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ausar Moderator Posts: 2579 |
Any more race threads than there already is then most will be deleated. If you are a poster posting under different names then your posts will be deleated also. No more race threads!! We have more than our fair share already,and please also comment on the non-race related topics about AE soceity. Enough is Enough!!! IP: Logged |
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Osiris II Member Posts: 173 |
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! IP: Logged |
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Osiris II Member Posts: 173 |
Obviously, judging from the many, many racial threads that have been opened since you issued this warning, everyone chooses to ignore your polite request for no more racial threads. This board has become a soap-box for all the radical elements to post their opinions. Too bad--I though I had really found an interesting site! [This message has been edited by Osiris II (edited 07 July 2004).] IP: Logged |
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
quote: Osiris, I am sure we all welcome people of different opinions. It cannot be emphasized enough, that this is necessary to create interaction and exchange of ideas. You certainly have the freedom to contribute to topics that only interest you. I don't think it should be anybody's intention to police you on what topics you should or shouldn't contribute to. If you feel there is too much race related topics, why don't you offer a topic that will interest a lot of people. It is really that simple! IP: Logged |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
The problem is american racist obsession!! 0,0000,% Egyptians are interested in that """ issue. Khalas! IP: Logged |
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Osiris II Member Posts: 173 |
Supercar--I don't mind reading one or two threads on racial information concerning the ancient Egyptians. What I object to--most vigorously--is the few people who turn every subject posted into a soap-box to spout so-call "correct" racial information to the rest of us. In thread after thread on this board it is the same. ANY subject will become racially motivated with-in two or three posts. In so far as to posting a different subject for discussion, at the present time, I have two on the board, and neither has had a reply. I suggest that everyone read the title of the thread they are replying to, and try to limit themselves to that topic. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: The best way for you to discourage further ethnic posts is to cease them yourself. Pan Arabic posts (re: the Sudan) are also ethnic and racial, and you have contributed numerous posts of precisely that kind. You do not seem to be so much bothered by ethnic posts as you do by those that disagree with your viewpoint. You are wasting your time attempting to bully others on this forum, even via sucking up to the moderator. This is not Iraq under Saddam! It doesn't work that way. lol. Finally, you don't speak for all Egyptians: http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/16/racial.suit/index.html IP: Logged |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
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sunstorm2004 Member Posts: 150 |
Is that a guy smacking a woman like that? I hope not. If that was my sister (or my woman) that guy might "disappear"... IP: Logged |
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
People!!! Remember the post titled "O.K. who here cares about freedom of speech related to AE, as long as...!" Remember the point that was being made in that thread? Obviously not! IP: Logged |
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sunstorm2004 Member Posts: 150 |
Okay, on closer inspection, I see it's a young boy... (who *should* probably be whacked for dancing like that). ![]() IP: Logged |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
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Artemi Member Posts: 88 |
quote: Gee, maybe this forum will be worth checking out again! ![]() IP: Logged |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: Ayazid is right. Americans are really a race-obsessed culture. There are a lot of racists in the USA. But considering the American history it's understandable but not justifiable. IP: Logged |
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Horemheb Member Posts: 375 |
Americans have done more to promote good race relations than any society in the world. They offer more wealth, education and opportunities to people of color than any nation in the world. IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
Overall, the United States is the best nation on earth. There is no nation which is superior to the United States in terms of highly developed industry and gross national product. However this isn't contradictory to the fact that Americans are arrogant. When people have too much money (what blacks do not have in Africa) and cultural influence they become arrogant. That's just the nature of things. IP: Logged |
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
quote: You suddenly believe that people called black folks in Africa exist. Wow! Opinion about America or any other nation, for that matter, is well and good, but since when did America become the focus of Egyptologyand its related history? IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: In terms of color Africans are the true blacks (except the ones in the north). The blacks of the Americas are dominantly brown people, except maybe Haiti, the Bahamas and Jamaica where blacks make up the majority. And yes i think America should not be the focus of Egyptians and Africans in general. Culturally they have nothing in common. IP: Logged |
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
quote: Needless to say that going by your twisted racial categories, the majority of Africans would be brown. Having said that, now that you acknowledge that black folks indeed exist as a race, blacks makeup the majority of populations in Upper Egypt, the origins of Ancient Egyptian civilization. IP: Logged |
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Osiris II Member Posts: 173 |
It really says something--I'm not exactly sure what--to have all the oft-repeated racial comments made on a thread that warns posters not to post racial comments. Go figure! IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: I'm the last one to argue about race and i didn't even mention race in my post. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote:And who pray tell, in this personalized racist/"non racial" ideology would be the true whites, other than albinos and lepers?
