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“There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?”

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John Henrik Clarke

John Henrik Clarke was a renowned writer, born on June 1, 1915, and passed away on July 16, 1998. His works primarily focused on African history and culture, which had a profound impact on academic research and public awareness in the subsequent era. more

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“What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.”

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“The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility.”

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“If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.”

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“I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.”

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“No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.”

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.”

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“The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.”

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“We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.”

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“What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.”

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“We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke