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| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:29pm On Feb 21, 2012 |
THE MULATTO PROBLEM To be continued, |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 10:52pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]THE MULATTO PROBLEM The recent revival of "Black is beautiful" is no more than that, a revival . The great majority of ancient Blacks took great pride in their color ; and their resistance to amalgamation may be so interpreted . For one thing they had observed in Egypt was that a dynasty, beginning as all-black, could remain unbroken over generations and still in the end become near-white in color with not a black face in the royal lineage . This two-way process of intermingling and direct aggression meant victory fo`r the white Asians in the end . They were already within the country as "Egyptians" when the conquering horde from their various homelands swept in . Many were nationalistic Egyptians and, as such, fought the invaders along with the Africans ; others, though born in Egypt also, were loyal to their fathers' native countries and sided with their armies . Since the first to be called Egyptians exclusively were half-African and half-Asian, their general hostility to their mothers' race was a social phenomenon that should not be passed over lightly, even though that development followed a universal pattern and, therefore, was not peculiar to the Egyptians . Its nature is essentially opportunist, a quest for security, recognition and advancement by identifying with and becoming a part of the new power elite of the conquerors. The invading conquerors not only capture and control all political and economic power by military might, but, even though they might be nomadic barbarians, they generally claim to be from a higher civilization and, therefore, reinforce the myth of being superior in fact, and not just because of military conquests . Even if no such claim is made, the new ruling classes and all members of their race are superior vis-a-vis the indigenous or conquered people . Expediency and survival itself dictates loyalty and faithful service to the Asian masters in the regions over which they had gained control, first in Northern Egypt . This meant that even in the beginning, "siding with the Asians" was not solely determined by whether one was a half-breed or a full-blooded African . Blacks who did not choose to flee south but remained under Asian rule, even if enslaved, worked harder to gain recognition and acceptance than any other group . Indeed, so anxious were some of these early Blacks for "integration" with the Asians that they themselves did most in creating the new breed of Egyptians who were to become their mortal enemies . For in an all-out effort to appease the invaders, they freely gave their daughters and other desirable females as gifts to become concubines, thus speeding up the reproduction processes on an ever-widening scale . Nor did this lessen the wholesale capture of women in raids on African villages for the same purpose and for export to Asia . Reference was made to the race of the "Egyptians' mothers ." For in Egypt, as elsewhere, it was a one-way intimate process . The "master race" always kept its own women "sacred" and secluded behind the walls of their homes . They were not allowed to go outside except under guard . African women had no such restrictions or protection . They were fair game for the men of all races, and for them it was always open season .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:06pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]Many black women preferred death by suicide . Of these, too, history does not sing. The "master race," then, while loudly proclaiming a strange doctrine of "racial purity" for itself, has been the world's leader in bastardizing other peoples . And it has been done on a grand scale in the United States, in South America, in East and South Africa . And so it was in Egypt . The evolution of the Egyptians as a nationality group is as interesting as their anti-African attitude, although the latter differs not at all from that of many mixed breeds with African blood elsewhere . It has been stated that the original Egyptians were black, half-African and half Asian . This general racial pattern changed, however, as the centuries passed along and more and more white conquerors, their followers and the other whites were attracted to the "Bread Basket on the Nile"-Jews, Syrians, Hittites, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians, . Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Romans, et al. Intermarriages between conquerors and conquered continued along with concubinage as a national institution . The direct result was that more and more Egyptians became lighter and near-white in complexion . In short, they did, in fact, become more Asian in blood than African . Yet this upper ruling class of near-whites was at no time more than a fourth of the population . For until the Islamic "flood" which began in the middle of the seventh century A.D ., the vast majority of the Egyptians were what modern scholars like to characterize as "Negroid ."4 But what has been referred to as a "social phenomenon" was in fact a development among the half-breeds everywhere that ran counter to what would be normally expected, if not contrary to nature itself . This was the outright rejection of one's mother and her people and a cleaving to the father and his people . While I do not know whether the overwhelming love which Africans generally have for their mothers is any greater than that among other peoples, it is certainly so marked that it has been a matter of comment by many writers . Some of the principal reasons why the half-breeds turned against the Blacks and sought integration with the Asians have been pointed out . These applied to the Blacks as well as to the new breed . All sought security, advancement ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes 4. The unmixed Blacks in Egypt I am still designating as African . The Mulattoes, then as now, generally objected to being called Africans .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:10pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]and social prestige by ingratiating themselves with the current ruling classes . But the half-breeds had the inside track and all of the advantages. First of all, they were mainly the sons and daughters of white and European-Asian fathers . These fathers recognized them as such and, in general, proudly . And since they claimed superiority over the Africans, their half-African offsprings considered themselves to be a superior breed also . These Afro-Asian offsprings were given preferential treatment, positions of authority, wealth according to the status of their patrilineal family, and an education that could draw on Asian culture as well as the highly advanced African civilization in Upper Egypt and southwards to the "Land of the Gods ." Another situation that was a most potent factor in the half-breeds' attitude towards their mothers' race was that, more often than not, their mothers were concubinary slaves . This meant that the half-breed was introduced into the lowest level of African life even from birth. Concubinage was so general that it overshadowed the smaller number of African women who were the legitimate wives of Asians . These African wives were the exception, generally coming as they did from powerful upper classes, the noble or royal families . In such cases it did not seem to matter at all how black they were . But since most of the "new Egyptians" were originally sons and daughters of slave mothers and "upper class" fathers, they tended to be ashamed of their mothers and sought self-realization on their fathers' side . Furtherniore, the slave mother had no claim on the children she bore . They belonged to the Asian father who could and generally did consider them as free-born due to their Asian blood . To prove how truly Asian they were, the mixed Egyptians made hatred of Africans a ritual, and tried to surpass the whites in raiding for the slaves in all-African areas . Various Afro-Eurasians who became Egyptian kings declared "eternal warfare" against the Blacks and vowed to enslave the entire race . Hope in this connection could have developed from the fact that while many races were represented among captured slaves, the Africans constituted the largest number . Relying wholly on the emerging concept of innate superiority of Europeans and Asians, these people everywhere created a class system that made their bastard offsprings superior to all Blacks, and in status next below themselves.