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They Rewrote Africa Out of History. Here Is the Proof || Masterminds Podcast EP99 · Masterminds Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go into the conversation, I wanted to take time to thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you a question.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you think about the beginning of civilization, the beginning of science, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, architecture, what picture comes to your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me guess, white marble, white faces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm going to take you through the actual picture, the real situation of where civilization began from.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll be talking about five civilizations in five different centuries, five different stories, but one underlying similarity where you will realize that Africa has been erased from history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go into any of the civilizations, let's start from a well-known and well-documented fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human life started in Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: The oldest fossils of the Homo Sacian species, which is our species, was discovered in Morocco 300,000 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you trace the DNA of any living person, regardless of the race, it takes you back to African ancestry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's been documented that Africans started to migrate out of Africa around 60 to 70,000 years ago, which is when we started to populate the entire earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So life and civilization is well documented to have started right here in Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I know this fact may come as a shock to some of you because this isn't taught in schools, but that's because history has been rewritten or reformatted to match a certain narrative.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the truth is, Africans aren't part of the family tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Africans are the trunk which every other race branched out from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the first civilization I'll talk about today is Britain.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in 1903, they found the earliest Brit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was 10,000 years old, and he was kept in a museum for 115 years without anybody actually checking his DNA and checking his race.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because everybody just assumed that since he's from Britain, he's obviously a white man.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in 2018, when scientists dug into his skull and extracted bone powder just to check his genealogy, they were amazed to find out that Cheddarman, the oldest Brit, was actually black with dark curly hair and blue eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 10,000 years ago, the people who populated Britain were Africans.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was actually announced together by the National History Museum and the University College of London, where they announced it proudly that the first Brit was a black man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tom Booth even said that if you go back into history, you realize that race was only fabricated in modern times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you go back thousands of years, nobody divided us by races.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, like I said in the beginning, we all came from Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all came from one race.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's go to the next civilization, a place where most people believe that modern civilization started.
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  SPEAKER_00: Greece.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Herodotus, known as the father of history, actually mentioned the fact that Greece borrowed all its Greek religion from Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a known fact that in that era, everybody from Greece would go to Egypt to learn, to grow, to develop their mind and bring it back to Greece to come and implement it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have people like, sorry if I get some of these names wrong, I'm an African, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: We have people like Deodorus Siculus, who said the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Plato, Plato told his students that if you want to develop your mind, you need to go to Egypt to study with great minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the one that completely blew my mind was something that any well-educated person knows this name, Pythagoras.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pythagoras, you all learn it, Pythagoras theory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pythagoras studied in Egypt for 22 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: 22 years in Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the math that Pythagoras is famous for, the Pythagoras theorem, was actually practiced in Egypt for over a thousand years before he was born.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just let that really settle in your mind right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understand the fact that what we've been taught in school as to have been developed by Pythagoras existed a thousand years before him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in Egyptian books, it's in their documentation, but it's been rewritten from history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Plato, one of the greatest minds that we've ever known in the world, studied in Egypt for 13 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, who studied there for seven years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for a thousand years, it was a known fact that anybody from Greece who wanted to develop their mind and build a civilization needed to go and study in Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was actually called the ancient model, which is a known fact that Egypt civilized Greece.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm sure you're wondering if this is the case, when did this change?
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  SPEAKER_00: When did the narrative change?
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  SPEAKER_00: So from 1790 to 1830, a group of German scholars decided that it couldn't be accepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: They couldn't accept the fact that in our history it says Africans civilized Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they changed the history from the ancient model and called it the Aryan model.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a new theory that Greece came from Indo-European invaders from the north.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they couldn't go back and change the facts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they just changed what was being taught and started teaching that the people of Greece learnt it not from Africa, but from Indo-European invaders.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a professor from Cornell University called Martin Bernal, who wrote the book three volumes called Black Athena, and it clearly stated and showed how the model of Egyptians civilizing Greece was replaced because of modern racism and slavery.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they couldn't go back and change any of the facts, so they just decided to twist what is taught.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you check, over 40% of Greek vocabulary comes directly from ancient Egypt and Semitic languages.
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  SPEAKER_00: So by the 1830s, the model had been replaced completely and was just in time to be taught in schools globally, especially in Africa, so that it pushes the narrative that Africa was never civilized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I want you to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Close your eyes and picture ancient Rome.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you imagine?
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  SPEAKER_00: White robes, white marble, white faces.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the actual history tells a very different story.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, the DNA shows that a lot of people in Rome, in ancient Rome, were black people.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were so many Africans in Rome that some actually even rose to power.
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  SPEAKER_00: That in 193 AD, Rome was ruled by an African emperor, a black emperor named Septimius Severus.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's known to have commanded the largest army to ever have invaded Britain.
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  SPEAKER_00: He pushed the empire to its greatest size.
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  SPEAKER_00: He rebuilt half of Rome itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just really think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Half of Rome was rebuilt by an African emperor.
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  SPEAKER_00: He died in Britain in the city of York in 211 AD.
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  SPEAKER_00: But around the same time that they had an African emperor, something was happening in a different power line in Rome, where they also had an African pope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pope Victor I, who rose to power from 189 AD to 199 A.D., was the first African pope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now both Septimus and Pope Victor I were born in what is now called Libya in a city called Leptis Magna.
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  SPEAKER_00: So two Africans, two blacks, were the most powerful people in Rome around 195 AD.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just picture this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when we go back and we think about Roman history and everything that the Romans did, nobody will ever talk about the fact that Africans were present and building Rome.
