Many people are under the misconception that Europeans gave birth to modern civilization. Eurocentric history consistently ignores the achievements of people of color, while attributing the advancement of humankind to the ancient Greeks, the Romans, British and other European peoples. Aristotle, Isaac Newton and Leonardo Davinci are held up as pioneers of human progress, while the accomplishments of other peoples are ignored and suppressed.
An inconvenient fact that Europeans choose to ignore, is that civilization originated in Africa. The Nubian kingdom in Egypt can be traced back to before 2000 B.C, and archaeologists still marvel at their achievements to this day. The Nubians invented modern architecture and engineering, constructing the pyramids and pharaohs with their bare hands and minimal resources. The Nubians also developed the first astronomical devices for mapping the movements of stars and the planets. By all accounts the Nubians were among the most advanced civilizations in history, and their achievements paved the way for others to build on their success.
In addition, countless inventions that Eurocentric history claims as European, would never have been developed without the key contributions of people of color. For example, Algebra, the basis of all mathematics and physics, was invented by Arabs over a thousand years ago, laying the foundations for the scientific progress of the modern world. Many of the machines and appliances invented during the industrial revolution would not have been possible without the contributions of African Americans, such as Elijah McCoy, who invented the oil-drip cup for lubricating steam engines. It is also little understood that Nigerian Phillip Emeagwali invented the fastest computer in the world during the 1980s.
It’s tragic that Eurocentric history continues to indoctrinate us into forgetting these inventions and contributions, and that Europeans are unjustifiably held up as the architects of the modern world. Hopefully, with the implementation of Common Core, we will be able to update the curriculum to include these achievements, and correctly atribute the development of modern civilization to people of color.
Couple of comments:
Greatness usually is recognized regardless of any lies or propoganda thrown against it.
Everyone I know is familiar with the accomplishments of ancient Egypt and contributions of the assyrians and other groups in middle east during the dark ages.
Is this article saying that there are two groups of people: whites and people of color?
It is fair to say that Africa is receiving the credit it is due.
Is this article saying that there are two groups of people: whites and people of color?
Very good point to raise; It seems to be the political African/Caribbean Americans who like to create the 2 camps. Actual African, Asian, Arabic and Latin folks I have met and know sure do not see themselves as being brethren! If someone thinks the US and Europe has the worst racism, they clearly havent travelled much.
Africans, Arabs and Hispanics are all people of color, and along with Jews have all been oppressed throughout history by whites. They are also systematically ignored by biased Eurocentric history. This article sets the record straight about their achievements.
That’s the dumbest crap I’ve ever heard. You honestly sound like some anti-white racist.
Your article is completely wrong also. Seriously, go and learn some ancient history, learn more about : Sumerians, Mesopotamia, Phoenicians, and all the other ancient civilizations. The first ‘civilization’ is regarded to have come from the Middle East. Long before 2000BC also. Your history is so shoddy. I remember doing extensive research on ancient history years ago and it was completely different, all historical documentation, from wide sources the world over, including non European historical evidence, is completely different to what you suggest. Europe never says it was the first civilization either. And yes some discoveries genuinely were done by Europeans. Others were not. Nothing amazing about it. Go and learn about the foundations of languages, maths etc. The Greek language came from Semites. Greek language is the foundation of all other European languages. The middle east (primarily modern day Iraq) was the centre of technology and discovery and made strides, until the Greeks got hold and went berserk with all their mathematical discoveries. No legitmate Scholar be they Chinese, Arab, Jew, European, or otherwise, believe what you wrote. Only racist nutjobs do. You’re obsessed with framing things from this weird ‘white’ people vs the rest lens. You’re more an ideologue than you are a historian. Real historians don’t do that.
You are so right. This is nothing more than agenda driven crap! Thank you for calling this for what it is with dignity which it does not deserves.
You’ve systematically disabled your best brain cells.
How is Africa receiving the credit it deserves? Africa INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD, and Eurocentric history barely mentions that anyone other than Europeans contributed to technology, science, art and philosophy! How is that fair?? It’s total white supremacy!!
If Africa invented the modern world why are all african nation’s third world?
Apartheid – wholly African
Racism – africa had the first slaves and racism is more prominent in Asia than it ever was anywhere else in the world
Imperialism – has been going on since the beginning of time
Colonialism – all nations have colonized, that how places became populated.
Segregation – separating a group, done since the beginning of time, warrior classes were seperated, or segregated, from other classes routinely throughout history.
Slavery – invented in Africa, remember the Jews and the Egyptians, and continues there til this day but you say nothing about that because it doesn’t fit your narrow racist views
Islamaphobia – you ignorant sjw, this is a made up word, nobody fears a political system wrapped in a cult acting like a religion. They fear the followers who would kill them.