[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:12pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]The system operated in the twentieth century the same as it did in earlier times . The Afro-Dutch "Coloureds" of South Africa fully illustrate most of the points made about Egyptians . The Coloureds' hatred of Africans seems to be even more thoroughgoing than that of the whites in South Africa . Because of their Dutch blood, they too had been given special privileges, a higher social and economic status than the Blacks, and a completely separate society . Education and civil rights denied the Blacks were theirs ; the best available jobs for non-whites were theirs . But above all, they had the magic of the half-white skin that, in itself, automatically put them above the Blacks . Some of these "Coloureds" become hysterical if reminded of their Bantu of "Kaffir" blood . The lightest ones simply deny having any African blood . Yet sometimes nature itself, as though disgusted with these ridiculous pretensions, plays a joke on some of the very lightest husbands and wives by presenting them with a black baby, a throwback from black ancestors . The most charitable thing that can be said about the racism of the Dutch Boers and their Cape Coloured offsprings is that they were ignorant of even the names of great African leaders, not to mention the great civilization they had built just north of where the Dutch first landed . But the Assyrians, Hebrews, Greeks and Romans could make no such claim to support the myth of Caucasian superiority . For nothing seems clearer from ancient records than that the whole ancient world knew of nothing more ancient than the black man's civilization . The real challenge was standing there in monuments of stone which the Blacks had built on a scale that had withstood all passing ages . To meet this challenge, the Asians and their Afro-Asian offsprings set about to do three main things : (1) They destroyed everything left by the Africans that indicated African superiority . (2) Where the temples, monuments, etc ., were of such beauty and durability that destruction was less desirable than claiming the achievements as their own, African inscriptions were systematically erased and replaced with Asian and new Egyptian inscriptions that gave to themselves the credit for whatever achievements there were . Sometimes the inscriptions were so deeply engraved that effacement was impossible ; so the workmen would have to conceal these by building stone casings around them . The early African builders had been most exasperating, leaving their statues everywhere-flat noses, thick lips and all . Hundreds of statuettes[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:17pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]were carved in various dynasties . These could be thrown away . But what to do with the huge, monumental statues that were lined up outside of the most famous temples? The problem was solved by "passing" those Egyptian rulers who merely had "Negroid" features . Many of those with all-African faces simply had their heads knocked off . All to no lasting avail . The facts of history could not be completely changed . One troublesome fact was that most of the greatest kings and queens of Egypt were Black Africans ; so great, indeed, that their names were richly spread over pages that glorified the Egyptian past-their names, but not their African identity . In history these Blacks are simply Egyptians, and not Cushites, Ethiopians, or Nubians . This is still another technique for deliberately "losing track" of African history . But the archaeologists' spades just kept turning up statuettes and some remarkable portraits that frustrated some scholars while' others felt challenged and replied with a heavy artillery of misleading words and phrases . Regardless of what the field investigators found, the main work of reconstructing African history in the twentieth century is still in the hands of those who degraded it, white hands who still have the power to shape it as they will. (3) Finally, the great revolt of white slaves (Mamelukes) in 1250 A .D ., and their murderous onslaughts against their Turk and Arab masters ended forever the general enslavement of whites, and thereafter led to a concentration on the enslavement of only Blacks . This changed the course of history and came to make the myth of racial superiority-inferiority, master and slave, appear to be a visible reality . Could there be any question about it? Even the slaves would realize that their actual situation was one of inferiority . And after centuries of bondage, the slaves generally came to believe that they were, in fact, inferior beings, and that their masters, by the very arrangements of life, were superior . For whether in Asia, Europe, South America, the United States or the West Indies, the story was the same : The essential links with their past were broken . All knowledge of former greatness was lost . Even their kinship and family relationships were destroyed along with their true names . They were not regarded as human beings . They became a race of outcasts hating themselves for being alive . The Caucasian triumph was complete . In the course of time, the Egyptians became more and more conscious of their separate national and non-Asian identity as Egyptians . The term "Asian," of course, covered numerous white nationality and ethnic[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:21pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]groups . "Asian blood" had no specific meaning . It might be Hebrew, Mongolian, Arabic, Persian, Indian and so on . Egyptian nationalism with its sense of independence could evolve all the more easily because of this lack of exclusive identity with any one of their kindred nationalities. Another important factor was the relatively unmixed Asians (and a sprinkling of Europeans) who had been living in the country for so many generations that they regarded themselves as Egyptians, owing no loyalty to their native lands, but ready to fight as Egyptians when Egypt was attacked or herself went to war . Here again we see additional reasons why the Egyptians felt more Asian than African . They become even clearer if we keep in mind that during all the centuries of Egyptian evolution to a separate identity and nationhood, relentless warfare with the Africans continued . As long as the Africans seemed resolved to retake Egypt, no pharaoh could rest easily . From the record, extending over several thousand years, it seems that the Blacks intended to reconquer Egypt as Menes had done or fight on forever . They seemed to take their most devastating defeats as mere temporary setbacks, and always invaded or attempted to invade Egypt again and again (and again, note the very different Western version) . Is this one of the principal reasons the Egyptians hated them so much? Was the mass enslavement of Africans a part of a scheme to break the power and end the eternal threat from the now southern "Land of the Blacks?" I am, of course, fully aware that the same ancient records may be read and interpreted in such a way that one would think that most of the invasions were one-way from Egypt into the all-black countries below the First Cataract, and that, indeed, the Africans were no match for the mighty Egyptian armies, but generally turned tail and fled . In this and a hundred other instances I simply read the record differently . The great chain of defense fortifications the Egyptians built facing south at the First Cataract were hardly built to prevent themselves from invading the black empire . As late as the Twelfth Dynasty, records still refer to wars against the "Asian invaders" and to defense measures such as building walls on the eastern frontier . They had been "expelled en masse" from the rich delta[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:29pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
[b]region in 2040 B .C.5 But they always returned, if not as conquering warriors, then as peaceful traders or friendly migrants seeking a home . It should also be remembered that Egypt was not always the innocent object of aggression, but was herself often the invading aggressor in Asia . She also enslaved many Asians and marched them back to Egypt-men, women and children . It can be said with certainty, therefore, that some of the many invasions of Egypt were invited or provoked by Egypt's own imperialistic adventures . Yet they may well have been counter-moves to check the constant invasions from these regions . The African masses caught it from all directions as their own leaders progressively became "Caucasian" Hamites and Semites, and as many who were unmistakably full-blooded Africans became as predatory as were their known enemies. It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations . Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relates man to man . Greed was triumphant in Egypt from ancient times down into our own century . Egypt was the major slave exchange center in Africa . Nubia (the Northern Sudan) was not only the chief source of supply for slaves, who were marched up the Second Cataract, but it was also the main source of gold, ivory, ostrich feathers, precious stones of many kinds, ebony and animal skins. These goods enriched Egypt in her expanding international trade. A hostile Egypt now stood between the black world and international commerce . But all had not been going well in the land . There had been civil wars, redivision of the country, reunification again, decentralization, a breakup into autonomous monarchies and back to unification once more . These ups and downs seem to be according to the strength or weakness of the leadership in any given period, or the role played by the conquerors in unifying or failing to unify the country . --------------------------------------------------------------- Notes 5. This is the generally accepted view , I note elsewhere that it was not a mass expulsion of Asians . 6. One lesson of history is quite clear: One's own leaders may be as unjust, inhuman and as brutal as strangers, often more so .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:32pm On Feb 22, 2012 |
