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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SlimJim: [qb] Define black Egypt? Black is very vague and subjective.[/qb][/QUOTE]Actually 'black' strictly speaking is a description of skin color. Hence, you have Australian Aborigines, Melanesians, and peoples from India who are 'black' but skin color alone doesn't say much about genetic relation. What's funny is that Classical authors from Greece and Rome blatantly described the Egyptians as 'black' with terms like the Greek melanchro or Latin maure, and even Hebrew texts from early Judaeans called the Egyptians 'kushi' having the same meaning. So I find the very argument denying a black Egypt to be utterly absurd. This is why Eurocentrics nowadays or at least the smart ones no longer argue against the 'black' label but instead argue on definitions of genetic populations, thus black not necessarily being 'sub-Saharan' synonymous with "negroid". This is actually nothing more than a resurrection of the 'Hamitic Hypothesis' that is "black-skinned Caucasoids" [sic]! In fact, back in the hey-day of Egyptomania from the late 19th-20th centuries, with the French and British inventing the discipline of 'Egyptology', the early physical anthropologists of those days openly admitted that the Egyptian 'racial type' is "Abyssinian" i.e. [b]Ethiopian[/b] but that such a type was considered to be part of the "Caucasian" or "White race" as opposed to the "Negroid" or Black race. So despite the obvious heavy melanin content, they made the ridiculous assertion of 'blackened whites'. [b]LOL[/b] :D This is why I no longer engage in unscientific arguments of racial typology but would rather discuss scientific arguments based on biological affinities. And this is why you have a troll with the moniker of "Sudanese" who doesn't bother addressing the topic of this thread which is odontic traits but instead claims that not only Egyptians but ancient Kenyans were not black either and I take it, neither were ancient Sudanese! [b]LOL[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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