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This prophetic verse is taken from a poem by Listervelt Middleton titled The Origin of Things (2003). Take a walk around any gallery or museum today in Britain and you will find almost exclusively inaccurate images of Britain’s nobility. Similarly, if you open-up any school textbook about history, the dominant images of Melanated Global Majority people throughout time are depictions of slaves, servants, or runaways.
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‘DNA is the code initials for deoxyribonucleic acid, the chemical of which genes are composed. Genes being the basic units of inheritance-which determines what a being will be. DNA is the hereditary material of living cells. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother, and it functions as a cell’s powerhouse converting the chemical energy from food into a form which the cell can use’ (Barashango, 1998, p. 40).
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From the Greek Allos which means ‘different;’ cognate with Latin alius = ‘other.’ Phylon is from the Greek which means ‘tribe,’ ‘race’- a direct line of descent within a group; a group that constitutes or has the unity of a phylum (Merriam-Webster (nd) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phylum) ‘Allobroges- a people of S.E Gaul- a Celtic tribe occupying what is now Dauphine & Savoy’ (O’Neil, 1913, p. 52). See Moorish Britain on the original inhabitants of Gaul- France, Belgium & Luxembourg in Charles & Boyle (2021, issue #2, MFIT Magazine, January).
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The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg is a collection of writings about ancient Welsh Bardic and Druidic beliefs. Although the author of this work is cited as J. Williams Ab Ithel, he was the editor, who pieced together from manuscripts written by Iolo Morganwg (1747–1826).
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The Sanskrit word ‘bha’- to shine and ‘bhas- to speak (Whitney, 1885, p. 110) show how the ‘bh’ phoneme was transliterated to the aspirated ‘ph’ Greek ‘phono’ sound and ‘phone’ voice. Notice how the modern idiom ‘blah’ ‘blah’ ‘blah’ has been transposed through epenthesis (addition of sounds) from its Sanskrida etymon (see ‘language of the Gitanos’-Moorish Spain, Borrow, 1846), from the Sanskrit words bhas to speak and bha to shine.
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Charles, M. (2022). Developing a Reframed Curriculum for the UK: Who Were the Ancient Britons?. In: Moncrieffe, M.L. (eds) Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13623-8_9
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