Thank you for a great conversation. Professor French's overview of his book and research that he poured into it is so illuminating and powerful. It really made me think about the linkages between the African/African diaspora descendants.
A history of modernity that puts Africa at Center Stage. Such a book should be required reading for all US and European history classes for grades 8 and above. meanwhile in four months, this video has only had 2,332 views. So other than certificated (k-12 Social Studies (MN) and Ed.Specialist (mild to moderate and moderate to severe disabilities) outliers like moi!, VernonNickersonSchoolcoach, less than the 2,700 subscribers to “center for Brooklyn History have viewed this conversation. Are we overwhelmed and exhausted by Covid and simply cowering constant consumers of mass media and social media choosing to wait quietly for Putin to use his nuclear codes? If the USA was ever Paradise, is Paradise Lost, irrevocably?
Ivan Van Sertima wrote about the possibility of Mansa Musa actually making it to the New World in his book "They Came Before Columbus". The native people tell stories of meeting a ship filled with black people, wearing white clothing. Also, he points out that the tips of their spears contained gold which was identical in chemical composition to that of people in West Africa. Further research in modern times proves that Africans reached the New World hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago. French is not a historian so perhaps this is why he did not include these facts in his book.
His assertion that the spears were tested and found to be the same alloy ratio of West African has no source. Google ‘problems with they came before Columbus’ However, that doesn’t mean they didn’t.
@blood honey I suppose the people who told you Christopher Columbus discovered America and the people that told you North America was sparsely populated at the time of the 13 colonies and westward expansion.
Thank you for a great conversation. Professor French's overview of his book and research that he poured into it is so illuminating and powerful. It really made me think about the linkages between the African/African diaspora descendants.
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A history of modernity that puts Africa at Center Stage. Such a book should be required reading for all US and European history classes for grades 8 and above. meanwhile in four months, this video has only had 2,332 views. So other than certificated (k-12 Social Studies (MN) and Ed.Specialist (mild to moderate and moderate to severe disabilities) outliers like moi!, VernonNickersonSchoolcoach, less than the 2,700 subscribers to “center for Brooklyn History have viewed this conversation. Are we overwhelmed and exhausted by Covid and simply cowering constant consumers of mass media and social media choosing to wait quietly for Putin to use his nuclear codes? If the USA was ever Paradise, is Paradise Lost, irrevocably?
Ivan Van Sertima wrote about the possibility of Mansa Musa actually making it to the New World in his book "They Came Before Columbus". The native people tell stories of meeting a ship filled with black people, wearing white clothing. Also, he points out that the tips of their spears contained gold which was identical in chemical composition to that of people in West Africa. Further research in modern times proves that Africans reached the New World hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago. French is not a historian so perhaps this is why he did not include these facts in his book.
His assertion that the spears were tested and found to be the same alloy ratio of West African has no
source.
Google ‘problems with they came before Columbus’
However, that doesn’t mean they didn’t.
Who hid it ?
@blood honey I suppose the people who told you Christopher Columbus discovered America and the people that told you North America was sparsely populated at the time of the 13 colonies and westward expansion.
Somebody blew up America- by Amari Baraka answers your question.
How was it hidden?
Hateful colonials.