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Settlers - San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

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Introduction<br />

One day a friend introduced me to a young New Afrikan brother<br />

who was selling things on the sidewalk outside a large office building.<br />

When our talk turned to this book, the young brother looked up proudly<br />

and said: "I already know everything about the White Man, and he knows<br />

nothing about me." As we were talking away I couldn't help thinking how<br />

many people had the same thought. Because they know that the white<br />

man is completely racist and treacherous, they wrongly assume that they<br />

know all about his society. This is really the point that this book begins<br />

from.<br />

In, fact, the 1960's breakthrough of "ethnic studies programs" at<br />

universities has been dialectically turned around and used against us. We<br />

are getting imperialist-sponsored and imperialist-financed "Asian studies,"<br />

"Black studies," "Puerto Rican studies," "Indian studies," "ethnic studies"<br />

pushed back down our throats. Some of the most prominent Third-World<br />

intellectuals in the U.S. Empire are getting paid good salaries by the imperialists<br />

to teach us our histories. Why?

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