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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb]Leaving aside the issue of whether or not the Ancient Egyptians saw themselves as part of the same lineage as people to the South, how is it okay for her to be talking about the blackness of Napatan Nubians, yet, a few lines later, complain it is anachronistic to refer to Egyptians as such? The last time I checked, the ancient Egyptians and ancient Sudanese were contemporary, and so, it would have to be anachronistic to refer to Sudanese as 'black' as well. The fact that she doesn't treat Napatans the same as the ancient Egyptians, shows there are other motives for shying away from calling them, or at least them, sans the nationalized Asiatics and Mediterraneans, black. Her thesis is in fact full with nagging complaints from herself and Egyptologists about why its problematic to refer to people as either black or white in a biological sense, yadi yadi yadi, only to reveal the triviality of such pretended 'expert posturing' by calling Napatan and Meroitic Nubians black several lines later. [/qb][/QUOTE]You're far from the only one who has observed this double standard. The orthodoxy celebrates the Nubians as the "Black Pharaohs" all the time, but once you suggest that the Egyptians themselves may have also qualified for the "black" adjective they distract you with this whole "modern racial categories didn't exist back then". I'm all for giving the Nubian civilization more attention, but if Egyptologists want to advertise the Nubians' race, they can't play the anti-racialist with the Egyptians. BTW, if Egyptian color schemes for men were really symbolic as implied by the thesis author, I bet that a lot of Egyptians, especially those in Upper Egypt, weren't that much lighter than Nubians. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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