Page 112 - STOLEN LEGACY By George G. M. James

This proof has been set forth in chapters five to eight of 'Stolen Legacy,' and in order to carry out
our world-wide crusade we must recommend 'Stolen Legacy,' for adoption and study in the
schools and colleges of both racial groups and in our fraternities, sororities and inter-racial
groups, in order that young and old of our present generation might all get to know the truth and
be able to pass it on to future generations.

This I believe would be a very helpful method by which this process of re-education would
become universal and effective in the creation of a much needed racial reformation. The White
people of 'our modern age cannot be regarded as wholly responsible for social conditions which
are the result of false racial tradition. It is this that makes race relations a challenge to the best
minds of both racial groups to combine their efforts in its solution.

But our disturbed race relations have also another cause. This I would say is both supplementary
and intensive; for the false tradition about the backwardness of the African continent , created
by Alexander the Great and Aristotle's School has been dramatized by missionary literature and
exhibitions, as the will of Roman Emperors and as a source of laughter and disrespect. There is
no doubt that this policy has created bitterness and dissatisfaction in the minds of natives, who
have been compelled to question the sincerity of the missionary. In the meantime missionary
enterprise gains the sympathy and support of a miseducated world, in order to carry on its
programme.

What can we do to eradicate this second and more subtle evil: the dramatization of a false
tradition so as to make it appear as true? I suggest that since the missionary dramatizes false
tradition because he himself also believes it, we should combine our efforts, first of all in re-
educating him so that he might know the truth and change his superiority complex which is
responsible for his mistaken policy. His re-education should not only consist of a thorough study
of the ideas and arguments contained in my book 'Stolen Legacy'; but he must also be given
special training in the language, customs and ideals of Africans, in order to make him cultivate
an attitude of respect for the culture of the African continent, seemingly the oldest specimen to
have been developed by mankind; because that continent is the birth place and the cradle of the
Ancient Mysteries. With a world enlightened as to the real truth about the place of the African
continent in the history of civilization, false tradition and belief should cease to be effective,
disrespect and prejudice should tend to disappear, and race relations should tend to be normal
and peaceful. This brings us to the final problem, the problem of African redemption. The aims
of 'Stolen Legacy' are not only to stimulate a reformation in race relations and scientific research;
but also to cultivate race pride in the Black people themselves and to offer them a New
Philosophy of African Redemption as the Modus Operandi of achieving racial reformation.

111

Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James
The Journal of Pan African Studies 2009 eBook