Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

Today - May 23, 2025

Note:

"this has nothing to do with anything african
this is not masamusa
this is not the islamic moorish empire
this is not king tut
this is not hannibal
this is purely AMERICAN"

"it's gonna get real interesting
because the spanish and the french
are not friends this is why we can't call them whites because they don't even look at themselves as white they look at
themselves by their nation so the story goes
the french were enemies of the spanish the french were
friends with (the black King of Florida) SATOURIONA""

"we're not dealing with Cheikh Anta Diop,
we're not dealing with Dr Ben
we're not dealing with the afro-centric philosophy
we're not dealing with pan-africanism this is not pan-africanism
this is not moorish history these are not
muslims"

"this connects us with the land mass
that our grandparents came from our great great grandparents came from our great
great great grandparents came from"


https://youtu.be/nqu12qBJKtA?t=2656

Allegories of the Four Continents - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"European artists from the Renaissance onward have visualized the known world through allegorical figures derived from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman personifications.

Early allegories of the continents comprised only Europe, Asia, and Africa but when Europeans reached the Americas in 1492, it too was incorporated into the existing schema.

(often) These allegorical figures merge a sexualized young woman (virgin territory) with the symbols and attributes that their makers associated with each continent, in some cases commodities to be traded and resources to be exploited.

America is the only allegorical figure...depicted with her breasts bared and beckoning, an allusion to Europe’s desire to further explore her territory. She wears a feather headdress and carries a bow and arrows, with a full quiver in reserve. At her feet is a severed head pierced with an arrow, conveying her aggressive temperament and the commonly held belief that Indigenous peoples were all cannibals.

(the) archetypes, however, make no attempt to differentiate the facial structure or skin color of the four women representing the continents. This physical uniformity is likely derived from the notion of a classical Western ideal, in which a fetishized white woman, often shown in a state of undress, could be used to represent whatever subject was being allegorized."

https://archive.org/details/iconologia00ripa/page/n493/mode/2up