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Do you consider the Ancient Egyptians to be black?

When I was a kid, I was taught that they built the pyramids. When my daughter started learning about it, she told me "we built the pyramids," as in black people.
I can remember being at a party and a black guy and an Egyptian guy got into an argument. The black guy called the Egyptian guy the N word. The Egyptian guy said "don't call me that because I am not. I am brown, not black."
The continent of Africa is one huge continent. It's not like the size of Europe that can easily contain one race of peoples from ancient times.
So now I have my kids in school learning that they built the pyramids as part of Black History and all that. It sounds all good, but I am wondering if it's all true.
Slavery happened. That was true. Discrimination happened. Jim Crowe and the lynchings happened. But I am not so sure if making up that negroes built the pyramids is any more true than saying that the Aryans built the pyramids like Hitler and the Nazis said.
Getting back to the pyramids, can you just imagine if that were true.
"Pick up that brick, boy!"
"Say what? Who you calling a boy? That's not in my job description!"
"I said pick it up."
"Look Uncle Tom, why don't you pick this up? Goin on my break. Gettin me an Ancient Egyptian Red Bull, mother. Goin to go chat up Neffertiti. Know what I'm sayin?"
If that was the way it was, those bricks would still be laying around the Nile, with a couple of dozen brothers sleeping on them.
"Wazzup, my pharoah?"
"Juz chillin by the Nile. Wazzup witchu, my du?"
"Almos quittin time at the Nile. Get me to a KFC in Cairo after that."
"I hear ya."

Asked By: OldBro - 7/27/2011
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DNA is the greatest evidence connecting the dead to the living, As lina<3 explains it.

There is great desperation among egros to portray themselves as advance as the (especially followers of NOI) ancients like Romans, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, India, China, even the Mayans because riding coat tails isn't prestigious. The fact of the matter is the egros are transformed assimilates of societies under the berbers, Semites, (levants & arabs), persians, egyptians & western europeans into the world of academics, written language, mechanics, science, biology, astronomy, mathematics, & civilize society.

There would not have been numerous bushmen kingdom or empires across sub sahara africa living in huts till the 19th century A.D.. They would have been the ruling class in north africa, not the Berbers or Egyptians, who's spiritual beliefs are ancestral worship, shamanic voodooism, or witch craft. The Nubians could only produce a very small scale from bricks without the passage ways & hieroglyphs. No doubt that they are 1 of many slave groups that provided the physical labor force in the construction of the Pharaohs Pyramid.
Most of those captured by slave raiding tribes & traded in slave ports were Sub Saharan or south of Sahara hunter gathering warrior tribes . Most were Igbo hunter gathering warrior tribes. A mural in the tomb of setti depicts how egyptians sees libyans (berbers) as white/bidanes, levants as beige & egyptians as brown. If the sub saharans had a written language, calendar, hieroglyphs, ink, paper, or bronze chisel & hammer, they could have documented dynasty's & wars fought among rival tribes since BC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Gates

The Mayans are acknowledge for their hieroglyphs, Pyramids made from rubbles, & slash numerals (||||-|||) with stone/obsidian tools as their great accomplishment achieve as it was purely indigenous.

China, India, Japan, Persians, Egyptians, & Semites (Arabs, Levant, Jews) are acknowledge for many of their great accomplishment achieve indigenously outside the realm of assimilation & transformations.

The Gun can be attributed to China's Fire Lance but the constant reinventions, modifications, & improvements done independently & indigenously using indigenous academics, science, math, tech, experiments on the firing mechanism, barrel, projectiles, & the incendiary medium that lunch or propels the projectile, makes it mostly of the culture & society that created its evolution into a flint lock in Europe, then revolvers, repeaters, machine, automatic. Colt, Luger, Maxim, Gatling, Browning, Winchester, Simonov, & Kalashnikov.

