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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] It irritates me when I see other Africans Americans pretend that they are Egyptians to the extent of forgeting their direct ancestry in Africa. It's because many of us are still ashamed because of white supremacy so we attach to an example of an African country that they are impressed by and because modern Western cities are more similar to it. I see black folk in love with anceint Egypt yet they put down immigrants from Senegal and Ghana, that is what I see, It's a problem you may not know about. [/qb][/QUOTE]LOL. Afro-Americans are not forgetting their direct ancestry by acknowledging their Egyptian origins because AAs are a Pan-African people due to slavery in the US. In the US, slave masters usually tried to limit the number of slaves from the same nationality/ethnicity resident on their plantations. Then after 1800 due to the Inter-State slave trade when the average slave was sold before the age of 5 years, the vast majority of AAs knew nothing about their ethnic origin. As a result, when Diop proved that west Africans formed part of the egyptian population, AAs could claim direct descent from the Egyptians. Also, many AAs adopted Egyptian as a result of Afrocentric research traditions. Lets look at the Language traditions of the Afrocentric [Social] Scientific Community, To study ancient afrocentric studies the africalogical researcher has had to become skilled in understanding and reading non-English languages. DuBois noted that: "The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command....(p.3)". For the heroes of africalogical research such as Delany, Blyden, DuBois, Parker, Perry and Williams, a knowledge of Latin and \or Greek was a requirement for normal scientific study of the classical and Old Testament literature which served as the basis for the creation of the theoretical paradigms associated with ASAH. In addition to possessing a reading knowledge of these Eurocentric classical languages for Western thought, africalogical researchers, like W.E.B. DuBois and J.A. Rogers have also had to have a knowledge of modern European languages. This has been necessary because of the fact that much of the research supporting the ASAH paradigms has usually been published in French and German. One of the reasons that many of the contemporary africalogical researchers interested in early history use outdated references in their work, is due to their ignorance of French and German. Proficiency in a language other than English, helped africalogical researchers conduct the normal africalogical social science. It was DuBois' (1965, 1970) and Hansberry's knowledge of German that allowed these afrocentrists to conduct research into the role of Blacks in Egypt and Ethiopia. J.A. Rogers mastered many languages including French and German to prove that Blacks inhabited almost every continent on the globe. Dr. C. A. Winters (1977,1981\1982, 1985, 1991, 1994) had to learn Arabic, Chinese, Malinke, Portuguese, Otomi, Mayan, Swahili, Tamil and Tokharian (Kushana) to conduct his africalogical studies of Blacks in Asia and the Americas. In the 1960's due to the rise of independence in the east African country of Tanzania, Swahili became a language used by africalogical social scientists. Swahili terms were used to explain and define the phenomena associated with africalogy. This is one of the reasons that the terms used in the Kwanza ceremonies practiced by blacks are Swahili lexical items (Coleman, 1971). Swahili is still used to explain aspects of Africana studies, among africalogical researchers but today Egyptian is recognized as the classical language for africalogical research (Wimby, 1980). Diop (1974,1991) popularized the idea that Egyptian should be used as the classical language for the study of ancient africalogical language and historical studies. As a result, most of the africalogical researchers today concentrate on Egypt and use Egyptian terms to explain the culture and Proto-African language of Africa people (Carruthers, 1977,1980). As you can see white supremacy has nothing to do with AAs admiring Egyptian culture and language. . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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