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Kevin Hart’s Cairo Show Canceled After He Claims Egyptian Pharoahs Were Black
American Tribune ^ | March 1, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 03/02/2023 11:00:06 AM PST by Red Badger

Actor and comedian Kevin Hart just had his show in Cairo canceled because of a remark he made about the Egyptian pharaohs being black. That comment was a joke he made while on his “Reality Check” tour. Speaking about the pharaohs and teaching kids black history, Hart said:

“We must teach our children the true history of Black Africans when they were kings in Egypt and not just the era of slavery that is cemented by education in America. Do you remember the time when we were kings?”

The Cairo stop on his tour was then promptly canceled. “It is with a heavy heart that we share with you, due to local logistical issues, the cancellation of our Kevin Hart event scheduled for February 21st, in Cairo,” the Egyptian management group R Productions announced on Facebook.

Middle East Eye argues that “logistical issues” were not to blame, but rather that his joke about the pharaohs being black infuriated the Egyptians, who accused him and other blacks of wanting to “steal” Egypt’s proud history and “blackwash” it to fit a politically correct American agenda.

Hart faced a flood of criticism in the Arab world’s most populous country for promoting Afrocentrism.

The movement seeks to promote the role Black people played in history and the creation of western civilisation. Hart’s critics, however, accused him of distorting history and robbing Arabs of their claim to the country’s ancient past saying he claimed that Black Africans were once the kings of Egypt.

”We must teach our children the true history of Black Africans when they were kings in Egypt and not just the era of slavery that is cemented by education in America. Do you remember the time when we were kings?” he allegedly stated, though its unclear where the remarks originated.

A hashtag calling for Hart’s show to be cancelled or boycotted became one of the top trending topics on social media in Egypt in December.

One Twitter user said Afrocentrists “want to steal and attribute Egypt’s civilization to Africans and tell modern Egyptians that we are occupying Egypt from them. We must all participate in the campaign to cancel Kevin’s concert.”

Despite many vapid morons online claiming that the pharaohs were black, they were not. All of the post-Alexander the Great pharaohs were of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which was Macedonian. Ptolemy was one of the generals of Alexander who wrested control of Egypt in the wars among Alexander’s successors after his untimely death.

Before Alexander, the Egyptians were closer to the modern peoples of the Levant, or Middle Easterners, as BigThink reported, saying:

But a group of international researchers, using unique methods, have overcome the barriers to do just that. They found that the ancient Egyptians were most closely related to the peoples of the Near East, particularly from the Levant. This is the Eastern Mediterranean which today includes the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

Egypt was made part of the Roman Empire by Julius Caesar and then annexed fully by Augustus after his defeat of Antony and Cleopatra, though it remained exclusively the emperor’s. So, starting with Augustus, the “pharaoh” was Roman.

So, in summary, the earliest pharaohs were related to the people of the Levant. Then Alexander conquered Egypt and the pharaohs were Macedonian. Then, after Julius Caesar, Antony, and Augustus, the pharaohs were Roman. At no point were they black.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies; Travel
KEYWORDS: egypt; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; kevinhart; pharaohs
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To: Red Badger

Cultural appropriation. He should remove the controversy there and just brag about the other great civilizations undisputedly built by blacks. Oh wait...


21 posted on 03/02/2023 11:10:59 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe he was poking fun at blacks for always claiming they were kings?


22 posted on 03/02/2023 11:11:58 AM PST by shotgun
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To: BenLurkin

The early Egyptians were of the Hyksos people, from the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, IOW, ancestors of the ARABS............


23 posted on 03/02/2023 11:14:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: shotgun

He said it was a joke, but they don’t take such things lightly..............


24 posted on 03/02/2023 11:15:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyksos


25 posted on 03/02/2023 11:16:15 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

So the blacks owned slaves?


26 posted on 03/02/2023 11:17:08 AM PST by struggle
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To: Red Badger; All
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt


27 posted on 03/02/2023 11:18:08 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: xp38
So the blacks enslaved people? How does this fit in with woke history?

looks like they owe the Jews some reparations
28 posted on 03/02/2023 11:19:41 AM PST by Karma_Sherab
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To: Red Badger

He is pretty stupid. Holy cow. He’s so wrong. Egypt? Lol.


29 posted on 03/02/2023 11:19:43 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Red Badger

He should have used the term “African-American-Egyptians”.


30 posted on 03/02/2023 11:25:01 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Red Badger

Kevin, just go to sudan, and talk about the Kushites.


31 posted on 03/02/2023 11:25:46 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Red Badger

LOL!
Well put...


32 posted on 03/02/2023 11:26:04 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Gnome1949

I remember that story or one similar to it.
Black children had wings and were flying around the pyramids.
However, white racist devils cut off their wings.


33 posted on 03/02/2023 11:28:05 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: struggle
"So the blacks owned slaves?"

Ten's of thousands of blacks in THIS country were slave owners, well into the mid 1800's.

The first "legal" slave owner in this country (Virginia colony) was black.

Facts

34 posted on 03/02/2023 11:29:11 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Gnome1949

Obviously you’re overlooking Wakanda.


35 posted on 03/02/2023 11:31:33 AM PST by Hootowl
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To: Red Badger
Egyptian pharaohs being black

The 25th dynasty was a line of pharaohs who originated in the Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day northern Sudan and Upper Egypt. Most of this dynasty's kings saw Napata as their spiritual homeland. They reigned in part or all of Ancient Egypt for nearly a century, from 744 to 656 BC.[5][6][7][8]

36 posted on 03/02/2023 11:33:12 AM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: xp38
"So the blacks enslaved people?"

Yup.

And in large numbers right here in THIS country.

How does this fit in with woke history?

It doesn't. It can't.

If the rest of us don't push back, the lies and leftist propaganda will continue.

37 posted on 03/02/2023 11:35:00 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: mjp

They didn’t last long...............


38 posted on 03/02/2023 11:36:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Kevin Hart is a woke half-wit.


39 posted on 03/02/2023 11:44:36 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Well, you’re half right...................


40 posted on 03/02/2023 11:44:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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