Are there any significant black philosophers? Why? Why not?

>>3313352
Ptahhotep

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>>3313352
Socrates

W.E.B. Du Bois back when he was alive

>>3313352
Haile Selassie
Marcus Garvey
MLK
Ralph Ellison
Thomas Sowell
Malcolm X
Booker T Washington
WEB Du Bois
Frederick Douglass

I don't know if they all count but that's what comes to mind.

>>3313400

>WE Dubois

can't make this shit up

>>3313750
>if they all count

Not one of those was a philosopher you dope.

>>3313803
Tom Sowell is absolutely a philosopher

>>3313810
Sowell is an economist and sociologist.

I think he'd be angry if you called him a philosopher.

>>3313812
He was once asked "Aren't you an intellectual (the way he defines the terms they mean basically the same thing)"?
Sowell laughed and replied "I suppose you'd have to say that."

>>3313842

So he might not be annoyed if you called him an intellectual, how exactly does this relate to your idiot claim that he is a philosopher?

>>3313867
what is a philosopher according to you?

>>3313870

Someone who publishes philosophy.

most black philosophers mentioned tend to fall more into the sociologist realm than anything

>>3313766
Except its not WE Dubois its W.E.B. Du Bois

>>3313352
Frantz Fanon

>>3313965

An extremely mediocre thinker but at last, a bonefide black philosopher.

>>3313370
Uh huh

>>3313896
That would disclude Socrates

>>3314040

Indeed. So?