Afrocentric Rectification of Terms: Excerpt from: What Slave Trade? And other Afrocentric reflections on the Race War

Abstract

Background: The way reality is perceived and acted upon depends crucially on how it is packaged on the framework within which it is presented and on the concepts and termenolgy used in repeating it. And this is not an innocuous matter. For example teach a child that an adder is a rope is to program him for fatal risk for, if asked to pick up a rope  the may well pick up an adder from the ground and get bitten to death. Likewise, there is danger for a people who live in a dangerous world which has been described innocuouly or neutrally or euphemitically by their enemies.