Are you really stupid enough to believe the spoon fed crap they tell you or have you the intelligence to learn things on your own.
I agree.
Why did the Africans in what was then called North Western Rhodesia (now Zambia) not know what a wheel was or how it worked as late as 1923?
Why, in all of sub-Saharan Africa was no written word ever developed?
Because all of non-Africa is behind Africa in the race to a shitty future!
That’s right. Beethoven found a how-to-compose instruction book inside a cave in the Congo…
I know! I mean, gfdit blacks invented the Super Soaker and probably a lot of other shit and all whites did was shit like electricity, the computer, the transistor, the internal combustion engine, chemistry, calculus, optics….and most of those were stolen from Garret Morgan.
Either way, NONE of this can compare to the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. He had dream- do you get that, he INVENTED dreaming! White people should bow down in awe bc they beez kangz, muffugga!
We invented ebonics. Brah brah
Computer – Charles Babbage, white, 1883
Electricity wasn’t invented, it was harnessed by Thales of Miletus 600BC white
Automobile – Karl Benz, white
Music – first known music originated in Syria
Read a book you moron
Mark Dean discernment the computer, he helped develop the color monitor and the gigahertz chip
Lewis Larimer invented the carbon filament light BBC, not electricity
C R Patterson was the first black automobile dealership owner, he discernment the automobile
Modern music dates back to Richard Strauss in 1888
Check your brain my privilege is right on time
He played the horn, clarinet, oboe, horn, and drums. Don’t be a moron your whole life. Educate yourself so you can see the truth and spread it. Regurgitating the same kool aid your drinking doesn’t do anyone any good.
Blues, soul, and gospel are not modern music.
Did they close down your elementary school today? Why are you online playing with the adults?
A little tip for you, tis better to let people think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
And you skipped right over the drums, way to deflect. You’ve lost the argument already, continuing this charade just further enforces your ignorance.
Mark Dean was born in 1957. The first general purpose computer (ENIAC) was started in 1943 and finished in 1946. Wow…
Electricity – Allesandro Volta made the first battery in 1800. Lewis Lattimer wasn’t even born until 1848. Sheesh.
Automobile – 1769 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. Frederick (CR) Patterson was born in 1871…102 years later.
Modern Music – All kinds of people.
CHECK YOUR SOURCES.
What difference does it make what color Jesus was?
what color Jesus is, there if fixed it for you, Christ.
look up Jesus in the dictionary, its all black and white.
Religion is indeed a form of enslavement,and it was generally exported by the white man to the black man. As they go, modern Christianity is a pretty forgiving master.
You’re an idiot, religion pre dates Christianity. Christianity was brought in by the white man, not religion. Give mommy her computer back and go back to playing with your dolls.
So, Africans did invent racism and slavery, thanks for clearing that up.
as a person of color (I am 1/2 tamale) I accept the fact the history is written by the victors. However, a quick google search of the word inventor followed by a particular heritage, will prove that all colored pictures were black and white in the past, were history is made.
yes.
Africans wuz kangz n sheeit.
Any cursory study of afrocentric history shows that not only did they do the things that the article says, they also had mind controlled flying pyramids…before the white man came and sicced The Violence on them. And stole everything.
The white man has been doing that ever since, explaining why everywhere there are Africans, we find The Violence.
Much is made of the assertion that Egyptians are arabs, which is a Caucasian offshoot, and that king tut’s DNA sequenced as descended from common ancestors with Europeans but not sub-Saharan Africans, and that to this day, Egyptians STILL aren’t sub-Saharan Africans, which is a better descriptor for “black,” but these things are just racism!
There is ONLY ONE RACE, the human race, except when we are crediting people of color with inventions or calling out white people for WHITE supremacy and WHITE privilege! In addition the jewish race is the only legitimate one that needs to be studied or have an ethnic homeland.
Moreover, the invention of algebra by the “father of Algebra,” a greek named Diophantus…that’s a black sounding name if there ever was one! He wuz probably a kang n sheeit and the history books pretended he was white! There’s very little to tie algebra to arabs; greeks, Persians, maybe some kurds, yes…any time you see this, be aware it’s eurocentrism in play and everyone was probably a black man! We can see the total connection to the modern day African with algebra; the traditions of the little black children sitting around reading, doing algebra, looking at the stars, inventing things- Africans are doing this sort of thing constantly while whites shuffle around with their pants down, engaging in drug trafficking and other criminal behavior. And the government covers it all up! It’s pretty clear just by looking at the modern descendants of the inventors of history to see who it was who ACTUALLY did everything and who didn’t.
