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What part of it isn't truthful?
The whole paragraph is a racist attempt to denigrate African cultures by someone who doesn't know anything about African history. Africa had civilization before Europe. They did collect diamonds and precious metals such as gold. They did domesticate animals. They had sea-faring ships, houses, weapons and many other cultural achievements denied by this ignorant writer. Egypt alone had all of these things before Europe had a civilization to speak of (you'll probably say the Ancient Egyptians weren't Black I can prove they were).
Modern archeologists don't take any of these racist claims seriously. I mean honestly,
the author actually says that no Black man every wondered what lied beyond the horizon of the ocean? How the fuck would he know that? This is racist garbage.
Scott MacEachern said:Again, research across the continent over the last three decades decisively disproves this point of view. The literature on this topic is expanding rapidly: there is, however, no doubt that complex polities in the Nile Valley (O'Connor 1993; Welsby 1998), in West Africa (Gronenborn 2001; Holl 1985; MacEachern 2005; Mclntosh 1991, 1999; Mclntosh and Mclntosh 1984), in North-east Africa (Curtis 2004; Fattovich 2000; Munro-Hay 1993), in East and Central Africa (de Maret 1999; Kusimba 1999; Schoenbrun 1999; Sutton 1993) and in south-eastern Africa (Huffman 1996; Pikirayi 2000; Sinclair et al. 1993) were indeed African, developing according to their own internal logics. The social and political hierarchies, the external relations and the economic and trading systems of these states were entirely comparable with those of similar polities on other continents, and were frequently recognized as such by European visitors before corrosively racist views of Africans had time to develop (cf. Brooks 1993; Northrup 2002). They did not appear in isolation - indeed, neither did states in other parts of the world, including Europe - and, again, they were not mirror-images of states in those other regions (cf. Mclntosh 1999). The culture history of the continent is one of change and development comparable to that of Europe and Asia, one where particular cultural systems - the development of external symbolic systems, agriculture or states, for example - occur in particular areas, which in turn affect neighbouring regions in different ways.
SOURCE: Africanist Archaeology and Ancient IQ: Racial Science and Cultural Evolution in the Twenty-First Century World Archaeology, Vol. 38, No. 1, Race, Racism and Archaeology (Mar., 2006), pp. 72-92