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  SPEAKER_00: In addition, one thing that Pope Victor I is credited for is he's the first Pope to have ever written in Latin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Latin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The language that was used to write the Bible, the language that was used for 1500 years after that in all Roman religious and educational texts was first written by the African Pope, Pope Victor I.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now to the next civilization.
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  SPEAKER_00: When most people think about Africa, we always imagine that Africans have always just stayed in Africa and have never tried to venture out of Africa until you learn about the Moors.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 711 AD, there was a Berber named Tariq Ibn Ziyad who looked past a narrow strip of sea between Africa and Europe and decided, let's cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: Within seven years, African Muslims, the Moors, had conquered what is now known as Spain, Portugal, and parts of France.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here's the most interesting part.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Moors ruled over what is called the Iberian Peninsula, which is Spain, Portugal, and parts of France.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Moors ruled for 781 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Almost 800 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Moors civilized this area.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, all this has been forgotten.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cordoba, their capital, it became one of the most advanced cities on the continent.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had paved streets, street lighting, running water in homes, public baths, hospitals, libraries.
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  SPEAKER_00: They brought African civilization to all these parts of Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in the 10th century, most of Christian Europe, like 99% of the people, couldn't read or write.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading and writing was limited to only the kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in Moorish Spain, education became universal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the mindset coming from Africa was that everyone needed to learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's minds needed to grow, which is why we had civilization spreading across Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they brought this mindset to Europe and started to make Europe civilized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moorish Spain had 17 universities, while Christian Europe had two.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Cordoba library alone had over 600,000 manuscripts at a time when like the public libraries and Christian Europe barely even existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, some simple concepts that you use right now, like the number zero, Arabic numerals, and the decimal system counting from one to ten were actually taught by the Moors to the Europeans.
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  SPEAKER_00: So modern mathematics, most of the things that we are using to invent and create right now came from the Moors of Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: For those who know Leonardo da Vinci, one of the things he's credited for is sketching the idea of human flights through like paragliding.
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  SPEAKER_00: But 600 years before, six centuries before Leonardo da Vinci was born, in 875 AD, a Moorish polymath named Ibn Fernas actually attempted the first human flight.
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  SPEAKER_00: He documented and people witnessed the gliding experiments.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, this has been shoved into the dark so that people don't remember the great inventions of Africans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, the Spanish language has absorbed over 4,000 Arabic words that were brought to them by the Moors.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when you see words like anything beginning with Al, like algebra, alcohol, alchemy, almanac, all these come from Arabic, which was brought to them by the Moors.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the language of Spain was shaped by Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you must be wondering, so what happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: What changed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in 1492, around the same year that Columbus sailed for the Americas, the last Moorish stronghold fell.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were finally defeated in 1492.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what happened after that was in 1609, King Philip III signed an order expelling over 300,000 Moriscos out of the area because they did not want them intertwined with their history and their culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were sent out of the area and then it was rewritten to make it look like the Moors were just some invaders who passed through you know the Iberian Peninsula.
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  SPEAKER_00: When actual history tells you a different story, that for 781 years they ruled over Spain, Portugal, and parts of France.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here comes the biggest irony.
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  SPEAKER_00: The astrolabe, a device which the Europeans used to travel the seas and used to navigate their way around, was actually given to them by the Moors.
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  SPEAKER_00: So without the Moors, the Europeans wouldn't have been able to discover America.
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  SPEAKER_00: There would have been no Columbus, there would have been, you know, no coming to Africa to discover Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Africans actually gave them the power to come and discover Africa later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's come to one of the most recent ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Argentina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Argentina is not just famous for the recent World Cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are also known to be one of the most um vocally racist countries to have ever existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what most people don't know is by 1800, Argentina was actually, actually had one-third of their population being African.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in 1868, their president, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, when he took power, he made a bold declaration that he was going to make Argentina white again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he did this with different strategies.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the first ones was when they were having wars, they decided to send the black Argentines to war first, send them to the forefront of the war to, you know, clear them in the beginning of the war.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second thing was they started to arrest, they started to detain and execute a lot of black Argentines on fabricated charges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charges that nobody could ever, you know, like confirm, but Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: President said so.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were executed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when they started to do census for Argentina, they would just not count the Africans because why count them?
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  SPEAKER_00: They are not part of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we started to reduce the official population of black Argentines more and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, to finally accelerate everything, he decided to invite a lot of white Europeans, you know, the Spanish, the Italians, have them settle in Argentina so that they can dilute the African population in Argentina.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the small African population that was left were either forced or encouraged to intermarry, to dilute their race, or just pushed out of Argentina completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So by 2010, when they did a census in Argentina, only 0.3% of the Argentine population was identified as Afro-Argentine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So from one-third of the country, from over 33% to 0.3%.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was done intentionally, deliberately, and meticulously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So these are the five civilizations that I did research on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's a lot more information, but that's what I did research on to present to you to let you understand how Africans have been rewritten out of history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is meant to empower you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not meant to make you feel bad or make you feel anger towards anybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, it's meant to remind you that whoever you are, wherever you are, watching this, you are an African.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an African in every single one of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Humanity started from Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we should believe in our greatness, we should believe in our power, believe that we are meant for something bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should understand that we started civilization and we can advance it even more as long as we start to wake up and realize who we really are.
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  SPEAKER_00: To be an African is to be human, and to be human is to be great.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope this conversation has brought you two steps closer to being the mastermind that I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for watching throughout this video.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fact that you're still here tells me you're somebody who is dedicated to learning and you see things through to the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, let me ask this favor of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't just watch, don't just listen and don't just take in what we've said.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to practice everything that I'm trying to teach you into your real life because the journey of becoming a mastermind is not just about knowledge, but it's also about putting it into practice.
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