To be continued, |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by EEngineer1(m): 8:42pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
guy, please continue, i was reading it or do you have the link |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 10:44pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]BLACK EGYPT TURNING BROWN AND WHITE The long, long stretch of the centuries into milleniums made it easy to delete some of the most significant developments in those early ages in Egypt . The emergence of great leaders and long periods of remarkable achievements were followed by weak leaders and long periods of national disorganization and chaos in such amazing cycles that it seems that some relentless socio-political law was operating in the land . Centralized government, first instituted by Menes, always collapsed as civil war spread over the provinces and constituent kingdoms . One of the worst and most fateful periods of crisis was during the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth dynasties, 2181-2040 B .C . What happened during this period of political anarchy is typical of the unproclaimed processes that slowly but steadily changed both the political and ethnic character of Egypt and, in the end, that of the allblack Sudan as well . During this period, as in many others, the Blacks played a leading role in expediting their own downfall-a fact as important in their history as anything else . In Egypt it was an almost endless power struggle both within the royal lineages on the national and provincial levels and between the various provinces . The civil strife became more intense and bitter as the largest and strongest provinces, such as Thebes, tried to force the others back into a state of national unity . The trouble was that too many nomarchs (chiefs) were trying to do the same thing, each ambitious to become the Pharaoh of all Egypt at the very least, and all Ethiopia if possible (Egypt and the Sudan) . Hell reigned in the center of the empire (Upper Egypt) for 141 years-one hundred and forty-one years of retrogression and destruction. Both ends of the empire broke away from the center . The northern end, white Lower Egypt, became independent again and more and more whites spread over Upper Egypt, taking full advantage of the general upheaval, and promoting it by forming alliances with various provincial chiefs in the warfare against others . Since Lower Egypt also had internal strife among its now independent provinces, delta chiefs did not hesitate in accepting the invitations of black princes to form alliances and lead troops into Upper Egypt . Asians also marched across the desert from Libya where they had also replaced the indigenous Blacks and were now the dominant population . The steady transformation from black to brown to white becomes even clearer if it is remembered that after the unification of the Two[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 10:47pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]Lands, the whites of Lower Egypt had every legal right to travel and settle in black Upper Egypt . And while there was always a general opposition, there had been a steady infiltration from the beginning . They, like their Libyan kinsmen, always came in a manner that never caused immediate alarm : small numbers spreading out, and then gradually forming separate communities next to an African village, town or city . They became an integral part of life in the provinces, actively supporting the local chiefs (nomarchs), marrying into their families and, by so doing, in time becoming legitimate chiefs themselves . The Asian power base was thus firmly established in provinces, and established so slowly and without fanfare that it appeared to be an imperceptible development . The same changes had been taking place on the national level in some of the royal families . But the biggest changes in the racial character of Egypt always occurred during the crisis periods of political decentralization and civil disorder when the whites came in hordes and spread over the country . The already established Asian communities served as magnets, but the overflow of settlers caused the building of numerous new communities . They could now move in unchallenged . They came in not only from the Delta and Libya, but from Asia also . These were not military invasions, but invading settlers . They were like John the Baptist, the forerunners . They prepared the way and made it easy for all the invading armies that came later from Asia and Europe . These could now count on cooperation and welcome from the white population already in Egypt . A century and a half of this followed . A pause and reflection are required here if the full significance of what has been set forth above is to be grasped . Yet the picture need not be as confusing as many writers have made it by the simple expedient of omitting salient facts . Among these are the following : (1) The collapse of centralized authority from Memphis not only enabled Lower Egypt to become independent again, but it also meant that this predominantly Asian region was in the same state of disruption as the rest of the country . (2) Kings in Lower Egypt, ruling from Avaris or Sais, often claimed to be kings or pharaohs of all Egypt without having gained control of the whole country, just as kings in Upper Egypt, ruling from Thebes or Memphis, made similar claims during the same period without having gained control over the whole country or even all of Upper Egypt . This point is highly important ; for what it .,means is that there were periods when both white and black aspirants claimed to be pharaohs of Egypt at the same time when none[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 10:50pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]actually had effective control over the nation . (3) Writers, knowing this well enough, have nevertheless generally presented the whites and Afro-Asians (classified as ''white'') as the Egyptian pharaohs, while ignoring the African pharaohs altogether . Their defense, when pressed, is that the African pharaohs are indicated as Thebans, Memphites, etc ., satisfied, as previously pointed out, that the use of these terms is a part of the "blackout" of black history . (4) The periods during which the Asian incursions were greatest, such as 2181-2040 B .C ., should be stressed because these population pressures caused a steady withdrawal of non-integrating Blacks southward below the First Cataract . (5) To overlook this early separatist movement among the Blacks is to neglect one of the most important keys to the fuller understanding of black Egyptian history . But just as the Blacks had withdrawn in large numbers from Lower Egypt as it became more and more white and began to settle beyond what became the border between Lower and Upper Egypt, so now they had been moving from place to place in Upper Egypt in a futile effort to escape from the ever pressing whites . These were the Blacks who finally joined others in the South (Nubia) . Nubia, therefore, revolted and became independent during the same period of general collapse at the center . But the compelling reasons, as stated elsewhere, appear to have been resistance not only to the increasing Asian power in Upper Egypt but also to the African and Afro-Asian pharaohs whose integration policies promoted the spread of this foreign power in what had been an important region of their homeland. It was black separatism and racism without apology . It was even something more than a resistance movement against the political domination of foreigners and the social degradation of the Blacks that always followed, but it was a stubborn resistance to the extinction of the race itself through amalgamation . These were the first of the race for whom Black was in fact beautiful, and not just a catching slogan of the day . The expansion of "white power" from the delta into Upper Egypt had been going on slowly long before the "age of weak kings ." They had been appointed as ministers, court officials of