Rev. Peterson Blasts Black History Course Mandated for Philadelphia Schools

CNSNews.com ^ | 6-13-05 | Monisha Bansal

[cyborg]

You don't know much African history then.

[blackie]

Molon Labe abigail.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

These classes are an excuse not to teach stuff that matters - Math, English, Science.

There are government schools in this country that teach those???

[iconoclast]

African history is rich.

Yeah, a three chapter book.

1) Egypt
2) Africans sell their brothers into slavery.
3) Edi Amin, Robert Mugabe and other modern day giants.

[TASMANIANRED]

Egypt has a long rich history but it wrong to teach that it was an entirely black history.

It wasn't.

[TASMANIANRED]

Egyptian Queen

[wtc911]

Egyptians used Africans (blacks, nubians, ect) for slave labor, that's pretty much the extent of black participation in Egyptian history.

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Someone shoulda told Anwar Sadat that.

[wtc911]

Absolutely unnecessary and not funny except maybe to those trapped in some cultural time warp.

[mbraynard]

Mine wasn't too bad in that area, and I had some excellent teachers, but on average, particularly in the city of Philly, I have my doubts.

[cyborg]

Looks like Halle Berry to me (who is a mixture of black and white). If she was in the South during segregation, probably would have been thought of as black and thus be under the same rules of segregation as any other black person.

[iconoclast]

Someone shoulda told Anwar Sadat that.

That's gonna take further 'splainin'.

[wtc911]

Anwar Sadat's mother was 100% Black African.

[iconoclast]

Anwar Sadat's mother was 100% Black African.

After an hour or more of web surfing I find 2 references to Sadat's Sudanese "Afrabian" mother.

I don't really know what your point is (what country has more mixed race families than the U.S.) but I don't think I'd bet the farm on his mother being 100% Black African.

At this stage of history how many 100% Egyptians do you think there are?

[wtc911]

My post (the one to which you originally replied) was in response to this by another poster: "Egyptians used Africans (blacks, nubians, ect) for slave labor, that's pretty much the extent of black participation in Egyptian history"

Hard to support with Sadat's parentage...remember who played him in the movie of his life? Lou Gosset.