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Originally posted by milkyway12
reply to post by DeNaga
Wheres your History coming from? Never heard that before. Indians are the actual Natives as far as im concerned.
We treated them pretty bad , but hey we are here now , and we got things to do ... a lot more than worrying about your skin color.
And if im wrong , and blacks were truly here first in 4000 BC ... looks like the civilizatoin failed and some one else moved in ... its no longer established here.
Meaning ... this Land is our Land now unless that Civilization thinks it can do something about it , which it obviously cant. So its actually the the American people's land. We took it. Just my two cents.edit on 04/30/2011 by milkyway12 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LUXUS
reply to post by DeNaga
De Naga, did you watch the two vids I posted. First one shows the tomb of the builders, the ones who actually built the pyrimids whilst the seconds shows proof that they were Egyptians....so has it hit home yet would be my question?
Originally posted by Dragoon01
So this debacle of a thread has progressed from "Blacks built the pyramids" to "Blacks were the original inhabitants of the Americas" So are you contending that all great historical people were somehow Black Africans? You know there are ruins in Japan that are known to predate the Japanese settlement of the islands maybe Blacks built those too? Hell I guess everything was ACTUALLY invented by Blacks but us dirty stinking theiving White men took it all right? Or maybe it was those dirty JEWS that took all your glory right? Its all been one big ol giant conspiracy to keep the brothas down right? Like how Ancient Egyptian Blacks had wings before the white man came and cut them off right? Dont try to deny that one I have heard black revisionist actually tell this whopper to their children first hand. What nonsense. Grow the hell up and get over it.edit on 8-8-2011 by Dragoon01 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DeNaga
I mean it's not like their could be a direct correlation to this information and the fact that a lot of blacks are lacking in their contributions to society now because of this information being hidden.
Originally posted by Dragoon01
Look its all your presentation man. I am perfectly willing to accept that Egypt was a multi racial state. I think there is ampel evidence for this. I am perfectly willing to accept that historians are very wrong about the origins of many cultures and people. But I am not willing to accept an Afrocentrist victimization mantra. I understand that blacks in the US want to look back on their ancestors and see a rich culture and heritage to identify with. But heres the deal. LETS suppose that indeed the "nubians" that you speak of were the original Egyptians. And indeed they were African light skinned Negroids. That still does not make the decendents of WEST AFRICAN SLAVES in the US in any way genetically related to these "nubians".
Stop trying to invent a history and jam it down peoples throats in an effort to prop up your own self worth. Be proud of where you actually came from and how your people are. There is nothing wrong with a tribal lifestyle living close to the land with your family and ancestors. Thats West African culture and it has a perfectly fine history of art and story. Its not an empire building culture and thats fine. In many ways its more noteworthy than a culture that did build an empire only to have it lost and destroyed. Progress in terms of cities and farms are built up because of social pressure. People compete over resources and strife creates a need. If your people did not build big stone cities its because they did not see a need to do so. They continued to live a tribal lifestyle because it filled their needs completly. There is nothing wrong with that. Its entirely possible that there are great sub-saharan African empires that existed and died waiting to be discovered in the vast reaches of Africa. There are hints that they do indeed exist. Great fine lets find them and complete the record but stop trying to shoehorn into a civilization that at best you were only a part of.
Originally posted by Dragoon01
Stop trying to invent a history and jam it down peoples throats in an effort to prop up your own self worth. Be proud of where you actually came from and how your people are. There is nothing wrong with a tribal lifestyle living close to the land with your family and ancestors. Thats West African culture and it has a perfectly fine history of art and story. Its not an empire building culture and thats fine. In many ways its more noteworthy than a culture that did build an empire only to have it lost and destroyed. Progress in terms of cities and farms are built up because of social pressure. People compete over resources and strife creates a need. If your people did not build big stone cities its because they did not see a need to do so. They continued to live a tribal lifestyle because it filled their needs completly. There is nothing wrong with that. Its entirely possible that there are great sub-saharan African empires that existed and died waiting to be discovered in the vast reaches of Africa. There are hints that they do indeed exist. Great fine lets find them and complete the record but stop trying to shoehorn into a civilization that at best you were only a part of.
"The question of the genetic origins of ancient Egyptians, particularly those during the Dynastic period, is relevant to the current study. Modern interpretations of Egyptian state formation propose an indigenous origin of the Dynastic civilization (Hassan, 1988 Early Egyptologists considered Upper and Lower Egyptians to be genetically distinct populations, and viewed the Dynastic period as characterized by a conquest of Upper Egypt by the Lower Egyptians. More recent interpretations contend that Egyptians from the south actually expanded into the northern regions during the Dynastic state unification (Hassan, 1988; Savage, 2001), and that
(Zakrzewski, 2007). The Predynastic populations studied here, from Naqada and Badari, are both Upper Egyptian samples, while the Dynastic Egyptian sample (Tarkhan) is from Lower Egypt. The Dynastic Nubian sample is from Upper Nubia (Kerma). Previous analyses of cranial variation found the Badari and Early Predynastic Egyptians to be more similar to other African groups than to Mediterranean or European populations (Keita, 1990; Zakrzewski, 2002). In addition, the Badarians have been described as near the centroid of cranial and dental variation among Predynastic and Dynastic populations studied (Irish, 2006; Zakrzewski, 2007). This suggests that, at least through the Early Dynastic period, the inhabitants of the Nile valley were a continuous population of local origin, and no major migration or replacement events occurred during this time.
the Predynastic populations of Upper and Lower Egypt are morphologically distinct from one another, but not sufficiently distinct to consider either non-indigenous
Studies of cranial morphology also support the use of a Nubian (Kerma) population for a comparison of the Dynastic period, as this group is likely to be more closely genetically related to the early Nile valley inhabitants than would be the Late Dynastic Egyptians, who likely experienced significant mixing with other Mediterranean populations (Zakrzewski, 2002). A craniometric study found the Naqada and Kerma populations to be morphologically similar (Keita, 1990). Given these and other prior studies suggesting continuity (Berry et al., 1967; Berry and Berry, 1972), and the lack of archaeological evidence of major migration or population replacement during the Neolithic transition in the Nile valley, we may cautiously interpret the dental health changes over time as primarily due to ecological, subsistence, and demographic changes experienced throughout the Nile valley region." -- AP Starling, JT Stock. (2007). Dental Indicators of Health and Stress in Early Egyptian and Nubian Agriculturalists: A Difficult Transition and Gradual Recovery. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 134:520–528