Posted on 09/26/2007 11:58:41 AM PDT by presidio9
But I couldn't understand far more than half of the people I spoke with.
Groundskeeper Willie speaks perfect english compared to the real Scots.
I had an argument with several people in college over Cleopatra. When I told them she wasn’t even Egyptian, much less black they just would not listen.
They also didn’t seem to understand the significance of so many cities named after Alexander in that part of the world. I really hate trying to argue these things when people start throwing in conspiracy theories and racial politics.
Which is why a cat like Tiger Woods, who is mostly Asian, and maybe 1/4 "black" is "African American" as far as the liberal media is concerned. Unless Nike or Fuzzy Zoeller are around, I've never heard Tiger refer to himself as anything other than a golfer.
I'll betcha you even ask questions like-- Who was the Black African Bach or Brahms...or,Archimedes/Plato.....Maybe even Oppenheimer/Einstein.....Then you ask for 'their' Raphael,DaVinci,etc etc etc .............And then ask for their "Great Books" series ...../sarc
The Great Tartan Nonsense is highly amusing, and as you say it keeps the wee bairns in haggis . . . .
There IS a demonstrable pre-1745 connection with districts, rather than with particular clans, simply because local weavers had favorite patterns. So you often have a general association between the clan that is most populous in a district and the weavers' pet patterns in that district. From that you can have sort of a clan association, but it's pretty tenous.
I wear whatever tartan I like -- my dad's a MacGregor, my mom's a Glencoe MacDonald, but I think the MacGregor tartan's a little too garish for day wear so I wear the blue Hunting MacRae, just because I like the pattern. My husband's "official" tartan, Mar, is not only hideous (purple, magenta, and orange) but also only woven to order, so he wears Gordon. The mill owners still make plenty of money off us (although the better known setts are cheaper!)
Here's a Tartan Finder should you be so inclined . . .
It is fascinating to see Cleopatra portrayed on TV as almost exclusively being Black despite the fact there is zero evidence to suggest she was and tremendous evidence to prove she was Macedonian Greek.
Here is the most fascinating fact of all and it is not subject to debate. They know for certain that Ramses the Great had Red wavy hair.
But West Highlanders (ahem!) speak the purest English in the world.
Even if the keelies and furryboots call us 'teuchters' . . . . < g >
Scots -the language- used to be a separate dialect of English, although in most places it is now little more than an accent (although enough of an accent to make a lot of what is said a mystery, at least until you get used to it). The little bit of reading I've done about it makes me think that Scots, three hundred years ago anyway, had wandered less far from German than standard English. A lot of what one thinks of as Daniel Boone-Davey Crockett frontier/hillbilly speech, is in fact gramatically correct Scots. "Whar" and "thar" for "where" and "there."
Good point.
Most don’t want to recognize anything that is positive in america though. It really is a shame.
This is a typical revisionist history attempt by Black activist and “academics”. Facts only get in the way of their ideology.
Just as I know that Jefferson wasn’t bronze in hue in spite of the bronze bust I have of him in my office.
Cleopatra did not have just one Greek parent both her parents were Greek and related to one another. She came from a Dynasty that married within their own royal elite who happen to be Greek-Macedonian origins but try explaining this to moronic Afrocentric extremists. Interesting article by the way. :)
Yeah, just ask that other famous African American:
Teresa Heinz Kerry
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A black friend of mine got interested in all this stuff about ten years back and ended up joining a tour group led by the main “Black Egyptian” theorist/writer. After being led around Egypt and seeing the evidence of himself, he pretty much concluded it was all BS. He also realized that the street vendors had his type pegged when he’d walk through the market and they’d all yell “American Nubian! American Nubian!”
Do they think their people have contributed so little to history that they need to make stuff up?
Holy permed goatee Batman!
Same here. I remember last year when he told some extreme jihadists who wanted to drape the sphinx and pyramids in Allah's flag to shove it. He wasn't allowing such cartoonish tactics to take place as long as he was the director of Egypt's antiquities. Raised by respect for the guy, that's for sure.
People would be surprised how many black Africans who are not Americans hold very different views from African-Americans. They view Afrocentrics, who by the way mostly happen to be African-Americans, as kookoo-clocks. LoL!
“Say it loud, I’m Egytian and I’m proud”.
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