By @maarifacircle #DrKhalidMuhammad discussing his inspirations STUDY TO LIBERATE, NOT DEBATE I make a more definite break from the old line of historians . To be objective and more scientific, this school insists, the research scholar should do no more than present the comprehensive and fully documented results of his investigations. There should be no subjective commentaries, no editorializing. One should just present the factual data and leave interpretation and evaluation to the reader. This may not only be the correct viewpoint, but it is even beautiful for historians who represent the already arrived people who control the world. They can well afford the luxury of historical knowledge for knowledges sake-the great satisfaction that comes from just knowing how things came to be. But the black historican, member of a race under perpetual seige and fighting an almost invisible war for survival, dare not follow in these footsteps of the master. Quite the contrary, after faithfully researching and piecing together the fragmented record of the races history, the task of critical analysis and interpretation should begin. What were our strengths in the past? In what respects were we most vulnerable? Where did we go wrong? And all this, like the study of history itself, must be for the express purpose of determining what to do now. In short, the black historian, if he is to serve his generation, must not hesitate to declare what he thinks the results of these studies mean . For even when our history shows us where we have been weak, it is also showing us how, through our own efforts, we can become STRONG AGAIN. #maarifacircle #LoveWhatYouSee
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:40:38 +0000
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