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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ityopiandude: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by 85500: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by astenb: [qb] Good Info OP, Thankfully is it sourced because i am will aware of the Eritrean propaganda machine lol. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't know what you're talking about but if you want direct links to the sources, visit the link I already provided here: http://www.madote.com/2010/03/were-ethiopian-leaders-colonialist.html Djehuti, The Hutu and Tutsi genocide can happen anywhere at anytime. Identity is mostly based on the psychological dimension. It's easy to manipulate identity, because identity changes very rapidly. The whole concept of ethnic identity, like nation-state is a new phenomenon. 150 years ago, there were no such things as ethnic identity. people either went by their regional names, clans, family name or by their language. [/qb][/QUOTE]Poor Banda Eritrea, even the Name of Ethiopian Army was calld "Tikur Anbessa" (Black Lion). YES The same Black Lion Army that destroy your forefathers and Italian solatos. The Hamite/Semite Controversy It was actually a coterie of white writers, mainly Scholars and Journalists, who sparked the dispute. Whether racial liberals or conservatives, they generally referred to the sharp-featured Abyssinians as Hamites – a mythical dark branch of the white race that had allegedly introduced high civilization to parts of Africa. White Authors such as the ethnocentric anthropologist Carlton S Coon and Arthur Brisbane made a great play of the Abyssinians’ supposed Caucasian heritage and identification. Just before the Italo-Ethiopian war, Carlton published a travelogue recording his experiences on a 1933 expedition to Ethiopia [8]. He wrote “ Black Americans risen to Ethiopian’s defence without realising that their solidarity with Abyssinians was a ‘hollow groundless form of idealism, based on entirely on misconceptions’. The Ethiopians were not Negroes as Americans Black were inclined to believe. A close look of Haile Selasie showed that, although dark-complexioned, he was far from being Negro.”……… In Jan 1938, Addison Southland (the American Consul) wrote and compared Ethiopians’ complexion to a “Café-au-lait” or even to a dark chocolate. “high-bridged nose, well-set eyes, and a firm chin” he argued distinguished them racially from the lowly Negro. White-extremists and right-wing journalists (such as Arthur) viewed Abyssinia as a ‘superimposed culture – Amhara and Tigre tribes were not Negroes, only the empire’s lower classes were”. Rogers [1] argued and traced the roots of Semitic/Hamitic theory to the battle of Adwa. He observed that the Ethiopians had never been known except as a Negro. But in 1896 there was a change. It was suddenly discovered that the Ethiopians were Semitic/Hamitic. “In that year the Ethiopians administered a decisive beating to a White people…but as it could not be possible for a black people to lick a white one, the Ethiopians must be WHITE…” [2]. According to Rogers, White imperialists felt compelled, as a result, to create a new quasi-Caucasian identity for the Ethiopians. A Semitic/Hamitic ethnicity for the Ethiopians was vigorously promoted in the West and in Ethiopia by Europeans. White visitors did all they could to popularise the Ethiopians’ Caucasians roots. Yet ”while telling the Amharas they were superior race before their face, called them Negro ‘’ behind their backs.” [3] Walter White, National Secretary of the NAACP, attacked the hypocrisy of Ethiopia’s detractors. He asked those most critical of the Empire’s human rights record about the condition of ‘Slaves’ in other parts of Africa ruled by advanced white Nations, such as UK, France, Belgium, and Italy. If slavery existed in Ethiopia, it was probably no worse than the horrors of Africans endured at the hands of “Civilized Nations”. But even if it were, Italian aggression would still be “unmoral, vicious and wholly unjustified.” [4] Concerned Ethiopians, aware of how damaging the dispute was to the defence-and-aid of Italy-Ethio war campaign, forcefully denied the charges. In December 1935, Tesfaye Zaphiro informed a large gathering of blacks at Harlem that what the blacks heard about poor relationship between Afro-Americans and Ethiopians was false. He had come to Harlem to convince them that there was a “ decided blood relationship between the Ethiopians and the Negro.” [6]. In Feb 1936, Tesfaye assured the black gathering at Brooklyn’s Mount Camel Church of his country’s identification with the Negro. He attributed the dispute to Italian efforts to spread hostile propaganda against Ethiopia. He observed the Rome had initially charged that the Ethiopians were barbarians, in an effort to isolate his nation from the civilized world. Then Rome had declared that “Ethiopians were not black, there by hoping to keep the rest of the colored people of the world from feeling kinship with us. [7]. Not satisfied, Italy had also sought to make it clear that “Ethiopians were white” lest the sympathies of the Caucasians Nations be aroused [7]. According to the fabrication, Ethiopians were neither black nor white but an intermediate race. Ethiopians Black/White controversy- was fabricated and invented by white-extremists and Fascist so as to control Ethiopianism which was spreading among Black Americans in the 1930s? Check out these ref. References [1] Rogers Joel A. “The real facts about Ethiopia”. Third Edition NY J.A. Rogers Publications, 1936 [2] Pittsburgh Courier, Nov. 30, 1935 pp1 [3] Ibid., March 14, 1936 pp3 [4]Walter White to Editor, Daily Mirror, Oct 14, 1935, NAACP Papers. [5]New York Amsterdam News, Jan 23, 1937 pp20 [6] New York Amsterdam News, Dec. 28, 1935 pp4 [7] New York Amsterdam News, Feb 22, 1936 pp10 [8] Measuring Ethiopia and flight into Arabia, Boston Little Bron and Co., 1935 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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