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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by IronLion: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [qb] Selassie may not have considered himself black being brainwashed by colonialists like other leaders then and now, but his direct descendants some who are now living in the cities of the U.S. certainly consider themselves part to the black community. [/qb][/QUOTE]Dana As a scholar, please post one quotation of Selassie where he "considered himself not black".. I expect scholars to back up all their comments. Thanks Lion! [/qb][/QUOTE]on the other hand if you want to know where that is implied you'd have to go back to the person that posted this and named it like he did. Here is the article from the original or first poster. http://www.madote.com/2010/03/were-ethiopian-leaders-colonialist.html from the original or first poster. And don't neglect to read down to this part: "Menelik himself even stated that he was a 'Caucasian'. This non-African identity was also stated by Haile Selassie. 'I am not a Negro at all; I am a Caucasian' the Emperor Menelik told the West Indian pan-Africanist Benito Sylvian who had come to Addis Ababa to solicit the Emperor's leadership in a society for the 'Amelioration of the Negro race.' Haile Sellassie confirmed that view in a declaration to Chief H. O. Davis, a well known Nigerian nationalist, stating that the Ethiopians did not regard themselves as Africans, but as 'a mixed Hamito-Semitic people (2006, John H. Spencer, p. 306)" It is well known that Ethiopians like many Africans didn't consider themselves "Negro" whatever that means, and were taught about the hamitic theory which is why it is not possibly to find more than one or two books naming Ethiopians or Cushites as a kind of "Negro", before the 1990s. I don't think even National Geographic would have made that comment! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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