Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that complicated road toward Christian forgiveness.... Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
Kochiyama emphasized the historical similarities of the plight of African- and Asian-Americans in the U.S., and stressed their need for unity in the future...
...counterfeit cards costs issuers of plastic $1.6 billion a year in phony charges, according to the Nilson Report, a credit-card industry newsletter. Nigeria has produced so many credit-card bandits that the U.S. Secret Service joined with other federal agencies in the 1980s to form a special West African Task Force that helped nab Adekanbi. According to authorities, his gang used counterfeit cards to obtain at least $650,000 in goods and cash advances and had access to lines of credit worth $8 million. Officials suspect that this loot is only a fraction of the thieves' real total...
SOCRATES, THAT QUINTESSENTIAL Athenian, was black. And the ancient Greeks stole most of their great intellectual discoveries, including philosophy and geometry, from their African originators, the Egyptians...
...argument for Socrates' African origins, for example, is based largely on posthumous portraits that show him having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...