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Re: RAIN 10/10: Who really discovered America?



Hi, folks.  I'm at the end of the week, checking my e-mail.  Two quick
two-cents-ers:

1. Michael Bradley's "The Black Discoverers of America" posits that
Columbus KNEW land was to the west.  How?
His father-in-law was one of the greatest map suppliers, and he and his
son-in-law had access to Arab maps based on Egyptian/Phoenician voyages.
They went to the British Isles for tin; why not further?  No smoking gun,
but think about it.  If Columbus hadn't feigned ignorance, he couldn't have
claimed what he found for himself, in the name of the Queen.

2.  Ivan Van Sertima's "They Came Before Columbus" documents the Egyptians
as well as Mande West African voyagers (as does Bradley's book), evidenced
by art and sculpture (Olmecs, remember?) and well as accounts from both
sides of the Atlantic, and documents of Spanish explorers "discovering"
Africans when they got here.

It seems that the modern Euro-American post-Darwin, "marching towards
progress" mind that insists that peoples from the past --Chinese, Mande,
Irish, Norse--could not have made the trip before the dominant cuture's
accepted story (Columbus) says it was.  History's longer than paper, and
people have always been bright.

Have (or hope you had) a great weekend!

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