tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post9068613818760224104..comments2024-03-11T01:14:49.586-06:00Comments on MF GALAXY: Aaron Douglas and AfriluminismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post-20335048671594122192008-02-21T12:01:00.000-07:002008-02-21T12:01:00.000-07:00I read the article. It's not insightful on the rac...I read the article. It's not insightful on the race issue at all, merely repeating the claims of the Aryan Model (Martin Bernal's term from *Black Athena*) that have been pushed for 250 years. *National Geographic* is hardly a definitive source and is not a scholarly magazine, although it is an enjoyable popular magazine.<BR/><BR/>You haven't given any criteria for how you assesed the magazine to be fair, so I'll leave that aside.<BR/><BR/>Your claim about Egyptian derision of Nubians as evidence that Egyptians were not "black" (whatever you think that term means) is without logic. The Germans conquered France twice and despised them. By your logic, at least one of those parties could not have been "white". The same could be said of the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, or Aztec destruction of Aztec rivals.<BR/><BR/>The standard Egyptian term for Nubians was "Nehhas", not the Greek word you gave. Your pronunciation guide shows the Egyptian root (pluralised, plus the direct article "pa", or "the"). "Nehhas" doesn't mean much in your non-specific use of the term "black" (whatever you think that means), given that Africans, unlike people in the Western paradigm, understand that Africans comprise an extremely wide array of physical types, as is attested by Egyptian painting and sculpture of Egyptians themselves. And the further south one goes, the more that Westerners would describe the ancient and modern peoples as looking "black" (whatever that term is supposed to mean).<BR/><BR/>Your claim that the "Ancient Egyptians... are in fact not generally black" is locked inside Western false racial constructs which I explore in my article here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=7820.<BR/><BR/>I've got numerous links on my KEMET section of the Bro-Log addressing this issue. The conceit of the Aryan paradigm is that facial types found across modern Harlem, Brazil, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and other places--of people who would be called "black" in the United States--are recruited into the "Caucasoid" or "proto-Caucasoid" groups if found in Ancient Egypt. This double-standard serves the ideology of Whitesupremacy well.<BR/><BR/>Your dismissive use of the term "conspirary" and the phrase "some white supremacist conspiracy" misses the point. "Conspiracies," by definition, are illegal. *National Geographic* hasn't broken the law; no one in a shadowy room ordered this writer to write what he wrote. You're mistaking the analysis of ideology, socialisation and paradigm for an accusation of a "conspiracy" (whatever you think that term means). Such comments do nothing to move this debate forward, because you're setting up your own straw man.<BR/><BR/>I suggest you read Cheikh Anta Diop's *The African Origin of Civilisation*, Bernal's *Black Athena* and Richard Poe's *Black Spark, White Fire* (the most approachable of the three and definitely a popular edition). You'll find, especially in Poe, a fine address to your claims about "black" and "not black", whatever you think those terms mean.Minister Fausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09723625926167262613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747853.post-33252464691389987602008-02-21T11:29:00.000-07:002008-02-21T11:29:00.000-07:00February's National Geographic magazine has a cove...February's National Geographic magazine has a cover story on Black pharaohs of Egypt. It is a good and fair article. It also states that Ancient Egyptians, other than Nubian kings and soldiers, are in fact not generally black as most Afrocentrists claim. Ancient Egyptians looked down on Nubians as not as advanced or sophisticated as them but respected them as fighters. However it was the Nubians who became more Egyptian than Egypt when Egypt was run by feuding warlords. Phineas(pʒ-nḥsy) meaning the black one, was the generic Egyptian term used for Nubian foreigners.<BR/><BR/>I personally believe National Geographic, as it is a decent and honest magazine and not part of some white supremacist conspiracy. National supremacy, on the other hand is very real as can be seen across the world and it is the cause of many of the world's problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com