In order to justify their colossal crimes of slavery and colonialism, Europeans have constructed a web of lies and prevarication and passed them as historical truth. So total is the Euro-Americans onslaught on black people that all military, missionary, scholarship, academic forces are mobilized to paint the picture of the African as an eternal slave of the white man. History, as taught in the Western and Western-dominated world, gives the impression that the first Africans to reach the Americas were brought as slaves, in shackles on slaves-ships. Most of the people of the world were forced to forget that over half of human history was over before anyone knew that a European was in the world.' - Professor John Henrik Clarke
Every effort was made to wipe from their memory how they ruled a state and how they related to their spirituality before the coming of the Europeans.
'They denied the conquered people the right to see God through their own imagination or to address God in a word that came from their own language.
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