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Baba Ahmed · January 19th, 2005, 07:40 PM

Excerpt from The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos N. Wilson

History and the Manipulation of Time

Intellectual structures and powers are undeveloped when we suffer from amnesia; they are restricted and alienated. Some of my Black students say, “Hey, I know nothing about Black History; but I know math, I know computer science, and I know this and that. So apparently it didn’t do me much harm.”

Oh no, don’t deceive yourself!

Being cut off from your past only means that you have gained knowledge at the cost of being alienated, you have gained an alienated knowledge. Alienated knowledge can only be used in the interest of aliens. Look at who you work for once you know computer science and don’t know your history! That’s one of the unwritten rules. They will teach you math and science and so forth to the degree that you forget what and who you are—your history—and forget your connectedness with your people. Because it’s only when you are unconnected that you can be of use to aliens. You cannot use alienated knowledge for yourself. Knowledge must be connected and contained in a historical structure, in a cultural structure, if it is to work for a particular people.

That’s why you can get degrees in business administration and build no businesses. You can be the CEO of Xerox yet you won’t build your own.

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Baba Ahmed Afro Resident Baba Ahmed is offline Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: SWATS/SouthWest ATL Posts: 1,841 Thanks: 33 Thanked 438 Times in 260 Posts Rep Power: 71 Credits: 18,399	Falsification Of Afrikan Consciousness... Excerpt from The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos N. Wilson History and the Manipulation of Time Intellectual structures and powers are undeveloped when we suffer from amnesia; they are restricted and alienated. Some of my Black students say, “Hey, I know nothing about Black History; but I know math, I know computer science, and I know this and that. So apparently it didn’t do me much harm.” Oh no, don’t deceive yourself! Being cut off from your past only means that you have gained knowledge at the cost of being alienated, you have gained an alienated knowledge. Alienated knowledge can only be used in the interest of aliens. Look at who you work for once you know computer science and don’t know your history! That’s one of the unwritten rules. They will teach you math and science and so forth to the degree that you forget what and who you are—your history—and forget your connectedness with your people. Because it’s only when you are unconnected that you can be of use to aliens. You cannot use alienated knowledge for yourself. Knowledge must be connected and contained in a historical structure, in a cultural structure, if it is to work for a particular people. That’s why you can get degrees in business administration and build no businesses. You can be the CEO of Xerox yet you won’t build your own.