various kinds, trade commissioners, army officers and soldiers . The ninety-year reign of Pepi 11, the longest in history, was in their favor . For while Pepi had been a strong leader and a mighty king during the first fifty years of his reign, the general upheaval began when he had become too old to govern or[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 10:52pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]even know what was going on in the country . This uncommonly long reign made the Sixth Dynasty the introduction to the era of chaos . This was the period of simultaneous dynasties of Asian, Libyan, and Theban "pharaohs" and several different capitals . There were so many kings during the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth dynasties with very short "reigns" that many of their names are unknown . Finally, the line of African kings ruling from Thebes first overcame the other powerful Asian dynasty in Upper Egypt that was centered at Heracleopolis and proceeded with the awful task of uniting the empire again . Strong rulers had begun to emerge again in 2133 B.C. So the Eleventh Dynasty of the great Mentuhoteps began 93 years before the Tenth Dynasty ended, a further illustration of points previously made . Mentuhotep II was probably the greatest of Eleventh Dynasty kings . It was he who undertook to settle the white Asian problem forever by reversing the policy of integration and expelling them from Lower Egypt . Historians of the period write that he did "expel the Asians" from the Delta in 2040 B .C . This, too, is misleading . While he did indeed conquer Lower Egypt again, and probably believed that reunification with the black South would be easier if he first drove the Asians out, he was now 1000 years too late for such a task . The Asians could not be expelled en masse in any event, for all Lower Egypt was overwhelmingly an Asian population and had been so for centuries beyond record . Nobody knows at what point in time they became the dominant people there . What Mentuhotep did was to put the government to flight, along with its army and other known supporters . Besides, the Asians were now dispersed all through the provinces of Upper Egypt . The compelling reason for the reconquest of the Delta was always economic. In fact "race" itself was an economic factor . When Asians controlled, a commercial blockade kept Blacks from direct world trade and international relations in general . Therefore, the second reunification in 2040 B.C. ushered in another "golden age" in black history . African ships of commerce sailed the seas again, nation-wide reconstruction was pushed and the revival of learning, science, the arts and crafts marked the Eleventh and Twelfth dynasties. The most important lesson the black world could learn from its history is that there was an economic development base for each and every advance . Meanwhile, the Blacks concentrated in the South had firmly fixed the dividing line between themselves and their brothers in Upper Egypt at the First Cataract . This, too, meant war, because the South was the[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Rossikk(m): 10:57pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
This is a great book, which I read many years ago, and which helped shape my view of the world, and the pivotal African role in the rise of civilization. Thanks poster. It must be a heck of a job posting it this way, as it's quite a substantial work. The author, the late Dr Chancellor Williams, was an African-American historian and intellectual who spent nearly 20 years of his life in Africa, visiting at least 30 countries in the course of his research. The book has been called the Black Man's bible, and with good reason. Again, kudos to To-chi for his efforts.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Destruction-Black-Civilization-Issues-4500BC/dp/0883780305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330033925&sr=8-1 |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:03pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]richest region in mineral resources . The long war against Nubia began during the Eleventh Dynasty and went on year after year without success. A very real problem now was the attitude of the black troops from Thebes toward a war against their brothers in the South . In any event, no progress in overcoming the South was made at all until the power center at Thebes was moved to Al Fayyum in the Twelfth Dynasty . Even then the war dragged on for another fifty years before the region bordering on Egypt (called Lower Nubia) was brought under control. Henceforth, the country from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean was definitely called Egypt and the country from the First Cataract southward was definitely called Ethiopia, Nubia, Cush etc . The end of the Twelfth Dynasty in 1786 B .C . ended nearly three and one half centuries of great leaders and, therefore, great progress . Yet, once again, the cycle of disaster returned with the Thirteenth Dynasty . Mental pygmies sat on the thrones once occupied by giants . Nearly two centuries of internal strife and decay followed . Lower Egypt, of course, had quickly become independent again for the third time . This meant an increased and unrestricted flow of Asians into the country . A period of turmoil was also the opportune time for great armed invasions . Among these invaders were the Hyksos, the "Children of Isreal," according to the historian Josephus . This invasion of Egypt in 1720 B .C . was ruthless and aimed at nothing less than the extermination of the Egyptian people and their replacement by the Isrealites . They did not succeed in this, but settled down to rule the country as the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties and stayed on as a powerful influence for over 400 years . The important point here is that Semites poured into Egypt following its conquest by fellow tribesmen, and that this still further advanced the Asiatic character of the Egyptians . Hyksos power was broken during the Eighteenth Dynasty and many were expelled en masse . They returned to Palestine and founded Jerusalem . Meanwhile, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Notes 7 . Some writers say that they were Arabs and that their rule lasted about 250 years .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:10pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]Egypt was developing into "The New Empire" and, during the same dynasty in which the Hyksos had been expelled, she struck back by conquering both the Hyksos homeland and Syria and extending those conquests to the Euphrates . It should be noted that the greatest Hebrew invasion of Egypt occurred about 600 years before Moses and the Captivity . One reason why the great issues in African history must be both reviewed and expanded is that anyone who dares to challenge the prevailing and widely held viewpoints is in a position far more precarious than that of little David facing the towering and mightily armed Goliath . Here an almost universal army of giants, standing steadfastly in defense of the "Africanist" ideologies they have developed, must be combatted . To this end, I review positions already stated in order to be crystal clear, and I expand by introducing additional facts on the same subject . Indeed, I might be properly accused of overemphasizing one point on which most scholars are already agreed : the great antiquity of African civilization . But the greatest of all issues lies here in the general agreement that at the very earliest period known to mankind, an African civilization in the areas later called the Sudan and Egypt was fully developed, with "all the arts of civilized life already matured," its beginning being placed so far into the early history of the world that it is beyond the reach of man. Since the most compelling evidence forced scholars to these conclusions in recent times, the prevailing racist theories of history created a very real dilemma : How, in view of civilization's beginning in the Land of the Blacks, can one explain their role in world history? Having successfully degraded the black race throughout the world and supported the degradation with their "science" and religion, how may one explain that this same black race was the first builder of the very civilization of which the Caucasians themselves are heirs? White scholarship solves such problems very neatly, and without a blink of an eye . In this case they very simply put the white man in Africa before the black man! And, apparently not feeling secure enough with this, they overrode geography itself and "took Egypt out of Africa," making it a part of the Asian Middle East! Laughter and tragedy . For, of course, a racism so extreme that it becomes ridiculous also becomes[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:21pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
