Blackcentricity: How Ancient Black Cultures Created Civilization. Revealing the Truth that White Supremacy Denied

By Donald Matthews

This book established once and for all that the Ancient Black Cultures of Sumer and Egypt were responsible for the founding ideas of World Civilization.and Religions. It exposes the centuries long Hoax to hide their contributions in the Arts, Sciences and Religion by a White Supremacist Academy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donald Matthews
• Release date: Jan 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393935339

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DEDICATION

in Memoria

Edwina Marie Wright, Ph.D.

Jeanette Branch, MSW, Ph.D.

Esther Belle Henderson, Minister

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Faith Donna Marada Matthews, Illustrator and Cover Design

Linda B. Knowlton, Partner, Copy Editor

To all my brothers and sisters that supported this work with words of encouragement and critique.  Donald F Guest, Adam Clark, Dwight Webster, Robert J. Thomas, Carolyn Belshe, Thomas J. Miley, Emmanuel Akognon, Thee Smith, Carole Nelson-Ingram, Horace McMillon, Christopher Harris, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Franklin, Archie Smith, Jr., Thabiti Lewis. Black Graduate Forum at The U. of Chicago: Ted Manley, Matthew Johnson, Lee Cornelius, Stephen Casmier, Tukufu Zuberi, Annette Collins, Thea Joy Browne. Margene, Ada, Jen and Craig and more along the way. I am solely responsible for the contents of tis work.

PREFACE

The Greatest Racist Hoax of the Last Two Centuries

As the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion convenes for its annual meeting in San Diego, California, it’s 7000-plus members continues to perpetuate the fundamental historical distortion that has played the most important factor in the development of White Nationalism: the denial that Ancient Black Cultures were responsible for the development of Civilization's most important achievements. These achievements in Theology, Ethics, the Humanities and the Natural Sciences were the products of the Ancient Black Cultures of Egypt in Africa,  Sumer in Southwest Asia and Mohen Daro in India in Asia. In their universal respect for others, they shared their knowledge freely with surrounding cultures regardless of race or ethnicity. It is difficult for us to imagine the possibility that they did not develop a racialized theory of their natural superiority to others,

I am proud that one of my writings on this topic was selected by the Black Theology Paper Project to commemorate the tribute to Dr. James Cone at the AAR. But I remain dismayed that most of my comrades have not yet corrected this distortion. This cover up was so effective, that even my most supportive scholarly mentors failed to challenge this Great Hoax as a serious and worthy subject of teaching and research. This was partly the result of the unintended consequences that separated the Near Eastern Studies Departments from Religious and Theological Studies Departments where this information is deposited. This knowledge is readily available and any reputable scholar can discriminate between the racist inspired interpretations from the more objective scholarship.

This Hoax was created by a Centuries long process of denial, distortion, color blindness and gas lighting by Euro-centric racist scholarship but it can and must be challenged. I am in the process of presenting this research for publication. I believe that if every elementary, high school, university and graduate school stated plainly and succinctly that Ancient Black Cultures provided the information for the building of the best of civilization's developments; then we could gain more traction in preventing and reversing the destructive ideology of White Nationalism that grows stronger by the day.

When I brought this to the attention of the leaders of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Liberation Theologians, The American Theological Society (ATS), and The Jesus Seminar, it was like speaking to a brick wall.  It is time to bring this sad and destructive state of affairs to an end by declaring in every textbook at every level that Ancient Black Cultures were the authors of the world wide advances in religion and culture that made our civilization possible.

At one point I was told that this is a minority problem, and as such it would have to be up to the minorities to solve it. This is one minority’s attempt to solve the problem that White scholars, religious leaders and social leaders have created. May it be like Bread upon the Waters." I cast it to feed my Ancestors: James H. Cone, Benjamin E. Mays, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jenkins and Martin Luther King, Jr.

I first became interested in the Black roots of Biblical Religions and Civilization when I was a graduate doctoral student at the Divinity School of The University of Chicago. I would spend many days and nights visiting with my friend Rev Dr. Donald Guest and his wife Edwina Marie Wright. Dr. Guest had graduated from McCormick Theological Seminary where Edwina was then a student studying biblical languages on her way to entrance at The Near Eastern Studies Department at Harvard University.

We would speculate about the need to research and write about the relationship of Ancient Black cultures and our relationship with the Black community and the Christian Churches. After Edwina went to Harvard and gained her Ph.D., she was at the beginning of her career as an Instructor at Union Theological Seminary when she tragically passed away from an embolism.

Several years ago I purchased a copy of The Holy Bible: The African American Jubilee Edition and saw that Edwina  had written an article: The Relationship between Hebrew and African Languages.[1] This rekindled my interest in the role of Black people, specifically in Africa and Egypt, with Abrahamic Religions. I also began to have more conversations with Rev. Guest. We shared notes and ideas about the topic and began to independently conduct research on the issue.

The more research I conducted, the more I realized that the official paradigm used by Black Biblical scholars and theologians that emphasized Blacks in the Bible, or Black American and African influence on African American Religion, though important, did not tell the whole story nor  satisfy my intellectual curiosity.

In some way this is a book that should not have had to be written. For this reason, I have to acknowledge the leading of the Spirit of Truth that guided me to expand my research to include the entirety of the Afro-Asian world in a reassessment of the relationship between Black culture, Abrahamic religion and the rise of Civilization.

Just as I felt the guidance of the Spiritual Presence of my Ancestors when I conducted genealogical family research in the Delta region of Mississippi in which I discovered ancestors that had been forgotten; I