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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 11:32pm On Feb 22, 2012

To be continued,

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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 .
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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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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
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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]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 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]

Politics › Re: Tribalist Statements Credited To One Of Our Founding Fathers- Sardauna by Tochi3(m): 11:52pm On Feb 21, 2012

We are all chasing shadows. Complete waste of time. There is a saying that if you want to solve a problem it is better to start from the begining.

To know the genesis of the problems we are facing today the true knowledge of black history is a good start . It started right from there.

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 11:29pm On Feb 21, 2012

THE MULATTO PROBLEM

To be continued,

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 11:26pm On Feb 21, 2012*

[b]stone, inscriptions on monuments and steel of various kinds; (6) noting

to what race did the invading rulers "from the South" belong, and over

what kind of people did they rule below the First Cataract ; (7) and,

finally, noting the unearthed statues and portraits of kings and queens

of Egypt who were "pure" Africans (unless physical anthropologists now

wish to change their criteria for determining ''race'') . These are a few

guidelines to trace early Egyptians as Black Africans .

The fact of black rulers, however, is not as important as the fact of an

indigenous black population from which they sprang. For these early

Blacks were themselves a great people, excelling on many fronts from a

line of builders so distant in the past that it seems to have extended into

the stone ages . It was a society of scientists, scholars, organized religions

with organized priesthoods, mathematicians, scribes, architects, engineers,

standing armies and generals, stone and brick masons, carpenters,

artists, sculptors, cloth makers, slaves, farmers, teachers, gold and

silversmiths, blacksmiths, and so on, through the widest spectrum of an

advanced society .

Africa as the "Cradle of Civilization" meant exactly that . These Blacks

developed one of the oldest written languages . The Egyptian language

was an African language with later Asiatic influence similar to that of

Arabic or the African language known as Swahili. And it was as totally

destroyed and replaced by a non-indigenous tongue as were other

African creations . Nothing better marked the increasing cleavage

between the Blacks and their "half-brothers" beyond the cataracts than

this linguistic nationalism, the refusal of the retreating Blacks to use the

Asianized Egyptian tongue .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 11:24pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]and tallest building on earth until modern times . It was built during the

reign of Khufu, 2590-67 B .C .

Khufu's nephew, Khafre, carried on and built the second Great

Pyramid . But he went farther . He built the Great Sphinx and, as though

he intended to settle the question of his racial identity for all ages to

come, he had his African features so boldly and clearly carved into a

portrait statue that not even a fool could seriously doubt that his mighty

monarch was a "Negro ." He was therefore among the first to break with

the classical Caucasoid stereotypes in Egyptian portraits .

Having determined what periods Africans were referred to as

"Thinites," "Memphites," "Thebans," "Cushites," "Libyans," "Ethiopians,"

"Nubians," etc ., a major problem in African history was near

solution . Some of the disguising masks were thus removed . But much

still remained to be done in developing guidelines to identification

because the work of effacing the black man's role in world history was so

thoroughly done over for so many centuries that it is amazing how so

universal a concensus was reached by Caucasian writers in almost every

age.

Yet it should have occurred to some of these writers that painstaking

research would later reveal all that they had tried to conceal about black

civilization builders . I must repeatedly point out that some of the bias is

not deliberate, but often so deeply rooted that the white scholar is

totally unaware of it . One of these, for example, was Sir Flinders W .M.

Petrie, one of the greatest archaeologist-historians of Egypt . He tried so

hard to be scientifically "objective." Yet when he unearthed a famous

king or queen who was unmistakably "Negro," he seemed to be quite

puzzled. But, like most of his fellow investigators, some of his best

thinking was set in motion for a "rational" explanation . Thus the find of

Sneferu's black queen, Mertitefs, indicated that the "royal wife might be

of an inferior race and not of the `high type .'"

But the guildelines I found useful in identifying "who was who" are :

(1) Knowing the terms used when referring to early Africans ; (2) noting

rulers whom the writers concede to be Africans or "persons with

marked `Negroid' features" and tracing this line to succeeding dynasties,

i .e ., the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc . ; (3) noting what kings or queens in later

dynasties claimed an African ruler of an earlier period as their ancestor,

and, accordingly, venerated and "worshipped" ; (4) similarly, what kings

and queens took the name of ancient black rulers and built temples and

monuments to perpetuate their memory ; (5) noting the evidence in[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 11:18pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]It was the beginning of a new era in the history of the Blacks when an

Ethiopian king turned the course of the Nile river by building a great

dam at the border between Upper and Lower Egypt for the site of the

new capital that was to bear his name .

