“We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.” —Carter Woodson
While my wife has never attended medical school, she could nevertheless earn the prestigious Lasker Award for her ‘remedial’ cure to exorcise the cancer of White Supremacy. Simply put, her remedy for American racism starts with an organ transplant replacing ‘His-story’ with veritable Black History.
‘Doctor’ Holt’s cure will save White American bigots from an embarrassing confrontation with St. Peter and restore Africans and African Americans to their rightful place as the progenitors of civilization, science, math, and, appropriately, medicine.
The designated surgeon would not necessarily have to replace the diseased organ.
They need only carve out a space near the heart cavity for ‘bona fide encamped’ (found that procedure on the internet) and a few dozen of my thousand-plus columns detailing our sojourn since God gave my great, great, great (times 10) Uncle Adam the key to the garden.
I only passed basic CPR training, but even I know ‘truth’ can regenerate organs like the human liver, and political excuses.
That said, I have no doubt Dr. Holt’s ‘cure’ for what ails America would be a pill too thick for most—White, Black, and in between– to swallow.
However, unless Nyame (God) takes out His/Her frustration again and cleanses the earth of the sinfully wicked, racist roaches and pulpit pimps (those who view themselves more as insurance salesmen than spiritual shepherds), I see no other recourse than an operation to save the dying patient.
It will be an expensive and lengthy operation, and I don’t think it’ll be covered by ObamaCare, even if the insurance policy is based on a subsidized family plan.
But the alternative is to continue down this self-destructive path that will end with another uncivil war or an implosion rivaling Noah’s flood.
And since I’m using a biblical reference, consider Dr. Holt a 21st-century version of the prophet Amos (I guess that would make me Andy, for those old enough to recognize that reference).
As abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Brown posited a decade before the redundantly titled civil war, only a blood transfusion will save the patient—in this case, America.
And that’s assuming the surgeon understands we’re not just discussing replacing cancerous growths with Black trivia, but also by a bedside chat explaining why our children are brainwashed with revisionist ‘His-story’ and propaganda disguised as facts.
For this operation to be successful, it will also be necessary for the physician to explain where the growth came from and how it is used to facilitate an agenda rooted in international apartheid.
To a degree, Dr. Holt’s diagnosis is correct, and so is her remedy. But it ‘ain’t gonna ‘happen. For two reasons:
The most obvious is it does not benefit the patient to be cured.
And that’s not because the truth will hurt the fragile psyche of little Charlie and Becky, as some parents and politicians are suggesting.
Only a fool buys into that disingenuous argument posited by those who decry the introduction of Critical Race Theory (CRT) would have.
The truth is that 99% of those who run that scam can’t tell you what CRT is. And then they really expose their ignorance—make that stupidity—by acknowledging it is a graduate-level college thesis and is not being taught in any government school in the country!
Thus, the CRT is nothing more than a racist code template, a rallying cry to avoid the truth and keep the masses in ignorance and the safety of their ivory towers.
A more practical argument would center around the limited time for high school-level history classes.
Let’s assume 680 hours are set aside for high school history classes. Theoretically, you can spend an entire school year on the events surrounding America’s pregnancy and birth, with the only reference to our ancestors being the heroic (albeit myopic) act of Crispus Attucks.
Maybe, just maybe, you find a few minutes to discuss how the new government declared African captives to be subhuman, chattel, and ordained in the bible to be slaves.
Because of social media, I assume some Black child from a righteous home may disrupt the established lie and note that our ancestors were not first brought to these shores in 1619 but a century earlier by the Spanish on the Carolina coast.
But don’t expect a challenge since several billion dollars have been invested in current history books, even though they are full of lies and propaganda.
Before you get caught up in that argument, ask yourself why a family in Superior, Sheboygan, or Solon Springs, Wisconsin, would be interested in correcting the lies?
And don’t use the equity argument because, according to the 2020 census, African Americans comprise less than eight percent of the state’s population.
How important is it for 92% to know about the Underground Railroad, much less Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Lines?
