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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: I hope you realise that Aethiopia was first used on areas in the Levant - areas in modern Palestine. Do you mean to assert that the people of the Levant were darker than the ancient Egyptians... indigenous Northeast Africans of the same stock as North Sudanese, Somalis, Ethiopians, Eritreans and so on? [/QUOTE]Aethiops has a false/pseudo-etymology, i.e. the word aethiops or aithiops did not originally mean burnt-faced (black). That term only came about when Greeks encountered black peoples from the 6th century BCE, prior to this the word Aethiops had no reference to pigmentation whatsoever and was describing people much closer to Greece. In fact the original east Aethiopia (there were two, an east and west, if you read Homer) might have been Paeonia/Macedonia. I only propose Aethiopia from the 6th century BCE came to mean populations below Egypt; in Homer, Ethiopia isn't even in Africa and the Greeks at that time had no knowledge of Nubia/lands below Egypt. [QUOTE]This entire thread has been an entertaining waste of time. You have already conceded that the ancient Egyptians were indigenous Northeast Africans of the same stock as North Sudanese and *Sub-Saharan* Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritre and Djibouti.[/QUOTE]Those Sub-Saharan Africans don't show as close genetic affinity as northern Sudanese and modern Egyptians (to ancient Egyptians). So I would not favour pooling all these together. In cranial metric/non-metric studies, Nubians always plot closer than north Ethiopian (Tigray) or Somali samples. This is simply down to geographical distance. [QUOTE] Africans are all varying shades of brown -- gradients of brown that are almost universally regarded as 'black, and the ancient Egyptians were well within the range of 'black' of other Northeast African blacks. [/QUOTE]If you use this reasoning, then Levant and south European are also black - they have brown pigmentation (southern Europeans are a faint light brown or olive complexion). No Afrocentrist however is consistent with this, labelling west Asian and a large portion of (south) European peoples "black" doesn't suit their politicalized pan-African usage of black. [QUOTE]Most people understand that virtually no populations are literally 'black' or literally 'white'. The Northeast African stock of blacks (of which AE is one of many) don't need to have the same skin as the Dinka and Nuer to be called 'black'. Are the San black in your wacky estimation? I assume that you consider North Sudanese, Somalis, Ethiopians, Eritreans and so on to be blacks. Ancient Egypt was a Sudanese transplant and cannot be divorced from its family group using the objective disciplines. [/QUOTE]See my posts earlier in this thread on who is/isn't black based on reflectance spectrophotometry. Also look at the [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Luschan%27s_chromatic_scale]Luschan scale[/url], there are [b]7[/b] skin pigmentation categories that do not match what you are saying. Now what? [QUOTE] Genetics, bio-anthropology, archaeology, skin reflectance analysis, melanin dosage tests and culture (material and otherwise) indisputably places ancient Egypt into the group of other Northeast African blacks. This is not disputed by any of the disciplines. You admittedly harbour animus toward blacks, and so your aversion to the usage of black on AE is merely an emotional response- a derivative of your discomfort to acknowledging that the world's first advanced civilization was created by the objects of your hatred. You arrived at your position via emotion - not science. Northeast Africans and West Africans have a common origin in the once wet Sahara, and so divorcing them is impossible, especially when objective sciences are employed. Ancient Egyptian is linguistically closest to Chadic... language group that spans from Chad to Nigeria. [/QB][/QUOTE]"West Africans have a common origin in the once wet Sahara, and so divorcing them is impossible". "Ancient Egyptian is linguistically closest to Chadic... language group that spans from Chad to Nigeria. " lol. Pan African lunacy again. And you aren't from Sudan, you're an African-American which is why you cling to this pan-African political ideology. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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