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Article: SHAPING HISTORY MARY LEFKOWITZ SHOWS HOW AFROCENTRISTS TWIST THE FACTS, BUT IT'S UNLIKELY ANY WILL LISTEN.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 24, 1996
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Byline: LENORE HART
NOT OUT OF AFRICA
How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
MARY LEFKOWITZ
Basic Books. 222 pp. $24.
When George Orwell said, ``If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear,'' he may have been warning against the 1990s. But he should've also said, ``Being an extremist means never having to footnote your sources.''
Take Afrocentrism, a romantically appealing but poorly substantiated school of thought claiming science, philosophy and democracy - the foundation garments of Western civilization - aren't Greek. They were actually stolen ...