Why won't people ever accept that the Ancient egyptians were Black?

Question

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Answer 1

We naturally imagine people we don't see as our own color. I imagine characters being white when I read about them. Don't you?

I really don't care what race they are. They were a very advanced society that contributed many inventions. I'm just glad they were there to help with us dumb modern people. :P

Answer 2

I don't know that they were. Look at the Egyptians of today, they look more Arabic than black, though they do have very dark or black hair and darker complexions. Some hieroglyphics do show the ancients having ******* features, but not all. Africans living in northern Africa are generally lighter skinned. I worked with a woman who was right from Egypt and she DID NOT consider herself black, she considered herself Arabic, as did her parents and her grandparents.

Answer 3

Because they weren't black. There are relief carvings showing Egyptians with "foreign" groups including Israelites. There are some people shown with black features in these groups. They ancient Egyptians themselves were not black (sub-Sahara). What difference does it make?

Answer 4

Anthropologists are pretty sure they were just another branch of caucasians. People of most of North Africa are caucasoid. Why does it matter? Black people had the Ashanti civilization, as well as several others. You are accusing people who are simply telling it like it is (or was) of being racist when you are probably just plain academically wrong. I'm sure dna testing of mummies could verify the race of the ancient Egyptians. Until some real scientists with some academic fortitude and honesty just do the tests to determine race, the debate will go on and on, serving no purpose one way or the other. The issue is regarded as too political to touch, so intellectual concerns are ignored due to cowardise regarding what might be found (one way or the other).
Did you know that before the first "indians" came across the Bearing land bridge, blacks were already living in South America?

Answer 5

egyptians were a mixture of a bronze people and black as well as some light skinned people because i think severalo peoples thrpough africa made egyt home because of the nile including ethiopians check there bone structures in the face very similar to ethiopeans

Answer 6

Some were, some weren't.
Egypt is in Northeast Africa-very close to the Mediterranean. Since it was near a waterway, it was very cosmopolitan and many cultures blended. This is true of all great civilizations.

Answer 7

The truth of history is very rarely taught in schools, so most people just don't know.

They don't even realize that the are only 3 races; i.e. *******, Caucasian, and Mongoloid. There are many different ethnic groups but everyone belongs to one of the 3 races.

Answer 8

They could have been.
Blacks call themselves African-Americans (which I think they should just be called Americans).
The other "hyphenated Americans" (i.e, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc) are different than African-American. Italy is a country. Ireland is a country. Africa is a continent.

Answer 9

Honestly, I think they just might've been Egyptian

Answer 10

They wont face the facts, they destroyed material that was raw proof {IE STATUES}. They were the authors of civilization and white folk hate it. They want you to forget, look at the responses.