Was Socrates a Plagiarist?

SHAKESPEARE and Locke are non gratae at Stanford; New York schoolchildren learn that the Iroquois were the real source of the Constitution. Multiculturalism is on the march. But to the cutting edge, evicting individual dead white males from the curriculum is already old hat. The trick now is to reject European civilization outright—or take the credit for it. The name of the game is Afrocentrism.

Molefi Kete Asante, chairperson (what else?) of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University, keynoted last November’s second national conference on “The Inclusion of African & African-American Content in the School Curriculum.” He and other Afrocentrists claim Western civilization originated in “the black civilization in Egypt.” His books, The Afrocentric Idea and Afrocentricity, are bedecked with Egyptian art and hieroglyphics.

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SHAKESPEARE and Locke are non gratae at Stanford; New York schoolchildren learn that the Iroquois were the real source of the Constitution. Multiculturalism is on the march. But to the cutting edge, evicting individual dead white males from the curriculum is already old hat. The trick now is to reject European civilization outright—or take the credit for it. The name of the game is Afrocentrism.

Molefi Kete Asante, chairperson (what else?) of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University, keynoted last November’s second national conference on “The Inclusion of African & African-American Content in the School Curriculum.” He and other Afrocentrists claim Western civilization originated in “the black civilization in Egypt.” His books, The Afrocentric Idea and Afrocentricity, are bedecked with Egyptian art and hieroglyphics.