Saul -

Help me out on those lectures.  "If you have no history worth mentioning,
you have no humanity worth protecting."  May the revelations about the
achievements of the Black Race, and yes, the Human Race continue!!!

I have an impressionable 10 year old boy whom I'm raising in an environment
where his very essence, his SELF, is questioned and negated on a daily
basis.  I am not even talking about the larger society, but that micro
society called SCHOOL where our kids are being killed "... before they grow"
on a daily basis.   75% of our kids are failing Math basics in elementary
school; school boundaries are drawn up to further bunch up "non-achievers" ,
mainly immigrant kids, where there is no variation in what the kids bring to
class.   Signature programs are being removed from largely minority schools
areas, putting them in largely middle class school zones to discourage
middle-class flight!

Therefore,  every encouragement, every factual and documented achievement by
black people can only be a source of inspiration for our children and they
can aspire to better these great people of the human race.

Soffie


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                From:   Movement for restoration of democracy in Gambia [NY]
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                Sent:   Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:05 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: Black Inventors/Its a Black Thing

                The Author's name is: Professor Van Sertima of Rutgers
University. With a
                Dutch Name from Guyana, but African in the true sense of
being African, He
                grew up, studied and hated everything African in himself
until he discovered
                giants like Camara Lye, Theophille O'benga and Cheikh Anta
Diop who shocked
                the European world when they addressed UNESCO on Africa's
origin of
                civilization.
                If you need a collection of his tapes, call WBAI Radio
Archives @ [212]
                209-2900 and donate $$ for copies of his lecture series. If
you are a
                student, send me a personal email and I'll hook you up with
one or two. Very
                empowering tapes.
                The first word sent down to the Holy Prophet Muhammad [SWAT]
was IQRA meaning
                Read/Say. Knowledge is power. Each one teach one and each
one reach one.
                SAUL


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