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The Conservative Roots of #BlackHistoryMonth

"Arguably one of the cleverest artifices of white supremacy is the thorough scrubbing out of African civilization and human existence before contact with Europeans."

— Dr. Chidike Okeem

(@VOICEOFCHID)

"When oppression and subjugation are falsely presented as the genesis of black human identity, it provides a pseudo-intellectual justification for the marginalization of black people both on the African continent and in the diaspora."

"Moreover, it provides a justification for self-hatred among black people who are not taught any better."

Continue Reading ⏩ Chidike Okeem: The Conservative Roots of Black History Month.

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#BlackHistoryMonth

"For serious, solution-oriented black conservatives today, Dr. Carter G. Woodson provided a model of how one can be enthusiastically pro-market, doggedly anti-Marxist economics, and do so while being unapologetically African."

— Chidike Okeem

Don't let White Nationalist lie to you: Dr. Carter G. Woodson labored his entire life to legitimize and “emphasize NOT Negro history, but the Negro IN history.”

#BlackHistoryMonth

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."

- Edmund Burke