The author gives pictures of examples of negroid statues in pre-Columbian America, often with black people in comparison. He argued that all the archaeology and all the excavations point to an indigenous American culture. Photo: These Sioux Indians in the Black Hills area of Custer, S.D. In the library of a Princeton professor, he came across three volumes, "Africa and the Discovery of America," written by a Harvard Linquist, Leo Weiner, and published more than 50 years ago. Below are pictures of various Olmec sculptures. The psyche of blacks is raised. Sidenote: I enjoyed the story of Mali in Chapter 3. He said, "You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were 'discovered'."[14]. (AP Photo). This video is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima who made is transition on May 25th, 2009. Occasionally, Ive been asked by my colleagues some form of the question, Where are you from?, No, like where is your family from? The accounts of people such as Christopher Columbus himself, Spanish travelers, and Herodotus, though, are harder to debate. Im not sure how legal that is, but I say thanks. No, since they are only telling just-so stories. ". Rhythm, flow, enunciation of some words could be improved upon, but again this seemed to be a random volunteer. Van Sertima focuses specifically on the Olmec colossal heads, saying that the characteristics of the stone faces are "indisputably" African, while Mesoamerican experts such as Richard Diehl disregards this claim, as the statues are stylized and generally accepted as representing native Mesoamericans. Van Sertimas case in They Came Before Columbus is the best known, certainly not the only one. Required fields are marked *. I can only assume that Van Sertima is largely responsible for this line of thinking which was largely debunked then and is especially debunked today . In addition, there are stories of Egyptian mariners. The g-spot has been referred to as the female prostate (Puppo, 2014) and, 2550 words Steatopygia is an extreme accumulatation of large amounts of fat on the buttocks, and is also known as obesity in the coccyx (Wallner, 2400 words In the year 2000, psychologist Erik Turkheimer proposed three laws of behavioral genetics (LoBG hereafter): First Law. Alas, none exist. Did the Spanish also assay the spears of West Africa to know what ratio of gold, silver and copper alloys were found in the African spears? Barbour, the first African-American to earn a. "The problem was not that the research hadn't been done," he says, "but that no one had examined the available documents and material and pulled from together.". However, Columbus actually sent back on a mail boat to Spain, samples of these gold-tipped metal spears. Isnt it weird how Van Sertima and other Afrocentrists use the same type of tactics as pseudoscientists (i.e., ad hoc hypothesizing)? Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. [3][n 1], Van Sertima was born in Kitty Village, near Georgetown, in what was then the colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana); he retained his British citizenship throughout his life. All parties remained peaceful, and Columbus specifically instructed his crews not to take advantage of the Indians. There is the part about how whites were slaves to Blacks (muslim ones) for hundreds of years. We were taken from Africa, but who were we before slavery? Listen to GHOGH with Jamarlin Martin | Episode 74: Jamarlin Martin Jamarlin returns for a new season of the GHOGH podcast to discuss Bitcoin, bubbles, and Biden. Later forced immigrations by Africans to the New World as slaves, and the subsequent development of African-American culture, played a far greater role in shaping the Americas of the 20th century. Bro, are you serious now?Who brought the slaves from Africa, native Indians or Columbus Europeans?When did slave trade start that Red-Indians became yall history?So in a bid to stay off Africans yall tracing your ancestry to Indians?Mehn thats something else. There is also a vast body of knowledge to be uncovered about Africa and America. pic.twitter.com/sKrVa4a2JQ, I figured you say something like that.Are these people mixed with "native American" or are they just Black indigenous indians? "While I was doing it," he recalls, "I asked myself why was I studying African writers in English.Why didn't I know an African language? Accidental stylazation could not account for the individuality and racial particulars of these heads. In 1977, Van Sertima wrote "They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America," a controversial book now in its 21st printing. Keep reading with unlimited digital access. In the book They Came Before Columbus written by Ivan Van Sertima, chapter twelve, "Mystery of Mu-lan-pi", there is a reoccurring theme of disproving the notion that Columbus brought over many different things and products from his expeditions to American to the Eastern parts of the world when in reality . The spears, he claimed, were identical to weapons from African Guinea. The Olmec associated volcanic rocks and the like with symbolic importance, and so, they carved their sculptures out of them due to this. This view, of course, is seen as highly fringe in the field of anthropology. Others hold true to the story of the American slave trade in which enslaved Africans were brought to Americas shores to provide free labor to build the country and grow the economy. Moreover, the slave narratives all make it very clear that the enslaved population in the Americas came from Africa so much so that in Cuba some enslaved persons committed suicide, in hope that their spirit would return to Africa. Review of They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Their Eyes were upon me: Learning of Nephilim, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, Review of the Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Thoughts on the Undoing Project by Michael Lewis-Part 2, Follow Gazing off into Space on WordPress.com. Mansa Musa never sailed to America. