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felixw • 13 years ago

A CNN host attacks Glenn Beck? What a surprise. Of course, don't be misled, CNN is actually a fair, impartial, call-it-down-the-middle network. The fact that everyone who works there is a liberal Democrat is irrelevant, and has no impact on how they cover news. And it's purely coincidence that they regularly bury stories that might reflect poorly on the President. And got rid of Lou Dobbs. And chased away Glenn Beck. And hid the ClimateGate scandal. And wouldn't report on the Acorn abuses. And ran a disinformation campaign on the tea parties. And consistently put on guests who equate Republicans with racists. And downplay all the bad economic news and Afghanistan casualties. And continually take cheap shots at Sarah Palin. Etc. etc. etc.

Albert • 13 years ago
Thelonious Funk said:
Wrong, Zakaria. Glenn Beck’s math is right. 5 out of every 3 Muslims want to blow up the US.

Glen beck and Thelonious are wack jobs. Do you even have a clue how many Muslims are in this country and the world. To make such a crazy statement shows you need to be committed!

Bigot!

Atticus Draco • 13 years ago

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To hell with Beck's math,,
My math,,
ONE Muslim Terrorist is ONE TOO DAMN MANY!

Let's try what we can to make that number ZERO!

jjay7381 • 13 years ago
gordonbloyershow said:
We have a Muslim problem not a Christian problem. Jews are not the problem, Muslims are the problem.

Gordon Blowhard, you're an idiot. Everything you say is so stupid it's painful. Muslims are no more dangerous than Christians, and radical muslims are just as dangerous as radical christians. Whenever anyone gets radicalized, it's dangerous and that's the point. If you think Christians don't have blood all over their hands, you're an even bigger idiot than I thought.

gordonbloyershow • 13 years ago

We have a Muslim problem not a Christian problem. Jews are not the problem, Muslims are the problem.

Magister • 13 years ago

@Atticus Draco: We've never had a world without terrorism. I don't know how one would be achieved and quite frankly, while I believe in the social contract and the golden rule, I wouldn't want to live in total conformity and complete acquiescence. I value my freedom to dissent.

Publius219 • 13 years ago

Keep in mind that, as a Mormon, Beck's religious beliefs prominently involve John Smith, the state of Missouri, and some imaginary scrolls. Also, keep in mind that Beck's religious beliefs are not recognized as Christian by any major sect of Christianity.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
It’s not confusing its a lack of typing skills. They did not offer keyboard classes in academic high schools and universities generally when I was in school.

Carelessness in all matters appears to be your trademark.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
I believe it was Wittgenstein who first used the phrase “whooped your butt” in one of his letters to Bertrand Russell after a particularly tendentious disagreement over the meaning of Zeno’s second paradox. Wittgenstein’s glittering rhetorical genius left even the brilliant Russell defenseless; as, alas, finally, am I. P.S. Look up the difference between: to, too, and two. You confused the former two at least twice.

It's not confusing its a lack of typing skills. They did not offer keyboard classes in academic high schools and universities generally when I was in school.

Sean68 • 13 years ago

I believe it was Wittgenstein who first used the phrase "whooped your butt" in one of his letters to Bertrand Russell after a particularly tendentious disagreement over the meaning of Zeno's second paradox. Wittgenstein's glittering rhetorical genius left even the brilliant Russell defenseless; as, alas, finally, am I. P.S. Look up the difference between: to, too, and two. You confused the former two at least twice.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Would you let someone with an honorary degree perform surgery on you? You might as well let “Dr.” Maya Angelou give you a liver transplant.

Your racially tinged attacks bely your inferiority complex. Obviously you do not know that even with an M.D. you canot practice medicine until you have passed your medical boards. A PHD is a totally different degree. Your ignorance is appalling, your bigotry is disgusting. Do you still want to claim that white people are intellectually superior to blacks. This is one black person who has exposed you to be an intellectual midget, as well as a liar and someone who is to lazy to read a post before he tries to rebut it.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Would you let someone with an honorary degree perform surgery on you? You might as well let “Dr.” Maya Angelou give you a liver transplant.

