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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Morpheus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ceasar: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Morpheus: [qb] Racism is the reason for these double standards. When Europeans traveled to Africa during the so-called Age of Discovery they encountered cultures that were less technologically advanced than themselves and developed the belief that this disparity between their culture and those people was because of physical differences. Even though these people were very culturally diverse they defined them by their anatomical traits, notably skin color and developed the concept of race. The distortion of the African historical record were designed to promote the myth of African inferiority. That's how all this garbage about the "True Negro" and "wandering Hamites/Caucasoids founding African civilizations" got started. [/qb][/QUOTE]Your right but just rewind a couple or few hundred years ago before the Renaissance age in Europe and you hit the Dark ages or the middle ages. During this time the middle east was a lot more advanced then Europe in many different ways. Just like the Romans were a lot more advanced then the Germanic tribes that surrounded them during that time. So when people say well Egypt could not have been black African because it was so much more advanced then its surrounding neighbors you can say the same thing about Rome [/qb][/QUOTE]Yes. And I do point that out to people that history does not show a pattern of racial hierarchies. Racism began as cultural prejudice with the assumption that observable anatomical traits correlated with mental ability. The key to refuting racists when they bring up history is to use historical facts against them. That's actually how I got involved with this subject. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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