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LISTEN/DOWNLOAD It’s been well over two thousand, three hundred years since an actual Egyptian sat on the throne of the Nile Valley’s greatest civilisation. Since then, only foreigners have controlled Kemet, the true name for Egypt. And yet control over Kemet remains a fierce battle to this day. On the one side are Eurocentrists who, to build their racial self-esteem, and to justify the massive crime of imperialism against Africa, have spent the last three hundred years Whitewashing the civilisation into something that their own Greek and Roman ancestors never claimed. On the other side is everyone who embraces the historical record, physical anthropology, comparative linguistics and culture, and, of course, DNA. They recognise what most of Hollywood, Arabs in Egypt, and the Western academic establishment refuse to: that Kemet was an African civilisation from its farmers to its pharaohs. Previously on MF Galaxy I’ve had a range of guests discussing African ...

Dr. Rashidi wri tes the following: "A milestone was seemingly achieved this February of 2008 when National Geographic Magazine did a front cover story entitled 'The Black Phara ohs: Conquerors of Ancient Egypt'. "It was a milestone in the sense that this was the first t ime ever that National Geographic Magazine had admitted that there wer e ever any Black Pharaohs in Egypt at all. I refer to it as 'seemingly' in that the article title is misleading and the context of the story is deceptive to say the least. "1. The title says 'The Black Pharaohs' as if to imply that the re were White Pharaohs or a Pharaoh other than an Egyptian. Egyptians, during the time of 'Pharaohs,' were Black people. Black not in the sense of all of them being the literal color, but of the many shades of people as experienced here in America amongst African-Americans or the many shade s of people in Ethiopia. "Now, there were diff erent non -Egyptian conqu...