favorite black people in history

Paul Robeson

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Katherine Johnson, just look at this intelligent black woman.

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>>1958508
My melanin enriched brother

>>1958508
Cool choice

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Lawrence Dennis, premier theorist of American Fascism and (probable) major influence on William Appleman Williams

>>1958507
Mozart

>>1958507
OP's dad

>>1958720
This is a spicy meme but Joseph Boulogne is one of my favorite concerto composers.

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>>1958507
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Seriously, the "people" who fetishize Africa solely for fetishizing them disgust me. No, you're not showing you're "progressive", it's akin to say "look, these monkeys aren't savages after all!"

But my favourite black guy of any historical significance was James Kabarebe, for his ebin role in the second Congo war.

>In a bold move, Rwandan soldiers under the command of James Kabarebe hijacked three planes and flew them to the government base of Kitona on the Atlantic coast.[17] The planes landed in the middle of the Kitona base, but the motley collection of troops there (ex-FAZ, but also Angolan UNITA elements and former Lissouba militiamen from Brazzaville) were in poor condition and in no condition to fight unless given food and weapons.[18] They were quickly won over to the Rwandan side. More towns in the east and around Kitona fell in rapid succession as the combined RCD, Rwandan and rebel soldiers overwhelmed government forces amid a flurry of ineffectual diplomatic efforts by various African nations. By 13 August, less than two weeks after the revolt began, rebels held the Inga hydroelectric station that provided power to Kinshasa as well as the port of Matadi through which most of Kinshasa's food passed. The diamond center of Kisangani fell into rebel hands on 23 August and forces advancing from the east had begun to threaten Kinshasa by late August. Uganda, while retaining joint support of the RCD with Rwanda, also created a rebel group that it supported exclusively, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC).

Thomas Sankara.

Made Burkina Faso great again until he was murdered in a coup. He was a commie but he was a good man, wanted to help instead of plundering the country.

>>1958507
Papa Doc Duvalier

>>1958768
Was he the retarded one who went to meet rebels and got killed or am I thinking of Liberia?

>>1958742
Rec me some Boulogne famalam

Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, N´Krumah

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Pic related wasn't too good of a president, but is a total /b/ro and doesn't deserve any of the extreme vitriol thrown his way.

>>1958768
Yeah. Then France had him killed and has had a dictator that favored their plundering for decades since.
>>1958507
Edward James Roye he was the first non-mulatto president who sought to overthrow the mixed race elite who sought thr white life of the south in Africa and create a Liberian nation that brought together Americos and Mande inland.

Dumbass took out a loan he couldn't pay though and the mulattos always hated him for wanting nothing to do with the US.


Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin- Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

He was mixed race, apparently he is 1/4th because both his parents had the same African grandfather.

Sir James Douglas first Govenor of British Columbia

Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, Eartha Kitt, Assata Shakur, Marcus Garvey, Nina Simone

>>1958798

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWHs287FLkI&list=PLuldoTUKvtK2Cx8seVYqXvU5SbpzAanr1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9_weY_Hls

He had an interesting life.
>Rape baby in the carribian
>raised like nobility but not really given inhertience
>Make living by writing bitchin music
>Duel trannies at Versaille
>Go on sick nasty adventures in Haiti with Lamothe and escape the revolution barely

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His Imperial Majesty of course

>>1958825
This is real nice desu

>>1958507
Jesus Christ

>>1958825

What a fucking Legend

>>1958768

Was about to post this. Man was based.

>>1958768
>but
Fuck off porky

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>>1958533
>this is considered black in America

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>>1958768
>this Marxist dictator would SURELY turn out good if he wasn't killed, unlike EVERY SINGLE OTHER Marxist dictator who held unto power

When will this meme die? Want a good African leader? Look out Seretse Khama. But then, he wasn't a Marxist and he actually cooperated with the people who were "plundering his country", so he can't fit your narrative.

Anne Frank

>>1958793
That was the Liberian dictator going to meet the Nigerian peacekeepers.

Kanye West

>>1958812
He definitely deserves some of the shit, but nothing more than most presidents would. At the end of the day, his whole term was just mostly unremarkable. Possibly due to clashes with Congress, but still.

>>1958956
It worked because Tswana people were the only major nation, they sat on gold, Copper, coal and diamonds and he basically sold out to Debeers. Meanwhile most households are food insecure, HIV is rampant and most are poor as fucj with limited international power even in the region of southern Africa.

>>1958818
The double great grandfather is an even more interesting figure desu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin

Bokasa

Frantz Fanon

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The Goat of Goats
The king of kings

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We wuz furerz

>>1958768
This.

>>1958859
I know it's bland but, this. I'm black and reading his auto biography in highschool made me think there's no excuse for black people today. Hard work, dedication, and a little help goes a long way. During fucking slavery he was able to make a great man of himself.

>>1958793
Liberia.

>>1958507
>No Scipio Africanus in this thread

Am I really on /his/

>>1958812
he literally ordered the summary execution of American citizens.

>>1959292
>control+f hannibal
>0 results

wtf

Malik Agar for obvious reasons

>>1959292
>>1959399
The funny guys!

>>1959280
not that I disagree but he was pretty lucky for a slave

>>1959505
He actually seems like a really cool guy

Jean Jacques Dessalines

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>>1958507

>>1959298
and?

>>1959298
They were terrorists. Next you'll tell me that the police aren't justified in killing people who are about to detonate a bomb and kill hundreds.

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>>1958507

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Juan de Pareja, a slave Velasquez inherited, freed and employed as an assistant. Mixed his colors. Also a painter in his own right, although I don't know how large his body of work is.