He has been honored by Cornell University with a library there being name after him. As I said earlier. you know nothing about higher education. By your own admission you only have a B.A., a minium level of university education. You have never taught a lectured at a university. I have. you are clueless. You have lied. Your butt has been whooped. Why don't you go to graduate school and get an education. I forgot, that would entail some work and you are to lazy to even read posts before you respond to them. You are the most intellectually inept poster I have seen on this site and that is saying a lot. You have claimed to know information that you are totally unfamiliar with. You claimed that Dr. Clarke did not have a doctorate when he has many. Then you put down the school he received a doctorate from. You are pathetic.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
1) An honorary doctorate is a doctorate..

Would you let someone with an honorary degree perform surgery on you? You might as well let "Dr." Maya Angelou give you a liver transplant.

Sean68 • 13 years ago

Pacific Western? It's an unaccredited diploma mill: B.A. [$75] M.A. [$150] PhD [$275] Cash only,

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
As I suspected and correctly–not to mention laboriously–explained above, “Dr” Clarke is not really a dr. He did not earn a PhD. The doctorate from U of Denver Armwood assured me Clarke had earned was in fact an HONORARY degree. And not even from a very good school.

1) An honorary doctorate is a doctorate. You obviously know little about one. You do not even have one.

2) If you bothered to read the material I posted you would see that Dr. Clarke earned a doctorate "Dr. Clarke, who at age 78 received a doctorate from Pacific Western University as well as many honorary degrees, " Can you even read?

2) I can see why you do not have more than a B.A. plus you have integrity issues. You repeatedly lie.

Sunnyr • 13 years ago

I'll take Glenn Becks figures over Fareed's in a nanno second. IMO, every Muslim who bows down to Sharia Law is a TERRORIST. Just ask their daughter's who can be KILLED by their fathers or brothers if they do anything to embarrass the family. Stick that in your Holy Koran, Fareed!

Sean68 • 13 years ago
GlennBeckReview said:
Just4thefax said:
“Fact: Correct, Print yourself an armwood degree or two!”

armwood says:
“Many insecure people put down or minimize what they do not have the skill or drive to obtain .”

Armwood, you’re dealing with a guy here who doesn’t know what a fact is. He doesn’t have the IQ to be accepted at a university. He’s a moronic troll and not worth your time or energy addressing.

Keep up the fight

Let me ask you, if you followed the above exchange between me and armwood, wouldn't you agree he was arguing that john hendrik clarke had a real PhD? Yet in his own post, he admits it was an honorary degree. We were arguing academic credentials and I made it clear what my position was. What are your thoughts?

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
Sean68 Since you are not an academic and you do not trust original sources here is a backup to my firsh hand account you question.

NANA AKWASI AGYEMAN (aka J.H.Clarke)
John Henrik Clarke

“The awards that impress him most were the first honorary degree he received from the University of Denver, Doctor of Letters, in 1970, and the two honors bestowed on him in 1988. He was enstolled twice that year. On February 28th he was enstooled as, Nana Akwasi Agyeman.

Akwasi meaning – Born on Sunday. Agyeman meaning – Man who saved his people.

On September 30th, the Ga people in the United States enstooled him as Nii Okai Koi 1st.”*

*Dr. John Henrik Clarke: HIS LIFE, HIS WORDS, HIS WORKS, pg. 13, by Anna Swansto

http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/baba-ahmed-speaks/5013-nana-akwasi-agyeman-aka-j-h-clarke.html

As I suspected and correctly--not to mention laboriously--explained above, "Dr" Clarke is not really a dr. He did not earn a PhD. The doctorate from U of Denver Armwood assured me Clarke had earned was in fact an HONORARY degree. And not even from a very good school.

GlennBeckReview • 13 years ago

Just4thefax said:
"Fact: Correct, Print yourself an armwood degree or two!"

armwood says:
"Many insecure people put down or minimize what they do not have the skill or drive to obtain ."

Armwood, you're dealing with a guy here who doesn't know what a fact is. He doesn't have the IQ to be accepted at a university. He's a moronic troll and not worth your time or energy addressing.

Keep up the fight.

armwood • 13 years ago
Just4thefax said:
Fact: Correct, Print yourself an armwood degree or two!

Many insecure people put down or minimize what they do not have the skill or drive to obtain .

Just4thefax • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
From what I can tell, the only requirement for a graduate degree in education is a pulse.

Fact: Correct, Print yourself an armwood degree or two!

armwood • 13 years ago

Sean68 Since you are not an academic and you do not trust original sources here is a backup to my firsh hand account you question.

