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...SERIOUS flaws in the reasoning of both Howe and the Ford Foundation. First, the chronology is just plain wrong. Black African countries and movements were expressing a degree of opposition to Israeli policies long before oil politics became a factor. As far back as 1968, for example, Amilcar Cabral, an influential revolutionary from Guinea-Bisseau, had this...
Secondly, before the Black intellectual can begin to structure any revolutionary discourse, we have to carry out "a radical revolution in...(our)...ideas; a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle." (Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy, P.12) The African revolutionary theorist, Amilcar Cabral puts it this way: "In order to fulfull the role in the national liberation struggle, the revolutionary petty bourgeoisie must be capable of committing suicide as a class in order to be reborn as revolutionary workers, completely identified with the deepest aspirations of the people to which they belong." (Revolution in Guinea...
...outgoing regime for its "moral decay." He promised to bring new blood into the government-and proceeded to do it on the spot. Sworn in immediately were three able and fairly young technocrats who will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, as head of the Central Bank; and Ramón Báez Romano, 49, a onetime Gulf & Western executive, as Industry and Commerce Secretary. Those appointments indicated that Guzm...
...Portugese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered Brazil...
...poetry describing the mythical Golden Age. It was culturally impossible for him, or his immediate followers, not to do so. The woodcuts and paintings of the time reflect that Arcadian vision, which would duly be modulated into the cult of the Noble Savage. By 1505, only five years after Cabral's discovery of Brazil, the first American Indian had made his way into a European painting: a Tupinamba chief, crowned with feathers, included as one of the Wise Men from the East in a Portuguese nativity...