ON! - WHO IS SARA BAARTMAN? EVERY BLACK WOMAN SHOULD KNOW HER NAME!!!!
When 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat that was to take her from Cape Town to London in 1810, she could not have known that she would would never see her home again. Nor, as she stood on the deck and saw her homeland disappear behind her could she have known that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female
sexuality for the next 100 years.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN is the fascinating story of this Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and idea of "The Hottentot Venus" The term Hottentot is a negative Dutch phrase
formerly used to belittle the ancient Khoe people
of the South Africa.
After she died, Cuvier made a plaster cast of her body, then removed her skeleton and, after cutting out her brain and genitals, pickled them and displayed them in bottles at the Musee de l’Homme, a museum in Paris. Her genitalia and other body parts were on public display for 160 years until they were finally removed from view in 1974. In 1994, then President Nelson Mandela requested her remains be brought home. In January 2002, Baartman’s remains were finally returned to Cape Town to be laid to rest with a proper burial. Baartman became an icon.
In 1814 she was taken to France, and became the object of scientific and medical research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. She died the next year. But even after her death, Sara Baartman remained an object of IMPERIALIST scientific investigation. In the name of Science, Cuvier made a plaster cast of her bodymade then removed her SKELETON after cutting out her BRAIN and VAGINA, pickled them and displayed them in bottles at the Musee de l’Homme, a museum in Paris. Her genitalia and other body parts were on public display for 160 years until they were finally removed from view in 1974.In 1994, then President Nelson Mandela requested her remains be brought home. In January 2002, Baartman’s remains were finally returned to Cape Town to be laid to rest with a proper burial. Baartman became an icon.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN is the fascinating story of this Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and idea of "The Hottentot Venus" The term Hottentot is a negative Dutch phrase
formerly used to belittle the ancient Khoe people
of the South Africa.
After she died, Cuvier made a plaster cast of her body, then removed her skeleton and, after cutting out her brain and genitals, pickled them and displayed them in bottles at the Musee de l’Homme, a museum in Paris. Her genitalia and other body parts were on public display for 160 years until they were finally removed from view in 1974. In 1994, then President Nelson Mandela requested her remains be brought home. In January 2002, Baartman’s remains were finally returned to Cape Town to be laid to rest with a proper burial. Baartman became an icon.
In 1814 she was taken to France, and became the object of scientific and medical research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. She died the next year. But even after her death, Sara Baartman remained an object of IMPERIALIST scientific investigation. In the name of Science, Cuvier made a plaster cast of her bodymade then removed her SKELETON after cutting out her BRAIN and VAGINA, pickled them and displayed them in bottles at the Musee de l’Homme, a museum in Paris. Her genitalia and other body parts were on public display for 160 years until they were finally removed from view in 1974.In 1994, then President Nelson Mandela requested her remains be brought home. In January 2002, Baartman’s remains were finally returned to Cape Town to be laid to rest with a proper burial. Baartman became an icon.
Written by Reunion of Black Family World Wide.
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ON! - HAWAIIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH
Well, i am from New Nigeria West Africa and i was jaw dropped when i came across this vid. on Pidgin English, i definitely was sure that pidgin English was only spoken in the western part of Africa until i got to know about the Hawaiian pidgin English and this is not just a slang they speak, but it is their official language,waow! I was blown away and please don't yab me (YAB-Nig.Pidgin for-don't talk down on me) 'cos am just knowing this about the Hawaiian people. With this i feel very much close to them, the sisterhood feeling is being released right now to m people shai you dey sabi me so, i know no say oyinbo (white skin) dey speak broken (pidgin) English too.lol.
Seriously now, the Hawaiians identify themselves with this language, its a thing they are proud of because it represents who they are. Way back during the 1870's immigrants from Spain, Korea, China, Japan, Portugal and Peurto Rico arrived in Hawaii by sea to work in the sugarcane plantation, and so because of the diversity of the people, a form of communication was of essence, naturally the English speaking residents picked bits of primary language. As more generations were born on the plantation, they began to acquire it as a first language, learning it in school, by 1920's pidgin English was the language spoken by everybody inn Hawaii and today its an official language for the Hawaiian people.
Gone are the days when pidgin is forbidden in some homes and schools in Nigeria, i remember well well speaking pidgin makes you automatically an illiterate or village pikin (child) as we say back home. But now its the real deal to speak pidgin. Nah so we am o!
Peace Out!....Now you don know.
Edited by - Omoh
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Nationwide (July 16, 2012) -- Here's a book unlike any other written on the subject of racism by a self-identified black racist. The author, Baye McNeil, is an African American living in Japan for the past decade. His sensational new memoir entitled: Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist, has caught the attention of readers worldwide and has been causing an uproar in Japan since its release in January 2012.
The commotion has not been one of outrage, however. To the contrary, this passionate memoir has been called by readers, "one of the most honest, passionate, engaging and best written books about life in modern Japan for non-Japanese of any race," and has garnered rave reviews from readers worldwide.
McNeil was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York where some of his earliest encounters with racism were as a child of the Pan-African / Black Power Movement. As a elementary student at a Progressive Pro-Black Family School in the 70s, between Swahili studies and Black History courses, his school's hands-on approach to "social studies" often placed him and his classmates, placards in hand, on the frontlines of protest marches, boycotts and demonstrations against everything from police brutality and shootings of unarmed black children in New York to apartheid in South Africa and corporate-sponsored civil war in Angola.
In the early 80s, while Disco was on its deathbed and Hip-Hop was a Rug-Rat in diapers, the author was a teen member of a notorious urban cult which touted black superiority in a volatile community fraught with racial tension, and whose membership rolls held such illustrious names as Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Poor Righteous Teachers. The author takes readers on a scintillating and informative journey through the heart and soul of America as a US Army soldier, which he characterized as "a propaganda pressure cooker" yet "a brilliant way to address racial ignorance," and then back to NY for a bout with corporate bigotry as a University student in Brooklyn. It was at University that he experiences something so surprising and soul-rocking that it will racially alter the course of his life forever. At least, he thought so...then came Japan.
Prompted by his mind-altering experiences in the land of the rising sun, McNeil uses anecdotes and insights from both his youth and his years in Asia to highlight the insidious nature of racism, and the dangers of responding to it with apathy. In what the author describes as "an impassioned call to arms," he urges readers to reconsider how they view racism. He warns that "if racism continues to be demonized as a dark aberration that only 'evil' people, ignorant fools, or people lacking common decency are subject to, then it will remain at large, hiding in plain sight, in our schools, offices, carpools, living rooms and sometimes even in the mirror."
Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist is currently available on Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com and at many other online outlets where books are sold, in both trade paperback and E-book versions.
For more details, contact Hunterfly Road Publishing at loco@himynameisloco.com or visitwww.himynameisloco.com
PRESS CONTACT:
Hunterfly Road Publishing
In Japan : 090 3428 0535
In the US : 718-701-8241
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ON! - BRASIIIIL!
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