OK. I'll do that. The reason I am so anti-Afrocentric vs. all alternate history is that this one teaches victimism, self-defeatism, and hate. So just asking people to come here doesn't fly. Why? Because you only affect one guy if any. Most ardent posters have already been innoculated against any logic. You are really posting for other readers so theyy woný buy into the same mythology.

An email I wrote recently that espouses my belief:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaime Pretell" <Salsassin@hotmail.com>


> It seems to me not enough is being done to combat the self-defeating
> teachings of Afrocentrism, and I can't find enough Afro-American authors
> that are contradicting these concepts unfortunately. And at this moment I
> see a loosing battle between those who support education based on the most
> recent evidence of the different disciplines and corroborated historical
> accounts, versus Afrocentric pseudohistory and pseudoscience, that teaches
> people to feel good based on mythological pasts and supposed genetic
> superiority instead of teaching them to work for the future.
>
> The problem is Afrocentrics are quick at brainwashing their followers that
> any Black person that challenges their dogma is a sell out and any White
> person is trying to trick them. They don't allow them to use their own mind
> and weigh the evidence. I belong to a group that does just that; weigh the
> evidence:
> [www.hallofmaat.com]
>
> Sadly in this age of information technology the minds of young black
> children are being won through tons and tons of feel good internet sites,
> and by cheap non-peer reviewed books that tell Afrocentric mythology. many
> of the Afrocentric black studies departments are full of these books. And
> many places that cater to the Black community have tons of donated books of
> this ilk. Not enough websites are being put up in a well researched
> marketing strategy to win over the kids from this poison. It has to be
> appealing to them, and give them something for what the website will take
> away. If you are going to take away pride based on mythology of ancient
> greatness and/or melanin claims of superiority, you can't leave the reader
> empty or he will rebel against the teaching. So one has to have websites
> that not only deconstruct Afrocentrism (and look cool and very pro Black
> community) but that also present alternate real heroes and people to emulate
> both from Africa, the USA and the Diaspora. History is inspiring enough
> without need of lies, racial scapegoating and reverse racism.
> I truly think this is one of the biggest obstacles of progress in education
> because it leads to self-defeatism through victimism.
> Good article by Okey Chigbo:
> [www.nextcity.com]
>
> The problem with a lot of the critiques to Afrocentrism, is that they are
> fighting through the wrong venues. People are authoring peer reviewed books
> and articles and submitting it to the scientific journals.The kids of today
> aren't going to libraries and reading journals. They are doing key word
> searches on the internet. And if the only websites popping up are
> Afrocentric, that is what the kids are learning to believe. By the time they
> get to college, its to late because attitude inoculation has occurred.
> What is attitude inoculation? It is a social psychology term that describes
> a mental process that resembles a vaccine. A vaccine gives you weaker doses
> of a disease and lets you build immunity. Attitude inoculation is when you
> are exposed to weak arguments from one side with prepared arguments from the
> other side. They train you to have an attitude towards a type of perception.
> Such that when confronted with said concepts, even with well thought
> arguments and tons of evidence, the person has cliché responses running
> through their head which might not address the evidence, but will allow the
> person to ignore all new evidence. Religions do this by teaching kids dogma
> since childhood. And afrocentrists are actively doing this by any, and
> every, media possible.
> Mainstream science and conservative thinkers in general are not stepping up
> to this major obstacle to education and progress in young people's minds.
> The big question is what are the current thoughts on how to combat this
> problem?
> Just on this email, we have some great thinkers, authors, and scientists.
> But all the information provided does no good if it isn't getting to the
> ultimate audience it is intended for which is the community affected.
> Any thoughts?