With the title of this lecture being Learning Wisdom and the African Experience I immediately suspected it was about slavery (again). When Dr. Carr began his lecture I realized he was taking us all the way back before slavery. He was showing us the importance of the African decent. He began the lecture with how Egyptians created writing, which as I began to think I realized that there are way more things that originate in Egyptian that the public may be unaware of. This lecture created in sight on the something more important than slavery, in my eyes, instead of talking of the Africans demeaning slavery experience, he spoke of their accomplishments. African contributed, but the Europeans fought to dehumanize them and make them feel as if they had no history, so they could expose it as f it were their own. In result to this may people may believe the Europeans are to thank for the Africans work.
Dr. Carr was also a good lecturer. As he spoke, the enthusiasm in his voice caused me to become more attentive. Although he did a wonderful job of getting through as much as the presentation as possible, he spoke very fast and I was unable to write a complete thought without missing something else of the same of more importance. I am not sure what is left to come, but I am more than sure this was the perfect lecture to begin with. It gave me the mind setting of time before slavery which is not a setting my mind was prepared for.
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