The problem was not necessarily with what you are thinking, but how it
comes across. I was just suggesting that you don't need to stir up
unnecessary controversy. It just confuses matters.
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:59:00PM -0300, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
>
> > I think the Lou's question had to do with the way you presented your
> > thought. Bringing up the Black Athena is an emotional subject. I'm
> > far from an expert in the field -- not even a novice, but I suspect
> > that most professional journals would be reluctant to give a fair
> > hearing to the Afrocentric perspective. I also suspect that some
> > Afrocentric writers overstate their position, offering easy targets to
> > those who oppose Afrocentrism.
>
> I don't know that I was really arguing against Black Athena. I am
> only glad to hear the Greeks learned much from their neighbouring
> civilizations. I was instead suggesting that any polyism has to
> come to terms with the Other 99 percent cultures that must by
> necessity be left out in any "uniformitarian" argument (that not just
> Europe but other parts of Afro-Eurasia had comparable levels of
> development and potential for modernization).
>
>
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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