In Feb of 1986 at the invitation of the Black student union at Los Angeles city college, Dr Ivan Van Sertima delivered perhaps one of the most brilliant lecture of his career. He essentially obliterated the Columbus myth and explain how Africa disintegrated under centuries of onslaught from without. Trained as a linguist, historian, writer and anthropologist all wrapped into one , Dr Van Sertima was uniquely qualified as a world renowned scholar who studied Africa and the African diaspora. His scholarship place him among the pantheon of the world most brilliant minds in his field . His most famous work is the international bestseller (They came before Columbus), and the journals of African civilization. He is a literary critic, a linguist, an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields.
As a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. He was honored for his work in this field by being asked by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. He has also been honored as an historian of world repute by being asked to join UNESCO’s International Commission for Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind. As a linguist, he has published essays on the dialect of the Sea Islands off the Georgia Coast. He is also the compiler of the Swahili Dictionary of Legal Terms, based on his field work in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1967. He also appeared before a Congressional Committee on July 7, 1987 to challenge the Columbus myth. This landmark presentation before Congress was illuminating and brilliantly presented in the name of all peoples of color across the world.
Inspired by the large student presence and the level of energy in the auditorium, Dr Van Sertima later met with the Black Student Union membership at the end of this historic and powerful lecture. He encouraged each of students to continue to study and learn of our ancestors contribution to world civilization, and to internalize the best of their attributes. . This video is dedicated to the LACC brothers and sisters of the (Black student Union circle 1984-86), and to the monumental contribution Dr Van Sertima made to the enlightenment of Humanity, and the legacy of this giant who made his transition on May 25th, (International African Liberation day) 2009.
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Wonderful!!!!!
I saw a subject on black history on a friends Facebook post and read through some comments and came across a video link, and as a 39 year old white man and my mind is blown with this info, fantastic history on the origin of the original man on this planet
Such is needed to be taught during "African Heritage Month" by he who knows the truths and is committed to edifying the diasporic African children – and others.
Caribbean= Carib + (s)ea(n
"CARIBE" is Spanish meaning "Savage", "Cannibal", "Human eater of human flesh…
The Taino/Arawak gave Columbus and the Spaniards the fiercest resistance.
He called them Caribs; that is savages or cannibals – using the root of the Spanish marker "CARIBE".
Carne = meat Spanish
Hence, "Caribbean" = land mass of [sea-faring] savages or cannibals.
Like with the Spanish word "Negro", the word "Caribbean" should become functionally obsolete.
West Indian is another misnomer – incorrect.
Travelling West to find India, Columbus was lost; seeing the American Indians [another misnomer], he incorrectly taught that he was in India – sailing from West .
Caribbean and West Indian are inadmissible names for especially Africans and East Indians in the Western Hemisphere.
What's the next practical step?
"Black" means beautiful, proud, genius…to especially the American Africans.
The 1960s said it all.
Today, the dictionaries still define it as evil, devilish, immoral, angry etc. – opposite to white, they say.
And "white" is defined as pure, innocent, just…
And people are not ethnic colours; they are human beings.
Humans as colours have been the entrepreneurial capitalists' bogey to divide, conquer and rule a people based on pigmentation – with white as "pure"/"superior" and "black" as "impure"/"inferior".
Can I get an "A'ah-men"?
I'll bestow it upon Dr. Ivan Van Sertima for a well-delivered lecture that speaks truths of Ancient African History.
Paz y Beldad!
The black mans success in America is the greatest threat to the white community.
Thank U For Teaching Black is Beautiful not animals
TIME TO REUNITY OUR PEOPLE!!!
WHEN THE ROCKS CRIED OUT -HORACE BUTLER ???********
this is who lawrence fishbourne based his character on in ( HIGHER LEARNING)
So proud im from Guyana and shares the same thoughts of this brilliant man!!!!!! Loves the way he orchestrates his lectures and most of all stays very pure and down to earth in his renditions!!!!! Kudos to one of the most brilliant Historians of our times!!!!! Love it!!!!
Enlightenment
Knowledge is Power Everlasting. Hold and behold those who gain quickly and early and not lately.
Get this book by Nicolas Leon it's in Spanish. Compendio de la historia general de México desde los tiempos prehistóricos hasta el año de 1900 it is free on Amazon for the Kindle app
So sad to see this was loaded over three years ago and only has 57,180 views. This and videos like it need to be shared.
Semi-conductor and fuel saving yeah we are something ,love my people
There were Moor Shem Israelite Empires in America that was fighting wars against the asian caucasians-red indians who copied their way of life. The Moors or Negroes are the first to inhabit and rule what is now called America before any of the Caucasian Tribes of the Edomites.
If you notice many of the red indians look like Ghengis Khan's Descendants who conquered Negro Asia China.
Every time I review this video, I always learn something new! Thank you Dr. Van Sertima and many others for doing the research and passing this knowledge on!
brilliant man. Thank u knowledge power