John Henrik Clarke Quotes
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.
Clarke, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism. A&B Publishers Group, 1992, p. 17.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. He and his colleagues are more critical of the educators and politicians who control the history that reaches students than of the historians themselves though some of them are included in the criticism. Their major criticism is that African influence upon Minoan and other cultures that influenced Greece, Rome and Turkey are minimized or even extirpated in most curricula. Most American students see a straight line from Ancient Greece to the Western civilizations of today with no African influence or deviations.
Published 100 years after it was written. This is the first known written statement of what became a de facto policy regarding the American Indian.
There are a small body of historians who believe that the Ancient Egyptians were dark skinned Africans and that American and European archeologists and historians, together with their Arab counterparts and Arab workers, have either unwittingly or deliberately ignored or erased the evidence that Ancient Egyptians were Black. The majority of historians and archeologists believe that ancient Egypt was a multi-racial society with extensive intermarriage. The Nubians to the South (Sudan) were and are very dark-skinned, the Lybians in North Africa were much like the Arabs of toady, and there were Greeks and other Caucasians who were in Egypt which was one of the centers of world civilization that attracted people from all over. The Pharoh of Egypt, Ptolemy was a white Greek—one of the Generals of Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra was descended from him and more traditional Egyptians. The Black Egyptian notion seems to have emanated from a statement made by Black leader, Marcus Garvey {618973} .
He had done an analysis of American History textbooks and found that 9 pages about American Indians and their history before and after Europeans came to America. He and most other historians consider that to be inadequate.
Mary O’Grady is commenting on Venezuela as a perfect example of the failings of socialist policies in practice.
John Henrik Clarke was an American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
