just going off what they've written (and what i've heard...i have yet to read it for myself), the isis papers might be bad scholarship, but i don't know about it being racist...so maybe they are just mad 'cause it's not on some "the roman empire was the shit!!!"-type tip...
but some afrocentric writers, when you read between the lines, aren't any better than david duke (e.g. the n.o.i. theory of the "grafting" of white people...wtf?!??!!???).
cheik anta diop is one of the best i've read so far when it comes to comparing european & african histories & letting the reader sort out the rest on his/her own. i don't appreciate black writers who make value judgements any more than white ones.
_________________________________________________________ *moment of silence for all those lost & those yet to be found*