It seems so weird to me how such a massive continent of our planet is basically somehow completely invisible to western eyes.
Everything about it seems cut off from western people; from its history, it's cultures, music and arts, religions and spiritual leaders, geography, politics, etc etc etc. FUCKING BLACKED OUT (no pun intended)
Even our MAPS ARE DISTORTED, and this is not just some TV show clip that went viral, this is truth;
The maps we had in school have a WARPED GRID. This is useful for mapping the surface of a sphere onto a flat plane, but what it does is STRETCH THE TOP AND LOWER PARTS of the map:
This is the map we learned in school - you can see how as it gets father from the equator, the SPACES GET BIGGER (stretched):
This is much more accurate:
(* look on any GLOBE... you will see Africa is huge! My son has both a globe AND a 'curriculum' map in his room... its laughable when you compare them, they are simply totally different when it comes to Africa)
I also really like this one, it changes our thinking bigtime:
Here's another to wrap your head around:
Africa is the CENTRAL LAND MASS of the planet! Yet does an average westerner know ANYTHING about this place?? Political Leaders? Countries on a map? Travel destinations??
ZIP. In our culture, Africa is a wasteland.
Or is it?? I just saw a quote that said: Africa is not poor. Africa is being looted.
I also listened to a lot of american rap music in the 90's... political groups like Public Enemy, KRS ONE etc... and through them I learned a lot about how there is STILL a great mindfuck happening with the black people in the USA.
I feel this is a massive piece of the global political game that so many of us strive to understand better... From the true African History being basically erased and muddled, to the KNOWN history of the biggest slave-trade ravaging ever, to the horrendous slavery culture that was enforced in North and South America, to the consistent un-educating and mistreating of their descendants, to the modern 'vaccination' programs happening there, to the ghettos and hijacked music industry and hollywood stereotypes of today...
Why is Africa so cut off and ignored by the rest of the world? Where is the value of its resources going? Who controls its money, and why does it not seem to be developing? WHAT IS EVEN THERE?? lol It's HUGE!! :D
SOMETHING is seriously wrong here. It seems to me that while we fuss about genocides and holocausts of our time, it was not too long ago that a type of genocide of an ENTIRE CONTINENT took place, of which was inexplicable swept under the rug, yet we blindly see all the evidence of still hurting so much today.