Semite does not mean semi, it originated from the Hebrew word shem, and it means a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs
Is everyone who posts here an uneducated bigot
Don’t feel bad. Whitey also made them retarded. It’s all in the Hieroglyphics, fam.
Algebra was invented by a guy in what is now called Iran – and it would’ve taken him over 2 months to travel from where he did most of his studies (of Greek and Sanskrit math and science) to the capital of the Nubian (aka Kush) kingdom. He would not have considered himself the same color or race as the Nubians, and the nubians during his lifespan were predominantly Christians (not Arabs). What a bizarre re-write of history.
Did I say he communicated his knowledge of Algebra to the Nubians? The point is, Algebra was invented by Arabs, who are also people of color.
Technically speaking black is the absence of all color, so they technically aren’t people of color, they are people of no color.
Actually, in the physical realm, black is the presence of all colors. Only in the light spectrum is black the absence of color. I’m just saying.
Black is not the absence of all color. Both Psycho and BLM are stating falsehoods and half-truths. Human life came out of Africa, so the roots of modern civilization DID in fact originate in Africa. All later developments could not exist without that which came before it. The claims that black people have not contributed to scientific advancements is highly inaccurate. BLM, your specific claims are also needlessly inaccurate–a shame as they make it all the easier for people like pyscho to hold steadfast in ignorance–responding to ignorance with ignorance serves no one. You are both claiming partial truths in order to feel superior over large groups of people who are different from you.
Nothing in this world is actually seperate from anything else. We have divided the world into pieces with our words and our thoughts so as to “figure it out” and in the process forgot that these divisions are purely conceptual and of our own imagining. We are now baffled about how it all fits together, blind to the obvious truth that the world was never made up of smaller pieces to begin with. The pieces are actually nothing more then patterns in the flow of energy that appears as this universe–patterns evoked by our mind. This is true of inventions, and true of race.
All cultures, past and present, are a part of modern civilization; arguing as to which culture deserves the most credit is nothing more than the stroking of one’s ego.
To be clear, though, BLMs claims were exaggerations–not falsehoods–as the people he/she credited as inventors were in fact important contributors. I suspect this is an over-compensation in response to the delusional claims that Europeans alone created the modern world.
Slavery was invented in africa
Are you a bigot white person trying to make blacks look stupid?
Please check your microagressions and Euro- and Asia-centric world view. Everyone know algebra was invented in Subsaharan Africa, just like everything else of any value!
Arabs are also “people of colour”?
Give me a break. The Arabs are still, to this very day, enslaving black Africans, people they consider to be sub-human.
You’re in Neoliberal propaganda radical-left wishland blog. Entire site is a mirror of indexed echo chamber of neolib playskool IQ talk point articles for the ‘new’ statist & static radical progressive (and failed) Obama doctrine.
Emeagwali didn’t invent the super computer you dolt, he wrote a program utilizing the super computer and won a prize for that.
WRONG! He invented the fastest computer in the world! You can read about it on any non-biased Afrocentric website.
No, you’re wrong, he wrote a program utilizing multiple processors simultaneously. Look it up moron. You do know how to google right? Or does the truth not fit your narrow racist views?
Non-biased AND afro-centric – lol
non-biased = Afrocentic!
A tour-de-force of an article and probably no coincidence on the authors part with the much heralded release this week of Darryl Jenks new book: ‘Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm; Dreams under a Zamundan Baobob’. Many readers probably recognize his previous lightly acclaimed blockbuster Best sellers like ‘Mesozoic Memoirs of the Matriarchy’ and ‘Milk con Leche’.
This highly anticipated, legitmately certified work of non-fiction is going to blow the lid off the upcoming election and bring the Microprivleged, reverse race-card wielding, lunatic fringe Alt-Right train to a halt!
Nobody recognizes anything this guy has written because it’s at the bottom of the fiction lost. And nobody but you and a handful of other lunatic sjw’s are going to recognize anything he does in the future.
This article would have been better if it was honest and forthright. Instead it was filled with misnomer and untruths.
Nothing here is certified, legitimate, or anticipated, it’s just garbage. And that train is the Trump Train, and it’s about to run you over.
Let me know when YOU inherit a windfall from your fathers hair product empire and are able to parlay it into a career of authoring accredited literary justice works…..I’ll be waiting.
There’s a reason only one Man has been able to do it.
Anyway, you are clearly intrigued by the works of Mr. Jenks – so a good starting point and primer for you would likely be one of his earliest works: ‘Truth is Stranger than non-fiction; The darker the berry the sweeter the juice’. A stunning expose into the dark underworld of the hair-weave industry. Even the most priviliged of readers willing to take just a cursory glance will be astounded at the prescient, harbinger laced prophecy he graced us with so long ago.
