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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Karem: [qb]People will sometimes talk about how foundational Egyptologists like Petrie used this narrative and the 'Hamitic Hypothesis' as if it somehow benefitted the modern population, but forget to mention that despite his beliefs about Ancient Egyptians being closer to Europeans, he was racist about the current inhabitants of the land, thought of them less favourably than the ancients, and used said beliefs to help justify European colonialism. [/qb][/QUOTE]Usually people with that kind of cognitive dissonance try to justify it by saying that the trans-Saharan slave trade somehow darkened Egyptians and other North Africans over the centuries after antiquity. Ironically, even anti-Black North Africans themselves sometimes endorse that same argument, since they're that intent on distancing their prestigious ancient ancestors from the dreaded stain of Blackness. Unlike traditional White supremacists, they're willing to admit having Black ancestry as long as it doesn't affect the part of their history they want to take pride in. As far as the supposedly progressive people I was talking about, it's possible some of them genuinely worry that ancient North Africans being represented as Black somehow erases the current "Caucasoid" inhabitants of the region. But when you see how stubbornly so many of them cling to the status quo despite being presented evidence to the contrary, it starts looking less like advocacy on behalf of current North Africans and more like a desire to marginalize the significance of Black African people in the region's history. Not so long ago, I was sharing [URL=https://i0.wp.com/brandonpilchersart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Coin-of-Massinissa.png]a colorization I did of an ancient coin (or plaque) depicting the Numidian king Massinissa[/URL] on a forum with a mostly progressive membership. This Spanish guy, one of the most left-leaning posters in that forum, said that depicting ancient North Africans like Massinissa as Black was erasing "non-Black people of color" in the area. I wonder what he'd have to say about all the Black people currently residing in North Africa. If his stance is that North Africans in Numidian times looked just like their modern counterparts, does that include Black North Africans too? Or are they to be written off as later trans-Saharan entrants? Oh, and when I told the dude about all the racism I'd seen from anti-Black North African trolls on the Internet, his retort was "it's not a good look to say North Africans are being racist" about the topic. It made me wonder if a mask wasn’t slipping there. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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