“Another World Is Possible” United Church of Chapel Hill September 19 ththth , 2015

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Another World Is Possible

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Another World Is Possible

Rev. Howard Thurman Another World Is Possible

Dr. Carter G. Woodson Another World Is Possible

Dr. Dwight Hopkins Another World Is Possible

John Locke Another World Is Possible

David Hume Another World Is Possible

Immanuel Kant Another World Is Possible

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Another World Is Possible

Lorenzo Dow Turner Another World Is Possible

Dr. Carter G. Woodson Another World Is Possible

Melville J. Herskovits Another World Is Possible

George G.M. James Another World Is Possible

William Leo Hansberry Another World Is Possible

Cheikh Anta Diop Another World Is Possible

Anthony B. Pinn Another World Is Possible

22 Different Disciplines Now use an African Cantered Paradigm (Hilliard – Wright)

1. Biblical Studies - Hebrew – Randy Bailey Jerome Ross

New Testament – Clarice Martin, Obery Hendricks

2. Theology – James Cone, Dwight Hopkins, John Kinney

3. Womanist Theology – Katie Cannon Delores Williams, Jacqueline Grant

4. Church History – Gayraud Wilmore David Daniels Ogbu Kalu Dr. Julia Speller L.H. Whelchel

5. History of Religions – Al Rabateau Vincent Harding Rachel Harding Charles Long Jeremiah Wright

6. World History –

7. Psychology (A.B.Psy) - Wade Nobles Asa Hilliard A.J. Franklin Thomas Parham Another World Is Possible

8. African Studies – Cheikh Anta Diop Chancellor Williams William Leo Hansberry Molefi Asante

9. Sociology – Iva Carruthers Linda Thomas Wallace Best

10. Cultural Anthropology – Roots of Soul I Sought My Brother

11. Cultural Studies – Farah Jasmin Griffin Michael Eric Dyson

12. Pharmacology – Evans and Counter

13. Diasporan Studies – Cheikh Anta Diop Dwight Hopkins Ivan Van Sertima

Africans Sailing Around the Globe 1350-1300 BCE Another World Is Possible

First African Diaspora (Voluntary Diaspora) a. Africans settle in the 3 Americas 800 – 750 BCE b. Tres Zapotes and La Venta (Olmec culture 1000 BCE) c. Africans settle as far away as the South Sea Islands (Hawaii & Indonesia) d. “Nesia ” = Island (Micronesia / © Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., 2009 Indonesia / Melanesia) All rights reserved Another World Is Possible

Second African Diaspora (Involuntary Diaspora) a. Africans carried across the Sahara Desert b. Africans carried across the Indian Ocean (East African Slave Trade - Arabs) c. Africans carried into the 3 Americas Another World Is Possible

14. African-Native American Studies - Jack Forbes

15. Philology - William Scarborough

16. African American Pastoral Theology – Dr. Lee Butler

17. Psychology of Religion – Arthur Pressley Ed & Ann Wimberley

18. Education – Janice Hale

19. Ethnomusicology – Elkin Sithole Portia Maultsby

20. Dance - Kariamu Welsh Asante

21. Epistemology – Dr. Jacob Carruthers

22. Lingustics – Geneva Smitherman Lorenzo Dow Turner Rickford and Rickford Another World Is Possible

Linguistics – Lorenzo Dow Turner – 1950 ’s Geneva Smitherman – 1960 ’s

Vass - The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States – 1970 ’s

Rickford and Rickford – 1980 ’s Dillard (1950 ’s and ‘60 ’s)

African Speakers of English/Spanish/ Portuguese/French – Created their own language

Five Subsets to every language Pragmatics Syntax Semantics Grammar Phonics

Williams (1972-Ebony + phonics = Ebonics)

Only Black children were being taught that they speak “Bad English. ” No American speaks “English. ” Another World Is Possible

Interdisciplinary Study – 1960 ’s

a. Linguistics-languages from nineteen countries in Africa. 1) No fricatives 2) No hard endings 3) No tenses 4) The verb “to be ” 5) No diphthongs 6) No cluster of consonants (st, sk, ldr and th) th becomes d,n,v,f and/or is elided

b. Early Childhood Education 1) Language patterns fixed for life Lyaconia/Apostle Peter 2) Learn by echolalia-hearing at home

c. Socio Linguistics 1) How do you learn a foreign language Your word order/ their vocabulary

2) How do you learn a foreign language under oppression. Charles DeBose Stanley Alsopp a. Rapidly b. Code Language/Code Switching c. Group Reinforcement Another World Is Possible

d. Body Languages (Nonverbal) 1) Facial Expressions 2) Contractions 3) Bodily Involvement with Speech

Results

When you put the disciplines together what you end up with is Black English, Black Spanish, Black Portuguese and Black French (Creole)

Smitherman ’s Title: Talkin ’’’ and Testifyin ’’’: The Language of Black America

Paul Lawrence Dunbar – African Spirituals – Zora Neale Hurston – Sterling Brown

You can only understand the beauty, the complexity and the depth of Africans in the Diaspora when you start from an African-centered approach which assumes that difference is not synonymous with deficience. Another World Is Possible

THEOLOGY (Black Theology/Womanist Theology)  William Augustus Jones ’ Paradigm THEOLOGY = How I See God ANTHROPOLOGY = How I See Humans

THEOLOGY = How I See God SOCIOLOGY = How I Order My Society ANTHROPOLOGY = How I See Humans

THEOLOGY = How I See God How I See God (Theology)  White  White Male  Hierarchically (above me? or Immanu-el/ with me?)  Patriarchically  Valuing some above others  Privileging some above others  Choosing some to be blessed  Choosing others to be cursed  Approving slavery  Vengeful or Compassionate?  Transcendent or Immanent?  Involved with humans or Aloof from humans  Blessing individuals or Making covenant with community?  Loving all or Loving some? How I See Humans (Anthropology) How do I see others? How do I see myself?

