Subject: Re: Confronting a "Demon" - Afro Centeredness
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:44:11 GMT

holman (aholman@carbon.cudenver.edu) wrote:
: Roger Brown wrote:

: >
: > I'm not sure that Egypt was ever portrayed as black OR white. They
: > painted themselves this sort of golden brown color ...

: Which is definately NOT white. And here in lies the rub, isn't it? Sort
: of hair-splitting. "Black" has never - in my language and understanding
: - meant black like a crayon is black but black like politics are black.
: >
Actually, the point made by Diop and the other Africentric
Egyptologists is that ancient Egypt (Kamit) was a) Black
African in its genesis and origins, and b) continued to be
Ballack African in its culture even after much genetic
admixture from Western Asia and Europe.  Obenga has shown
that ancient Egyptian is an African language for instance.
And the full understanding of Kamitic cosmogony and
cosmology requires an African worldview such as you find
inherent in African religious systems such as practiced
by the Akan, Yoruba, Zulu, etc.  To keep the racial angle
in perspective it also helps to gaze at the profile of
the Sphinx, also at the bust of Narmer, the first pharaoh
of the firssht dynasty, who is as Black African as
they come.  Busts and statues from the pre-dynastic 
period, for example of Lord Tera eNeter, Ausar (Lord 
of the Perfect Black, known as Osiris by the Greeks)
also attest to Black African origins.  The Kamau themselves
say that they originated at the ofoothills of the Mountain
of the Moon, which is a reference to Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Etc., etc.  It is a complete fabricaition to be
suggesting some white paharaonic civilization imported
into the Nile Valley from womsomewhere in Europe
pr Asia, yet that is what Eurocentric mendacity has
attempted, without serious contradiction, until the rise
of the Africentric scholars of the latter half ofth this
century.  Much is ascribed to the Berbers for example,
a people of North Africa having clear caucasian origins.
But they came latet to Africa (ie. circa Middle Kingdom),
a lost barbarian tribe of(hecnce the name Berber)
of Visigoths or some such.  As fasr as could be
acscertained, they contributed nothing to hthe major
march of civilization and high culture that took place
in the Nile Valley long before they got lost in N. Africa.

Regards,

: alice


	 

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