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12-05-08, 04:59 PM
"We could not be Afrikans and slaves at the same time; we could not hold onto our Afrikan identity, our Afrikan selves, knowledge of our Afrikan culture, and be enslaved -- the subordinates of another people. It is only when that knowledge is removed, erased, degraded, stolen, taken and distorted that we lose our identity. It is then that an identity is placed upon us by another people and by external forces.
Therefore, a lack of self-knowledge is a lack of self-awareness. A lack of self-awareness is an insensitivity to the self.
But an insensitivity in the self is also an insensitivity to reality and to the outside world.
Without the sensitivity of the outside world and the self, we are left to blindly stumble from one point to another."
Amos N. Wilson
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order
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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