“Since the Cairo Symposium where 20 of the world’s Egyptologists met to debate the race of the Ancient Egyptians, and since the European scholars opposing Diop and Obenga were embarrassed at that meeting by the absence of documentation to support their claims for a white KMT, there has been a grand silence and absence of academic documentation and dialogue on these questions. Where are the technical papers to respond to the eleven categories of empirical data supplied by Dr. Diop in Cairo in 1974?” “It is this examination of everything by careful study that has already born fruit. Theophile Obenga and Cheikh Anta Diop, among other things have turned Greenberg’s language classification system for the ‘Middle East,’ upside down. (No scholar can show that the term ‘Middle East’ has any validity whatsoever when applied to the Ancient world). The great construction of the ‘Afro-Asiatic’ family of languages disappeared under the relentless scholarship of Obenga and Diop.” “Applying the defining comparative linguistics rule of sound correspondences as the measure of genetic relationships among languages, Obenga was able to rule out all Asiatic languages from the family of African languages to which the Kemetic languages belong. The only non-African continental language that can be genetically classified with Kemetic is Arabic. And actually, there is as much reason to call Arabic an African continental language as there is to call it Asiatic, since the Saudi Arabian peninsula is as much African as Asian. But clearly, the Indo-European and Asian family of languages are in no way genetically related to African languages.” Preface by Professor Asa G. Hilliard III, Ph.D. Book by ANKH MI RA Title “Let the Ancestors Speak: Removing the Veil of Mysticism from Medu Netcher” Page 8
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