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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] [QUOTE]The easiest and most common way to reject the notion of a Black Race of Ancient Egypt is by exploiting the nebulous and nefarious nature of race classification, and then placing the burden of proof on those who claim Black Race Ancient Egypt to prove it.[/QUOTE]Here is and example of how effective this tactic can be, if you accept the hypocrtical terms of discussion of Eurocentrism, and in so doing fall right into their trap: Ann Macy Roth, 1st builds her strawman argument.... [i]Race, then, is essentially a social concept, native to the society in which one lives. It is anachronistic to argue that the ancient Egyptians belonged to one race or another based on our own contemporary social categories, and it is equally unjustifiable to apply the social categories of modern Egypt or of ancient Greece or any other society, although all of these questions are interesting and worthy of study on their own. The results tell us nothing about Egyptian society, culture and history, which is after all, what we are interested in. [/i] Then she proceed to attack the strawman: [i]This is not, however, what the Afrocentrist Egyptologists are interested in. They want to show that according to modern Western categories, the ancient Egyptians would have been regarded as black.[/i] Carefully notice what Roth is attacking here: Not African Egypt, not Black Egyptians, not even Afrocentrism -> she is actually disputing [i]modern Western categories[/i]. Having defined her afrocentric opponents as defenders of Western race catagories - all she has to do is stand back and watch the foolish Afrocentrist comply. This is what Dr. Winters does in his various threads defending the pseudoscientific western race concept. In order to defeat Roth's gambit, you must see thru to its core contradiction - > The concept of race is *precisely what is used to deny that AE is African and Black to begin with.* Thus Roth offers no basis for disputing that AE were African, or that AE were Black. She has actually renounced the very basis [race] for disputing this fact in the 1st place. However Roth relies on 'afrocentrists' to make the mistake of defending Black as a modern racial construct. Never defend the core assumptions of your opponent! Instead, allow Roth to show us that AE were not a dark skinned people, native to Africa and who referred to themselves as Blacks. She never refutes any of the above, because she can't. Because she does not address *OUR POSITION* but rather her straw-man of it, her discourse can be dismissed as off point, and not chased after, in the a fashion of a bull fanning at red cape. Finally, Roth is to be permitted to show us that her unwillingness to acknowledge Km.t [black] African Egypt is a product of something other than her own imposition of modern Western racist discourse, against longstanding historical facts, which simply happen to confound white supremacy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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