>_Perspectives and Objectives_
>
>"This study was not approached objectively.
> It is not possible
>to be objective towards Europe.
> Certainly the victims of
>its cultural, poilitical, and economic
>imperialism are not objective, if
>they are sane.

for me this is not true, because I am not attached to what ancient europeans have done to my ancestors. When certain ones seek for truth and spiritual attainment, the first step is always becoming detached from old ideas, habits, feelings, personal grudges and etc...ones cannot present to the world a thought a free will offering intended to uplift and empower other ones with internal authentic power, if ones have a point to prove, being attached to that point will cause blindsightedness...

if ones want to prove to you the sky is red, they will only present to you info that says teh sky is red and discredit the info that tell you the sky is blue,

it doesn't make better to not be objective or detached from your lower nature tendencies, it makes it worse and to another degree, it misleads those who are looking for the truth as this is even admitting that it does...



>And Europeans cannot be 'objective' about
>their own cultural history.
>The question, then becomes: What
>could objectivity possibly mean in
>terms of human mental attitudes?
>The implications of this concept
>of objectivity are discussed critically
>in this study and elsewhere.
> It is a concept
>that acts to mistify Europe's
>victims: one of the most
>effective tools of European ideology.
>
>The claim to be an absolute
>truth is a psychological neccesity
>for the European mentality. And
>since we have accepted it,
>it is an edict that
>has constrained most of us
>who have been trained in
>European academies. But African-centeredness breaks
>that hold by recognizing the
>truth as a process in
>which we immerse ourselves because
>of a committment, not some
>to some universal abstraction, but
>to a certain quality of
>life. From an African-centered
>perspective, we understand truth to
>be inseparable from the search
>for meaning and purpose -
>the unique concern of human
>consciousness. As African scholars,
>it is our responsibility to
>create systematic theoretical formulations which
>will reveal truths that enable
>us to liberate and utilize
>the energies of our people.
> In this view, the
>self-determinist, the revolutionary, and the
>scholar are one, having the
>same objective, involved in the
>same truth-process. The claim
>we make is not to
>a spurious 'objectivity', but to
>honesty. I, therefore have made
>no attempt to camouflage either
>my relationship to Europe or
>my goals in undertaking
>this study.
>
>As Wade Nobles says, the types
>of questions we ask are
>influenced by the culture to
>which we belong. Theory is
>born out of committment and
>intention. Every theorist puts part
>of herslef (or himself) into
>the theoretical fromulations and conclusions
>that she (or he) produces.
> But that does not
>make them any less valid."
>

This whole excerpt has proven that the author themselves are thinking within the western idealogy that it hopes to discredit...

it's like me looking through yellow shades, giving you reasons why you shouldn't look through yellow shades and not even realizing that even my ideas of why not to look through yellow shades are based on the way I view life through my own pair of yellow shades...

cure: take off the shades, admit to yourself that self glorification is just as bad, realize that if you don't find out the truth about things but judge and critique those things based on finite knowledge, limits you to finite critical thinking and eventually outdated/discredited thinking as well...

from what you have said and what uta have written from the books, there has already been presented serious contradictions, so therefore this book has already been discredited, while it may seemingly make good points, I suspect that a reader who is purely on the search for truth will still feel like there is something else...

That feeling in me is the reason why I search past everything to find the truth...

it's why I am writing here, because I know through my feelings that there is more and this is book is just as bad as american history text books...