Can Clarence Thomas See “the big picture?”
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods - Otegha Uwagba
“How do Black people navigate the gap between what they know to be true, and the version of events that white society can bring itself to tolerate? What does true allyship actually look like – and is it even possible?”
Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
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“DID YOU KNOW THAT ROME HAD EMPERORS WHO WERE NEGROS? SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS,11 APRIL AD 145 – 4 FEBRUARY AD 21L, ALSO KNOWN AS SEVERUS, WAS ROMAN EMPEROR FROM 193 TO 211. SEVERUS WAS BORN IN LEPTIS MAGNA IN THE ROMAN PROVINCE OF AFRICA.”
?The Western World saw Rome as the first super power. Rome’s powerful military forces were very ruthless in the beginning and expanded through invasions and occupations. After the Punic Wars (146 BC) and the destruction of Carthage, the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 B C – 14 AD), adopted a new policy to assimilate the people of North Africa. Augustus built a very sophisticated city – far from the center of Rome called Timgad. In this ancient North African city, we may find some answers to how Rome was able to maintain and rule its vast empire and enable its citizens to becoming empowered.
Did you know that Rome had emperors who were Negros? Septimius Severus,11 April AD 145 – 4 February AD 21l, also known as Severus, was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the Cursus honorum—the customary succession of offices—under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.[7]
The Emperor Caracalla: (4 April AD 188 – 8 April AD 217), Roman emperor (AD 198–217). The eldest son of Septimius Severus, Caracalla reigned jointly with his father from 198 until Severus' death in 211.[8]
History records support the notion Rome wished to co-exist with the nation it conquered, with a statue that portrays the figure of an African couple dressed in Roman garments and above the couple the figure of Roman God Saturnus stands between the sun and moon. The sun and moon were worshiped in the region before the Romans came, and Rome wished to show its desire to integrate with the culture and not??impose its own tradition as it had done in the past.?We can see here that Rome had learnt and was acting out and moving forward from the lessons of past conquest.
After the decline of Rome’s imperial power, the influx of the Eastern Germanic tribes (barbarians) took and ruled the lands once held by Rome (the Western Empire fell, AD 476, ushering the Dark Ages).?These Barbarians were known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who hailed from Northern Germany and Denmark. In time, the Barbarians came of age with his religion, laws, and system of governance. Despite his appreciation of philosophy, art and other sophistry, and despite his writings on the rights of man, he has not lost his primal instinct for barbarity. ..