quote:Or sometimes people are just arrogant out of sheer ignorance. [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 02 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: I terms of color (and also culture), Europeans are whites and Africans are black (except the ones in the north).
quote: Ignorance doesn't necessarily make one arrogant, money does that's for sure. Ignorance is merely the result of lacking education. Most people in Egypt and the rest of Africa do not have any education. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 02 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: In terms of color most Europeans certainly do not have white skin. By definition: In order to have white skin, you must have no skin pigment or melanin,. That would also make you an Albino. Anything that is not Albino has skin coloration, and therefore is not literally white. Even Northern Europeans tend to have pink skin, and males tend to be darker than females. This is because males have more melanin in their skin than females. In European culture the stereotype of ideal male is said to be "tall dark and handsome". How is that possible if Europeans are all 'literally' white? Of course it is possible because all Europeans are not literally the same color. Southern Europeans are generally noticably darker than Northern Europeans, often with quite dark brown skin, brown eyes and curly brown hair. Therefore by your logic Southern Europeans cannot be considered "true whites", and they are certainly less white than Northern Europeans. By your literal definition of skin color a true white race does not exist. Thus we see your literal definitions of skin color apply only to blacks and not to whites. And so is revealed as hypocritical, and racist. [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 02 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
So predictable! Orionix, the moment I sensed you weaseling your way into painting yourself as being mind-free of the concept of race, I knew you were trying to find negotiation, about the fact of the matter of upper Egyptians being predominantly black Africans. You are out of luck, because fact is not up for negotiation! ![]() IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: Upper Egyptians are black yes but take into consideration that the ones living in Cairo (Lower Egypt) are dominantly non-black. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 02 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: First of all there is no "true" white or black. There is no purity of anything. However most Africans have darker skin than the average Afro-American. Racial taxonomic classifications were firstly based on skin color, that's why i use skin color insteed of race. Race is obviously in the eye of the beholder. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 02 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Ayazid Member Posts: 404 |
Please,finish this thread and all another racial threads in ANCIENT EGYPT AND EGYPTOLOGY. Itīs getting VERY tiresome. Itīs only a porof how possesed are you Americans by racial issues. Egyptians(both ancient and modern)would never care so much about it.
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supercar Member Posts: 871 |
quote: I see a large number of interesting threads around lately that don't have to focus on race per se, unless someone instigates it...like you are doing right now. It will really do you some good to contribute to those threads. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: Which is why your previous remark about Africans being the "true" blacks were so silly. Funny how you can be made to retreat from your phony racial terminologies rather than apply them to whites. IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: Since the variation between human populations is geographical the same concept can be implied to Europeans. Southern Europeans have a significant amount of African DNA. My point was that most Afro-Americans are not black and not African. I really don't understand their obsession. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote:In which case, according to you they are not white. Yet you refered the them as such, quote: "Europeans are white". Which is it? And why are you obsessed with Europeans being white? IP: Logged |
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blackman Member Posts: 172 |
quote: Orionix, You should teach your "The Ancient Egyptians weren't black or white. They were no race," to the people at Stormfront who belive they were white. IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: The AEs were not black as the Bantus. They were the same people who they are today and the genetic studies support it. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote:This is also a silly and simplistic statement. Bantu constitutes a language group and involves 100's of different African ethnicities of various generally dark skin tones which is also true of the indigenous Nile Valley populations.
quote:no peer reviewed genetic study supports any such conclusion. you quote familiar storm front material to the same net negative effect. Meanwhile there have been numorous credible and peer reviewed genetic studies stating the obvious, and contradicting the ridiculous notion that Arabs, Persians, Hyksos, Greeks, and Syrans have had no impact on Egypt's population. Such as: Gilles, Stevanovitch, Bouzaid, Gayraud, et al: NSERM U387 - Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Hopital Sainte Marguerite study of the mtDNA diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history....the results suggest that the Gurna population has conserved the trace of an ancestral genetic structure from an ancestral East African population, characterized by a high M1 haplogroup frequency. The current structure of the Egyptian population may be the result of further influence of neighbouring populations on this ancestral population..... Also see this thread on population change in AE: http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000966.html If you can refute the information presented please reply in that thread. Thank you. [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
