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[Naga Tuma]

The late legendary actor Sidney Poitier said the following in a movie scene back in 1967: "Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man." That was before this writer was born. I heard about him and what he had to say when he passed away earlier this year. The first time I heard the expression colored people, it surprised me and I asked at a moment's notice if there are colorless people.

I am not a student of anthropology. However, based on a brief reading, I have suggested that the root word for the English word God may be the African word Gofta/Goita/Gheta. So far, I haven't come across any substantiated argument that this suggestion is invalid. In the absence of that, the suggestion stands.

My understanding of the meaning of the word Gofta is that it characterizes one who is righteous, generous, and merciful. It is also my understanding that the meaning gets a bit diluted even when it goes from Gofta to Gheta.

This is why I have also argued in the past that those who don't know the organic sense of the word can't say it correctly.

The question that stands now is whether a native English language speaker who identifies himself or herself as an Anglo-Saxon fully understands the root of the English word God, the possibility that it may be an African word. He or she can either dispute this standing suggestion or accept that Africa is the Anglo-Saxon's ancestral continent. DNA studies have shown the latter to be the case. When evidences of both DNA and the evolution of language are consonant, it is far more likely than not that they point to irrefutable facts.

So, if this is the case, isn't the Black and White division is English speaking America fallacious? Sure, people have thrived over the ages in different parts of the world, including in sunny Africa and the snowy Alps that gave sanctuary to scientists.

If I am not mistaken, the source of the division of Nama or Human in America into Black and White are those that thrived in Europe. Once again, if I am not mistaken, many African Americans have ancestral heritages of both Africa and Europe. Their gene components that thrived in Africa may be more dominant in them than the components that thrived in Europe. Shouldn't that mean it is imperative to accept both and connect with both environments instead of implicitly accepting one and rejecting the other? One component is dominant doesn't mean the rest of the components in the whole are unimportant. That is to say when they identify themselves as Black even though both the so called Black and White genes run through them, it would be accepting one and rejecting the other. That sounds stepping in the path charted for them by those who rejected their African heritage and rejected African Americans by saying that a drop of African blood makes you an African or something to that effect.

I do not think that an Anglo-Saxon rejecting his African heritage while accepting the use of the organically African word God falls short of mental slavery. I have also come to understand that mental slavery is the most destructive disease to a human being.

Based on my limited reading, Africa and Europe have a long running intertwined history, which evidently includes common ancestry when it goes all the way back to ancient times. In many ways, however unpleasant it has been over the last 400 years or so, America's history is also a derivative of this intertwined history.

So, should African Americans repeat the rejection story that they heard from the Anglo-Saxons or say that is factually invalid and accept their heritages in full and go to Europe as much as they go to Africa and stand tall on the grounds of their heritages in all places?

The fallacy of Black and White division in America is already evident in various ways. We can start with the anthropology here and step into the world of American champions in sports. When champions like Simone Biles, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, and so on are decorated with medals representing America, they are American champions. When it comes to their identities, they are the first African Americans when the real first African American champion may actually be the first Anglo-Saxon champion.

As I observe such fallacies in America, it feels like watching your own children grow up before they become wise adults.

I do not think that this takes more than deeply understanding the anthropology of Nama and Human and Gofta/Goita/Gheta and God in order to deeply understand the terminally fallacious division of Black and White. To deeply understand this fallacy is to deeply understand the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s deep wisdom of content of character.

[Abere]

____Your curiosity and the quest for knowledge is interesting! I hope someone expert in the field will step into this. But I was wondering what rationale you applied to say this " It is also my understanding that the meaning gets a bit diluted even when it goes from Gofta to Gheta." What would be your justification if someone counters this that Gofta is imitated from the Amharic word Gheta?

____ It is my belief that societies that has written languages are more likely to be the rich source of todays words we are using elaborately to describe and analyze the world and the universe humanity finds itself. It is true there had always been interaction across societies, and the process there is always give and take. Todays world alphabets originated in Ethiopia and the Middle East/Saud Arabia. All other alphabets or derived of these originals. That includes Latin alphabets.

