{"id":50416,"date":"2024-01-04T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=50416"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:36:46","slug":"black-af-history-by-michael-harriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/black-af-history-by-michael-harriot\/","title":{"rendered":"Black AF History by Michael Harriot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>History is written by the victors.\u00a0 For U.S. History, “written” equals selectively curated and glossed-over before mass dissemination.<\/p>\n

Hindsight of an 80’s grade school being 20-20, this fact-laden and exhaustively-researched audiobook<\/a> is more than a little illuminating.\u00a0 Christopher Columbus came here….for SPICES?\u00a0 Did we honestly believe that?\u00a0 \u00a0 Don’t get me started on the Pilgrims.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, Mansa Musa who ruled the Mali Empire 1312 \u2013 1337.\u00a0 It would be easier to just call him the richest person in the history of planet Earth.\u00a0 Comparatively, like, Jeff Bezos taking his empties back to Hy-Vee.\u00a0 Mansa Musa handed out his gold bar milk money on his hajj to Mecca and crashed the Middle East gold economy.\u00a0 Heard of him?<\/p>\n

Then there is Juan Garrido the black conquistador and first known African in the future United States.\u00a0 He helped discover Florida with Ponce DeLeon and he certainly didn’t get here on a slave ship.\u00a0 Those came a century later.\u00a0 Heard of him?<\/p>\n

And then there is Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock and roll who fused gospel and blues and sick guitar licks in the 1940’s, long before influencing some kids named Little Richard, Elvis, and Johnny Cash.\u00a0 She shredded and was the first to use heavy distortion.\u00a0 Does her name ring a bell?<\/p>\n

I’ll admit all these names were new as the freshly driven snow to my insular ears.\u00a0 Clocking fifteen hours, there is plenty of grist for the mill in\u00a0Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Michael Harriot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History is written by the victors.\u00a0 For U.S. History, “written” equals selectively curated and glossed-over before mass dissemination. Hindsight of an 80’s grade school being 20-20, this fact-laden and exhaustively-researched audiobook is more than a little illuminating.\u00a0 Christopher Columbus came here….for SPICES?\u00a0 Did we honestly believe that?\u00a0 \u00a0 Don’t get[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,10,1],"tags":[7985,7987,7986,676],"class_list":["post-50416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-reference","tag-black-af-history","tag-cd-audiobook","tag-michael-harriot","tag-nonfiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-d7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50416"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50416\/revisions\/50436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}