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- From: rwbrigg@srv.PacBell.COM (Rick Briggs)
- Subject: Re: Egyptian Race
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.223409.3979@PacBell.COM>
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- References: <1992Dec21.020247.10887@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:34:09 GMT
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- In article 10887@trl.oz.au, mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.023421.5705@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>, tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff) writes:
- >|> >In article <1992Dec16.201341.26769@ee.gatech.edu>, ldh@eedsp.gatech.edu (Lonnie D Harvel) writes...
- >|> >>
- >|> >>Hello,
- >|> >>
- >|> >> Recently I have noticed alot of references within the
- >|> >>African-American society to Egyptians being black Africans.
- >|>
- >|> I'm surprised there hasn't been more from the 'Egyptians as Blacks' people.
- >|> Someone has mentioned the Newsweek article on multiculturalism in another
- >|> post, and as I remember it listed several authors and books. One that was
- >|> mentioned (that I haven't read yet) is _Black Athena_ which tries to trace
- >|> most everything good about Greek culture to Egypt and thus to African culture.
- >
- >What actually is the root of the egyptian race? Did they migrate to the
- >Nile from the near east?
-
-
- In early Neolithic times, there was a migration into Egypt either via Palestine
- or via the Red Sea, which migration marks the beginning of Naqada II. The
- new people are physically distinct from the original inhabitants.
-
- In the Archaic Period, the first Dynasty may or may not have consisted of a 'master race'
- distinct from the other inhabitants circa 3100 BC (this is controversial). The Narmer
- palette shows King Mena subjugating the native people of Lower Egypt, but the latter are
- depicted at foreigners.
-
- In any case, Bernal's thesis is ridiculous. The 'master race' was NOT black at all.
- Early myths posit a different means of creation for the black peoples vs. the
- native egyptians.
-
- -- rick
-
-