By Yolanda Mrshall
Dr. Sam Tita Fombang is the President/Senior Mission Supervisor of Enrich Constructing Options and has authored a number of empowering books. Dr Tita has made appearances on numerous necessary platforms in Canada and around the globe the place he offers beneficial steering as a Christian chief. “It was an honour to interview this clever author.”
Inform us extra about your e book, ‘Black Truths: Therapeutic 500 Years of Colonial Lies.’
“I wrote Black Truths: Therapeutic 500 Years of Colonial Lies not as a lament, however as a result of I wished to empower our people who find themselves largely nonetheless fighting the trauma from the interval of enslavement. Enslavement was a most cancers whose designers and their pedigree, and now, even a few of our Black leaders, need to make us imagine it may be cured with topical ointments and bandage. Nonetheless, to remedy that most cancers, a deep lower have to be masterfully executed, adopted by deep fact remedy over a chronic interval.
The lower is to take away the lie that folks of African descent (aka Black folks) are mere customers of house who’ve by no means contributed something helpful to our collective human enterprise. Then follows the deep fact remedy, with the endgame of reprograming the minds of Black folks everywhere in the world to the reality about who we’re and have all the time been. I suggest within the e book, on the muse of educational literature and experiential information, that Black folks will solely really heal once we be taught the reality about who we have been earlier than enslavement, be taught the reality in regards to the criminals who truncated the pure order of our progress by pillaging and brutalizing our progenitors, and the reality about our nice successes regardless of all of the hardships that now we have been put by way of for hundreds of years.
For instance, Black folks have by no means been slaves, however have been enslaved. A slave is a state of being and is everlasting whereas being enslaved is transitory. Due to this fact, Black folks went by way of a interval of enslavement of their wealthy and sophisticated historical past, and that interval is over. Earlier than, throughout and submit the interval of enslavement, folks of African descent have had, and nonetheless have thriving societies (kingdoms in lots of instances) that engaged in transcontinental commerce lots of of years earlier than Europeans landed on Africa’s shores to steal their sources, kidnap their robust, rape their ladies and homicide those that resisted.
The purpose I’m making is that Africans have been exploring the world centuries earlier than Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus. So, once we speak of Black Historical past, we should return over 3000 years. Then, we should proceed contemplating the linear historical past of the world, the place Black Historical past is situated, to proceed extracting extra Black Truths. “
What have been a few of your experiences with individuals who refuse to just accept the reality about Black folks, the reality which has been traditionally and purposely hidden?
“Truths equivalent to the truth that Africa can not logically be the poorest continent on the earth when its sources energy the economies of the entire world. How do you name the household with essentially the most diamonds in your city the poorest household, except you have got succeeded in developing a false narrative regarding them, utilizing each conceivable instrument, each bodily and psychological, to the purpose the place even they purchase into the deleterious narrative?
For individuals who don’t imagine that there was a concerted international effort to cement Black folks in a posture of servitude ceaselessly, with the epicentre of that international effort situated within the hallways of energy within the World North, I warn them that extreme greed is a horrible monster that eats its younger. In the event that they don’t get up for what is true at the moment, the monster of neoliberal greed created by their progenitors will slowly eat them as we see taking place proper earlier than all our eyes.
The good information is that fact is indestructible and can rebound even when it takes a thousand years. In 2023 the African Union accepted a everlasting seat on the G20 desk, an indication of the ability of fact to rise to the floor, regardless of efforts to maintain it down. The Black renaissance is properly entrenched, and the face of the world won’t ever look the identical once more.”
You’ll be able to go to the writer’s web site at http://blacktruths.ca/ to be taught extra and purchase Dr Tita’s books wherever books are offered.
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