Well, here are 2 genetic studies who say otherwise: 1. Scientists at the University of Cairo tested DNA from the remains of pyramid workers from 2600 BC, and found that the DNA of ancient Egyptians matches that of modern Egyptians. That is, the people living in Egypt now are essentially the same as the people living there thousands of years ago. (Read an excerpt from PBS's Secrets of the Pharaohs) 2. Borgognini-Tarli and G. Paoli, 1982. The ABO blood type frequencies of ancient Egyptians showed no signs of differing significantly from that of present-day Egyptians. According to the authors, "the blood-group distribution obtained for Asiut, Gebelen and Aswan necropoles shows resemblances with the present leucoderm population of Egypt and particularly with its more 'conservative' fraction (the Copts, MOURANT et al., 1976)." Anyway, North Africans as a whole are predominantly Near Eastern (U6 haplotype) with significant SS African admixture (L3 haplotype). The U6 mtDNA (maternal) subclade is both indigenous and predominant in North Africa. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: Orionix: What you are quoting, is material from a geocities website, constantly quoted by storm fronts types in the same erroneous way... *the quote is NOT from scientists who conducted the study. you are quoting the author of the geocities website. * the study itself was never submitted for peer review and is not regarded seriously in scientific circles, and at any rate...does not support the conclusion you are trying to foist upon it. [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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blackman Member Posts: 172 |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Orionix' 1. The technology for ancient DNA isn't good and data is not conclusive. All people DNA is over 99% similiar. 2. Please provide a link. I didn't know you can take a blood sample from mummies. IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: How do you know all that? I think you are just presuming. Anyway i will agree with you here. I think we both have a point here. The people who inhabit North Africa (including Egypt) since paleolithic times were obviously non-black and non-white, saying otherwise is insane. Now this is the last post i made in this subject. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: Because we've seen this before. This is old nonsense you are blindly repeating Orionix. I warned you earlier about quoting without attribution, and especially without knowing precisely who you are quoting from! IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: Actually geocities has a bunch of useful material on human genetics as a whole. The site has a good introduction to human genetics. I do not think it's a racist myth site. The site just gives a rebuttal to Afrocentric exaggerations about a "black" ancient Egypt.Nicer said, it offers a point for consideration. I think we both have a point since earlier genetic studies show that there is a regional variation in genes freqeuncies in Egypt. 1.mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations: A Genetic Corridor or a Barrier to Migration? Other studies... 2. Y-chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt American Journal of Physical Anthropology We analyzed Y-chromosome haplotypes in the Nile River Valley in Egypt 3. As for mtDNA (Krings et al., [1999]), the present study on the Y- [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote:Not as useful for your purposes of attempting to mislead, as you think, as proven when you were caught quoting the geocities website and falsely attributing it to a geneticist. I see you are taking another stab at it though..... IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
The study you cite...... quote:....has also been discussed before on this forum several times. In no way does it support your ridiculous claim that AE have remained genetically the same and have not been affected by Eurasian admixture in historic times. Indeed, the cited abstract specifically refutes your claims, which you evade by not presenting in entiriety:Possibly haplotypes VIII, VII, and XV represent, respectively, Near East, It's really rather laughable that you think you can deceive us with this material. Go Read Ausar's comments on this genetic study and Arab admixture to Upper EGyptians here, appropriately enough titled "Egyptians are not Arabs": http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum2/HTML/003285-2.html Nothing you've cited supports your claim that modern Egypt is genetically the same as AE. Indeed your own cited studies specifically disprove your claims. How 'bad' is that? What you have proven however, is that it does no good to attempt to 'use' genetic studies to prove a point, when you can't even take the time, nor do you have the intellectual honesty to attempt to fully understand what you are quoting. [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: Yes, geneticists make these studies. The site is actually brings up some good points against Afrocentric exaggerations. And no i don't buy the theory which says that there was a population replacment in Egypt. IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote:Since no one here is a proponent of a "population replacement theory", whatever that means, that is a red herring. The fact is the study you cite refutes the claim you made. Case closed. But go ahead and try to save face by changing the subject....don't blame you. What else can you do, really? [This message has been edited by rasol (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
The modern Egyptians are genetically very similar to their ancient fathers. Ausar said it himself:
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Orionix Member Posts: 101 |
quote: No you have some kind of illusion that the AE was prodominated by a different "race" of people. Man you should get your head out of your ass. These Afrocentric fairy tells are old. There is nothing which indicates that the modern Egyptians are siginificantly different from their ancient fathers. [This message has been edited by Orionix (edited 03 November 2004).] IP: Logged |
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rasol Member Posts: 925 |
quote: That's called quoting out of context. We are going to cure you of sophomoric debating tactics yet. The full quote from Ausar: The problem is we have scarce genetic information about the early dwellers of the Nile,and with this data we can completely answer your questions. Most genetic studies on ancient and modern Egyptians have shown continuity between ancient and modern populations within Egypt. Most mTdna and Y-Chromsome studies about Egypt are done with modern samples as opposed to more ancient samples. Most samples taken within Egypt are done with more urban Cairene samples instead of more rural Egyptians from Upper and Middle Egypt.
The question is, do you even possess the subtlety of mind to comprehend the difference between what he is saying, and what you said? It's rhetorical, please don't answer. IP: Logged |
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