Below are few clips from the documentary, all in trashing out the essential argument, the false identity of Africans, BLACKNESS.
“The classification of people into different colours is an invention… When I was in Africa,
I did not have the conception of people on the basis of colours. We thought we were humans;
that we are all humans…,” GRACE FOLLY, Dr. in International Politics & Diplomacy, University of Padova, Italy.
“We should have long refused to be catalogued as Blacks. If they see an Arabic person, they call him an Arab; if he is an Indian, they call him an Indian. It is only an African that somebody deliberately calls the coloured person. Name and surname is what should be used to call a person…,” JEAN-PAUL POUGALA, Professor of Sociology & Geopolitics, School of Diplomacy – Geneva, Switzerland.
“Somewhere in the mind of the westerners, terms like Negros or people of colour denote something negative. When people say Negro or black, it tends to mean a person who has just left savagery. …Africa was not in darkness; Africa was covered up with darkness…,” FRANCO MORETI, Director of Nigrizia, A Missionary Magazine – Verona Italy.
“We have to begin to modify these terminologies because to some people, they have a very strong impact. …In Africa, there were well-organised and orderly societies, but with black, all these were covered up. … Through some terminologies, the identity and what has been the history of a people was denied…,” CÉCILE KYENGE KASHETU, Medical doctor and politician, Emilia Romania, Italy.
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Well there are some lies in our society that needs correction, but has been accepted as normal.
look at this; an EUROPEAN IS SAID TO BE CALLED WHITE. IF AN EUROPEAN IS CALLED WHITE, THEN, WHAT IS THE REAL COLOUR OF SNOW? DOES IT MEAN THAT THE COLOUR OF AN EUROPEAN IS THE SAME AS THAT OF SNOW? LIES.
AFRICANS ARE CALLED BLACKS, THAT IS OK. IF AFRICANS ARE BLACK, THEN WHAT IS THE COLOUR OF BITUMEN?
YOU SEE, THE TRUTH IS THERE IS NO NEED TO DWELL ON THE LIES THAT MANY WHO WENT AHEAD ONCE MMADE.
WE ARE IN A NEW ERA, AND THIS CALLS NEW MINDSET, NEW BELIEFS. AS AFRICANS, THE TIME HAS COME FOR US TO FOCUS ON THE FUTURE, NOT THE PAST.
WHATEVER THE WORD BLACK MAY MEAN IS NOT SOMETHING WE NEED TO DWELL ON. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE FUTURE. SO, LETS LEAVE THE CRITICS ALONE AND FOCUS ON ESSENTIALS. WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS, AND SOMEONES OPINION ABOUT YOU NEED NOT TO BE YOUR OPINION, CAUSE AS PEOPLE WE OFTEN MAKE MISTAKES.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
GOD BLESS YOU.
Thanks for the comment, Dr. Samuel.
I think it’s good to refuse an idea if it’s not convincing to us. And talking about the past, I don’t know how the future can be of any significant if we do not interpret it in relation to the past. Also because I think it is extremely important, for us Africans, that we look back to our past, because there lies the recipe for our future.
Thanks Ewanfoh for his comment, it is true that we African should not forget our past, in doing so, we will be able to face the reality today and the future.