I understand what the problem of PsychoUSMC is. He, she, or it still uses the outdated FACT-based approach to history or science, which is racist, sexist, and fascist since the reality is all of those. Instead, please use the new, social sciences approach emphasizing white guilt, thousands of years of minority oppression, etc.
Free speech has to be approved by an accredited, minority-inclusive committee!
Uh, yeah, that’s precisely, by the non-afrocentric definition, what hate speech is – free speech.
This self-pitying ignorance thing you’ve got going on here, makes you look like a retard.
#SAFESPACE!
All speech is free speech you idiot
Lets start yelling “FIRE!” in a packed movie theater! Is that what so-called unlimited free speech proponents want?
No, you’re a racist. You and your ilk are what’s inherently wrong with this country. You sit around and bitch and moan about your ancestors being treated badly, trying to blame all your shortcomings and bad decisions on ‘the white man’. Please shut up. You call yourselves ‘african-americans’ yet you’ve never been to Africa, nor have any of your family. If it’s so bad here go to Africa, but the problem is they don’t want your lazy ass either. They want people who want to work and better themselves, not people who want to sit around and bitch all day. Face it, blacks from Africa hate ‘african-americans’ because the loudest are spoiled brats who want to blame everyone else for their troubles.
You are both racist.
You are both extremely racist.
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Vote Trump.
i can see by the way the comments have been nesting that a person of color must have been writing the code. That’s not helping you prove anything to anyone…other than the obvious.
Save the nation — vote Trump.
Or – lets be more precise – “Aryan Nation”, or even KKK?
Ok, Egyptians were black, yeehah. And this means exactly what? As a sub culture in America, black culture is one of abject failure, whose only success is in blaming others for problems of their own making.
Ok, you built the pyramids. Great job, thank you. Now quit looting the walMart, stop having illegitimate children and get a job…
Are you people on drugs?
Only accredited ones, thankyou much.
Maybe they was wiggars?
[…] “Racism” is a relatively modern “invention”, probably the result of “scientific racism” where efforts were made to prove white superiority in order to justify Black slavery In antiquity, there were slaves, but slavery wasn’t concentrated in one group—almost anyone could be a slave and often slaves or the children of slaves became powerful. There was even a “Black Prince” who was a Medici a son of a black slave, who ruled Florence for a period of time. This is recounted in a book by Catherine Fletcher. https://accredited-times.com/2016/09/23/how-people-of-color-invented-the-modern-world/ […]
Niggas be trippin. Never fourgit dat da honourable Elijah Muhmamed revealed to da entire woyrld that da Whites man wuz an esperiment done gone wrong by the black wizard Jakub. Yu see Jakub wuz maken a slave race for da Blackfrican masta when he done created out his wizardry da white devil. Dem devils den escaped and we been living with dey hell ever ever since. Muhamed save us!
Like Jesus, Keith Lamont Scott was also black, and like him, he was also murdered by an Uncle Tom. His wife knew how they were crazy, she insisted and said “Keith, don’t do it!” (aka don’t turn the page of your philosophical treaty) but Keith was so absorbed by what he was reading, he couldn’t imagine that the cop could consider this as a provocation. This is a genocide.
Yellow Labs Matter too
There is another way of correctly thinking about this. Even if a person has 0.0001% of minority heritage, she is considered minority (unless she holds politically wrong opinions, is a terrorist, or businessperson). Consequently, Aristotle, Isaac Newton and Leonardo Da Vinci should be considered minorities! I am sure that if these talented individuals would have lived today, they would associate themselves with oppressed minorities and would be supporting H R Clinton for president!
Shiiiit nigga. Yay, Big Da Da Vinci, Nigga Newton, an Niggastotle: dey all be bruthas. :Don’t fougit dey is likely sistas deep undu covu. Ain’t nuthin kept down like a chocolate sista.
White supremacists have always tried to usurp African accomplishments.
We know nowadays that the pharaohs were black. There are Egyptian paintings to prove that.
But this historical fact is so upsetting to European supremacists that they actually used chemicals to lighten the skin of the pharoahs on the Egyptian wall paintings to make them look like modern day light skinned Arabs instead of Africans.
And simultaneously they used separate chemicals to darken the paintings of the light-skinned Arab slaves tied together by rope and carrying baskets on their backs while being whipped to make those slaves look like Africans, instead of light-skinned Arabs which they actually were.
Yay, nigga. Tell it like it be. Evrybody know dat dem white deyvils wuz slaves to da blackfrican masta
[…] we covered in one of our previous articles, Africans invented the modern world in Egypt. The ancient Egyptians were categorically, […]