Exterminate -All- The Brutes
"THE DENIAL I SOMETIMES ENCOUNTERED WAS STILL VERY DEEP IN SOME QUARTERS," PECK SAYS. "IT'S BASICALLY 700 YEARS OF EUROCENTRIC HISTORY AND TO TRY TO DECONSTRUCT A NARRATIVE THAT'S TAKEN SO LONG TO BE CONSTRUCTED, IT WAS A BOLD MOVE."??
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Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
DID YOU KNOW ROME HAD EMPERORS WHO WERE NEGROS?
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 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…
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.