Afrocentrics claims;FACT or FICTION?

Question

for those of you not formulaire with afrocentics i ask this question,do you believe media hype?or do you believe facts that are ignored by the media?history vs hollywood is what many call it...lets start with the afrocentrics claim that the egyptians were black!Egyptian hyroglyphics them selfs show that blacks were used as slaves to build the pyramids..http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=VtdLCuQVaKs

Answer 1

It's difficult to read this and not cry racism.  Racism is an emotionally based feeling.  I don't think that the person who wrote it is racist.  They are obviously a student of what they are studying and are correct in what they are saying, if I were to bet on it.  If you cry racism, you are a fool and that also is a fact.

The videos were enjoyable, by the way!

Answer 2

It is mostly fiction.  The ancient Egyptians were not Black, nor were they Arab, they were Nilotic people, their descendents are still in Egypt, the Copts

http://www.copts.net/history.asp

Dr Christiaan Barnard carried out the first heart transplant, he is South African, and white

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_...

Afro-centricism is an African-American pseudo-history that does a great deal of harm.  It ignores the history of great black civilisations, like Benin or the trading areas of East Africa, the University of Timbuktu, the Heroism of Toussaint Louverture and the other slave revolts, it ignores the great black historians, CLR James and others and tries to shoe horn in a black African history where there just isn't one.  But the greatest harm it does it it makes the idea of black history look rather foolish.

Sub-Saharan Africa has a long and fascinating history, and so do the people who come from there - this should be studied and celebrated before any spurious ahistorical claims are listened to.

Answer 3

What difference does skin color make?  Informed people understand that Africans come in many colors.  

We also know that Ancient Egypt was a cosmopolitan civilization with many different ethnic groups living together, some as slaves.

I'm not sure what your point is, but it seems like you're trying to debunk the achievements of black folk.  Why?

Answer 4

Egypt is an African country and Egyptians were originally black, different shades likely, but certainly African.  Europeans just don't want to believe that any Africans are capable of the advances the Egyptians made.  The Arabs came long after the fall of the Great Egypt and have been mixing ever since.  That's not even "Afrocentric", it's just not "Euro-centric".

Answer 5

   Afro-centric "history" is bogus. It's born out of a feeling of injustice, where Black accomplishments have traditionally been ignored by European historians. In trying to compensate, these psuedo-historians swing to the opposite extreme. making unsupported claims about African achievements.

   In regards to the Egyptians, while the Pharoahship of Egypt was held for almost a century by Sub-Saharan Africans, there is no indication that Egyptians of the time were "Black". Or that the Greeks stole all of their culture from the Egyptians.

   History is simply more complicated than that. Sub-Saharan Africa certainly traded and had communications with Egypt, and through them, other parts of the Med. Information as well as trade travelled in all directions. As far as Black slaves building the Pyramids, the most up to date information demonstrates that they were built by free men, or at least men impressed seasonally to do the work.

   With pre-Columbian art, its a bit more difficult to make claims. Certainly some of the artwork of the time suggests an African influence. However, a wider study of such art also shows a highly stylized art form that is open to interpretation. The biggest drawback to the theory is how Africans might have gotten to the areas populated by the Olmecs, and the fact that there is no corresponding culture in Africa itself around the time.

   So, like the "aliens did it" explanation of ancient achievements, the Afro-centric model of history is simply fatally flawed.