[wardaddy]

While the Egyptians themselves may have never been black black African black, the early ruling dynasties were.

The Nubians ruled Egypt from 745BC to 650BC...a small sliver of ancient Egyptian timeline

and they were not Negroid black as in North American slave ancestors

they were Kushite type peoples...fairly dark but not Negroid featured...or at least they sure didn't portray themselves that way in their artwork of themselves they had created nor do their descendents look they way today?

Question?

Why don't American Indians try to glom classical history in the same manner?

[allmendream]

Well usually it is done for them.

The myth of the ‘noble savage’ in perfect harmony with nature, etc.

The Mongolians were similarly a semi-nomadic people that had a naturalistic religion, and yet nobody attempts to ascribe to them the same “nobility”.

Yet does anyone doubt that if they had the military advantage, as the Mongols did over their enemies; that the Native Americans would not have been equally as savage in their conquests?

Then we come to the myth that most Americans like to perpetuate about their own family history that somewhere in there is the ‘red noble savage’ that somehow acquits them of their white guilt in being the descendants of a successful agricultural society that displaced a much less successful nomadic and horticultural society.

[allmendream]

Nubians offering gold to the Pharoh. Look fairly of 'negroid' features to me, or close enough that it hardly matters. If you or I saw an ancient Nubian we would most likely describe that person as "black".