third time's the charm Re: correctio

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

i think it definitely is worth mentioning, but i don't think her afrocentrism
really is instrumental in what she has to say here. i guess once an afrocentrist, always an afrocentrist but
i don't think that in this case it ruins her point. do you?

Mac> I shouldn't get into this, but it is worth pointing out that Sheila Walker is 
Mac> an Afrocentrist, with all that implies; i.e., at least at this stage of 
Mac> things, a field of study many of the claims of which are grossly ahistorical 
Mac> and patently preposterous.

Mac> She is apparently not terribly consistent either.  In addition to her 
Mac> comments on slavery as noted by Millison, she also has said, "We need to stop 
Mac> talking about slaves. I don't believe in slaves."  And, "The wealth of the 
Mac> Americas and the western world-all the Peri-Atlantic world, was created by 
Mac> Africans."

 



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