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>>1958507
>travelled to Mecca
>handed out thousands of pounds of Gold and Salt in Egypt
>caused inflation still felt today in Egypt
This nigga created the welfare state before it was cool

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One drop rule

I know he technically isn't allowed on this board because of the 25 year rule but I really admire Barrack Obama.
Fredrick Douglass was pretty cool I guess.
Ralph Ellison is another favorite

>>1962030
>This nigga created the welfare state before it was cool

I guess its genetic after all

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Probably one of the most competent political players ever to come out of the Caribbean

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>you will never assault the Vatican wielding a lasso with your nigga Garibaldi in 1848

why live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Aguyar

>>1962030
Name?

>>1962231
Mansa Musa, Muslim King of the Empire of Mali

>>1958744
Yeah, I agree. As a black man I feel we should just embrace out heritage for what it is, history should be as objective as possible and should be about studying without this need to "keep up with the Jones's" jealousy. It's like when people say X culture is better than Y culture. It might be true when you look at it through certain perspectives but that is not the point.

>>1958507
>no Idi Amin
it's like you don't want to challenge the guerrillas that are about to depose you to a boxing match

>>1958507
Ayyy, my great grandfather worked in his administration.

I've got some books about him laying around that I should get to.

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>>1958507
I found his discussion of race very intellectual and fair. I also like that he realized the economic problems that did and would face black people, he did not blindly focus on race like some people. If he were around today he would not approve of BLM, he was one for action but it was always thought out and clear.

>>1958828
>ethiopians
>black

I am kidding, I like how he wasn't a megalomaniac like other royalty of the time and he denied his attributed godliness in favor of christianity.

>>1959292
I think its implied we are talking about sub-saharan africans.

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>>1962319
>taking art history cause art requirement
>professor is an artfag, very clearly not a historian
>get to roman art and culture
>mentions severus dynasty
>THIS is the history they won't show you >:)
>thinks everyone named Africanus was black
>spends half an hour of our 3hr (she lets us out in 2) class talking about Trump
>can't maintain a conversation that goes outside the book at all unless it's about artshit
>slows down every time we come across some interesting but insignificant woman that managed to make his-story
>blasts through Julius Caeser in no time
>john green video at the end of every lecture

Why is this allowed?

>>1962362
because its what (((they))) want

>>1962372
>(((they)))
The Anglos?
G*rmans?

>>1962384
oh sorry normie, the jews

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>>1958507
He only wanted good for his country, too bad he drank the socialist kool aid and fucked up his country.

People are thinking of canonizing him.

>>1958744
Also this.

Alexandre Dumas

>>1962288
Whoa cool, what did he do? How did the coup affect things?

Would Ghana have been better off if it stuck with the Eastern Bloc?

>>1962395
Posts like this are embarrassing. Are you underage or just new?

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>>1958507

>>1958507
>This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc.

le /pol/ meme request

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Mbaye Diagne

>>1959079
Really activates my almonds.

>>1962030
I've heard that Montezuma and Mansa Musa are the same person. It's interesting because Mansa did infact send imperial voyages to South America even before his journey to Mecca.

Someone should check me on that though.

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>Blahyi has said he led his troops naked except for shoes and a gun. He believed that his nakedness was a source of protection from bullets.
>Blahyi now claims he would regularly sacrifice a victim before battle, saying, "Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the devil."
>"So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink the blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colorful wigs and carrying imaginary purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic. We killed hundreds of people--so many I lost count."

>>1964105
>We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic
Words to live by.

>>1958507
Malcolm X.

But for memes' sake, Marcus Garvey.

Freeway Rick Ross also seems like a really good guy.

>>1959280

It's so strange, the further back you go the more African-American writers you find who're just urging people to conduct themselves properly and get on with it. I remember reading Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work - she basically decided that the slavery blame-game was pointless, since everyone (including African tribes) were in on it. She then decides that 'fuck it, you are what you want to be'. We're all bags of stardust, I think the metaphor went

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>"For our declaration of independence, we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!"
Man, the British really did a good decision in allying with him against the French.

>>1964112
>Marcus Garvey

If I didn't know you were posting him just to annoy me i'd write a really long angry post about why you should be shot in the back of the head.

>>1962421
came here to post this

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Mansa Musa, king of Mali and one of the richest people in history

>>1964627
>the richest people in history
wut

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Too easy

>>1964627
he also caused gold inflation in egypt that is still felt today

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>>1964627
>richest man throughout history
>wanted to bring grand architectural buildings and educational centres to his Empire and sub-saharan Africa in general
>could hire any engineer and architect throughout the muslim world
>this was his magnum opus
>a fucking sand castle
He really knew how to give /pol/tards today the ammunition they needed to ridicule the proud black man.

>>1958985
>his whole term was just mostly unremarkable
This, really. He was a palate cleanser after the Bush admnistration.

>>1964053
I believe that was Mansa Musa's father.

>>1962421
Which one?

>>1958744
who cares?

>>1959280
He was the lucky ones though.
It's like saying some guy being born in some dead rural meth town who became president means every other person form those depressive shitholes have no excuse.

>>1964309
>Conduct themselves properly and get on with it.

That's because being African American was like being Squidward in that Camp episode he gets mauled by a Sea bear. No matter what you did you triggered white society and got punished or attacked socially or sometimes physically. Even if you did get in the ring and got immunity against sea bears the big sea rhino would get you later on.

>>1958867
this.

>>1962307
I think he would support what they are going for. I'm pretty sure rampant law abuse by men of the law would be of concern to him. Especially if he heard about Daniel Holtzclaw and how he targeted women were African American women and used his position to run Background checks to target them by using information coerce sex.

If he had issues wit the stuff that went on back then I'm sure he'd have issues with stuff that went on now.

George Washington Carver, peanut butter man