Well, in the process of the creation of this stuff for this episode, I, I did change the topic only slightly because I wanted to make a triangle of thoughts.
I'm just gonna be honest with you, Pete.
I don't have a thesis here.
I just wanted to tell you three different stories that all have something to do with one another, um, 'cause I don't really think a lot of people know this.
So here's my backstory.
The real brothers out there will recognize the name Dr. Umar.
Dr. Umar is a Black supremacist, Pan-Africanist, um, beloved in the Black community in the United States.
He is a, I mean, philosopher would be one word to describe the man.
Um, though I disagree with him fundamentally in many ways, I also find him a fascinating person to listen to because his, his sort of way of thinking, um, it has an intellectual lineage that I'm not exactly gonna connect for you all here.
But, um, it's a lineage of thought that made me go, "Well, this guy, you know, he's not just making shit up." A, a lot of the things that he says have grounding in, I mean, everything from, like, Pan-African theory to, like, European continental theory.
Like, the, the guy knows what he's talking about, though I do disagree with some of his conclusions.
Let me give you one instance of where I disagree with Dr. Umar.
Dr. Umar believes Africans are indigenous to every continent in the world prior to any other type or race of human being.
I disagree with this fundamentally, scientifically.
The earliest skeletons that we have of, I think it's, uh, Homo something or ever, it's Homo, uh, habilis.
Homo habilis, uh, an ancestor of human beings, something you certainly wouldn't really even call human, and yet something which develops into us as human beings.
Earliest known skeleton of this found is in China.
It's got facial features that don't look like any type of human being at all.
You would never call this a human being, and so I would step away from the possibility of saying that something like that should be called an African.
Um, however, uh, Dr. Umar believes, uh, further that, uh, Africans are also indigenous to the North and South American continents.
Um, I disagree with this fundamentally as well.
Those are all basically Asiatic peoples, over 30,000 years of inhabitation in the United States.
They climatize and change.
They're not really African peoples either.
So while I disagree with him fundamentally, there's also some areas where I, I certainly do agree with him.
Well, in the process of the creation of this stuff for this episode, I, I did change the topic only slightly because I wanted to make a triangle of thoughts.
I'm just gonna be honest with you, Pete.
I don't have a thesis here.
I just wanted to tell you three different stories that all have something to do with one another, um, 'cause I don't really think a lot of people know this.
So here's my backstory.
The real brothers out there will recognize the name Dr. Umar.
Dr. Umar is a Black supremacist, Pan-Africanist, um, beloved in the Black community in the United States.
He is a, I mean, philosopher would be one word to describe the man.
Um, though I disagree with him fundamentally in many ways, I also find him a fascinating person to listen to because his, his sort of way of thinking, um, it has an intellectual lineage that I'm not exactly gonna connect for you all here.
But, um, it's a lineage of thought that made me go, "Well, this guy, you know, he's not just making shit up." A, a lot of the things that he says have grounding in, I mean, everything from, like, Pan-African theory to, like, European continental theory.
Like, the, the guy knows what he's talking about, though I do disagree with some of his conclusions.
Let me give you one instance of where I disagree with Dr. Umar.
Dr. Umar believes Africans are indigenous to every continent in the world prior to any other type or race of human being.
I disagree with this fundamentally, scientifically.
The earliest skeletons that we have of, I think it's, uh, Homo something or ever, it's Homo, uh, habilis.
Homo habilis, uh, an ancestor of human beings, something you certainly wouldn't really even call human, and yet something which develops into us as human beings.
Earliest known skeleton of this found is in China.
It's got facial features that don't look like any type of human being at all.
You would never call this a human being, and so I would step away from the possibility of saying that something like that should be called an African.
Um, however, uh, Dr. Umar believes, uh, further that, uh, Africans are also indigenous to the North and South American continents.
Um, I disagree with this fundamentally as well.
Those are all basically Asiatic peoples, over 30,000 years of inhabitation in the United States.
They climatize and change.
They're not really African peoples either.
So while I disagree with him fundamentally, there's also some areas where I, I certainly do agree with him.
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