“We
were trained to despise ourselves and all of Africa. We felt that Africans were
either primitive or semi-primitive, that they had no science and made no
significant contribution to civilization. We did not realize that we were
looking at a looted Africa, a shattered Africa. We did not realize that there
were two Africas; Africa before and after the holocausts.”
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Ivan Van Sertima, in an interview, when asked why there is
a reluctance in social acceptance of his theory of Africans being in the
Americas prior to Columbus.
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