NANA AKWASI AGYEMAN (aka J.H.Clarke)
John Henrik Clarke

"The awards that impress him most were the first honorary degree he received from the University of Denver, Doctor of Letters, in 1970, and the two honors bestowed on him in 1988. He was enstolled twice that year. On February 28th he was enstooled as, Nana Akwasi Agyeman.

Akwasi meaning - Born on Sunday. Agyeman meaning - Man who saved his people.

On September 30th, the Ga people in the United States enstooled him as Nii Okai Koi 1st."*

*Dr. John Henrik Clarke: HIS LIFE, HIS WORDS, HIS WORKS, pg. 13, by Anna Swansto

http://www.assatashakur.org...

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
You must admit that it is indeed strange that the only source I can find for this alleged credential is you (semi-anonymous internet pseudo-intellectual); and that every other source totally contradicts you.

Both Cornell University and Hunter College acknowledge John Henrik Clarke's doctorate. By the way I have been paid for my so called "pseudo-intellectual" skills for over thirty years. You cannot back off the insult game. What is it with you? do you have some emotional issues or is just that you have a crass personality. I tried to be gracious and nice to you have kicking your butt but you will not stop.

Sean68 • 13 years ago

This has been fun. But if you'll excuse me, I have to go slaughter a hog and have sex with one of my cousins (and not necessarily in that order!).

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
You got your butt whooped by me and you pity me. first you denied Clarke was important. Then you denied he had a PHD. Now you find out he has many PHDs. Then you say you pity me. You do not know how to accept defeat gracefully. Have some class. My last post was an attempt to make peace with you through a connection with Berkeley. you choose to attack once again. I have had experiences that are beyond your imagination. You really don’t get it. I am actually being very gentle with you.

Come on, dude. You didn't even spell Boalt Hall right.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
I did not just know about this guy. I knew him very well during the early seventies. I saw and talked to him on a daily basis. I argued with him, i visited his home. His first PHD was from the University of Colorado at Denver. I know this information first had. It is not something I read somewhere. He received it around 1967-1968.

You must admit that it is indeed strange that the only source I can find for this alleged credential is you (semi-anonymous internet pseudo-intellectual); and that every other source totally contradicts you.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
The truth of the matter is that I pity you.

You got your butt whooped by me and you pity me. first you denied Clarke was important. Then you denied he had a PHD. Now you find out he has many PHDs. Then you say you pity me. You do not know how to accept defeat gracefully. Have some class. My last post was an attempt to make peace with you through a connection with Berkeley. you choose to attack once again. I have had experiences that are beyond your imagination. You really don't get it. I am actually being very gentle with you.

armwood • 13 years ago
armwood said:
I did not go to a community college. It’s funny though mentioning Berkeley I accepted and the turned down Bolt Hall for my J.D studies. There is nothing wrong with community colleges. They preform a necessary function in society. The academic rigors of a top tier doctoral and/or professional school program hone the mind on a level that no undergraduate program comes anywhere close to doing. The gap between the two is huge. Logically thinking, understanding the nature of an argument is a learned skill. You spoke earlier about mathematics. Mathematics is a disciple. It takes hard work and rigorous practice but I have seen math majors with a 4.0 undergraduate GPA fail out of rigorous J.D. programs. I have taught many graduate students with math back, science and medical grounds in South Korea, a country with the highest ranked science students in the world who were totally unable to construct a logical argument on any subject out of their discipline. My point is math is one discipline. One in which I did extremely well in school but had no real interest in. It is not and in all in itself. In fact it is easier than fields of study where the answer is maybe, depending on a whole series of variables which you must be able to articulate. Each advanced discipline has its own rigor.

I did not just know about this guy. I knew him very well during the early seventies. I saw and talked to him on a daily basis. I argued with him, i visited his home. His first PHD was from the University of Colorado at Denver. I know this information first had. It is not something I read somewhere. He received it around 1967-1968.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
I did not go to a community college. It’s funny though mentioning Berkeley I accepted and the turned down Bolt Hall for my J.D studies. There is nothing wrong with community colleges. They preform a necessary function in society. The academic rigors of a top tier doctoral and/or professional school program hone the mind on a level that no undergraduate program comes anywhere close to doing. The gap between the two is huge. Logically thinking, understanding the nature of an argument is a learned skill. You spoke earlier about mathematics. Mathematics is a disciple. It takes hard work and rigorous practice but I have seen math majors with a 4.0 undergraduate GPA fail out of rigorous J.D. programs. I have taught many graduate students with math back, science and medical grounds in South Korea, a country with the highest ranked science students in the world who were totally unable to construct a logical argument on any subject out of their discipline. My point is math is one discipline. One in which I did extremely well in school but had no real interest in. It is not and in all in itself. In fact it is easier than fields of study where the answer is maybe, depending on a whole series of variables which you must be able to articulate. Each advanced discipline has its own rigor.

