John Henrik Clarke Quotes
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
Clarke, John Henrik. African People in World History. Black Classic Press, 1993, p. 23.
To many, this quotation is shocking. TR was a presidential pioneer in race relations being the first President to ever invite a Black to dine at the White House. See {588996} for his views on Blacks. Although modern and liberal with respect to most minorities, TR had a major blind spot regarding Native Americans and was among the worst racists.
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.
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.
