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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [qb] [QUOTE]The controversy surrounding the Kushite/African/Black origins of the Elamites, Sumerians, Akkadians and “Assyrians” is simple and yet complicated. It involves both the racism exhibited toward the African slaves in the Western Hemisphere and Africans generally which led to the idea that Africans had no history ; and the need of Julius Oppert to make Semites white, to accommodate the “white” ancestry of European Jews.[/QUOTE]You can shorten this paragraph by saying that the controversy over the identiy of Kemetian, Kushites and Elamites rooted in racism....yes. [QUOTE]Rawlinson was surprised during his research to discover that the founders of the Mesopotamian civilization were of Kushite origin. He made it clear that the Semitic speakers of Akkad and the non-Semitic speakers of Sumer were both Black or Negro people who called themselves sag-gig-ga “Black Heads”. [/QUOTE]I agree that Sumerians, like the Kemetians, referred to themselves as Blacks, that this reference is and always has been *ethnic* in character, and that this fact is so disturbing to Eurocentric racists, that they have gone to laughable lengths to invent alternate *explanations*, which for the most part, they don't actually believe in, but assert effectively as pro-forma propaganda. British scholar George Rawlinson is one of the 1st to translation Herodotus Histories correctly, in which Herodotus repeatedly refers to Egyptians, Ethiopians and others as Blacks. EX: [i] - Still the Egyptians said that they believed the Colchians to be descended from the army of Sesostris. My own conjectures were founded, first, on the fact that they are black-skinned and have woolly hair -- Two black doves flew away from Egyptian Thebes, and while one directed its flight to Libya, the other came to them. By calling the dove black the Dodonaeans indicated that the woman was an Egyptian. [/i] http://www.piney.com/Heredotus2.html It is interesting to observe in action - Eurocentrism at it's most desparate and dissembling, tactics have included - Deny use of the term 'black' to describe the Egyptians, and -blame- 'afrocentric' misreading - when in fact the early English language translations of Herodotus by Rawlinson and others *all* correctly translated Herodotus as saying such. -- Admit the use of the term black [thus contradicting the former denial], but claim that it doesn't actually reference Egyptians, but rather Nubians. Ex: [i]Herodotus believed this because the *Colchians were black skinned and woolly haired.* For starters,Herodotus makes no claim that all of the Egyptians had these features and secondly black Nubian mercenaries served in the Egyptian army which would include Pharaoh Sesostris’s army.[/i] http://yeyeolade.wordpress.com/category/black-is-beautiful/ ^ This is a beautiful bit of dissembing. It accuses others of misreading Herodotus, then puts words in Herodotus mouth [Nubians?] he never spoke, in order to evade what he actually said. It ignores the fact that Herodotus is citing Black skin and Woolly hair as a *common feature* of Ethiopians, Egyptians and Colchians. After all - he acribes Colchian and -Egyptian- origin, due to black skin and woolly hair -> not and Ethiopian origin due to *nubians* in Egyptian army. It engages in the straw man argument that Herodotus did not state that *all* Egyptians or *all* Colchoi had these features. [he doesn't say *all* Ethiopians had them, for that matter]. Of course what is relevant is that Blackness is cited by Herodotus as a common denominator and defining characteristic of all 3 groups, which is of course, exactly what is at issue! So yes, Eurocentrists are desparate liars, and....they know this. [/qb][/QUOTE]I concur. The only fallacy now is Winters claiming that all these black peoples were Africans or "Kushites". The Sumerians and Elamites were NOT African Kushites and neither were the Dravidians despite the fact that they are all black. We have been through the reasons numerous times. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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