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- From: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 05:47:41 GMT
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- In article <2416@usna.NAVY.MIL> wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
- >I disagree with your view of history in many aspects; for example, I believe
- >that the Egyptian pharoahs were not black in the sense that if one were
- >magically transported to modern-day Los Angeles he would not be considered
- >black by either blacks or whites.
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- On what do you base this assumption. I am black and know that the ancient
- were and in their latter yes, especially like an Af Am Black. Like the
- ones you see on the streets of Los Angeles.i
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- > (The Egyptians left behind quite a few
- >pictures of themselves, you know.) HOWEVER, since I think `black' and
- >Els Withers email: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.mil
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- Like which pictures Els? I have never seen a single portrait left by any
- Egyptian.
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