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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.
If they’d had DNA testing back in the day, I’m sure some of those pharaohs would have been surprised who they were descended from.
I guess you never heard of....
The pyramids of Nuri
Nastasen’s watery tomb is located at the ancient site of Nuri, which sprawls across more than 170 acres of sand near the east bank of the Nile River in northern Sudan.
These pyramids mark the burials of Kushite royals, the “black pharaohs” who operated as vassals on the gold-rich southern edges of the Egyptian empire, but who emerged as a force of their own during the political chaos that followed the demise of the New Kingdom.
From about 760 B.C. to 650 B.C., five Kushite pharaohs ruled all of Egypt from Nubia to the Mediterranean Sea, embarking on ambitious building programs up and down the Nile and reviving the religious practices of a much earlier Egyptian empire—including the construction of pyramids, which they buried their kings under.
There do appear to have been some black pharaohs.
Sudan was not a source country for American slaves.
If you look at the source countries, they did have kings, and they sold their slaves and captives from neighboring lands to the trans-Atlantic trade.
Saying it's part of present-day Sudan (& upper Egypt) invokes thoughts in the present-day mind that these were black people. Was that upper Nile river area populated, and more importantly...ruled, by black African people at that time?
Tangentially, even if a couple of the ~170 Egyptian pharaohs were black and descended from black rulers in other parts of Africa, doesn't make them builders of ancient Egypt. It's like saying Soebarkah built the United States, simply because he successfully usurped the presidency twice.
Vibranium!
The Kushites lasted for ninety years, and had 5 rulers in that short span of time, and were never strong enough to hold onto their territory for very long...................
Truth is no one knows who all the pharaohs were - some are known, but many, many are not - especially the early kings prior to 2,000 BC. Why?
First, because only some are listed, but nothing is known of them, existing only as names or name fragments;
second, because their tombs have never been found;
third, because there were many who had the same name at different times and;
most had Horus Names;
- all of which leads itself to be very confusing when trying to figure out who was who & when.
There is a very good chance, despite the ‘Egyptologists’ & “ international researchers” findings, that the Southern early kings were at least light black and emerged from the Sudan. But no one really knows - its all theory, supposition, and “guesstimates” based on a piece of pottery here and bit of charcoal there.
Northern kings were descended from the ‘Westerners’ - peoples west of the Nile to the Atlantic Coast. They were later conquered by the Southern kings and Egypt was unified by the end of the Old Kingdom.
So some Egyptians were tall, some were small, and all of them were made of stone. Fascinating.
I’ll let Kevin Hart know.
He’s one of the short ones.
I truly wonder how normal, everyday, hard-working black people deal with this constant Leftist pandering. We’ll probably never know, because the media sure isn’t going to ask them.
desperate to have some history...
Well, 110 years by my math. But there was a century of black pharaohs, however strong or weak they were.
They were not part of a pan-African culture; there was no pan-African culture, and they are not the ancestors of American slaves.
He musta thought he was in Wakanda.
Some of the slaves themselves had been slave owners or slave dealers in Africa, slavery was very common in Africa, and being the owner or being a slave, or being a slave trade worker or slave, was not exclusive of each other.
The man who wrote Amazing Grace had been a slave in Africa, the media only describes him as a Captain trafficking in slaves, which is a great story in itself, but revealing that his years in slavery had an impact on him makes for an even richer tale.
So the Black’s enslaved the Jews?
Agriculture and domestication of animals in the region started in the "Fertile Crescent"
Cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs all have their origins as farmed animals in the so-called Fertile Crescent, a region covering eastern Turkey, Iraq, and southwestern Iran. This region kick-started the Neolithic Revolution. Dates for the domestication of these animals range from between 13,000 to 10,000 years ago.
From its starting point, Neolithic farmers and herdsmen probably came down to the Nile Valley, noticed its fertility, and displaced/exterminated any prior occupants before becoming ancient Egyptian civilization.
A few black rulers did invade and takeover in Egypt, but the mummies and paintings on the walls show that this was rare.
King Tut was my favorite honky.
Make Wakanda Great Again
The Jollofs tribe, on the west coast of Africa, were noted for attractiveness. Charles Darwin asked them how they thought that came to be. He was told they sold the ugly women (presumably to go to the New World)
http://media.isnet.org/kmi/iptek/Darwin/Descent/chapter_20.html
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