RADIOFR'S *UNSPUN* TONITE (12/11): RICHARD POE! (New book w/fwd. written by JIM ROBINSON!)

[AnnaZ]

    Unspun with AnnaZ December 11th, 2003 -- 10pmE/7pmP

 

 

 

 

with Special Guest Hostess Diotima!               Join us as we speak with author, editor, columnist and myth-debunker Richard Poe                             Tune in. Call in.       1-866-RADIOFR         CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE          

 

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[AnnaZ]

RICHARD POE is a New York Times-bestselling author and cyberjournalist. He writes for NewsMax.com and runs his own blog site at RichardPoe.com.

Poe has written nine books since 1993. His books have sold over 700,000 copies in the USA. Several have been published abroad, in as many as fifteen foreign languages.

Books by Poe have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and BusinessWeek bestseller lists.

Poe's last book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control, was released in paperback August 26, 2003. His forthcoming book is The New Underground: How Conservatives Conquered the Internet.

Poe was formerly editor of FrontPageMagazine.com; senior editor of Success magazine; reporter for the New York Post; and managing editor of the East Village Eye.

[AnnaZ]

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[Map Kernow]

Richard Poe also wrote Black Spark, White Fire: Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe?, an apologia for Afrocentrism.

[Sindarian]

You should try reading the book before making such absurd comments about it. If you have read it, my apologies for your comprehension skills.

[Map Kernow]

You should try reading the book before making such absurd comments about it. If you have read it, my apologies for your comprehension skills.

You mean the subtitle isn't enough to clue you in? You want to come at me and throw insults about reading comprehension? See if you comprehend what the following book description on Amazon says:

Columbus Discovered America . . . But Who Discovered Europe?

Were the ancient Egyptians black? Did Egyptian explorers land in Greece some 4,000 years ago? Did they plant colonies, establish royal houses, and bring civilization to Europe’s savage tribes? Did the secret rites of their temple cults later resurface among the Knights Templar and the Freemasons? In Black Spark, White Fire, Richard Poe provides startling answers to these questions and more. “Brilliant. . . . Poe has produced a classic volume . . . splendid in its conception and powerful in its execution—a major work.”—Molefi Kete Asante, author of The Afrocentric Idea

Molefi Kete Asante is generally considered an "Afrocentrist." Go flame him if you really have a problem with my description of Poe's book as an "apologia for Afrocentrism." It is. Now go away.

[Sindarian]

Too bad that you didn't read the book. You would find the Mr. Poe makes distinctions on the differences between African, Semitic, and Egyptian cultures. The transference of ideas, ways of living, and political thought from one geographical area to another is important to history. To ignore historical evidence for you own cultural bias is just bigotry.

B.T.W. I thought the same as you, however curiosity got the better of me, to my benefit. My original advice holds, get and READ the book.

[Map Kernow]

Too bad that you didn't read the book. You would find the Mr. Poe makes distinctions on the differences between African, Semitic, and Egyptian cultures. The transference of ideas, ways of living, and political thought from one geographical area to another is important to history. To ignore historical evidence for you own cultural bias is just bigotry.

Oh, so now in addition to being illiterate, I'm a bigot? You don't know what I've read, sonny, and I repeat that Poe's book comes down on the Afrocentric side of the whole "Afrocentrism" issue---whether the ancient Egyptians were "black," whether blacks colonized ancient Greece, etc. You can buy it if you want---I don't. Your coarse, ignorant charges of "bigotry" have nothing to do with the issue.

B.T.W. I thought the same as you, however curiosity got the better of me, to my benefit. My original advice holds, get and READ the book.

Super. "We dispute---they decide." That is, whoever is interested in this issue. Anyone reading this exchange knows about Poe's book now. For the opposite point of view, I recommend Mary Lefkowitz' "Not Out of Africa" and "Black Athena Revisited," which she helped edit.

And don't crawl out of your spider hole again, because I'm not responding to any more of your flames.