The truth of the matter is that I pity you.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Yep. Only a BA. But then I wasn’t the one hyping the absolute sovereignty of academic credentials, which you did when it suited your purposes.

Do you understand my point? I know that logic is no longer a required course in community college, but you can’t say, “I’m smarter than you because I went [supposedly] to XYZ U and you didn’t!” and then in the next breath cite some credentialess scholar as an authority on XYZ.

Also, you want to address that point about incest?

I did not go to a community college. It's funny though mentioning Berkeley I accepted and the turned down Bolt Hall for my J.D studies. There is nothing wrong with community colleges. They preform a necessary function in society. The academic rigors of a top tier doctoral and/or professional school program hone the mind on a level that no undergraduate program comes anywhere close to doing. The gap between the two is huge. Logically thinking, understanding the nature of an argument is a learned skill. You spoke earlier about mathematics. Mathematics is a disciple. It takes hard work and rigorous practice but I have seen math majors with a 4.0 undergraduate GPA fail out of rigorous J.D. programs. I have taught many graduate students with math back, science and medical grounds in South Korea, a country with the highest ranked science students in the world who were totally unable to construct a logical argument on any subject out of their discipline. My point is math is one discipline. One in which I did extremely well in school but had no real interest in. It is not and in all in itself. In fact it is easier than fields of study where the answer is maybe, depending on a whole series of variables which you must be able to articulate. Each advanced discipline has its own rigor.

Sean68 • 13 years ago

Was that written by wesley snipes? Again, you must have PASTED the wrong shit because that ALSO doesn't mention anytihng about an EARNED PhD from the U of Denver. I thought you knew about this guy. Turns out you don't even know where he went to college.

armwood • 13 years ago

In Memoriam Dr. John Henrik Clarke, 1915-1998

Journal article by Robert L. Jr. Harris; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 83, 1998

http://www.questia.com/goog...

Journal Article Excerpt See below...

IN MEMORIAM DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, 1915-1998.

by Robert L. Jr. Harris
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, who in 1995 received the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History's highest award, the Carter G. Woodson Medallion, was fond of saying that "History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be." Dr. Clarke, who joined the ancestors on July 16, 1998, devoted himself to placing people of African ancestry "on the map of human geography."
Born January 1, 1915 in Union Springs, Alabama, Dr. Clarke grew up in a poor but nurturing sharecropping family. He developed an early curiosity, especially from biblical stories, about the place of black people in world history. Although he dropped out of school in the eighth grade, that curiosity took him to Harlem, where he joined the Harlem History Club and the Harlem Writers Guild. In the Harlem History Club, he met Arthur A. Schomburg, Willis N. Higgins, and John G. Jackson, who became his mentors in reclaiming the African past.
Known and admired as an historian, Dr. Clarke began his career as a writer. His first published work was a collection of poetry. He wrote more than fifty short stories, the most famous being "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black." A raconteur in the black folk tradition, he honed his skills as a writer for the Pittsburgh Courier and later as associate editor of Freedomways.
Through his association with members of the Harlem History Club as well as Josef ben Jochannan, William Leo Hansberry, Richard B. Moore, and J.A. Rogers, Dr. Clarke learned much about black history. He came from a tradition that researched, wrote, and taught black history outside the academy. It was only with the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s that Dr. Clarke entered the academy as a Visiting Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University and as a Professor in the Black and Puerto Rican Studies Department at Hunter College in New York City, from which he retired in 1985 as the Thomas C. Hunter Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Clarke, who at age 78 received a doctorate from Pacific Western University as well as many honorary degrees, had a profound influence on scholars and statesmen worldwide. He was a mentor and friend to Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, and Eduardo Mondlane, among others. The author and editor of some two dozen books, Dr. Clarke was a font of knowledge, a voracious reader with a prodigious memory. He was a veritable walking library, who generously shared his wisdom, especially in the corridors at meetings of national and international organizations. Many of us are proud to say that we attended the "University" of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, as every encounter with him was a lesson on the importance of restoring our past.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Black Profiles in Courage, acknowledges that Dr. Clarke inspired his interest in black history as a youngster in the Harlem Youth Action Project. The actor, Wesley Snipes, recently produced and narrated a documentary "John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk" in appreciation for Dr. Clarke's influence on his life. The 1968 CBS television series "Black Heritage: The History of Afro-Americans" that Dr. Clarke coordinated helped to generate interest in African American history and to take it to a broader audience. Whether in his books, in the classroom, on the podium, or in meeting corridors, Dr. John Henrik Clarke was and remains a "masterful teacher."
Africana Studies and Research Center
Cornell University

