Black Geniuses and Afrocentrism

Lenin, Michael wrote:

Assessment of Afrocentrism by the usual tests of historical accuracy is impeded by the bellicosity of Afrocentrists, which keeps pushing the issue back into the realm of partisanship. Thus, after claiming in The Destruction of Black Civilization (1974) that Africans invented, among other things, democracy, Chancellor Williams concludes:

Chancellor Williams wrote:

The white man is their Bitter Enemy. For this is not the ranting of wild-eyed militancy, but the calm and unmistakable verdict of several thousand years of documented history. [There must be] a mental revolution out of which Black America faces up to the stark reality that white America as a whole is its enemy.…
(310–322)

This rage runs on until the reader forgets that it is fueled by the factual claim that Africans invented democracy.
It is especially frustrating to pursue the issue though the minefield of charges of “racism,” detonated by almost
everything anyone says, but the resulting contradictions are inseparable from “multiculturalism” itself. We have already seen how Hacker classifies belief in mental differences between the races as “bigotry” (1992: 27), yet considers it “inherently racial” malice to ask black children to adapt to a “white” school setting in view of their distinctive “learning style” (171). Hacker goes on:

Hacker wrote:

black children should be given more opportunities for expressive talking, since black culture gives as much attention to style as to the substance of speech. Here, too, it has been found [no references given] that black youngsters apply themselves more readily to lessons involving actual people than to more abstract situations. Similarly, teachers should be tolerant of more casual approaches to syntax, time, and measurement.… [W]hite children tend to tell stories in a “linear” fashion, while black children are more apt to employ a “spiral” style.… Black children are also more attuned to their bodies and physical needs. So, some
educators argue, they should be allowed more leeway for moving around the classroom. (1992: 171–2)

Hacker suggests that blacks would be happier being educated away from whites, although he would surely denounce the idea that white children would be happier away from blacks who cannot speak grammatically, sit still, or keep to the point.

Lenin, Michael wrote:

As everyone knows but has become reluctant to say,44 the world as a whole would hardly have noticed had sub-Saharan Africa not existed or never been contacted by Europeans and Asians. No important discovery, invention, or world leader emerged from Africa. The art, music, architecture, literature, and political history of Eurasia owe virtually nothing to Africans. Trade with black Africa (as opposed to European exploitation of the mineral wealth of the African continent) has always been negligible. Afrocentrists point to or, as in Bernal (1991) exaggerate, the contributions of Egypt,45 but in any event Egyptians were not black (Baker 1974).
Blacks in the United States formed a small, rural population until well into the twentieth century, played no role in the construction of the major American cities, and had little contact with the nineteenth century immigrants who influenced the country’s character. The Civil War, although it revolved around blacks, was conducted by whites. Democracy and liberty, the basic ideals of American public life, are European (see Schlesinger 1992). The relatively small cadre of black entrepreneurs, scientists, and doctors has not appreciably influenced American business or medicine. Some inventions by blacks, such as the traffic light and railroad coupling, while significant, cannot compare in impact with the airplane or the telephone (although they now are often given more prominence in history texts); other widely cited attributions, such as Benjamin Banneker’s design of the District of Columbia, seem to be fiction (see Bedini 1972: 109).
While the patent office keeps no racial statistics, itseems likely that blacks hold disproportionately few patents. Of the formative works of American literature, only Huckleberry Finn is concerned significantly with race: the topic is scarcely mentioned by Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Whitman, Dreiser, James, Wharton, Sinclair, Hemingway, Salinger, Heller, or Roth. Few blacks have achieved eminence in areas other than sports, entertainment, the demand for rights, or writing about race itself.
Afrocentrists accuse conventional white authorities of inventing these facts. But white historians, who freely acknowledge the attainments of Asians, have no reason to lie about blacks. The truth is that, until recently, most whites gave blacks relatively little thought, and would not have cared enough about blacks one way or the other to invest energy in obscuring their achievements. Blacks simply have not mattered as much to the white world as Afrocentists implicitly claim they did—and perhaps wish they did, for having powerful enemies is considerably more flattering than being ignored. The limited interest in blacks shown by conventional historians is best explained by the belief that further interest was unwarranted.

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