For generations Memphis was almost entirely an all-African city, with

white Asian villages slowly growing up around the outskirts . For the

Asians were a very smart and very cunning people . Once conquered,

they feigned complete and humble acceptance of African rule . Far from

showing the slightest signs of any feeling of racial superiority, they were

such masters of the art of dissembling that they could hoodwink the

Africans, often under the guise of brotherhood, by capitalizing on their

often dark complexions, similar institutions, intermarriages, and mixing

with the black population, generally, as far as possible . That all this was

the direct route to repeated Asian ascendency on the continent few

Africans seemed to see . For they were, as a race, too ready to forgive and

forget past evils committed by foreigners ; whereas, on the other hand, a

fellow African tribe could easily become a "traditional enemy" and

continue as such for so many generations that no one could remember

what the original quarrel was all about!

The Blacks, then, were apparently unconcerned about the Asian

villages springing up just outside of Memphis, the largest one rapidly

developing across the river on the right bank . This community was to

become the Asian city of Fostat that would challenge the supremacy of

the capital city and eventually help to change its African character and

cause its final destruction . Yet what I have just stated so briefly occurred

only after nearly three thousand years of glorious history . It remained

the capital and one of the greatest cities of Egypt and the world, from

the First to the Twentieth Dynasty when it yielded to Thebes again . But

it was still a great city when Alexander the Great arrived in 332 B .C. Its

death-knell was sounded only when Arab tribes overran the land and

Cairo rose to overshadow it .

The Second and Third Dynasties were also African ; most writers will

not flatly state this . They generally designate these dynasties as "Thinite,"

"Memphite" or "Followers of Seth ." One has to know that the First

Dynasty was African and "Memphite" or "Thinite," so called after the

name of their sacred city Thinis, and the cults of Seth and Amon were,

African. That the Fourth Dynasty was indigenous is equally clear . These

were the chief pyramid builders, the Great Pyramid being the largest[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 10:56pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]accepted "Caucasoid" features in the conventional style of royal portraits

all furthered the great deception .

There was also the external influence on early African speech and

writing in Egypt . As more and more Asians moved into Upper Egypt

after the unification of the "Two Lands," the mingling of the two

peoples not only produced a new breed of Egyptians, but also an

increasingly Afro-Asian language and writing system that differed

markedly from the original African writing as it was developed below

the First Cataract .

Developments in Asia and Europe one and two thousand years after

the "golden age" of black civilization helped to obscure that civilization

or paint it over as an entirely Euroasian achievement . Our task is to

begin the removal of this false encrustation, hardened as it is by two

thousand years of unchallenged growth . The time continuum in the

history of the Blacks is highly important in reference' to the state of

civilization in the lands from which the invading groups came during the

first thousand years of black ascendency in Egypt and Southern Ethiopia

(the Sudan) . The record is quite clear that the incursive groups were

largely tent-dwelling nomads . They had no tradition of great cities with

imposing temples, obelisks, pyramids or, indeed, stone masonry at all .

In particular, one should note the number of centuries after Thebes and

Memphis before their ancient cities were founded :

Nowe (Thebes) Prehistory

Memphis 3100 B.C.

Rome (Village) 1000 B.C.

Rome (Town) 250 B .C .

Athens (Village) 1200 B .C .

Athens (City) 360 B.C .

Antioch 400 B .C .

Jerusalem 1400 B .C.

Babylon 2100 B .C.

In short, what great contributions did these roaming nomads have to

make to an already highly developed black civilization? Since even

Jerusalem was not in existence, what people in Lower Egypt came from

a country with a city as great as Thebes or Memphis?[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 10:52pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]also called Hikuptah, or the "Mansion of the Soul of Ptah," the godprotector

of the city . From the Greek "Aigyptos" Memphis became

Egypt, and Egypt became the name of the "Two Lands," extending from

the Mediterranean to the First Cataract .

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 millenium 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 of black civilization .

The "curse" referred to above concerns the amazing success of

modern writers in so blotting out, obscuring or reinterpreting the earlier

writers on Africa so that the actual role of the Blacks in their own land

was practically erased from memory . Their strategy of silence worked,

and it must have worked more successfully than they could have

dreamed. The Great Silence even fell over the monumental fact that

the Blacks themselves started the whole dynastic system in Egypt about

3100 B.C. and that the great civilization of world acclaim developed

after these black regimes began . Greek and Arabic names and the[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 10:42pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]and the division of the country into "Two Lands"-one predominantly

Asian and the other African-marked the first great stage of the

unending pressures that steadily forced the Blacks from the northern

areas . But for countless centuries the greater region was held by the

Blacks . This was the southern region called "Upper Egypt ."

It seems quite clear that this see-saw conflict between Africans and

Asians covered centuries back into prehistory, just as it was to continue

intermittently for nearly five thousand years after Menes. Indeed, the

Zanzibar Revolution and the purely racial conflict in the Sudan are

simply a present-day continuity of the ancient struggle between the

invaders and the invaded .

