http://www.blackinformant.com/headlines/this-cant-get-out Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackinformant.com/headlines/this-cant-get-out/comment-page-1#comment-11493 S. Cain Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:33:15 +0000 http://www.blackinformant.com/?p=10433#comment-11493 The recognition of historical failings is needed, and some sort of statement of contrition expressing some degree of complicity will do much to right past wrongs. People have to remember that Europe (and much of the rest of the world as well) was coming out of the bubonic plague pandemics in the mid-1300s that demolished its population by at least a quarter. It wasn't an all-out invasion by whites, but much shrewd diplomacy and trade with North Africans and later greed from some African elites in the interior of the continent. The Portuguese couldn't sail very far south past the NW African coast before the mid-1400s due to the later-named 'trade' latitude winds until they devised better sailing vessels. The recognition of historical failings is needed, and some sort of statement of contrition expressing some degree of complicity will do much to right past wrongs. People have to remember that Europe (and much of the rest of the world as well) was coming out of the bubonic plague pandemics in the mid-1300s that demolished its population by at least a quarter. It wasn’t an all-out invasion by whites, but much shrewd diplomacy and trade with North Africans and later greed from some African elites in the interior of the continent. The Portuguese couldn’t sail very far south past the NW African coast before the mid-1400s due to the later-named ‘trade’ latitude winds until they devised better sailing vessels.

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