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In the Fall of 1991 I was asked to write a review-article about Martin
Bernal's Black Athena and its relation to the Afroentrist movement.
The assignment literally changed my life. Once I began to work on the
article I realized that here was a subject which needed all the
attention, and more, that I could muster. Although I was completely
unaware of it, there was in existence a whole literature that denied
that the ancient Greeks were the inventors of democracy, philosophy,
and science. There were books in circulation that claimed that Socrates
and Cleopatra were of African descent, and that Greek philosophy had
actually been stolen from Egypt. Nor only were these books being read
and widely distributed; some of these ideas were being taught in
schools and even in universities. I soon discovered that one of the
universities where students were being taught these strange stories
about Greece was my own alma mater, Wellesley College. -
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Dr. Lefkowitz
once recounted on the WSJ's editorial page that when she questioned
Leonard Jefferies (perhaps the foremost practitioner of this
voodoo version of history) about the accuracy of what he was saying,
the students in attendance booed and nearly attacked her.
Graduates of schools where these disciplines are taught may be
schooled, but are they educated in any useful way?
Listening to Obama-Rama make gaffe after gaffe while reciting what he
understands to be American history is a case in point. He's the
product of Ivy League schooling, where Western Civilization is no longer taught, but the study obscure Ethiopian poets is. Obama's Red Roots
were further nurtured by the likes of William Ayers and Bernardine
Dohrn, and other hard left America haters named Wright, Pfleger, and
Michelle.
I once entertained the notion that Obama might be an actual Manchurian
Candidate, but I'm now inclined to agree with the Occam's Razor-compatible theory advanced by Limbaugh, that he is just another Tammany
Hall-like Bozo, selected by Democrats who desperately want a return to
power, and see Obama as the perfect, controllable tool. Jefferson Smith, if you will, but without the patriotism or morals. Or education.
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