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The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism: An Afrocentric Response to Critics

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To the pc critic who claims that the Egyptians spoke a semetic language. The first dynasty builders of the Old Kingdom were indeed observed as being Hamitics who spoke a Nubian-Sudanic language. As it was recorded and known, the Black Egyptians(Kemetans) allowed different ethnic groups or races to enter their civilization as settlers or ppl who were coming to learn. Egypt doing the later part of the Middle Kingdom, was under the influence of outsiders such as, Hyksos, Assyrians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, etc. who, when were at a position of either being a Pharoah(for a short time) or having the same power of influence, changed what was necessary to fit their world-view, such was the case with whatever non-Egyptian(emphasis) language through out each period. Indeed, it is useless to argue or debate with ppl who dissect in favor of their own erroneous means.



The negetive reviews of this particular book, further supports what Mr. Asante has indeed proven or at least, has shed some light on. Eurocentrist cannot make up their mind, when it was proven that the original Egyptians were Hamitic, all of sudden Hamtics can no longer be negro's or Negroid because, then, Eurocentrist would have to admit to being influenced by negro's. Whatever gives black ppl worldwide, empowerment, must some how be trampled under the feet of Eurocentrist.



So many examples: The great walls of Zimbabwe, white scholars claimed they were the builders,lmao!, The civilizations of Nubia, again white scholars claim they were the builders, West African civilizations, white scholars claim that they civilized these empires, The Swahili States, white scholars claim that, that was the work of Arabs, negro's couldnt have built it, etc.



See the pattern of racial neurosis, and the pre-assert that no one white will agree with what I have written, considering that I am not a racist indiviudual, which, in the end when analyzing this subject, one can indeed arrive at the view of eurocentrist as being very vain and self-misguided.



This is a sad case of Eurocentrist and supporters not being able to take their own medicine, and, as a result, uprooting the foundation of logical discourse in view of rationality, objectively speaking, eurocentrist, by refuting was is easily arrived at, reference wise, in the end, supports the claims of this book.


For better words, poster children of a supremacy complex.....................p.i

When make you make a statement (about blacks coming from the south)"friend" back up with a fact that you know and not present day european assesment.I am not here to argue arfrocentrism of eurocentrism only that your coments have nothing to with the way the ancient world saw blacks etc.People are afraid to look something that Is an alternative to the way they have been taught to see things.Also to the idiot that wishes to call people kooks the only punks I know hide behind the Internet and make comments such as yours.Anyway, loved the book and hope people will read with an opened state of mind.

This book hits the mark.I am always reading reviews on books of this type and the word wishful thinking comes up, but I can see who Is doing the wishful thinking.Not one of them comes up with an reasonable argument.Egyptain sculpture proves exactly that they were africans as they ressemble blacks In africa and In the diaspora today.Besides the greeks saw them as blacks and they were comptemperaries(and did have the racial bias some have today).Great book Mr. Asante, I hope to read more of your works In the future, and those of you who call it hokey,get over your fear!

This is a great book.It deals the fear of what he calls, the agency of africans(The ability of africans to create society,community, culture and civilization.)Why does the critics have such a fear of this? Because most of them want to keep alive a myth that has been told for years.He deals with the fact most historians like to take egypt out of africa and place it in the near east In fact, a lot of very good books I have read on the bible and the ancient near east have done just that.There Is also a fear of the fact that Egypt had a very powerful influence on greek culture.I have read many books that try to refute this fact, but not one of them have produced a reasonable argument but have instead show true racist fears.A lot of people(By this I mean educated people) will know the truth, but will tell a lie because It is expediant to do so.The ancient greeks also said the egyptains were black now, how can you, who were not there, change that ? There Is nothing to fear of truth In fact, It will bring all people (regardless of their race) together.The time Is at hand for the truth that will place all races and culture in their proper place.This book Is one of those platforms by which this will be accomphished.Buy It! You won't be sorry.

Ah, the jealous create their own worlds in order to comfort themselves.

Even if the ancient Greeks started by copying basic culture from the Middle East and Africa, they then expanded on it to create their own wonderful civilization. Did the blacks create philosophy, drama, or organized warfare? How do the sculptures of the Greeks compare to those of Africa? Are the Iliad and the Odyssey really African tales? Was Aristotle trully black? Did Plato sail down to Africa, copy ideas for his debates, and sail back to orate at the Acropolis? Did the phalanx come from Egypt?

Please people,how about a reality check? This book constitutes pure drivel. While different perspectives are always welcome, let them be based on fact, not someone's FANTASY. The way this book was embraced in a few quarters really demonstrates people's racism and their inability to think for themselves.

As our friend below states, the Greeks noted that the Egyptians were black Africans, Nubians. What he doesn't mention - or indeed doesn't know - is that Herodotus was writing in a time when the Egyptians had been assimilated by Blacks from the southern regions. Anyone who refers to the existence of sculptures that "prove" the Black heritage of Ancient Egypt must realize that these statues were made during the time of the Black Egyptians, in the last dynasties. The fact that the Egyptians had a Semitic language pretty much refutes the lie that Ancient Egypt was a black culture, on the contrary, the Egyptians made clear that their enemies were the black Nubians and Jews. The racial origin of the Egyptians isan enigma to say the least, but one thing is certain: they were not black.

In an earlier book, this author had pencil sketches of ancient Egyptians drawn as Africans.

This is just plain wrong. The Egyptians had contact with Lybians and represented them correctly in their art.

The Egyptians' own sculpture and art prove the lie to such a wishful re-thinking of thousands of years of history.

It's beyond understanding how such an obviously biased, and obviously wrong, propagandist can still teach at a college, and still have his rantings published.

the only fear and lying going on here is by the crazed afrocentric 'scholars' who seek to sell books by selling them to stupid people who want to read what they want to read, whether or not these things fall within the bounds of such ideas as 'truth' and 'reality'. don't try to put the five-finger discount on history, you punks. asante= quack