Black Engineer Lonnie G Johnson

This clip of Lonnie G Johnson is so inspiring. Starting two companies and working on the research that he loves. He's even received high remarks from the National Science Foundation. This brother is the truth and all his attempts at getting funded has been limited. It's like the people with the money are catching on and don't want to see this brother receive the full credit/recognition he deserves for his ingenious ideas. This makes me wonder how creative our talented/ gifted brothers & sisters could have been if we had the resources to fulfill our dreams in life.

History, Pan-Africanism and Self-Esteem

I found this Facebook discussion on this statue in Italy very interesting and it reminded me of a time when I was all into Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism was introduced to me by the book Stolen Legacy in school and my interest grew while in Boise, ID because (as a former boss at hp and friend put it when he first traveled to Asia on an extended business trip ) you really get a sense of your race when you're in an environment where no one looks like you. So I was reading all kind of stuff (Chiek Anta Diop, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Isis Papers, etc) and several things jumps out:

1. There is so much to the history of the people of African decent (and other ethnic groups) but so few knows about any of it is kind of embarrassing.
2. Since so much of what people of African decent did was lost or hidden its kind of hard to make sense all of it.
3. All history books are fudged in its accuracy because there is a huge self-esteem, identity game that comes into play, basically everyone wants to look good so some of the claims are exaggerated. I would say the modern day example of this is Deadliest Warrior on spike TV
. Its so funny when they get people from same race to explain the weapons and the warrior and why they are better than the other warrior, its so funny.

Anyway lets hear your comments

facebook spat ( you don't need facebook to view it)