There was no Egypt before the black king from whose name it was indirectly derived. Before that the country was called Chem or Chemi, another name indicating its black inhabitants, and not the color of the soil, as some writers have needlessly strained themselves in asserting. Indeed, the strong predilection of both Europeans and white Asians to replace the names of other peoples and places with their own terminologies was at once a blessing and a curse in the history of the Blacks. Not knowing the racist twist that modern history was to take, these early historians, geographers and travelers reported what they found and described peoples in their own terms of speech. In doing so, they established beyond question that the Blacks were the first Egyptians and the builders of that ancient civilization. For it was these early writers, and not the Blacks, who made it clear that although the invading Euro-Asians had firmly established themselves in about one-fourth of Northern Ethiopia (Lower Egypt) as early as the fourth millennium B.C., the Blacks with equal firmness held all the rest from the twenty-ninth North parallel to the tenth South. It was the whites, not the Blacks, who called Africa the Land of the Blacks until Asian and European invasions made it expedient to change this to mean African countries not yet taken over by Caucasians; and later to Africa South of the Sahara. Even this has to be qualified now as the whites dominate South Africa. The early whites-again, not the Blacks, not only defined all Upper Egypt as black to distinguish it from predominantly white Lower Egypt, but they settled the matter for posterity by calling Egypt the Thebald and the Blacks Thebans because Thebes (Nowe) was the oldest and greatest center for black civilization.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 02:29:45 +0000
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