@ Rossikk, You have said it all. I thank you for acknowledging my efforts in posting it like this, it is for the greater benefit of blacks. The efforts of Chancellor Williams shall never go in vain. I thank you also for giving credence to this great book. |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:30pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]amusing, even though it is at the same time the tragedy of an unabated twentieth century assault on the Blacks . The discovery that the earliest civilization and, therefore, the most advanced nation was in Africa led white scholars to do a quick turnabout . Going far beyond transforming the indigenous people into whites, they made Africa the birthplace of the entire human race and, to please God, rushed back to Noah's sons again for a theory of racial origins and dispersions-but now from Africa-over the earth . Western scholars, in the absence of solid facts, do not hesitate to use myths and legends if these serve their purposes . So in addition to the legend of how the different races came to be and then migrated, we also have quoted the Egyptian legend of how the god Turn assigned colors to the various groups . Sir Gardner, in his three volumes on ancient Egypt, follows the same well-known line about Egyptians as Caucasians . In this he is quite in step with most Western and Asian writers on the subject . Indeed, in addition to the "evidence" cited above, he relies also on Caucasian features in certain Egyptian monuments, portraits, etc . The head carvings, pictures and other representations of people are quite true, depending on the period in which the work was done . Was it done during the long era of classical representations when all portraits were of standardized form? The subject was idealized in an artistic attempt to make him look quite different than he actually was . In fact, a true representation of the individual was considered vulgar . The complementary question is, were the wall paintings and similar depictions done during the periods of Caucasian ascendency (Asian and Afro-Asian)? For during these periods both African and Afro-Asian ruling and upper classes were classed as Asians or Caucasians and a sharp distinction was made between themselves and the non-integrating Blacks . The stylized paintings also show the Blacks in the same unvarying patterns . The first known revolt against this ancient system of classical art came during Ikhnaton's religious reforms in the fifteenth century B .C.8 Anyone examining these early paintings will readily see why African history is so confused and so often misleading . One example is a wall ------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes 8 . Khafre actually broke the tradition in the 4th dynasty . But the "Negroid" features in the Sphinx did not change the classical style .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:34pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]painting in a tomb at Thebes, the oldest city of the Blacks . The picture shows "Negroes presenting tribute . . . " to the chief minister of Thutmose III. If one did not know that all the Thutmoses were of an African lineage, he would naturally conclude that Egyptian civilization was in fact a Caucasian civilization, and the Blacks, where they appear on the scene at all, were in a distinctly inferior role . Were not the paintings conclusive evidence of this? Look at their scanty, almost barbarous attire! THE CITY OF A HUNDRED GATES References have been made to Thebes, and they may have seemed to be almost passing references . Yet Thebes was the most important single city in the entire history of the black people . The whole series of lectures could be properly based on Thebes . The history of Black Africa might well begin at Thebes . For this was truly the "Eternal City of the Blacks" that presented the most compelling evidence that they were the builders of the earliest civilization in Chem, later called Egypt, as well as the great civilization in the South . The foundation of Thebes, like the black state of which it was the center, goes back so far in prehistory that not even a general stone age period can be suggested . This city is another example of what was meant when I suggested earlier that research workers should not shun the "enemy" authorities because they themselves inevitably present factual data that contravene positions previously taken . I am not speaking about those scholars who present the various conflicting theories and viewpoints of the different schools of thought . It should be needless to say that this is desirable, or that reference is not made to such writers . But reference was made to those historians who espoused such doctrines as that of an indigenous white African society before the arrival of the Blacks in Africa while, later on, unwittingly showing that such could not have been the case . So, almost all are forced by the evidence to concede in one place or another,, and often in very guarded or ambiguous language, that : (1) The Blacks were also called Thebans because (2) all Upper Egypt was for centuries called the Thebald after its greatest city, Thebes, and its people, the black Thebans ; (3) that the "Thebald" also referred to the city itself as the intellectual center of Black Africa, the chief seat of learning, of science, religion, engineering and the arts . "Thebald,"[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:39pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]therefore, could mean the whole of black Egypt or the "University City," depending on the inflection of the voice ; (4) that the Asian whites were held rather firmly in the Delta region they occupied in Lower Egypt until the unification of the Two Lands under Menes ; and (5) that the much heralded "Egyptian dynasties" were African-founded and were nothing more nor less than the African traditional lineage system, matrilineal in character except when it was made patrilineal after Asian conquests or the great Egyptian transformation . I have said that the confusion in African history did not develop accidentally or because of a long series of unfortunate circumstances . The confusion seems to have been deliberately contrived . All specialists on ancient Egypt whose works we have examined were quite familiar with all the facts presented here . I present nothing here that would be new to them, for so much of it is their own findings . Consider how much confusion and misinterpretations would have been avoided if they had stated the well-established fact that the Ethiopian empire still included most of Egypt even after the Asian occupation of the Delta, that it extended southward over northern Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia), and that states such as Wawat, Nubia, Cush, etc . were, like Egypt, lesser divisions of that vast empire . Even in the works where this is presented in various and sundry ways, you will not find a single map showing the extent of the Ethiopian empire . To present maps of ancient Ethiopia, of course, would have defeated all major efforts to destroy or disguise the most significant aspects of African history . All honors must go to the ancient Greek and Roman historians who did not seem to know what racism is, certainly not as it developed in modern white civilization . They, in dealing with Africa, simply "told it like it was ." Pliny, Herodotus, Diodorus, Erastosthenes, Plutarch, et al ., along with the Bible, all refute the interpretations of African history by modern Caucasians . They eagerly quote the ancient historians as first-line authorities, but attack them whenever and wherever their records upset the premises upon which modern racism is built . In such cases the Western scholar feels so absolute and infallible in his wealth-centered power and control over science and education that on those points he does not choose to accept, he will dismiss the "Father of History" with "Here Herodotus must be read with caution . He is known to have made errors . He did not travel very much in Africa ; or " . . .It is very likely that Diodorus was relying on oral tradition here ; or " . . .They may have confused the Greek `Ethiopia' which[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:47pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]means `The Black Land' with 'Chem' (Egypt) which also means `The Black Land,' for Pliny suggests that in the case of Egypt `black' refers to the soil rather than the people And so it goes . Throughout the study of the black man's history we may find ourselves constantly misled or puzzled if we forget that practically all the names and terms in use are not African names and terms, but Greek, Roman, Arabic, Anglo-Saxon, etc . Some of the more recent pre- European and pre-Asian-African names, however, have been rediscovered. One of these earlier names for Thebes was the No, the Na- Amun of the Bible and ancient Hebrew writers . But the African name was Wo'se and, like the Greek Thebald, referred to all Upper Ethiopia or Upper Egypt . The Blacks also