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.
They lasted 90 years, and had 5 ‘rulers’ in that period...................
Had they been black the tomb artists would have portrayed them that way.
Cairo, Illinois?
lol...
Thanks Red Badger.
Marble portrait of a Nubia denizen c. 120–100 BC
By Sailko - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31580963
Cairo, Georgia...............
Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham’s son included Canaan, Cush,and Put.
Cush is associated with Ethiopia, Nubia and Put with Libya, iirc.
The early Egyptian dynasties were a result of Nile River fertility as fertile crescent dynasties were associated with tigris, euphrates fertility.
About 6,650 km (4,130 mi)[a] long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.[9] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan.[10] Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.
So, the lower egytian kingdoms and Sudanese and Ethiopians should be considered.
The Ethiopian Dynasty of Ancient Egypt – taharka32
https://taharka32.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-ethiopian-dynasty-of-ancient-egypt/
Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham’s son included Canaan, Cush,and Put.
Cush is associated with Ethiopia, Nubia and Put with Libya, iirc.
The early Egyptian dynasties were a result of Nile River fertility as fertile crescent dynasties were associated with tigris, euphrates fertility.
About 6,650 km (4,130 mi)[a] long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.[9] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan.[10] Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.
So, the lower egytian kingdoms and Sudanese and Ethiopians should be considered.
The Ethiopian Dynasty of Ancient Egypt – taharka32
https://taharka32.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/the-ethiopian-dynasty-of-ancient-egypt/
Taharqa was part of the 25th dynasty, 8th to 7th c BC, part of the New Kingdom. The already-ancient indigenous Egyptian culture was a huge influence on Upper Egypt after that.
Yep, an example of lower kingdom regions impacting upper kingdom.
The Ginger race in Ireland came about somehow???
Kudos to the Egyptians. Good to know not everyone is eager to portray everyone as black.
:>)
Beat me to the ZOT bait.
from the 18th dynasty:
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