The late legendary actor Sidney Poitier said the following in a movie scene back in 1967: "Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man." That was before this writer was born. I heard about him and what he had to say when he passed away earlier this year. The first time I heard the expression colored people, it surprised me and I asked at a moment's notice if there are colorless people.

I am not a student of anthropology. However, based on a brief reading, I have suggested that the root word for the English word God may be the African word Gofta/Goita/Gheta. So far, I haven't come across any substantiated argument that this suggestion is invalid. In the absence of that, the suggestion stands.

My understanding of the meaning of the word Gofta is that it characterizes one who is righteous, generous, and merciful. It is also my understanding that the meaning gets a bit diluted even when it goes from Gofta to Gheta.

This is why I have also argued in the past that those who don't know the organic sense of the word can't say it correctly.

The question that stands now is whether a native English language speaker who identifies himself or herself as an Anglo-Saxon fully understands the root of the English word God, the possibility that it may be an African word. He or she can either dispute this standing suggestion or accept that Africa is the Anglo-Saxon's ancestral continent. If I am not mistaken, DNA studies have shown the latter to be the case. When evidences of both DNA and the evolution of language are consonant, it is far more likely than not that they point to irrefutable facts.

So, if this is the case, isn't the Black and White division is English speaking America fallacious? Sure, people have thrived over the ages in different parts of the world, including in sunny Africa and the snowy Alps that gave sanctuary to scientists.

If I am not mistaken, the source of the division of Nama or Human in America into Black and White are those that thrived in Europe. Once again, if I am not mistaken, many African Americans have ancestral heritages of both Africa and Europe. Their gene components that thrived in Africa may be more dominant in them than the components that thrived in Europe. Shouldn't that mean it is imperative to accept both and connect with both environments instead of implicitly accepting one and rejecting the other. One component is dominant doesn't mean the rest of the components in the whole are unimportant. That is to say when they identify themselves as Black even though both the so called Black and White genes run through them, it would be accepting one and rejecting the other. That sounds stepping in the path charted for them by those who rejected their African heritage and rejected African Americans by saying that a drop of African blood makes you an African or something to that effect.

I do not think that an Anglo-Saxon rejecting his African heritage while accepting the use of the organically African word God falls short of mental slavery. I have also come to understand that mental slavery is the most destructive disease to a human being.

Based on my limited reading, Africa and Europe have a long running intertwined history, which evidently includes common ancestry when it goes all the way back to ancient history. In many ways, however unpleasant it has been over the last 400 years or so, America's history is also a derivative of this intertwined history.

So, should African Americans repeat the rejection story that they heard from the Anglo-Saxons or say that is factually invalid and accept their heritages in full and go to Europe as much as they go to Africa and stand tall on the grounds of their heritages in all places? The fallacy of Black and White division in America is already evident in various ways. We can start with the anthropology here and step into the world of American champions in the world of sports. When champions like Simone Biles, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, and so on are decorated with medals representing America, they are American champions. When it comes to their identities, they are the first African Americans when the real first African American champion may actually be the first Anglo-Saxon champion.

As I observe such fallacies in America, it feels like watching your own children grow up before they become wise adults.

I do not think that this takes more than deeply understanding the anthropology of Nama and Human and Gofta/Goita/Gheta and God in order to deeply understand the terminally fallacious division of Black and White. Deeply understanding this fallacy is to deeply understand the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deep wisdom of content of character.

[Naga Tuma]

Abere,

That is a good question, which I kind of expected. I speak both languages. ጎፍታ የሚራራ፣ ጌታ የሚቀጣ መስለዉ ይታዩኛል። My limited reading suggests that the word Gofta predates Gheta. I have no proof. If there is a proof that it is the other way around, I would readily concede. Now the ball is in your court to prove that the word Gheta predates Gofta.