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
Only a B.A.? Provide documentation of your degree and your math SAT score! You wanted Dr. Clarke’s proof which I provided from Cornell and Hunter. where’s your proof?

Yep. Only a BA. But then I wasn't the one hyping the absolute sovereignty of academic credentials, which you did when it suited your purposes.

Do you understand my point? I know that logic is no longer a required course in community college, but you can't say, "I'm smarter than you because I went [supposedly] to XYZ U and you didn't!" and then in the next breath cite some credentialess scholar as an authority on XYZ.

Also, you want to address that point about incest?

Sean68 • 13 years ago

Perhaps I missed it--and this is not to say that the University of Denver is not one of this nation's top institutions of higher learning--but I couldn't find anything about his PhD. Perhaps you erred and sent me the wrong link.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
LOL. Okay. I have a bachelor’s degree in English from Berkeley. I graduated summa cum laude. And my math SAT’s were 800. Happy now? Now about that link to “Dr” Clarke’s PhD. I haven’t been able to confirm that. Could you provide that link?

Only a B.A.? Provide documentation of your degree and your math SAT score! You wanted Dr. Clarke's proof which I provided from Cornell and Hunter. where's your proof?

armwood • 13 years ago

Further information From Hunter College on Dr. John Henrik Clarke

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/...

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
I have made you look like a fool and you still refuse to answer the questions you promised to answer.

Once again you demonstrate your lack of integrity. I pasted a long document outlining Professor Clarke’s contributions. I also referred you to the documentary “A Great And Mighty Walk” Now you claim you asked about his doctorate. I told you he received his doctorate from the University of colorado at Denver. You have been whooped. Take your whooping, go in the corner and suck your thumb. Next time do not not to that you know something bout a topic you know nothing about. You may get embarrassed again.

You refused to answer my questions after your racist allegations claiming white superiority. This is the third time I have asked you this question. I know you are afraid to answer it. your silence on the topic proves my point. Case closed.

1) What is your education level and in what subject?

2) Answer that! What were your SAT scores in math?

LOL. Okay. I have a bachelor's degree in English from Berkeley. I graduated summa cum laude. And my math SAT's were 800. Happy now? Now about that link to "Dr" Clarke's PhD. I haven't been able to confirm that. Could you provide that link?

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Also, are you going to accept that you engaged in classist and racist stereotyping?

I have made you look like a fool and you still refuse to answer the questions you promised to answer.

Once again you demonstrate your lack of integrity. I pasted a long document outlining Professor Clarke’s contributions. I also referred you to the documentary “A Great And Mighty Walk” Now you claim you asked about his doctorate. I told you he received his doctorate from the University of colorado at Denver. You have been whooped. Take your whooping, go in the corner and suck your thumb. Next time do not not to that you know something bout a topic you know nothing about. You may get embarrassed again.

You refused to answer my questions after your racist allegations claiming white superiority. This is the third time I have asked you this question. I know you are afraid to answer it. your silence on the topic proves my point. Case closed.

1) What is your education level and in what subject?

2) Answer that! What were your SAT scores in math?

Sean68 • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Come on, I;m waiting. I accept that you can’t argue persuasively (in your own words) that Clarke was anything other than just another bogus afro-centric “scholar,” but I want you to admit to racist stereotyping. Otherwise, an accusation that some one practices “inbreeding” is a sort-of odd out-of-the-blue insult.

I think you need the help, so I'll try to draw a useful analogy. It would be akin to me saying, "hey, you--fat urkle--why don't you just go back to practicing cannabilism with your black friends!"

Sean68 • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
Also, are you going to accept that you engaged in classist and racist stereotyping?

