Afrocentricity as an intellectual idea takes no authority to prescribe anything; it is neither a religion nor a belief system. It is a paradigm that suggests all discourse about African people should be grounded in the centrality of Africans in their own narratives. However, the warrant "given the recent killings of unarmed black people by white police officers" is part of a continuing drama in America; its contemporary emergence is simply a recent exposure through popular media.
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