#jacobcarruthers

All quotes are taken from Jacob H. Carruthers' MDW NTR: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of Pharaohs to the Present

{Taken from pages xi, xviii, & 33}

“I further suggest that there is no law of opposites in Kemetic thought. Male and female are not opposite but complementary just as are time and infinity."

What is racism? Feminism?  Chauvinism?  Sexism?  Western constructs which, no doubt, inform the way many view society contemporarily.  When we look at the universality of African thought, {African thought being the purveyor of deep thought/consciouness amongst humans prior to the compartmentalizationof all-kind by Europeans}, we can see that there is no "other."  The efforts of all humans should be to better self, sustain the community & the earth, and gain proximity to the Creator.  However, the task to live as one was intended to live is now clouded with contemporary, episodic challenges such as our ties to the American nation-state, identity, gender, ethnicity, race, class, democracy, et al.

As we return to our African modes of thinking, ways of being, and methods of creating, we should first, as the Babas and Mamas who taught me often say, "let the ancestors speak."  Meaning that foundation has been laid for following our path, and once we find and accept said path, we must add to it accordingly.

How do we do that knowing that western thought has informed, shaped, and destroyed our sense of self?    {See below}

"An examination of modern African thinking about African thought is long overdue, because in the final analysis what Africans think in general and what Africans think about Africa in particular will determine the future of Africans. The task before the Africans both at home and abroad is to restore to their memory what slavery and colonialism made them forget."

"Now we must rescue [ourselves] from [western thought]. African deep thought must now speak for itself...African champions must break the chain that links African ideas to European ideas and listen to the voice of the ancestors without European interpreters."  {From the Foreword of MDW NTR by John Henrik Clarke}