Come on, I;m waiting. I accept that you can't argue persuasively (in your own words) that Clarke was anything other than just another bogus afro-centric "scholar," but I want you to admit to racist stereotyping. Otherwise, an accusation that some one practices "inbreeding" is a sort-of odd out-of-the-blue insult.

Sean68 • 13 years ago

Also, are you going to accept that you engaged in classist and racist stereotyping?

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
How about Cornell University!

Dr. John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke was born in Union Springs, Alabama on New Year’s Day, 1915. His family came from a long line of sharecroppers.
Clarke noticed that although many bible stories “unfolded in Africa…I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons,” he wrote in 1985. “I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”
That search took him to libraries, museums, in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and Africa.
What he found was that the history of black people is worldwide; that “the first light of human consciousness and the world’s first civilizations were in Africa”; that the so called Dark Ages were dark only for Europe and that some African nations at the time were larger than any in Europe; that as Africa sends its children to Europe to study because that is where the best universities are, early Greece once sent its children to Africa to study because that was where the best universities were; and that slavery, although devastating, was neither the beginning nor the end of Black people’s impact on the world.
In 1933 Clarke left the South and went to Harlem. He studied history and world literature at New York University at Columbia University. He was one of the “self-educated intellectuals” who arose in African-American life and he found mentors, such as scholar Arthur Schomburg, from his activism in Harlem. At the age of 78 Clarke earned a doctorate from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles.
Clarke’s findings influenced many Black leaders including Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X.
Achieving public prominence during the years of Black Power, Clarke was an outspoken advocate for black studies, and the study of the African-American experience and the place of Africans in world history. He challenged traditional academic history as an outsider, and helped shift the way African history was studied and taught. Clarke was “a scholar devoted to redressing what he saw as a systematic and racist suppression and distortion of African history by traditional scholars.” When some of the scholarship he championed was dismissed by traditional historians, Clarke accused them of their own biases in promoting Eurocentric views. Although Dr. Clarke had many accomplishments, his greatest accomplishment may be his ability to create a framework for studies of the history of Africa and the people in the diaspora.
In 1985, the year of his retirement, the newest branch of the Cornell University Library- a 60 seat, 9,000 volume facility- was named the “John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.

John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/

The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library is a special library located within Cornell University’s Africana Studies and Research Center. The library is one of nineteen units of the University Library system, and offers a full range of services. Its collection of [21,100] volumes focuses on the social and political dimensions of the history and culture of peoples of African ancestry. It supports the curriculum of the Africana Studies and Research Center and sustained, independent study. Included here are basic books, complete collections of works of important writers, and highly selective research materials that complement the collections housed in Cornell University’s research libraries. The Africana Library’s documentation collection contains valuable primary source materials, including copies of rare monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and journal publications on microfilm and microfiche. Those resources focus on especially important material on the American civil rights and Black Power movements.

The Africana Center was founded in 1969 following black student protests on the Cornell Campus. One notable event involved black students depositing hundreds of books at the undergraduate library circulation desk and denouncing them as irrelevant to their experiences. Historically, the faculty of the Africana Studies and Research Center has always had a strong commitment towards maintaining its own library. The Africana Center included a library when it was first established. Later, after its building was destroyed by arsonists (April 1, 1970), it garnered funds from the university and local community to replace materials lost from its library collection. Once it relocated to its present site the library was prominently established near the building’s entrance.

In the late 1970s there was heated debate on campus about relocating the Africana Center once more. Because it’s location was some distance away from central campus (approximately 20 minutes walking time) and many of its courses were taught at the Center, some considered the Africana Studies program too segregated. A number of more central locations were proposed for relocation. In the end these were rejected because they entailed substantial reductions in space. Ultimately, the Center’s fledgling library benefited from this consequence. A reduction in space would have affected collection size and overall growth.

During 1984-85 the Africana Center and University Library reached an agreement to transfer the library administratively to the University Library. Faculty of the Africana Studies & Research Center named the library in honor of Dr. John Henrik Clarke during the summer of 1985. As a distinguished historian, Dr. Clarke was instrumental in establishing the Africana Center’s curriculum in the 1970s and taught courses in black history at Cornell. Several years later, in 1990, the Africana Center and University Library collaborated to raise $50,000 to renovate the library’s space and enhance the overall level of service. The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library now occupies most of the lower level of the Africana Center’s three-story building. A third of this space is shared with a graduate student lounge and a computer lab. All of the library’s holdings are included in the University Library’s online catalog, and the Africana Library itself houses several online catalog terminals, a circulation terminal, CD-ROM and various audio-visual equipment, and has access to numerous locally networked bibliographic databases.*

*Note: The Africana Library has a new location which opened its doors in January 2005. For information on this location, visit: http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/library.html.