Nat Geo: Man Made: Machines of War (Guns, Missiles, Tanks)

National ethnicitism/tribalism, nepotism, theoligism is an egotistical overbearing arrogance that overwhelms sound reasoning that can become very dangerous that may INCLUDE: envy, greed, wrath, glory/glamor hound, & slothness for those transformed & immature in denial of their origins, flaws & shortcomings. Those transformed will announce their pride of their culture prior to their transformation but in reality they are proud of the society that transformed them into that societies image. Images depicting their pre-transformation are censored, remove or erased from cinema, animation, or comics as they are ashamed of their past culture, shunning, never capitalizing on their past mythology, past religion, ritual & sacrificial practices, & tribal adornment, reacting to a spear like a vampire to a cross.

http://www.ezakwantu.com/Gallery Lip Plugs Lip Plate.htm

Among the successful this arrogance can be reinforced by feats of accomplishment, beauty, innovation, & achievement such as the steam engine, A/C electric motor, kevlar, Space tech, Internal Combustion/Jet engine, Nuclear tech, inventing sports (field, indoor, ice, snow, grass, water, extreme) computerization, vulcanization, Refrigeration, Chemistry, Radio, Physics, Calculus, etc.

The longing enlightenment for equality have gone beyond it's meaning toward special privilege/treatment. True we are all conceive, created, & born equally, but that is where it ends, for it is our abilities & the path that we took towards it that make us all unequal. Nothing in nature, wildlife & even among humans are equal, thus why we all don't look alike, don't weigh the same, don't have the same occupation why applicants are interviewed for their abilities, competence & trustworthiness.
Since the dawn of time all society started out equally, but some evolve way past that of the others. Those that evolve into a great advance civilization competes with each other. Those left behind was either left alone or are transformed into the advance society's culture of literacy, math, science, technology & innovations.
Answered By: Blanco Y Egro comedones - 7/28/2011
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I wont consider whoever may be black or white.

Egypt is a country which has ancient history past more than 5000 years. It is revealed from the old testaments of bible that most of the groups of isra'el and isma'els lived there and later migrated towards various other parts of the world.

But, most of the egyptians are white(not like european white, but of different skin tone). But, egypt is not a community to tell that they are black or white. It is a country and peoples from different parts of the world also come and live here. There may be black egytians too.
Answered By: sha - 7/27/2011
Hahaha -_-

Nice skit there dude. But uhm.... No.
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Answered By: RY -2nd acc- - 7/27/2011
I'm Egyptian bro but if you want to believe Black people built the Pyramid, I have no problem with that whatsoever. I'll even be a witness for you :P. But really, Colours of the Pharaohic scripture might have changed into a darker or a lighter tone over the time,so we can't really know. But sure, Black people built the Pyramids. It doesn't matter because what matters is not what we have done and achieved in the past but what we are achieving or aspiring to achieve in the future.
Answered By: Professor Dumblewh0re - 7/27/2011
THere is no proof for this, If they were black, Where did they go ?

According to the latest DNA searches, Read the Genetics part in here, it proves that Egyptians have never been black, but they were and are related genetically to European and Asian Mediterranean people http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/RaceOfAncientEgypt.pdf

@teqia: i have no idea where did u get this info from, but 94?f modern Egyptians are descended from the ancient ones, Go read some Wikipedia
the 6?re nubians who are black and Nubians are only Egyptians by nationality, others are immigrants and Arabs

SO Egyptians are Arabized people not ethnic Arabs


Besides there are many theories about the race of the Ancient Egyptians, some Europeans also say that Egyptians were white NOrdic , but the only confirmed one is that Egyptians now, are Egyptians back then, it's confirmed by DNA as i said above
Answered By: lina <3 - 7/27/2011
Egyptians are North African, neither Arab, White nor Black.

They look very similar to other North African people like the Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccoans etc.

The Modern Egyptians are the same as the ancient ones.
Answered By: Khan - 7/27/2011
Yes thy were
Answered By: Samy - 7/27/2011
Modern Egyptians=Ancient Egyptians
Answered By: Medic X - 7/27/2011
No.. -.-
Answered By: G. #2 - 7/27/2011
In Egypt, people range from pale European White to dark brown. We're not a "black" country per se. We're just Egyptian. That's our race.

We haven't changed much genetically since Ancient Times except for an influx of Arab immigrants who added to the gene pool with the Arab invasion.
Answered By: arabic_movie_man - 7/27/2011
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