The Voice Of The Jamaican Ghetto: Incarcerated but not Silenced

by Adidja Palmer

instead of the foolishness that we do? I would love to have learnt more about Timbuktu, the great city of Babylon, how Ghanaian law affected Westminster Law and how Europeans stole our architectural designs in Africa and built Europe based on those designs. Keep in mind, Europeans were just learning about government after Africa was having her 25th Dynasty. If we loved the Black Child we would have taught him that. We would have taught him about Carthage and Hannibal, King Tut and Nefertiti, Kenyatta and Lumumba, Biko and Tambe. We would have taught them about Menelek II and the victory of the Battle of Adawah where the Ethiopians defeated the Italians. We would have taught our children that before European prejudice came in to place due to slavery, Africans ruled Europeans and three Roman Emperors were African; so were three Popes. It was white supremacy that destroyed the integrity of all those positions and created the racial hatred for Blacks. We must understand that Africa only started to be distant from the church when Constantine started to corrupt the church with Euro-Christianity. Euro–Christianity