made the distinction between Wo'se, the Thebald and Nowe (Thebes), the University City . Another point of the highest importance here is that the African name for Thebes not only comes from the South, as Nims points out, but the name itself is the name of the imperial scepter of Ethiopia, a golden staff ribboned with ostrich feathers at the top . Here, then, is a single name that, all by itself, gives far-reaching insights into the history of the Blacks . And this is why I have urged that, high up on the list of research fields yet to be explored, there should be one devoted to the rediscovery of African names and their meaning . For, obviously, much of the African past was rather effectively blotted out by blotting out African names along with other indexes to black achievements . The determination of ancient African names and their meaning will spearhead a real Black Revolution because it will lead directly to the emancipation of our still enslaved minds . It will be the great intellectual reawakening of a people whose world outlook through Caucasian eyes has been dimmed . I cannot now, for example, switch to the use of the African names I know in this discussion . I must continue to say Thebes, not Wo'se or Nowe . The reasons are obvious . But if the kind of suggested research is done, the next generation of black writers will be using African terms freely and understandably, and with maps redrawn to show places with their own original names . But let us never forget the central fact about Thebes, not even for a moment. For if the Blacks had never left a single written record of their past greatness, that record would still stand, defying time, in the deathless stones of Thebes, of her fallen columns from temples, monuments, and her pyramids ; a city more eternal than Rome because its foundation was laid before the dawn of history, and its plan was that[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:49pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]copied by other cities of the world . If the Blacks of today want to measure the distance to the heights from which they have fallen, they need go no farther than Nowe (Thebes) . THEBES AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION The "Mother of Cities," as it was called, was one of the chief centers of religion in Africa . The Blacks were a very religious people and had quite a number of religious cities, each one under the special patronage of a god, goddess or any number of deities . The gods and goddesses of Thebes were among the most important because their city was so important. Because religion to the Africans was far more than ritual reflecting beliefs, but a reality reflected in their actual way of life, religion from the earliest times became the dynamic force in the development of all the major aspects of black civilization . The belief in immortality was a simple matter of course, and beyond the realm of debate . This belief in life after death was the great inspiration for building on so grand a scale, attempting to erect structures that would stand forever . Necessity, therefore, gave birth to the mathematical sciences required for building the amazing pyramids and the architectural designs for the most elaborate system of temple-building the world has ever known . As the City of Amon, the King of the Gods, and of his wife, the great goddess Mut, the temples and monuments to them alone had to be on a massive scale . There was also the war god of Thebes, the source of the power of the mightiest armies, the proudest and most fearless warriors . From this center of the empire alone, 20,000 war chariots could be put into the field . The hierarchy of deities not only included numerous lesser gods and goddesses, but also a long line of venerated former kings, queens and ancestors . All of this not only inspired endless temple building at Thebes but also a concentration on attaining the highest standards of excellence. This in turn called for reflective thinking, invention and discovery . Many of the temples were what we would call colleges, as the different fields of study were temple-centered . Here scholars from foreign lands came to study, and from here, religious ideas and architectural designs spread abroad . The early Greeks and Romans eagerly copied from both, reshaped them and made them integral parts of an "original" Western culture . During periods of decline or conquests,[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:52pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]Europe and Asia seized and transported from Africa as much of the artifacts of its civilization as they could . Cambyses, for example, as early as the sixth century B.C ., hauled away over $100,000,000 of precious historical materials from Thebes alone . Cambyses was only one of countless thousands who invaded the tomb repositories of black history during each of the many periods of foreign invasions and foreign rule . For these tombs not only contained valuable historical records in different forms, but also great treasures in gold and precious stones . In these cases, the historical records were generallydestroyed incidentally, and not deliberately . The raids on graves and the great tombs were for the great treasures to be found there . But the stolen gold and other treasures were of no importance when compared with the mass of priceless historical materials that are scattered over Europe and Asia, some in museums, some destroyed or thrown away, all from from the heartland of black civilization . Today the descendants of the robbers still smugly declare, "The Blacks never had any worthwhile history ; if so, where are their records?" The still interesting fact about Thebes is that many of its formerly great temples were prehistoric ruins even five thousand years ago . The most ancient temple at Karnak, for example, in what was the center of Nowe, goes back beyond the reach of man's records . No other city on earth ever had so many temples, and even today there are more ruins of temples there than anywhere in the world . Because of the splendor of their architectural designs and the colossal size of the structures, they, like the pyramids, became wonders of the world . Religion was not-only the immediate occasion for the development of art and architecture, but it also inspired the drive for bigness, the grand design on a scale as huge as human skill and effort could achieve . Nothing less was befitting of the gods . The keepers of the temples of Thebes and elsewhere became a powerful priesthood, thus indirectly reducing the power and influence of chiefs and kings who, in traditional Africa, derived their real powers as the official intermediaries between the gods, sainted ancestors and the people . If an African king or chief had any real political power, it was acquired either by virtue of his religious functions or because of the prestige of being a great general and victorious warrior. Otherwise, the Council was the constitutional center of power. Moreover, religion became the basis of political power in a subtle and much more far-reaching sense . For back behind the impenetrable[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:56pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]curtains of time, shrewd leaders saw the overriding mystery of religion as a controlling force in the lives of men . It appears that in almost all societies religion was recognized not only as the principal means of social control, but the equally certain source of economic wealth and political authority . From the chieftain's role of offering prayers and sacrifices to the gods, the steps to his own claim of kinship with the deities were easy enough. For who can gainsay one who is in exclusive communication with the Almighty? Although divine kinship was never widespread over the continent, it seems to be true that the ideas and practices of the divine despots of the Orient did penetrate and influence a number of African kingdoms . The point of all this is that religion made the people submissive and obedient, all the more so if their ruler was given a superhuman role such as kinship with the gods and the protecting ancestors . For did this not mean then that rulers held all the keys to Heaven? Indeed, the chiefs and kings had evolved into the very instruments of the peoples' salvation. The state's income from religion stemmed from the requirement of sacrificial offerings from the people . This might be from ten to fifty percent of what each individual produced or earned . But where the traditional constitutional law of the Blacks prevailed, the people willingly contributed from their means for a quite non-religious reason : The central treasury belonged to the people and was maintained for the people's welfare, not only for public projects but for the relief of each and every individual in distress whose needs could not be met by his family or clan . However, African constitutional law received its first blow in Egypt in the wake of numerous invasions and foreign rule, followed later by its almost complete destruction by Muslim and European conquests . The ancient religion that gave birth to science and learning, art, engineering, architecture-the resources for a national economy and political control-that same religion wars the mother of history, writing, music, the healing art, the song and the dance . The first historians were the professional story-tellers and traveling singers . Both recounted the deeds of leaders, important events such as wars and migrations, and how and by whom the society or state was founded . Poetry and music were the cireations of the people in general and, like the dance, came so easily that they seemed to be a natural heritage of everyone . As the various musical instruments and singing[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 11:59pm On Feb 23, 2012 |
