@ReasonableMatic you have consistently been spot on
Appreciate it
Ignoring Abrahamic books helps to remove systemically imposed colonial lenses and raises the ability to see clearly what’s happening and will happen.
It stops desensitization to disguised oppressive systems presented through Abrahamic faiths, that enforce hierarchies where we will always be at the bottom of because of systematic anti-Blackness in them spread globally.
Focusing on
academic literature about history, anthropology and linguistics
starting at pre-colonial African history instead, teaches us to recognize a whole array of tactics and structures.
Designed and imposed to derail and oppress us, that are active today.
It allows those that read them to see and recognize modern takes on old tactics early on as they get recreated, because they were and
still are effective - since we
still fall for them en masse.
It teaches us about our behavior throughout history,
where we shined and where we made mistakes we should learn from.
The saying rings true for the whole African Diaspora:
“Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it”
None of us are exempt from this being the case,
anyone saying otherwise is delusional.
Anti-Blackness is designed to keep ALL of us distracted.
While White Supremacy will always create structures to keep us divided, with their most effective weapons being those structures in BlackFace.
They understood that very well hundreds of years ago and still understand that now.
Our brightest Ancestors also knew this,
which is why they were Pan African. As they understood what White Supremacy was and how it operates in detail.
And therefore also understood that Pan Africanism was a crucial component to fight White Supremacy effectively.