White folks' Egyptian Madness
"Wisdom is prevented by ignorance, and delusion is the result."
Bhagavadgita
Ancient Egyptian madness began in the Western world in the 18th century. It was the result of Western 'Egyptologists' (white folks) unlocking the keys to what turned out to them to be a fantastic civilization. This civilization seemed so remarkable that Westerners (white folks) began to portray their new gods, the Egyptians, in their own (white folks) image. Everybody else in the world had long taken it for granted that Ancient Egypt was a black civilization, just as they had taken it for granted that the Greeks were white, and the Chinese were...well, Chinese. Of course, everybody else had to be shown the error of one's common sense. Alas...One of the ironies of this madness is that when these same white folks visit Egypt today, the locals immediately recognize them as Khawaaga or foreigners. On the other hand, African Americans traveling in Egypt are very often mistaken for native Egyptians, and are usually referred to as Masri or Egyptians. That is because...The simple truth is that Egypt is, and always has been a black African nation. Once you leave the great Arab cities of Cairo and Alexandria, and go into the Nile valley, you are in black Africa. Now, Egypt has been ruled by an Arab minority since the 9th century A.D., a minority that is extremely sensitive to race, and one which behaves in the manner chided by Ahmed Ben Bella, the late president of Algeria - "We (Arabs) have been in Africa for 1200 years, and yet we still behave as colonialists."
This Arab minority ruling class has also colluded with white folks in their Egyptian madness. For centuries Egypt made money by selling mummies to Europeans. By the 18th century there was even a thriving business in fake mummies, as powdered mummy became the rage as a medicinal cure all. The Egyptian government put heavy taxes on the export of mummies and did nothing to discourage the trade. It also banned the Egyptian language from public usage, but the natives kept it alive in the liturgy of the Coptic (Gyptic) church. It meant to Arabize the population, much as the government of the Sudan is now attempting to do in Sudan. This is partially based upon the Arab ideology that states that if the father of a child is an Arab then so too is the baby. The reality of genetics does not cloud this issue. Black Sudanese think they're Arabs too!
We are reminded of the well intended but naive appeal to the Arab Egyptian government by some African Americans to have it officially proclaim that Egypt was (is) a black nation. The Arab minority ruling class is not about to open that can of worms. Witness its hysterical reaction to the portrayal of black Anwar Sadat by the black Lou Gossett, Jr.
And all those black folks in the Nile valley are not Nubians! There are, at best, only one million Nubians on the planet and guess where they live mostly? Yep, in Nubia.
Small wager...even if it were possible to transport someone who suffers this affliction, back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, to this vibrant black culture, you probably would still get an argument. Chances are good that the individual would declare that this must be the period of Ethiopian rule! Sad...
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