Page 111 - STOLEN LEGACY By George G. M. James

Consequently missionaries and educators have gone to the mission field with a superiority
complex, born of miseducation and disrespect: a prejudice which has made it impossible for
them to accomplish the blessings which missionary enterprise might otherwise have
accomplished. For this reason Missionary enterprise has been responsible for a positive injury
against the African people, which consists of the perpetual caricature of African culture in
literature and exhibitions which provoke laughter and disrespect. This then is only a brief
summary of the parts played by the persons of the drama of Greek philosophy and the resultant
effects upon the Black people. This drama might be called the Causa Causarum of the social
plight of the peoples of African descent, because it has made the White and Black races not only
common victims of a false racial tradition about the African continent but also partners in the
solution of the problem of racial reformation.

I believe that a reformation of this kind is possible, if the best minds of both racial groups co-
operate in its accomplishment. Both groups have been the common victims of miseducation
arising from a false tradition about the African continent and it has caused them to develop
attitudes according to their common belief: The White people, a superiority complex; and the
Black people, the corresponding inferiority complex; and if we are to accomplish a reformation
in race relations it is obvious that both racial groups must combine their efforts in the
abandonment and destruction of that mentality which has plunged the Black people into their
social plight.

This I suggest should be done by a worldwide dissemination of the truth, through a system of re-
education, in order to stimulate and encourage a change in the attitude of races toward each other
In combining their efforts, both races must not only preach and teach the truth that the Mystery
system of the African continent gave the world philosophy and religion, and the arts and
sciences, but they must see to it that all false praise of the Greeks be removed from the textbooks
of our schools and colleges: for this is the practice that has blind-folded the world, and has laid
the foundations for the deplorable race relations of the modern world. (a) The name of
Pythagoras, for instance, should be deleted from our mathematical textbooks: in Geometry,
where the theorem of the square on the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is called the
Pythagorean theorem, because this is not true. (b) we must point out to the world the deception in
attaching the authorship of Socrates to the precept 'man know thyself'; and in attaching the
authorship of Plato to the four cardinal virtues; since Socrates obtained the self-knowledge
precept from the Egyptian temples where it was used as an inscription; and Plato reduced the ten
virtues of the North African Mystery system to four (c) we must also prove to the world that the
doctrines of the so-called Greek philosophers originated from the ancient Mystery System of
North Africa.

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Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
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