My ex-girlfriend is an African American (Egyptian). She hopes that the Gubmint replaces “black” with African American so she can become the oppressed minority that she always thought she was.
Goes to show that “African American” doesn’t describe a race. We have an “African American” friend who is of Irish/German descent. He immigrated here from South Africa some 30 years ago when he was 15.
Hubba, hubba.
Clemenza,what was your girlfriend’s take on the whole”Are Egyptians black”controversy?
I ask that because I have had several Egyptian co-workers of various hues and facial shapes,ranging from very European to one dude who was dead on Mike Tyson!
From what I can gather,the further south you go toward Thebes and Aswan,the darker complected people become more numerous.Seems that there has historically been a lot of mixing between these southern Egyptians and the Nubians of the area.
I noticed that when they made the movie on Anwar Sadat a while back,Lou Gossett played Sadat.And it was sure an eerie resemblance.