Born and raised in America, without thinking about it or even realizing it, we have been speaking a European language all our lives. It seems natural because that is all we have known. Many grew up with the word Negro, describing a whole cultural group of people. The name of a people should be attached to a land and culture. We know that the Irish came from Ireland. The Australians came from Australia. Jamaicans came from Jamaica. These are common assumptions. There has yet to be discovered a Negroland.

We just lost one of the most significant Afrikan world scholars to walk this earth. He leaped on the scene in the late 1970s, early 1980s with the publishing of his major pioneering work, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence In Ancient America. It demonstrated that Afrikans were sailing and settling in the Americas during the period 1200 BC–600 BC. This virtually eliminated any story of Columbus discovering America. The national uproar the book caused reached the highest levels. Scholars were attacking him from every corner.

What people of Afrikan descent lost by being taken from Afrika is beyond literary description.
When your philosophical grounding is gone, your historical foundation lost, your culture inhibited, language prohibited, names forgotten, your humanness is without purpose or direction. Being raised in American European culture for generations, it becomes your habit and way of life.

Okay, this is the 21st century. Almost four generations have passed since ‘60s We have seen every kind of game that can be played on us. We have been praising people who have done nothing but acquire good public relations through the media, talk shows, or whatever is available. The majority of us are still in denial of who we really are, which starts a whole chain of misperceptions. We fall to the belief that educational institutions will educate us about our real history.