The Helios Biblios Hour : BLACK HISTORY UNCUT PT2

“Do not be a slave to any form of selling out,” Oprah Winfrey told the graduating class of Howard University last May. But, as Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy points out in “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal,” his fourth book, “any form of selling out” covers a lot of ground. So, immediately after starting this fascinating and thought-provoking book with the Winfrey quote, he sets to work defining his terms.“A sellout is a person who ‘betrays’ something to which he is said to owe allegiance. When used in a racial context among African Americans, ‘sellout’ is a disparaging term that refers to blacks who knowingly or with gross negligence act against the interests of blacks as a whole.the  entitled “History Week and What it Means,” Woodson made it abundantly clear that full recognition of the broad contributions of African Americans was essential to dispelling the misrepresentations that sustained the idea that only white people could bear the benefits and burdens of citizenship. As he put it, “[u]nless Negro History Week can be used to accomplish such a purpose the mere celebration will be meaningless.”Much before historian Ramchandra Guha published “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-48” in September last year, a sequel to his “Gandhi Before India,” two academics in South Africa sparked a major controversy with a shocking revelation — Mahatma Gandhi was a “racist” throughout his stay in that country.Do Black Americans in the U.S. believe, in light of the revelations in the book, that Gandhi was indeed a racist and hated Black people?To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, the Indian government is expected to hold a number of commemorative events throughout 2019 both in India and abroad