deliberate program that wiped the slates of our memories clean of true African events prior to the cotton fields of America."
Calvin R. Robinson, Redman Battle and Edward W. Robinson, Jr.
The Journey of the Songhai People
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals
Omowale Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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