And actual DNA testing had the audacity to show that Egyptians WEREN’T BLACK.
I remember when they tried to claim that Cleopatra was black.
DNA certainly proves the case but especially older black nationalists in the U.S. (and maybe in Great Britain as well) try claiming math, engineering, architecture, art, etc. were invented by black Africans, claiming they were the ancient Egyptians, which they were not but that never dissuaded Malcom X for claiming it, as does Farrakhan today.
Unfortunately, that is a lie that has been told so often and probably is a lie that has made it into the U.S. textbooks so that all our kids now are as certain of it as they are of the 1970 lie of “globull warming!”
Actually, she looks like Barbara Streisand.
There were indeed some black Egyptians- in Tutankhamun’s family, even.
They picked up some Nubian blood here and there when they occupied Nubia.
Tut’s father or grandfather married the daughter of his chariot army’s leader, who was Nubian.
Then when Egypt’s power waned, Nubia /Kush/Cush was able to conquer Egypt and there was the 25th dynasty (I think) that had the black pharoahs. But it was a very short dynasty of only 50 yrs or so, and was destroyed by the invasion of Assyrians.
The Egyptians called themselves “people of the black land.” The black nationalist sort purposefully misunderstand that as “land of the black people”.
Blacks really think ancientEgyptians were black.
Egyptians were a mixed up society—race had no meaning for them. As long as you spoke Copt (the language of Egypt) worshiped one of the 3,000 gods of Egypt, respected cats—you were OK. All who drank from the Nile were considered countrymen. So, some kings were black, some white, but most were brown. They would find the Africa centered ideas wrongheaded— without Maat (a word that stands for order, justice, ballance, the way things should be—the Egyptian way that was the best known to the universe).
Her bone structure doesn’t look too black.