[b]told a story, the dance also recorded a message, appealed for spiritual aid from God and ancestors, expressed joy for successful harvest, hunting, victories in war or forms of prayer to ward off the evil spirits that always sought to overcome the good . Sickness is one of these evils, hence, the association of medicine with the spiritual forces for good . The ritual for appealing to a Power beyond man is called "magic" by Westerners, that is, if they are discussing Africa . Exactly the same belief and practice are called "divine healing" in Christiandom . The great civilization of the Blacks which for countless ages was centered around Nowe (Thebes) did not just happen . Progress does not happen automatically . Every forward step made by these early Blacks was made, you might even say forced,, by the imperatives of what had to be done to survive . Bear in mind that spiritual survival was more important than physical, a concept the modern world is not expected to understand at all . The development of writing is not explained by the simple statement of a "need to communicate ." The idea of permanence seemed to motivate the drawing of pictures and symbols which were man's first step toward the art of writing . Significantly, the scribes arose in the holy temples . And this is why so many inscriptions of historical importance have been found there, on walls, altars and on colonnades. The world's oldest city, with the greatest number of temples that were also the oldest, must have been the place where the largest mass of historical data would have been found, had not the plunderers from different countries destroyed, stolen, and carried away so much of it . Here we need not be as much concerned with further testimony such as that of Diodorus affirming that the Thebans were the oldest (first) men on earth, according to their tradition, and that they also originated the systems of philosophy and astrology . We need not be as much concerned about their antiquity, which was already well-established, as we are about the loss of so much of the additional evidence concerning the development of philosophy and the beginning of the space science of astrology . Ancient Greek scholars, through Herodotus, referred to the completion of their education in Ethiopia with pride and, it appears, as a matter of course . So much has been built up against the black race since those far away times that it will be difficult for many people of today to realize that whites of the ancient world did not seem to regard the question of Ethiopia as the principal center of learning as even debatable .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:04am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]But, we have to remind ourselves constantly, racism as we know it today was practically non-existent . When an ancient people boasted of their superiority over another nationality group, the terms of reference were conquest, political rule, and some kind of myth to legitimize that rule . When the fortunes of war enabled one white nation to enslave the entire population of another white state, no one believed that the conquered people were actually, that is, innately inferior to the conquerors . Neither did the relatively backward Asian whites who invaded Egypt consider themselves superior to the black builders of the civilization they found there . The emphasis has been on the Thebald as all Upper Egypt, Upper Egypt as Upper Ethiopia, and Thebes (Nowe) as its most ancient city and one of the very earliest centers of black civilization . We have said that the ancient whites so regarded it . The Greek historian, Erathosthenes, refers to Menes as "The Theban" and first king of Thebes (meaning the Thebald or Upper Egypt when it was united with Lower Egypt, and the beginning of the First Dynasty (3100 B .C .) . The same historian noted that Menes' reign of sixty-two years was one of the longest in history, and that of his nephew, Atothones, ran a close second, fifty-nine years . During this early period, before Memphis was founded, "The City of a Hundred Gates" spread six square miles over both sides of the Nile . It was also the "City Beautiful," being called by more different glorifying names than any city known to the ancient world . Its widest avenues, lined with sphinxes, temples, palaces and monuments, could accommodate an array of colorful chariots, twenty abreast . It was also "The Two Cities," or "The City of the Living" and "The City of the Dead ." One was on the east side of the river and the other was on the west side . Each vied with the other in a race for magnificence . Palaces and mansions were largely concentrated on the East Bank . Temples, being everywhere, were about as numerous in the "City of the Living" as in the "City of the Dead" on the West Bank where the mortuary temples of kings and queens were located, along with the various religious cults, and houses of priests, craftsmen, soldiers and the masses . The West Bank was such a beehive of industrial, commercial and religious activities that "City of the Dead," even though it refers to its famous burial places, is nevertheless a very misleading name . Thebes' status as the capital city and center of imperial activities rose and declined, with few exceptions, according to the race or nationality of the[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:05am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]ruling dynasty at that time . Being the center of black power, it was a main object for destruction by non-African invaders and, after they had achieved control, they established new capitals elsewhere . The importance of the city that had been the envy of the world was ignored, and many of its cultural activities were transferred elsewhere . No white pharaoh could feel either comfortable or safe in the center of one of the most heavily populated areas of Blacks in the empire . The colored Egyptians generally felt the same way . Thebes was also eclipsed at times by the bulding programs of Black kings in their drive to advance from the very old to the very new, and also for the purpose of securing a more effective centralized administration . The building of Memphis was for this purpose . On the other hand, Piankhi and his successors in the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty apparently preferred the capital city of Napata in the deep South over both Thebes and Memphis . Was this because the Holy City of Napata was like Meroe, the one great all-black city that had never been defiled by the conquerors' hands? We may so speculate . It is clear, however, that Thebes reflected the shifts in power more directly, whether or not the shifts were occasioned by internal or external forces . It declined as Memphis rose during the Dynasties I, II, III, IV and V (3100-2345 B.C .) . These were the first five African lineages to rule after the reunification . There was a further decline of Thebes after the Fifth Dynasty, and again for internal reasons of a quite different nature . Suffice it to say that after the period during which there was an active policy of integrating Africans and Asians through the Memphis capital on their dividing line (the border between Upper and Lower Egypt), native kings generally sought to restore to its ancient glory the city so dear to the hearts of the Blacks .