After the Asian North was subdued, the African capital city was

moved from Nekheb in the South to the North where the "Two Lands"

met. Here astride what had been the boundary, the "Eternal City" of

Memphis was built, named for the king, and, like Thebes, became the

focal point of black power and one of the chief centers of African

civilization . In completing the building of Memphis, Menes's nephew

apparently believed that he was making the final settlement of the

Asian problem, and that this capital city would stand forever . The

massive fortification system built to control the Asians stood for centuries .

The Africans' literal belief in immortality was reflected in their building

and burial arrangements . The early three-chambered, brick mastabas

foreshadowed the later pyramids that were to surround the city like

watchmen and form a line of march from there into the Giza desert .

During one of the longest reigns in history, Menes brought about the

kind of stability and innovations in administration that not only provided

a solid foundation for a first dynasty, but also the economic and social

conditions necessary for the more uniform expansion of religion, the

arts, crafts and the mathematical sciences . Here, too, is where Mesopotamia,

Palestine and Greece, although not as advanced, may have made

cultural contributions to the Africans and received much from them in

return .

THE "EXTERNAL INFLUENCE" MYTH

The Greek contribution was the greatest . It was accidental, one of

those accidents of history that turns out to be highly important . In this

case the Greeks unwittingly applied the second name of the City of

Menes (Memphis), "Aigyptos" to the whole country . For Memphis was[/b]

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[b]What actually happened in prehistoric times, however, was on such a

grand scale over long periods of time that even patterns of unwritten

history became clear and understandable : The Asians and Europeans

were entering in increasing numbers and pushing the Africans farther

and farther away from the Mediterranean, pushing them farther and

farther towards what became "Africa South of the Sahara" ; but the

Africans had taken their first firm stand within their Egypt, making it

"Two Lands," exactly as the Sudan is "Two Lands" today with the

Arabs and Colored Arabs in the North and Africans in the South . And

also for exactly the same reason : to escape white oppression . And the

Sudanese Blacks concentrated in the South for the same ancient reason :

To escape white and colored oppression .

We are in the period of ancient history . The records of the times are

unmistakable and the evidence is clear only when the archaeologists

have done their work well . In no area of the world have they been more

successful than in Egypt. It was the science of archaeology, along with

ancient historical records, that supported my viewpoint that the Africans,

while being either subjugated or pushed southwards, fought back in a

long series of wars to regain their ancient homeland along the

Mediterranean . As early as the end of the fourth millenium B.C ., and

even before the First Dynasty in Egypt, there are records of a great

African victory over the Asians in the north . The Blacks had established

their Egyptian capital at Nekheb . The royal palace was just across the

river at Nekheb . Thebes and Napata continued to be the cultural

centers of the black world .

As the historic period opened in Egypt, it appeared that the Africans

were retaking the whole of their country . The Palermo Stone records .

victory after victory over the Asians. Finally, the great triumph came

when African king Menes defeated the Asians decisively and united all

Egypt under African rule again, beginning the historic First Dynasty .

Historians of ancient Egypt would do well to pause and ponder longer

over the question of the "Two Lands ." Those who are interested in the

truth about the black man's history would be compelled to do so . For the

most significant part of the black African's history developed in Egypt,
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Notes

2. Reference is made to the palettes and maceheads found at Hierakonopolis

3. There was in fact no "Egypt" before Menes built Memphis .[/b]

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[b]scheme of weakening the Blacks by turning their half-white brothers

against them cannot be overemphasized because it began in the early

times and it became the universal practice of whites, and is still one of

the cornerstones in the edifice of white power . The white Asians were

generally very proud of their sons by black women . But these black

mothers remained slaves, while their mulatto sons and daughters were

born free and, moreover, classified as "white ."' As such, they formed a

social class that, while never recognized as equal with the "real whites,"

had just about all the other privileges of free men .

The picture was generally the same from about 4,000 B.C. onward .'

In the Asian-held areas in the north, the Blacks had hard choices to

make. As elsewhere on the continent, they had the choice of remaining

in their homeland and being reduced to the status of servants and

slaves; or if they were well-to-do members of the professional classes,

architects, engineers or skilled craftsmen, they could remain, become

integrated in Asian society, be classified as "white" and even hold high

positions ; or, finally, they could reject integration into Asian culture and

migrate southwards . This the great majority did . It is therefore not

without significance that even today a number of African tribes four

thousand miles south from Egypt still claim it as their ancestral homeland.

There were Blacks who neither fled before the Asian advance nor

submitted to enslavement . These, also rejecting amalgamation as the

process of transforming the race, stood their ground fighting back and

were generally wiped out . In short, the Africans held Upper Egypt

(South) while the Asiatics held Lower Egypt (North) .

