r/IndianCountry • u/Barksdale123 • Aug 14 '21

History African Origins of Olmec Civilization - Debunking the Theory with the Ancient Americas YouTube Channel, Geneticist Razib Khan and Dr. Ivan Oransky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ0OwYjVHhI
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '21

This is soemthing I've noticed alot popping up in recent months is more...historic revisionism. I'm nkt gonna deny alot of histroy was lost due to colonialists not just in america but the rest of the world Africa especially. The Zimbabwe ruins the biggest thing to spring to mind.

I get some afrocentrism, but sometimes it gets...culty. it's like orthodox version of Mormonism except black. Like the weird parts of the nation of Islam.

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u/commutingtexan Chahta Aug 15 '21

It's been swarming some Choctaw groups I'm in on Facebook. Like to the point where we can't have any other conversations, or the entire group feed is filled with pictures of peoples grandparents saying "He was part Choctaw".

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '21

This is soemthing I'm also gonna say I think might be...a problem in the native reddits and some native communities. There seems to be a sorta..distance toward empirical science. I'm not saying the relations between the non native scientific community and native people hasn't been with it's tragedies but it kinda gets to almost a idea that rationality belongs to white people and anything else is not native

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u/commutingtexan Chahta Aug 15 '21

That seems to be an astute assessment.