 White superior to all others  Valorized by color  Males superior to females  Valorized by gender (Male/Female/LGBTQ)  All equal in God ’s sight  Some “more equal ” to others  Subjects to be honored or objects to be used?  As people or as property? As more important (or less) than property  As “we ” or as “us vs. them ”?  Valorized by worth/wealth  Stereotyped as “deficient ” or Embraced as Different  Valorized by belief (Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Atheist) How I Order My Society (Sociology)

 Educational System - Slavery - Psychology - Sociology – Kahlil Gibran Muhammad - Linguistically & Liturgically - Ecclesiologically

 Legal System - Slavery - Fugitive Slave Laws - Constitution - Dred Scott Decision - Jim Crow - Plessy vs. Ferguson - Ku Klux Klan – Lynching - Convict Lease System - The New Jim Crow How I Order My Society (Sociology)

 Military Complex - Slavery - Imperialism (Hawaii to Iraq) (Chaplaincy) - Palestinians/Gaza/State of Israel - Hiroshima/Nagasaki - Preemptive Strikes (Falluja) - Drones

 Economic System - Slavery - Workers Rights Another World Is Possible

THEOLOGY (Black Theology/Womanist Theology)  William Augustus Jones ’ Paradigm  One ’s Theology Determines One ’s Anthropology; and one ’s Anthropology determines one ’s sociology;  Theology = How Do I See God  Anthropology = How Do I See Human Beings  Sociology = How Do I Order My Society?

BLACK THEOLOGY/NEW TESTAMENT  Jesus ’ Birth 1. Matthew 2:1-13 (Dogon – Reading the stars/Charting the heavens) 2. Luke 2:1-20  Mark 5:1-20  Acts 2 (Diasporan Judasim)  Acts 6 “Hellenic/Hellenized Jews/ ”Greek-speaking Jews ”  Acts 8:26-39 (Septuagint Translation)  Acts 13:1-3  Acts 21:27-38  Mark 15:21  Romans 16:13 Another World Is Possible

EARLY CHRISTIANITY  Church in Egypt (Alexandria)

 Alexandria = Clement, Origin, Cyril and Athanasius

THE COPTIC CHURCH (NILE VALLEY – SOUTH)  Ethiopian Church (Preserved Egyptian Cultures and Rituals)  Berbers  Cyprian, Augustine, Monica, Tertullian, Perpetua and Felicity Another World Is Possible

European Colonization

Africa – Before Colonization

1400-1900 ’s Destruction of a people Destruction of a culture Destruction of traditions Chancellor Williams-(Destruction of Black Civilization ) Another World Is Possible

Africa – After Colonization Colonies in Africa after the Berlin Conference

Berlin Conference (November 1884–February 1885)

After 1895 the only independent Countries in Africa are Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia

Africa Today Another World Is Possible

USA/Central America/South America

Indians-Reservation Africans-Slavery

Triangular Trade (Africa-Caribbean-North America/South America-Europe)

1630 ’s to 1787 – A. Leon Higginbottom – In the Matter of Color Legal Codification of Dehumanization

Constitution – 1787 Another World Is Possible

What Were the People Doing?

1600 ’s – 1750 ’s Brush Arbors

Silver Bluff – George Lisle – 1660 ’s

1776 – Afro British – Turks and Caicos – Bahamas-Liverpool-Trinidad and Tobago

1787 – St. George Methodist Episcopal Church

1791 – St. Thomas African Episcopal Church

1792 – Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

1796 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

1790 ’s – Afro Baptist First African Presbyterian

1791 – 1804 – Haitian Revolution Another World Is Possible

1800 – Gabriel Prosser

1816 – A.M.E. First General Conference

1821 – Emigration American Colonization Society (Liberia)

1822 – Denmark Vesey

1828/29 – David Walker ’s Appeal Nat Turner Insurrection

1830 ’s – Black Codes Underground Railroad/Invisible Institution Emigration to Canada

1850 ’s – Dred Scott

1865 – Civil War

Reconstruction Radical Reconstruction

1865-1968 Missionary Effort (Black Colleges)

1888 – Slavery Abolished in Brazil Another World Is Possible

1900 – 1 Yaa Asantewaa – Asante British War

1902 – Plessy vs. Ferguson

1919 – Great Migration

1920 ’s – Harlem Renaissance /UNIA Ida B. Wells

Pan-African Movement

1954 – Brown vs. Board of Education

1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 – Ghana ’s Independence

1965 - Assassinated Another World Is Possible

1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Black Revolution

Black Theology

Black Gospel Music Hits College Campuses

James Brown “I’m Black and I ’m Proud ”

Olympics in Mexico

Athletic Olympics – Carlos Moore

Cultural Olympics – The Music of Peru ( Criollo )

South Africa – Black Revolution –

1995 – Million Man March

2008 – Barack Hussein Obama Elected President Another World Is Possible

Dr. Dwight Hopkins