An Open Letter to the Skeptic Humanist
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“While I generally enjoy the discussion, I sense a strong bias towards Africana Studies and an impoverished understanding of Dr. Martin Luther King's writings and views. I suggest bringing on established scholars of critical race theory, Intersectionality, and especially Africana scholars such as Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga to see how your seemingly uncritical and bias position on Egypt and interpretation of Dr. Martin Luther King holds up. It's important to note that Egypt is in Africa and Ancient (not modern Arab-dominated) Egypt and Nubia were classical civilizations of Africa, similar to how Greece and Rome were classical civilizations of Europe. The Ancient Egyptians were of African descent, and while it's true that modern racialization of Egyptians is inaccurate, there is evidence of diversity in skin tones during the Ancient period due to geography and genetics that certain point towards many of them having brown and dark skin due to proximity, location, and migration patterns from the interior of a continent. And this would also imply that the culture certainly didn’t come from the outside first, because of the barriers created by the desert and I’m not just stating this just read the literature as they wrote it it describes when they came into contact with outside invaders, and when they extended their trading borders beyond the shores of Africa. And yes, I’m aware it wasn’t caught Africa that time in fact, it wasn’t even called Egypt but I’ll leave that up to you to find out what they actually called them selves according to their own words. I encourage you to research this topic on your own and read all the conversations instead of cherry-picking information that aligns with your Western sensibilities. Lastly, I don't understnd your contentious relationship with Deepak Chopra and others like him just because his insights don’t work for you, but you have to admit he’s done a lot of good for a lot of people, and just because you don’t agree with his worldview, you don’t need to continue to assassinate his character and undermine him with other guest on your podcast. This seems beneath you, like I stated earlier, I enjoy most of your podcast, but when you get to Dr. King, African-American scholars, making undermining statements and going against your own practice of being a a fair scholar, I wonder what is it really that bothers you about African-Americans asserting their self determination and agency, Asians, such as Deepak Chopra Deepak, Chopra and others asserting their worldview and perspectives on how to navigate this world and lastly, why are you keep pulling up that same line that Martin Luther King said about content of character, without putting it within the context of that whole speech and which he did statedthat the US has issued a blank check where regards African-Americans among other criticisms he has of the ruling class? This certainly sounds like confirmation bias to me. Anyway,, I look forward to future podcast where you actually engage people outside of your echo chamber, and stop with the obvious leading questions, and strawman construction when your guest ideas doesn't align with your sometimes ethnocentric and (I dare say it) unconsciously racist perspective.”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
05/26/23
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