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:08am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]Egypt: The Rise and Fall of Black Civilization WE MAY NOW REVIEW AND SUM UP THIS LONG PERIOD, beginning with an outline of some important developments that highlight factors in the rise and fall of the Blacks and a further discussion of those factors . Let us therefore begin at the beginning where some of those misterpretations were simply due to ignorance . This takes us back to the predynastic period of about 4500 B .C., certainly not the beginning, but quite far enough . Many writers refer to the "kingless" periods before centralized states as the rule of nobles, oligarchies or hierarchies, etc . From the beginning, therefore, the Westerners applied Western concepts to quite different African institutions . Later they described the same kind of societies as "chiefless" or, worse, "stateless ." They did not understand the African constitutional system of real self-government by the people through their representatives, the Council of Elders . Nor did they seem to understand that the Chief Elder, or Chief, was also the Chief Priest or that the other elders also had religious functions in connection with their respective clans . During the predynastic period under discussion, they were neither oligarchies nor hierarchies as these terms are understood in the West . In fact, the Western conception of kingship was foreign to traditional Africa . What the West called "king" was, in Africa, the same senior elder who had to be elected and presided at the Council of Elders ; and, then, only if he had had the honor of belonging to a family whose ancestors had either founded the state or had been the most outstanding in[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:14am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]promoting the welfare of the whole people . To such a family the Africans gave permanent leadership status as long as descendent candidates qualified for it . Westerners called this the "royal family ." But, again, the "royal family" concept was unknown to traditional Africa where the chief or "king" was the chief representative of the people before God and man, and at once the personifications of the people's dignity and the instrument for carrying out their will . Much confusion and trouble developed (and still exist) all over the continent because Africans generally accepted Western and Asian expressions without accepting their underlying ideas . Hence, an African king who attempted to be an absolute monarch or "oriental dictator" generally found himself in trouble rather quickly . THE "BLACKOUT" IN REVIEW The conversion of names in Egypt was on such a universal scale that its African origin and character were changed as much as it was humanly possible to do . Small political units or states, which Europeans styled as chiefdoms in other parts of Africa, became nomarchies in Egypt . Since Asians and some Europeans were heavily concentrated in Lower Egypt, it became relatively easy for them to appropriate exclusively for themselves not only the name "Egyptian," but also all achievements by the Blacks in Upper Egypt and the rest of the Ethiopian empire . Holding the seacoasts and thus blocking' African contact with the rest of the world, these "White Egyptians" were able to perpetuate the myth so successfully that even today many remarkable achievements by Blacks elsewhere over the continent are attributed to "Egyptian influence.'' There is something amusing here too . For when they refer to "Egyptian influence" on African institutions they are in fact pointing out black influence on black institutions throughout Africa . No one but a fool would deny Asian and European influence in Egypt and elsewhere in Africa . This is a fact that is obvious, but not more obvious than the nature of that influence as it was discussed in part before . It can be singled out and separated from the basic institutions of the Blacks as easily as we can separate Islam and Christianity form the traditional African religion . Another predynastic situation to keep in mind concerns government in the Two Lands. All Asians had their kings in Lower Egypt and the Blacks had their kings in Upper Egypt . The long drawn-out wars[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:17am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]between the two races were over the unification and control of the Two Lands . These struggles apparently had been going on since the Asian incursions began in prehistoric times . And it was not just the control of all Egypt to the First Cataract that was involved, but unification and rule of the whole Ethiopian empire from the Mediterranean Sea to the very source of the Nile. This great design and all-consuming objective throughout the history of Africa must be understood if, for example, one is to understand why even black pharaohs of Egypt carried the wars into the heartland of their own race, trying to subdue a rebellious Nubia, Wawat or Cush . Southern separatist movements and rebellions spread as Asian influence and integration spread in the North . Viewing the outcome from the long perspective of history, Menes' great victory over the Asians, the union of the white and black lands, and the subsequent policy of trying to promote brotherhood through integration, all this turned out to be not a victory for the Blacks, but the beginning of their ultimate downfall and almost permanent degradation as a people . It has been pointed out that up to the time of Menes' victory over them, the Asians were rather firmly held behind a border line along the 29th parallel . Few were allowed in the all-black regions of Upper Egypt. With unification the situation radically changed in that the gates to the South were now open to people who already held a fourth of the country . The black masses were therefore apprehensive about the new unification policies, and the general hostility to the Asians checked any immediate and widespread infiltrations southward . But time was on the side of the whites whose most commendable attributes are tactful persistence when overt, aggressive action is for the moment inexpedient, and their careful planning for their future generations with what appears to be more interest in the future welfare of their descendants than they are in the living . In Lower Egypt they could bide their time and overcome the triumphant Blacks in many ways. Asian kings in Lower Egypt, now dethroned, still had a direct power over the Blacks through the "New Brotherhood of integration and amalgamation. The African matrilineal system made the Asian route to the African throne easy when compared with the generally patrilineal system of the whites . All the Asian kings had to do, whether in Lower Egypt or on the Asian continent, was to promote the marriage of royal males to the oldest sisters of African kings . The first-born male in such a carriage, though Afro-Asian, would be the number one candidate far the throne .[/b] |
| Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 12:20am On Feb 24, 2012 |
[b]The other event to be awaited with patience was the passing of so many great African leaders and the coming of weaker ones . This was an historic certainty unless cycles of past developments were to be no more . But time seemed slower and longer during the first five dynasties, each of which was characterized by great leaders, a period of seven hundred and fifty-five years . The roll call brings forth names that still resound through the corridors of time : Menes, Athothes, Peribsen, Khasekhem, Imhotep, Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Userkaf, Neferefre, and others who reestablished Ethiopian power as a united empire and held it without a serious challenge for almost a thousand years . During this period, active foreign trade and expanded contacts with other countries were now possible . Internal stability was achieved through a process of increased centralization of power at Memphis and the perfection of the bureaucracy of the vast imperial administration . The state became the chief promoter and inspirer of progress on all fronts : agriculture, industrial development, science, the arts, engineering, massive building programs, mining and shipbulding . The rapid rise and expansion of numerous crafts, each an organized secret society, stimulated the remarkable industrial and building developments . Internal peace and stability provided the opportunity for the outpouring of much dormant native genius, and religion was the chief motivating source . Every craft society had its own patron sub-god (not to be confused with the Supreme God) . It was during this same period that stone was first used in building, hieroglyphic writing was first invented, the great pyramids were built, stone quarrying perfected and expanded and Imhotep became the world's greatest architect and the "Father of Scientific Medicine ." It was seven and a half centuries of the most glorious pages in the history of the black world . There was a concentration of some of the greatest leaders in the Fourth Dynasty, 2613-2494 B .C . Thereafter, fewer and fewer of the great kings appeared to stem the disorganization that was clearly developing near the close of the Sixth Dynasty . The most notable achievement was doubtless the compilation of the Palermo Stone Annals, a work of great historical importance . The Old Kingdom ended with this dynasty . The great wealth of the nation, continued international commerce and internal progress overshadowed the accelerating disintegration in the country . Conflicts between the religious cults battling for more and more political power[/b] |
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