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| excerpts from the book... The Destruction of Black Civilization Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams |
Dedication
To the Black youth of the Nineteen Sixties for Beginning the Second Great
Emancipation - the Liberation of Our Minds and thus Changing the Course of History.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
...the ancient Ethiopian Empire, a federation of autonomous and semi-autonomous
kingdoms. The study began here, importantly, because this was the heartland of the
African race where evidence of that first black civilization is still to be found despite
all centuries of efforts to destroy it.
...A continent-wide study of the tranditional customary laws of the Blacks, for
example, enabled us to learn, for the first time, that a single constitutional system
prevailed throughout all Black Africa, just as though the whole race, regardless of the
countless patterns, lived under a single government. A similar continent-wide study of
African social and economic systems through the milleniums reveal the same overall
pattern of unity and sameness of all fundamental institutions.
CHAPTER II
Ethiopia's Oldest Daughter: Egypt
The Great Deception
Egypt, as pointed out before, was the North-Eastern region of ancient Ethiopia.
...This northern sector of the Ethiopian Empire had been the object of world attention
from the earliest times.
...Africans in the Nile delta and valley, the areas with the richest soil in the Empire.
The great agricultural system that was developed along the overflowing Nile was one
fo the sources of the wealth to support the great cultural advances...
...highly advanced African civilization in Upper Egypt and southwards to the "Land of
the Gods."
...the Chief or "King" was the chief representative *"The Christ"* of the people
before God and man, and at once the personfications of the people's dignity and the
instrument for carrying out their will.
...the African constitutional system of real self-government by the people through their
representatives, the Council of Elders. ...the Chief Elder, or Chief, was also the Chief
Priest...
There was, therefore, a record left written in stone, a record that tells the story of
Blacks who were building a highly developed civilization in Southern Africa during the
same ancient period their brothers were amazing the world by there advances in
Northern Ethiopia (Egypt) and its southern region (Sudan).
The Black World at the Crossroads
...For people with little or no money, barter and exchange are the first steps toward
economic salvaton, the bases for capital formation. Increased food production
should be seen as for both wealth and health. ...
...The foundation for everything we do or wish to do is economic - a word that
simply means wealth enough to be really independent and having the means to do
what must be done.
The only hope for the kind of racial unity that will really liberate the Blacks in America
and command the respect of the world will be a new kind of mass organization on a
scale with an action program never before attempted. This will require a new kind of
leadership, a leadership with the single purpose of helping the masses up towards a
better life.
* emphasis mine.
To the Black youth of the Nineteen Sixties for Beginning the Second Great
Emancipation - the Liberation of Our Minds and thus Changing the Course of History.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
...the ancient Ethiopian Empire, a federation of autonomous and semi-autonomous
kingdoms. The study began here, importantly, because this was the heartland of the
African race where evidence of that first black civilization is still to be found despite
all centuries of efforts to destroy it.
...A continent-wide study of the tranditional customary laws of the Blacks, for
example, enabled us to learn, for the first time, that a single constitutional system
prevailed throughout all Black Africa, just as though the whole race, regardless of the
countless patterns, lived under a single government. A similar continent-wide study of
African social and economic systems through the milleniums reveal the same overall
pattern of unity and sameness of all fundamental institutions.
CHAPTER II
Ethiopia's Oldest Daughter: Egypt
The Great Deception
Egypt, as pointed out before, was the North-Eastern region of ancient Ethiopia.
...This northern sector of the Ethiopian Empire had been the object of world attention
from the earliest times.
...Africans in the Nile delta and valley, the areas with the richest soil in the Empire.
The great agricultural system that was developed along the overflowing Nile was one
fo the sources of the wealth to support the great cultural advances...
...highly advanced African civilization in Upper Egypt and southwards to the "Land of
the Gods."
...the Chief or "King" was the chief representative *"The Christ"* of the people
before God and man, and at once the personfications of the people's dignity and the
instrument for carrying out their will.
...the African constitutional system of real self-government by the people through their
representatives, the Council of Elders. ...the Chief Elder, or Chief, was also the Chief
Priest...
There was, therefore, a record left written in stone, a record that tells the story of
Blacks who were building a highly developed civilization in Southern Africa during the
same ancient period their brothers were amazing the world by there advances in
Northern Ethiopia (Egypt) and its southern region (Sudan).
The Black World at the Crossroads
...For people with little or no money, barter and exchange are the first steps toward
economic salvaton, the bases for capital formation. Increased food production
should be seen as for both wealth and health. ...
...The foundation for everything we do or wish to do is economic - a word that
simply means wealth enough to be really independent and having the means to do
what must be done.
The only hope for the kind of racial unity that will really liberate the Blacks in America
and command the respect of the world will be a new kind of mass organization on a
scale with an action program never before attempted. This will require a new kind of
leadership, a leadership with the single purpose of helping the masses up towards a
better life.
* emphasis mine.