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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [qb] Ashton provided resources for creating this very same EgyptSearch we're using right now. [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Punos_Rey: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] Is this a little peculiar or is it just me? [/qb][/QUOTE]Dr. Ashton is a huge proponent of an African genesis/predominance for AE. I don't see what's peculiar?. [/QUOTE]it was surprising to see a light skinned European behind a blog on "African centered Egyptology" and also using the word "kemet" all over the place [/qb][/QUOTE]Keys is a half n half who self-IDs black. Sade's nonna called her Tar Baby. It's the choice of many one black parent biracials to go black like Irish-Luo ex-POTUS Barack O'bama (ok 2 mush green beer and Lambay with Paddy friends 2day; and here's to all me not really Black Irish but Brogue sounding Caribbes). Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greco-Latin and Arabic writers identified whole populations in Africa and Asia as black. But now all a sudden ... [IMG]https://s18.postimg.org/as8ekvkxl/dark-skinned-man-symbolic-for-three-monkeys-_BF9_GAB.jpg[/IMG] While many do, like '[i]Raven[/i]' Symone, everyone 's not running away from black. It's psychotic thinking scientists don't use the term when publications and media prove otherwise. Why go on and on about it? Everybody's mind is already made up. Ain't nothing going to change. [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks. I think that was a good summary. Me personally my understanding of history is all humans came from Africa. And back a few hundred years ago, European colonists found all these black folks (as they themselves called them) all over the planet and began coming up with "racial" theories to explain all this diversity among humans world wide. Of course the problem is that they imposed a hierarchy on this diversity and automaticaly assigned light skinned phenotypes to a "superior" position in human evolution. The darker skinned populations were put in an inferior position representing "archaic" or neanderthal like primitives and not as evolved as the later lighter skinned populations. This is all found in the various books and journals written by Europeans themselves over the last few hundred years. And during the 19th century and the rise of photography they took a lot of photos of these populations as well documenting that diversity. And that is the context that this must be understood in. African scholars in that same time period, the few who could read or write within the context of the racist societies they lived in began to question these things and investigate for themselves. And in doing so they began overturning this model of 'light skin' evolution and primacy over darker skinned populations. Ancient Egypt is the pinnacle of this attitude among Europeans. After the 70s, when America had "civil rights" for black people and later most African nations became independent, so the scientific community changed their public face to become more "liberal" looking and "objective" and thus began this big charade we see today. The charade today is all about control of information and supporting the status quo but looking and pretending to be liberal at the same time. Ausar is a perfect example of this charade, the former moderator who pretended to be black and African centered. Unfortunately once the charade is exposed there is no going back. This is no longer about "individuals" expressing their opinions anymore. It becomes defense of or support of the status quo one way or another. So after Ausar the "change of direction" was no longer even pretending to be African centered as opposed to trying to censor or 'moderate' the African centered voices who at one time dominated the forum. Not pointing at anyone specifically but this is the "META" narrative at work here since Ausar openly and publicly exposed himself and left. In this new "liberal" era, the folks at these institutions like to promote this idea that Africans who challenge them on the facts of their historic racism and the implications in modern science get labeled as 'radical' or somehow non objective. So it is a tactic and defense mechanism on the part of said institutions to pretend to be different but at the same time slandering Africans who never ever created any sort of racial pecking order or imposed African identity on anyone. It is basically a campaign to discredit African scholarship while making the institutions which practiced the historic racism seem 'liberal'. I already posted a while back the Penn Museum symposium on race where they discussed these same things. The problem was that none of the black people they had on these panels were actually involved in any STEM fields. And the website for the program says it is about "social justice" being promoted by the institutions of historic racism themselves. In other words, black folks fronting for the status quo. But ultimately it is up to Africans to tell their own history and correct the distortions. And that is what I stand for. But no African scholar should tolerate this charade of folks upholding the status quo and then slandering Africans as if Africans created or introduced RACE into the study of anthropology or history. Playing the game and trying to self censor is not going to change these institutions and their priorities from what it has always been. It is interesting seeing as Keita hasn't been in the news as much lately as the "forefront" of African scholarship on AE. Will be interesting to see what he does next. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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