I started the link there cuz for some reason the hopme page does'nt work, nevertheless I was impressed with the accurate information (with citings) presented becase it is rare to find a site on the subject that does'nt mix in non-sense and pseudo-scientific fantasy without real historical basis (such as runoko rashidi) or in converse eurocentric bias and distortion (wikipedia).
check it out and see what you think.
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I started the link there cuz for some reason the hopme page does'nt work, nevertheless I was impressed with the accurate information (with citings) presented becase it is rare to find a site on the subject that does'nt mix in non-sense and pseudo-scientific fantasy without real historical basis (such as runoko rashidi) or in converse eurocentric bias and distortion (wikipedia).
check it out and see what you think.
This is great. Medieval Mali SHOULD be seen as one of the most successful empires of the Medieval era, but it's not for the obvious reasons. Which is why things like the Timbuktu manuscripts are so important because they are a written history.
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It's not mine though. Never seen it before until now.
You have a website Rasol?
Dude was being funny ... this is not Rasol site ...
Read the site:
quote: Names for ancient Egypt as a source for racial classifications
One of the many names for Egypt in ancient Egyptian is km.t (read "Kemet"), meaning "black land". More literally, the word means "something black". The use of km.t "black land" in terms of a place was generally in contrast to the "desert" or "red land": the desert beyond the Nile valley. When used to mean people, km.t "people of Kemet", "people of the black land" is usually translated "Egyptians". This word that the Egyptians used to describe themselves was never used to describe other peoples of Africa.
Science
Most modern scientists have abandoned the use of mutually exclusive races. This is in large part because DNA evidence has shown that there is little genetic basis for race.
There is greater genetic diversity within populations than between them. There are greater genetic differences between different groups classified as "black" than between the other races. Some groups of people classified as black are more closely related to white or Asian peoples than other black people.[citation needed]
Also look at this images on the page ... especially that image of the four so called races:
seriously ... We know what the real one looks like ...
This doesn't even resemble what Rasol would have written.
Posts: 951 | From: where rules end and freedom begins | Registered: Jun 2004
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It's not mine though. Never seen it before until now.
You have a website Rasol?
Dude was being funny ... this is not Rasol site ...
Read the site:
quote: Names for ancient Egypt as a source for racial classifications
One of the many names for Egypt in ancient Egyptian is km.t (read "Kemet"), meaning "black land". More literally, the word means "something black". The use of km.t "black land" in terms of a place was generally in contrast to the "desert" or "red land": the desert beyond the Nile valley. When used to mean people, km.t "people of Kemet", "people of the black land" is usually translated "Egyptians". This word that the Egyptians used to describe themselves was never used to describe other peoples of Africa.
Science
Most modern scientists have abandoned the use of mutually exclusive races. This is in large part because DNA evidence has shown that there is little genetic basis for race.
There is greater genetic diversity within populations than between them. There are greater genetic differences between different groups classified as "black" than between the other races. Some groups of people classified as black are more closely related to white or Asian peoples than other black people.[citation needed]
Also look at this images on the page ... especially that image of the four so called races:
seriously ... We know what the real one looks like ...
This doesn't even resemble what Rasol would have written.
LOL, I was joking, but the references to Keita sure sound like rasol's views, thats what I was getting at.
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quote:Originally posted by rasol: ^ Booo on any overview of African history that does not mention Kemet/Egypt.
Lol, true, but at least they touched upon it a bit and put it with in the context of Africa.
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