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The Odyssey: Black Athena rises from the grave
American Thinker ^ | 05/18/2026 | J.R. Dunn

Posted on 05/18/2026 10:28:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

There are a number of questions regarding the whole Odyssey saga. One is how somebody as smart as Christopher Nolan got entangled with woke nonsense in the first place. (And yes, Nolan is smart – anybody who could take a storyline as convoluted as that of Memento and make it not only comprehensible but enthralling to the average audience is no slouch when it comes to intellect.) Another is why he felt compelled to pick up wokism just as it’s collapsing in the culture at large. It’s May 1945 in the Wachenbunker and everybody else is fleeing – but here comes Nolan racing through the ruins.

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p>Another one involves the rebirth of Black Athena.

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization was a 1987 book (there were two other volumes, but nobody paid any attention to them) by British academic Martin Bernal. Written under the impetus of political correctness, the '80s version of wokism, Black Athena argued that the bulk of Greek culture of the classic period was derived from Africa, specifically from Egypt, but by extension from sub-Saharan Africa. (Bernal knew full well that the Egyptians weren’t black, but that made no difference.)

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Bernal was the son of the legendary British physicist J.D. Bernal, who among other things was to first to suggest building massive orbital colonies, decades before Gerard O’Neill revived the idea in the 1970s. He was also a fanatic communist, which he passed on to his offspring.

Is this beginning to come together?

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To: Salamander

I want Danny Devito as Shaka Zulu.


41 posted on 05/19/2026 9:11:25 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: SeekAndFind

You just know the history of the “ Black Irish” is ripe for the picking.

Locally, a “free black man” is celebrated for having bought historic Fort Frederick after it stopped being a military installation.

Photos of him and his family are pastier than I am.
Stick straight hair, too.

But don’t you dare point that out.


42 posted on 05/19/2026 9:12:10 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Spit out my tea.

😆


43 posted on 05/19/2026 9:15:01 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: SeekAndFind

“ Black family”

( more than likely indentured Irish)

https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Documents/Fort-Frederick-State-Park/Williams-Family-at-Fort-Frederick. I pdf


44 posted on 05/19/2026 9:16:21 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Grace Jones starring in the biopic of Edgar Winter.


45 posted on 05/19/2026 9:17:54 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Scotland, PA is a crazy quirky retelling of Macbeth set in modern day a Scotland PA.

Weird but it works.

😊


46 posted on 05/19/2026 9:29:15 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: BlueLancer

So… have they ever found the 6000 year old airplanes buried under the Egyptian dunes or no?

🧐


47 posted on 05/19/2026 9:31:27 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: odawg

Halle Berry is was epic in John Wick 3.


48 posted on 05/19/2026 9:33:32 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: Salamander

I talked with a man who had a meeting with her. He said she looks much better in person than she does on screen.


49 posted on 05/19/2026 9:47:30 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

Good lord.

You’d have to look at her with one eye loser then because she’s just beautiful.


50 posted on 05/19/2026 9:48:40 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: odawg

Closed
Not loser.

I’m autocorrect’s bitch.

😑


51 posted on 05/19/2026 9:51:45 AM PDT by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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