[haltingproblem]

Nas was ahead of the times. I can't believe that these lyrics are from 2003. Always inspiring to hear them.

These lyrics bring home the point that so much of culture is historical narrative. I was reading Scale by Geoffrey West who is a particle physicist. Every 5-10 pages West brings up Plato/Aristotle. This was baffling to me till it dawned on that Greek history is the author's historical narrative, his cultural identity. Erase someone's history, erase their identity and you crush their progress. Give them a glorious past and they feel predestined to greatness. I believe good things will come from resurrecting the history of African Civilizations.

"Where is your history? How did the man wipe out your history?" - Malcolm X [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6CA9VX4XY

[dr_dshiv]

Plato isn't the best philosopher of all time because he is white and male. The Enlightenment is open and inclusive. Plato used to be a slave and elevated a woman to the highest philosophical position in the Symposium.

[bitdizzy]

I don't think the quote in the OP is talking about Plato's works or conduct, but how Plato figures into a modern person's, Geoffrey West's, relationship to history. In that context, I don't understand the relevance of your comment.