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Weiant wrote: "Van Sertima's work is a summary of six or seven years of meticulous research based upon archaeology, egyptology, African history, oceanography, astronomy, botany, rare Arabic and Chinese manuscripts, the letters and journals of early American explorers, and the observations of physical anthropologists. As one who has been immersed in Mexican archaeology for some forty years, and who participated in the excavation of the first giant heads, I must confess, I am thoroughly convinced of the soundness of Van Sertima's conclusions. The Book Review received about 70 letters, the most reader reaction it's had on an issue since the reviewer attacked Robert Frost several yeas ago. Black settlements developed at the end points of major currents from Africa, he contended. Hidden Colors also makes the argument that Africans were in the Americas before Columbus. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The journal required that reprints must include the entire article and would have had to include the original authors' response (written but not published) to his response. Even Van Sertima himself admits that the people who were trading these spears could be dark bronze people from South America as opposed to African. I found an audio version of this book on YouTube. (LogOut/ They are familiar with American history, right? When the metallurgists in Spain assayed these spears, they found they were identical, not similar, but were identical in their ratio of gold, silver and copper alloys as spears then being forged in African Guinea. Van Sertima uses written, archaeological, and cultural evidence to support his thesis. The slave ship narrative is a myth. Van Sertima makes this claim at the very beginning of the video below. Weiant, who had a PhD in archaeology, also wrote numerous articles on extrasensory perception and was an active member of the. If you lift that shadow, you help repair that damage. In They Came Before Columbus, Van Sertima argues that Egyptian journey to the Americas happened during the rule of the 25th dynasty, which was the Kushite dynasty that ruled Egypt. Recently, I've been handed a book called "They Came before Columbus" by Ivan Sertima, which asserts that Africans had discovered and traded with the native people of the Americas long before Columbus arrived. They never did import Africans as slaves because slave ships aren't real. Additionally, they wrote that Van Sertima "diminishe[d] the real achievements of Native American culture" by his claims of African origin for them. "People have different definitions of realism," he added, pointing out stylistic conventions and showing slides that depicted convincingly similar but totally unrelated rattlesnake scale designs from the early American city of Teotihuacan and decorations on a Louis XVI commode. Of course I was taken aback by the bold claim. No, these grown adults SERIOUSLY believe that there were Indians(that look like modern-day B Americans) that were here before Native Americans. They also claim slave ships are a myth. [15], A chapter is also devoted to the presence of bottle gourds originally from Africa found in ancient Mesoamerican graves. Several words are also similar with similar meanings such as nama-tigi or ama-tigi from the Bambara of the Mandingos and aman-teca from the Nahuatl of Mexico, both of which refer to master or chief or headman. Van Sertima presents an argument for the transformation of the word banana with African origins. Also, some other West African countries had been known to both fish by boat and sail. I don't buy it. Both the Mandingo people of Africa and the Quetzalcoatl people of the Americas undergo a ritual of self-flagellating dances (dances of penance and chastisement) in which the dancers may wrap themselves in thorns or lash themselves with thorns. What meaning do these ideas have for 20th-century people? So total is the Euro-Americans onslaught on black people that . Van Sertima answers that Africans were indeed sailors, that a division of Negro sea captains and mariners is reported to have been in the Egyptian navy of the 19th dynasty and the East Africans sailed between their countries and China in the 13th century. All human behavioral traits are, 4150 words Introduction It is claimed that genes (DNA sequences) have a special, privileged role in the development of all traits. So, Van Sertima had his conclusion in mind first, and looked for evidence for itmeaning he was telling just-so stories. In doing so, he also attempts to combat the perceived inferiority of black Africans due to their perceived lack of technological or cultural advancements prior to colonialism in Africa. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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