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Take a look at this website. I found this on google. This guy claims that white represents purity and innocence. And that black symbolized death and the night. How do people come up with these lies?
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^ the site is silly, but by linking to it, you dignify it.
too many african scholars continue to make the mistake of scouring the internet for outre' eurocentrism, and then linking back to it.
this is and incorrect strategy, as it allows Eurocentrists to dominate the discourse.
[and the real question is not where people come up with it - by why people who know better link back to it - has something to do with 'self defeating' behaviors, which is proven by the title of this thread also.]
ES has become somewhat prominent on the internet in discussions of Kemitic ethnic identity because we don't make the mistake of constantly 'reacting'.
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^ I couldn't agree more. The internet is full of inaccurate and invalid sources especially pertaining to subjects of history and culture let alone that of Africa in general and Egypt specifically. Why waste your time trying to point out such things and try to refute them as if such sources are the main authorities? By doing that, all you do is give them unnecessary power.
We have explained on this forum all too many times what the color black (kem) meant to the ancient Egyptians (Kememu), that I won't even give any links to past threads but insist that you search in the archives yourself. That they labeled not only their country black but themselves points to the special positive meaning they attached to the color as well as depicting some of their most important gods and figures in that color.
But for humor let's look at what your silly source says:
In ancient Egypt, black (kem) was a symbol of death and of the night. Osiris, the king of the afterlife was called "the black one." One of the few real-life people to be deified, Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was the patroness of the necropolis. She was usually portrayed with black skin, although she was not a negro. Anubis, the god of embalming was shown as a black jackal or dog, even though real jackals and dogs are typically brown.
LOL Obviously the author seems to go by the European perspective of what black symbolizes when he said it represented death and night. If that's so what are we to make of the Egyptians' country 'Kemet' or themselves, Kememu? Perhaps theirs is the land of death or night or they thought of themselves as the people of death or night! LOL The author then notes how Ahmose-Nefertari who was deified and made a goddess was portrayed as black in art. No doubt such a portrayal signified her divine status and not "death" or "night". And then he then asserts that she was not "negro". LOL Okay, enough of this game. It's all too easy. Posts: 26286 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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The author then notes how Ahmose-Nefertari who was deified and made a goddess was portrayed as black in art. No doubt such a portrayal signified her divine status and not "death" or "night". And then he then asserts that she was not "negro". LOL Okay, enough of this game. It's all too easy. 
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