How would they react to replacing a half-semester study about the Louisiana Purchase or the westward expansion (also known as ‘Manifest Destiny’) with Abe Lincoln’s devious plan to remove emancipated Africans (we were not citizens until the 14th amendment) to a new colony in South America.
If I had my druthers, I would use a half-semester analyzing and dissecting Frederick Douglass’ ‘What Does Your 4th of July Mean to the American Slave’ speech.
Then again, how can you justify allocating time to a revamped history course when Milwaukee hosts the lowest Black reading proficiency rates in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Should you instead reallocate time for teaching our children how to read?
Even if you make a moral argument and explain how most Americans are stuck on stupid and would benefit from looking at History through the eyes of the oppressed, you can’t escape the reality that so-called public (actually government) education is about indoctrination and building a workforce, not about knowledge and empowerment.
From that perspective, how important is it to study John Brown’s insurrection or debate whether Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were rapists?
In fact, therein lies another reason why the authorities won’t expand their his-story, as it would validate our case for reparations, which the government has previously given to Asians and Native Americans, but denied us.
The second reason may be open for debate, but it is nonetheless critically important.
What is Black History, and whose interpretation should be used in America’s classrooms?
For that matter, isn’t all History derived from Black History, since we are the first people and everything evolved from us?
Given only a limited amount of time allocated for history lessons, whose Black History should be maximized? The sanitized version offered by the ‘Negrocracy’ who want to go “along to get along?” Or the radical truth, starting not with our plowing the fields as the overseer raped our women, but with the creation and population of planet earth?
And on that point, Dr. Holt and I differ. My studies reveal a different gestation that predates the bible and upsets much of what we consider ‘human history.’ In fact, change that to ‘hue-man’ History.)
As a student of Kemetic antiquity, I would offer for discussion and debate a different story on creation and the roots of monotheism.
I would note that before our embrace of one God under Anhtenatan in Kemet, our ancestors scribed of a virgin birth, trinity, and Jesus figure. It also included the ’42 negative confessions,’ 10 of which mirrored what was scribed on Moses’s tablet.
That was over 2,500 years before the biblical events. And 640,000 years after the discovery of the first human being—Lucy, in Northern Africa.
We can further enunciate a probable alternative history that includes the hypotheses by Sigmund Freud in his controversial 1939 book, ‘Der Mann Moses und die monotheistic Religion’ (Moses and Monotheism).
In that controversial and generally refuted book, the founder of psychoanalysis posited that Moses was not a Jew as described in the Old Testament, but instead was a Kemetic prince who advanced a religion based on the worship of one God, Aten I (originally the ‘sun god’).
Accordingly, Moses’s followers merged with another group also worshiping a single god named Yahweh.
This interpretation is controversial, but should it at least be discussed and dissected? The point is we have limited ourselves by following one script when there are numerous stories worthy of discussion. It just goes to show you how history is determined by the powerful and the survivors.
I could introduce many historical facts not accepted by most African Americans that would put accepted reality to the test.
Moreover, this scenario is not just about ‘His-story,’ a paradigm that excludes our contributions and their rationale for apartheid, but also how we feel about ourselves.
Who looks back at us through the mirror.
If the image looking back at you is a nigger (n-word), there is little hope since much of our history reveals how we desperately sought to look, act and be like the people who kept us in slavery.
As most know, I detest the denigrating noun/adjective (the ’N-word’), not only because it is disrespectful to our ancestors, but more so because it represents a self-fulfilling prophecy. It keeps us chained to a ‘His-story’ we supposedly want to change.
Maybe, a revamped history would empower us with a sense of who and what we really are while simultaneously unlocking the chains of propaganda from the minds of Whites.
America can never become the democratic mecca envisioned three centuries ago until we face the cancer that erodes its body.
Moreover, we will continue to stand in quicksand until we step onto the platform of truth and justice. Ours is a cultural foundation that is envied and replicated the world over. There has to be a reason why we are the first, the chosen, and the architects of ‘hue-mankind.’
Dr. Holt and I may differ on what constitutes Black History, but we agree that His story is a deceptive lie that has kept America locked to its evil past.
As James Baldwin once posited,
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Hotep.
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