Chancellor Williams

Chancellor Williams (December 22, 1893 – December 7, 1992) was an American sociologist, historian and writer. He is known for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans; his most notable work is The Destruction of Black Civilization (1971/1974), which is popular in Afrocentric circles.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chancellor_Williams&action=edit Quotes Because only from history can we learn what our strengths were and, especially, in what particular aspect we are weak and vulnerable. Our history can then become at once the foundation and guiding light for united efforts in seriously planning what we should be about now.https://stjohnslaw.overdrive.com/media/4823666?hl=en-US#:~:text=Because%20only%20from%20history%20can%20we%20learn,planning%20what%20we%20should%20be%20about%20now.%22 In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/121309-destruction-of-black-civilization?hl=en-US#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20there%20can%20be%20no,in%20the%20sunny%20heritage%20of%20other%20peoples! We wanted to know the whole truth, good and bad. For it would be a continuing degradation of the African people if we simply destroyed the present system of racial lies embedded in world literature only to replace it with glorified fiction based more on wishful thinking than on the labors of historical research.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/121309-destruction-of-black-civilization?hl=en-US#:~:text=I%20was%20convinced%20that%20what%20troubled%20me,on%20the%20labors%20of%20historical%20research%20. For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors' viewpoints. Nothing else should have been expected.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/121309-destruction-of-black-civilization?hl=en-US#:~:text=For%20no%20matter%20what%20the%20factual%20data,Race%20from%204500%20B.C.%20to%202000%20A.D. It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations. Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relate man to man.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/121309-destruction-of-black-civilization?hl=en-US#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20there%20can%20be%20no,in%20the%20sunny%20heritage%20of%20other%20peoples! The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any particular person, but to the attitude of pride and devotion to the race whose homeland from times immemorial was called 'The Land of the Blacks.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10421470-it-appears-that-from-time-immemorial-stark-greed-the-desire?hl=en-US#:~:text=%E2%80%9D%20Join%20Goodreads.%20and%20meet%20your%20next,Race%20From%204500%20B.C.%20To%202000%20A.D. I was very sensitive about the position of black people in the town... I wanted to know how you explain this great difference. How is it that we were in such low circumstances as compared to the whites? And when they answered 'slavery' as the explanation, then I wanted to know where we came from.https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/121309-destruction-of-black-civilization?hl=en-US References