Please stop cutting and pasting massive amounts of bullshit. I asked you for a link to prove he earned a PhD. I also asked you to explain--IN YOUR OWN WORDS--what was so significant about this huckster's scholarly contributions.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
His wikipedia page–cleary written by a admirer–says he didn’t even graduate from HS. No linky, no ticky!

How about Cornell University!

Dr. John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke was born in Union Springs, Alabama on New Year’s Day, 1915. His family came from a long line of sharecroppers.
Clarke noticed that although many bible stories "unfolded in Africa...I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons," he wrote in 1985. "I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."
That search took him to libraries, museums, in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and Africa.
What he found was that the history of black people is worldwide; that "the first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa"; that the so called Dark Ages were dark only for Europe and that some African nations at the time were larger than any in Europe; that as Africa sends its children to Europe to study because that is where the best universities are, early Greece once sent its children to Africa to study because that was where the best universities were; and that slavery, although devastating, was neither the beginning nor the end of Black people's impact on the world.
In 1933 Clarke left the South and went to Harlem. He studied history and world literature at New York University at Columbia University. He was one of the "self-educated intellectuals" who arose in African-American life and he found mentors, such as scholar Arthur Schomburg, from his activism in Harlem. At the age of 78 Clarke earned a doctorate from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles.
Clarke’s findings influenced many Black leaders including Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X.
Achieving public prominence during the years of Black Power, Clarke was an outspoken advocate for black studies, and the study of the African-American experience and the place of Africans in world history. He challenged traditional academic history as an outsider, and helped shift the way African history was studied and taught. Clarke was "a scholar devoted to redressing what he saw as a systematic and racist suppression and distortion of African history by traditional scholars." When some of the scholarship he championed was dismissed by traditional historians, Clarke accused them of their own biases in promoting Eurocentric views. Although Dr. Clarke had many accomplishments, his greatest accomplishment may be his ability to create a framework for studies of the history of Africa and the people in the diaspora.
In 1985, the year of his retirement, the newest branch of the Cornell University Library- a 60 seat, 9,000 volume facility- was named the "John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.

John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
http://www.library.cornell....

The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library is a special library located within Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center. The library is one of nineteen units of the University Library system, and offers a full range of services. Its collection of [21,100] volumes focuses on the social and political dimensions of the history and culture of peoples of African ancestry. It supports the curriculum of the Africana Studies and Research Center and sustained, independent study. Included here are basic books, complete collections of works of important writers, and highly selective research materials that complement the collections housed in Cornell University's research libraries. The Africana Library's documentation collection contains valuable primary source materials, including copies of rare monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and journal publications on microfilm and microfiche. Those resources focus on especially important material on the American civil rights and Black Power movements.

The Africana Center was founded in 1969 following black student protests on the Cornell Campus. One notable event involved black students depositing hundreds of books at the undergraduate library circulation desk and denouncing them as irrelevant to their experiences. Historically, the faculty of the Africana Studies and Research Center has always had a strong commitment towards maintaining its own library. The Africana Center included a library when it was first established. Later, after its building was destroyed by arsonists (April 1, 1970), it garnered funds from the university and local community to replace materials lost from its library collection. Once it relocated to its present site the library was prominently established near the building's entrance.

In the late 1970s there was heated debate on campus about relocating the Africana Center once more. Because it's location was some distance away from central campus (approximately 20 minutes walking time) and many of its courses were taught at the Center, some considered the Africana Studies program too segregated. A number of more central locations were proposed for relocation. In the end these were rejected because they entailed substantial reductions in space. Ultimately, the Center's fledgling library benefited from this consequence. A reduction in space would have affected collection size and overall growth.

