Ray Muhammad: By definiton, the "black" man and the "white" man are mythological creatures of opposites and since a myth is a belief in something that cannot be proven, there is no such thing as a "black" man and a" white" man. Mankind is not divided into "races",

Ray Muhammad:

By definiton, the "black" man and the "white" man are mythological creatures of opposites and since a myth is a belief in something that cannot be proven, there is no such thing as a "black" man and a" white" man. Mankind is not divided into "races", a 17th Century invention and psychological strategy accompanying the rise of European hegemony in the world but exist on a national or tribal social level. It is distressing when scholars who should have the highest regard for the power of words on the mind should be brainwashed into embracing and institutionalizing the words black and white to define human beings and in the process dismissing the essence of the human being, his mind and soul and perpetuating the psychology of the architects of American Institutional Racism(A.I.R.).

"One of the most famous statements Lumumba ever made..."

"One of the most famous statements Lumumba ever made, as he spoke to the opening session of the Pan-African Congress in August 1960, explained that "no matter what standards of living the colonized enjoy," the anti-colonial struggle was "to restore the dignity of…people." He added, "Our aim is to restore Africa's cultural, philosophical, ethical, and social values, and to safeguard our resources."

Webster and Scott speak in a similar powerful voice, calling for Native peoples "to maintain who we are and remain distinct in our tribal nations."

Lumumba described the effort to undo colonialism—what Webster and Scott refer to as "dedication to success in our own tribal institutions"—saying, "We…have to review everything we had done, and think everything through again by ourselves…. We knew that we would have to…revise the methods that had been forced upon us, and above all to rediscover our most intimate selves and rid ourselves of mental attitudes and complexes and habits that colonization had trapped us in for centuries."

Read more athttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/06/ending-mental-attitudes-colonization

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DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES: RESEARCH AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES byLinda Tuhiwai Smith