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Title: An ideologically motivated atrocity of fake scholarship
Review: Bernal makes it clear enough in his introduction that this book is a "retrofit" of Ancient Western History--an effort to dishonestly "spin" ancient sources so as to "deflate" Western pride and concomitantly give black Africans a myth of primaeval cultural dominance that he supposes will help their "self-esteem." He even admits that he had no previous background in the subject, which further underscores that this tome and its companion are mere ideological tracts to serve as "filler" for "Afro-centric" courses, not works of principled scholarship. For graceful and comprehensive refutations of these travesties, read Mary Lefkowitz' "Not Out of Africa" and "Black Athena Revisited" (unless of course, you think that Aristotle "stole" all his learning from the black African library at Alexandria, Egypt and then set fire thereto to cover up his "crime"--readers of Prof. Lefkowitz will know what I'm referring to).