During 1984-85 the Africana Center and University Library reached an agreement to transfer the library administratively to the University Library. Faculty of the Africana Studies & Research Center named the library in honor of Dr. John Henrik Clarke during the summer of 1985. As a distinguished historian, Dr. Clarke was instrumental in establishing the Africana Center's curriculum in the 1970s and taught courses in black history at Cornell. Several years later, in 1990, the Africana Center and University Library collaborated to raise $50,000 to renovate the library's space and enhance the overall level of service. The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library now occupies most of the lower level of the Africana Center's three-story building. A third of this space is shared with a graduate student lounge and a computer lab. All of the library's holdings are included in the University Library's online catalog, and the Africana Library itself houses several online catalog terminals, a circulation terminal, CD-ROM and various audio-visual equipment, and has access to numerous locally networked bibliographic databases.*

*Note: The Africana Library has a new location which opened its doors in January 2005. For information on this location, visit: http://www.library.cornell.....

Sean68 • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
In the world of sentient adults, fat-urkle, simple cutting and pasting doesn’t, well, cut it. Note, I emphasized CLEARLY that I wanted YOU in YOUR OWN WORDS to explain what was so great about Clarke’s contributions to history. What’s it been? 30 minutes since I issued that challenge?

My point--assuming it's not already obvious to anyone who might be paying attention--is that you are either talking out of your fat-urkle asshole or Clarke's "contributions' to the field of afrocentric-american history is, shall we say, rather suspect.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
Once again you demonstrate your lack of integrity. I pasted a long document outlining Professor clarke’s contributions. I also referred you to the documentary “A Great And Mighty Walk”

You refused to anser my questions after your racist allegations claiming white superiority. This is the third time I have asked you this question. I know you are afraid to answer it. your silence on the topic proves my point. Case closed.

1) What is your education level and in what subject?

2) Answer that! What were your SAT scores in math?

In the world of sentient adults, fat-urkle, simple cutting and pasting doesn't, well, cut it. Note, I emphasized CLEARLY that I wanted YOU in YOUR OWN WORDS to explain what was so great about Clarke's contributions to history. What's it been? 30 minutes since I issued that challenge?

Sean68 • 13 years ago

Hmm.....I beginning to suspect you're the night manager of a jack-in-the-box, armwood! Have you considered serial killing? You do resemble the Kensinton rapist.(black serial rapist/strangler who selects only white victims). Nothing in the media though, of course.

armwood • 13 years ago
Sean68 said:
If anyone gives a shit, note that this fat steve-urkle look alike chose not to answer my challenge regarding Clarke’s contribution to the field of history. Yet, according to fat-Urkle, he’s the greatest historian since Charles Beard!

Once again you demonstrate your lack of integrity. I pasted a long document outlining Professor clarke's contributions. I also referred you to the documentary "A Great And Mighty Walk"

You refused to anser my questions after your racist allegations claiming white superiority. This is the third time I have asked you this question. I know you are afraid to answer it. your silence on the topic proves my point. Case closed.

1) What is your education level and in what subject?

2) Answer that! What were your SAT scores in math?

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
John Henrik Clarke’s doctorate was from the University of Colorado at Denver.

His wikipedia page--cleary written by a admirer--says he didn't even graduate from HS. No linky, no ticky!

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
The ignorant bigotry on this forum is amazing. Do dome of you live in America? Do you live on planet earth? It seems that most people here have never had Muslim friends are worked with Muslims. What kind of jobs do you have? Muslims have been in America since the early 1600s, before most of your ancestors immigrated from Europe. Clearly you do not socialize out of your tiny inbred circle of friends who are all the same. Glen Beck is an idiot. He is a huckster and a fake. He hustles people who are fearful and do not know any better. There are many Muslim professionals in this country, who work and love America.

Here, you accuse a clearly white opponent of inbreeding. Now, of course, you'll admit that this is hyperbole. But I maintain that it is RACIST hyperbole.

Sean68 • 13 years ago
armwood said:
I never endorsed such a stereotype. I do not stereotype anyone. Unlike you i have had a broad experience. People are individuals. Race is irrelevant to that fact. You obviously never learned this.

You are making up stuff to duck my questions. You think that Watson is right and whites are superior to blacks. Come on and stop being a coward and put your racist notions to the test. don’t play games with me!

1) What is your education level and in what subject?

2) Answer that! What were your SAT scores in math?

If anyone gives a shit, note that this fat steve-urkle look alike chose not to answer my challenge regarding Clarke's contribution to the field of history. Yet, according to fat-Urkle, he's the greatest historian since Charles Beard!