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Originally Posted by ches
I don't think the current history books were written to brainwash Africans, I think they were distorted with the bias of the authors. Nepalese history books probably don't credit Sir Edmund Hillary with being the first man to climb Mt Everest. They also probably don't call it Mt. Everest.
This is probably why South African text books have been rewritten over the past 15 years.
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Any dissemination of untrue information has got the ultimate object of potraying our history in a manner that tends to misrepresents the truth about us and that really amounts to the brainswashing of the unsuspecting consumers of that information. It is very difficult to reverse the injury already caused as long as the media, publishers, authors etc are remaining predominantly white. Look at our school system. Anything that is African is mocked upon and labelled irrelevant and primitive and this includes the traditional African beliefs which are still outlawed by the Witchcraft suppression act. Christianity remains dominant in our school system. Our Children are not being groomed to become Africans in an Independent South Africa. Hate speech is publicly uttered by the Christianity directing their hate, intimidation etc towards the African Tradition every Sundays and at every opportunity. Tradional Africans are being labelled as witches by the Christians. There has been an upsage in witch burnings in rural areas something that has got much to do with the Catholic Orders against the heretics. Our leaders are even passing laws eg the one passed to outlaw virginity testing something that is viewed as a direct onslaught against African beliefs by the African elite in collaboration with their masters.