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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Yes there are many types of blacks, we don't all look alike. Aeschylus has the king of the Argives list many a type of black when the Danaids proclaim Argive ancestry. The white king not seeing in them any modicum of whiteness tells them who he thinks their most likely relatives are [QUOTE] "O stranger maids, I may not trust this word, That ye have share in this our Argive race. No likeness of our country do ye bear, But semblance as of [b]Libyan[/b] womankind. Even such a stock by [b]Nilus[/b]' banks might grow; Yea, and the [b]Cyprian[/b] stamp, in female forms, Shows, to the life, what males impressed the same. And, furthermore, of roving [b]Indian[/b] maids Whose camping-grounds by [b]Aethiopia[/b] lie, And [URL=http://www.][b]camel[/b][/URL]s burdened even as mules, and bearing [URL=http://www.][b]Riders[/b][/URL], as horses bear, mine ears have heard; And tales of flesh-devouring mateless maids Called [b]Amazons[/b]: to these, if bows ye bare, I most had deemed you like. Speak further yet, That of your Argive birth the truth I learn." [/QUOTE]. 500 years later comes Manilius who after listing white peoples give us the countries with various types of blacks [QUOTE] "[b]Ethiopia[/b] stains the world painting humankind deeply dark Less does [b]India[/b]'s sun toast its progeny [b]Egypt[/b]-land's Nile leniently irrigates bodies dark a country nearer us, with moderate climate imparting medium tone Sol dries peoples of [b]Africa's dusty desert land[/b] While [b]Mauretania[/b]'s name proclaims colour in skin and face."[/QUOTE]. [/QUOTE]you would have to provide evidence that either Aeschylus or Manilius were not merely listing listing people of different nations who had skin in various shades darker than their own as opposed to Aeschylus or Manilius believing such people comprised a distinct race as per the stereotype term "black". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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