Discovering My Royal Heritage While Surviving in Black Skin
Reviewed by William Portela
Discovering My Royal Heritage While Surviving in Black Skin is an illuminating virtual journey within the black skin of the author whose life was abruptly uprooted from his southern home in Mobile, Alabama, and transported to the western coast of Los Angeles, California. The consequences of the covert and overt racism Webster E. Moore experienced while living through the paradox of racial integration in high schools, college, the navy, and his workplace, provide the reader with Moore’s vision of the institutionalized xenophobia that exploded into the Watts Rebellion of 1965.
Webster introduces the reader to the launching of Black student unions, the Black Panthers, the congress of racial equality, and some of their leaders, such as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, and the non-violen tcrusade of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The author, Webster E. Moore, culminates these encounters by taking the reader ou tof the United States of America to Egypt only to discover his great ancestry: Pharaohs in black skin who were the original authors of the first written language, literally the very African birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
I asked Webster E. Moore a few questions at the Los Angeles Book Festival. Here are his responses to my questions:
Question: You flew from Los Angeles to New York, Amsterdam to Paris, and finally landed in Egypt (the grounds of Africa), the origins of people in black skin and the origin of Western Civilization. Could you describe your utter wonderment when you saw the Great Pyramid of Giza?
MR.MOORE: After I settled down from the exhilaration of my Nubian brothers linking my physical features to the Pharaoh Ramsey II, I proceeded to visit the only surviving structure among the seven wonders of the world, the Great Pyramid of Giza. However, before I could get close to that wonder, I had to face an enormous sculpture guarding the causeway leading to the Great Pyramid, the oldest known religious monument in history, denoting both body and soul. This massive sculpture, the Sphinx, emerged from the thoughts of our ancestors. As I stood transfixed, trying to contemplate its purpose and lesson to be learned, I had to center myself so as not to be so overwhelmed by its size, the human head on top of the animal’s body and the snake around its forehead - representing divine intelligence, its gigantic paws, the length of the body, and why was it built before the pyramids?
I thought of the power within me—who I am compared to others who are transfixed, seeing and defining me according to the color of my skin, the size of my brain, the texture of my hair, and the size of my buttocks!
The lesson of the Sphinx is not being defined by others but by “knowing thyself.”
The reader will take away from this book a better sense of “what happened”?
The ancestorial history of people in black skins was literally transformed into Greek, Jewish, and Islamic history, while “Black history” is relegated to “slave history.” The reader will discover that we are all just one race—the human race with one common heritage—Africa.
Webster E. Moore received his baccalaureate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in Political Science, his master’s from Cal State University, Northridge in Educational Psychology, and he entered into the doctorate program in the sociology department of the University of Southern California.
He has toured and researched the initiated in the ancient African religion of Ifa in Nigeria, the Yucatan Pyramid in Mexico, and the historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu.
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