[Verginius Rufus]

Bernal plays fast and loose with myths and supposed linguistic evidence. There is a story in Greek mythology of someone coming from Egypt to Greece (but I think that person had earlier ancestors in Greece) and that becomes a memory of Egyptians coming to Greece and bringing civilization with them. It's a little more sophisticated than the usual Afrocentrist theories but equally far from the evidence.

Bernal likes to accuse his opponents of racism--he constructs what he calls an "Aryan Model" of conventional views, insinuating it's somehow linked to Nazi ideas, and has no hesitation about smearing very honorable scholars with baseless allegations. It's all essentially agitprop--tearing down "bourgeois" scholarship in the name of socialism.

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Does he go to Trinity United Church of Christ?

[gleeaikin]

There is a story in Greek mythology of someone coming from Egypt to Creece.

There is definite evidence of trading between Egypt and Minos for several centuries before the decline of Minoan civilization.