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| The "debate" on what race the Ancient Egyptians belonged to, appears to be an interminable one, popping up relentlessly everywhere there's a discussion about these great people. So let us pause momentarily and tally exactly where we stand thus far... All those who say that the Ancient Egyptians were Black folks: The Ancient Egyptians The Ancient Greeks Herodotus Aristotle Lucian Apollodorus Aeschylus The Ancient Romans Strabo Diodorus of Sicily Diogenes Laertius Ammanius Marcellinus France Count Constatine de Volney Marius Fontanes - "Les Egyptes" England EW Budge (finally, reluctantly) - "Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum" The Anzac troops upon arriving in Egypt during WWI "My God, we didn't know the Egyptians were niggers!" (sic!) http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=3B39 Africa Professor C.A. Diop Professor Theophile Obenga The Christian Bible The Kebra Nagast (Ethiopian bible) The Tanakh (Torah) The Koran All those who say that the Ancient Egyptians were not Black folks: White Egyptologists ............................................................................................................. Ta Ha/Surah 20 Allah greets Moses ("Prince of Egypt") in the valley of Tuwa and shows Moses two tokens (i.e., signs): (1) Turning Moses' staff into a serpent (2) Turning Moses' hand white |
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