History????

[sarcasticgeographer]

I have a large passion for US History. I considered many times becoming a history teacher.

I hardly dont know anything about US history, only basics and stuff I read in books about different subjects but were conected.

I know alot about fascism and communism, 19th century Europe and European colonialism. And some stuff on 20th century political developments.

What I really had a great deal of interest in is the history of pre colonial Africa. Which was filled with suffisticated civilisations with distinctive cultures even including powerfull empires such as in Etheopia. All of which is unfortunatly often forgotton since that kind of suffistication was denied to be of African descent during the 19th and 20th century.

Did you know that most African slaves were sold to British, Portugese, French and Spanish slave traders by Arab slave traders who captured them because Europeans were to scared to travel deep into Africa until the mid and late 19th century, and that there is racism against blacks in the regions were arab Africa meets black Africa?
Kind of Ironic when you think that some "back to the roots" radical civil rights movements in the US of the 1960s centered arround converting people to Islam like the nation of islam.

Converting to the religion of the same people who probably captured and sold your ancestors in the first place.

I find it your topic an interesting one, since the arabs and the black Africans have quite a history. One only needs to look at Darfur and now the fact that South Sudan has emerged as a nation to see the relationships between black africans and Arabs.

Here is some interesting news on the relations between arabs and black africans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War