Amazon.com: Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-Gita in Black and White: Books

Amazon.com: Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-Gita in Black and White: Books: "Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White

by TDL Turner, M.A. [L.I.S.]

My thoughts about and reactions to Beyond Race: The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White, by
Charles Michael Byrd, were well clarified by my return from AMEA's (packed!& worth it!) National
Conference on 'The Multiracial Child', in Tucson (AZ) (mid-October 2002). While those who have
done some comparative reading of major religious texts might find it academically 'friendlier',
anyone in the habit of critical thinking and analysis also can glean from these pages.
As a fifth-generation member of brown, tan, and pink Moxhaccine* (Mestiza-Creole)
Multiracials my responses to certain sections were both experientially and academically triggered.
So-called ' 'black' and `white' cultures' (pages 22-25; 28-29) were developed entirely to
perpetuate antagonistic, viciously greedy, destructive, anti-humane agendas throughout the past 4,500
years. Since these agendas=the 'definitions', I tend towards not using such terms, preferring African
(Afroid) and European (Caucasoid). While both European and African heads of state used what
became 'racially-based' slavery to fund and expand their political/military agendas, Arabic Islamic
'jihads' that resulted in the fall of Adoghast (ca.1066, ending phase I of the Akana-Ashanti Empire),
and successive rises/declines of Akan-Islamic medieval to [baroque] empires that included Mali,
Songhay and Kanem-Bornu, further fueled West African involvement in kidnapping and selling of
humans (ref: Basil Davidson; Leroy Brooks"