Kurt Sethe, in attempting to reconstruct the prehistory of Egypt,

concluded that the division of the country between Africans in the

south and Asiatics in the north was due mostly to a split over religion .

According to this view, the Africans refused to accept the cult of Horus

that dominated the Nile delta . They, therefore, formed a "second

nation" in Upper Egypt and established their national religious shrines

at Omnos, Thebes, Thines and Napata . Other scholars insisted that the

"Two Lands" meant that the Africans had simply separated themselves

from the Asians . These, unlike Sethe, do not inquire about the reasons .
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Notes

1. Note that throughout this work I refer to time spans of 6,000 years,

5,000 years, 4,000 years, 3,000 etc . The variations depend on the time

span of the developments under discussion .[/b]

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[b]Ethiopia's
Oldest Daughter: Egypt

THE GREAT DECEPTION

EGYPT, AS POINTED OUT BEFORE, WAS THE NORTH-EASTERN

region of ancient Ethiopia . The six cataracts of the Nile were the great

watermarks in the heartland of the Blacks from whence African culture

spread over the continent, but nowhere was it pronounced as in Egypt .

This northern sector of the Ethiopian empire had been the object of

world attention from the earliest times . The fact was that it was in the

center of the crossroads from all directions leading into Africa from Asia

and Europe . This also explains how the Asians came to occupy and

control a fourth of Egypt (Lower Egypt) before the unification of the

"Two Lands" in the third millenium B .C. With the relentless spread of

the desert and the attending scarcity of arable land, there was a heavier

concentration of Africans in the Nile delta and valley, the areas with the

richest soil in the empire . The great agricultural system that was

developed along the overflowing Nile was one of the sources of the

wealth to support the great cultural advances . The other was the gold

mines below the First Cataract. This was also the magnet that drew

Caucasian peoples from many lands . As these increased in number and

variety, the undermining of black power was accelerated .

The melting pot of the races began around the northern perimeter .

The end result was always the same : The Blacks were pushed to the

bottom of the social, economic and political ladder whenever and

wherever the Asians and their mulatto offsprings gained control . This[/b]

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[b]Asians hold all of their seacoasts and have them cut off from the world

and its trade .

6. Finally, the whole of Africa could, with a few exceptions, be

progressively taken over simply by picking off one small state after

another . For the overall pattern of the continent is one of countless

small independent groups, each for itself and itself alone . There is no

unity among them, even for a common defense. Since it is the first duty

of each chief to protect his people, all seem to be too proud to seek unity

with other chiefs, thinking this might indicate a sign of weakness and

itself invite attack .

Therefore, it could have been truthfully reported to either Asia or

Europe any time during the last thousand years that the widespread

segmentation and attending disunity among the Africans made them

easy to conquer and dominate .

Some of these six hypothetical items would be valid as conclusions

regarding a general situation only after the widespread collapse of

strong African states, when small splinter states spread over the continent

like an epidemic . But, as we shall see, the united resistance of the Blacks

to white Asian invasions had been going on before recorded history

began ; and, despite all the segmentations and endless invasions from

the north, south, east and west, there were black nations that kept up

the resistance of five thousand years right down into the 20th century .

We shall review some of these in the chapters which follow .[/b]

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[b]African identity psychologically, they were forced to change their names

to Arabic and Christian names . Henceforth, if these Black Emils, Johns,

Muhammads, Samuels, and Abdullahs happened to achieve greatness

in some field, the assumption would be that it was Caucasian achievement,

unless a special effort was made to identify the race of the persons

in question . Blacks at home in Africa and Blacks scattered over the

world bore the names of their enslavers and oppressors, the ultimate in

self-effacement that promoted a self-hatred which made pride in the

race difficult . That these psychological shackles still handicap not only

the rebirth of modern African states, but also Blacks everywhere,

should he obvious to all .

Finally, there were the invaders who apparently disdained the cloak

of deception and came in fighting . They had no problems . They knew

in advance that they would find the Africans, almost everywhere,

unprepared to defend themselves against a well-organized, well-trained

body of men, no matter how small . This situation developed as splinter,

independent little states became more and more numerous . The use of

secret agents seems to be as old as organized states ; for the practice of

sending spies as goodwill ambassadors, traders, etc ., well in advance

into a country to be invaded, goes far back into antiquity . Those sent

into Africa from various lands could report back that :

1 . The Africans were largely a peaceful people engaged in agriculture,

mining trades, fishing, the arts, crafts of various kinds and manufacturing

such things as pottery, furniture, building materials, boats, weapons of

war, etc .

2. These settled states and their generally highly developed social

and political systems indicate their advanced civilization .

3. But they were ill-prepared for war, except against their neighbors,

who also use the kind of spears, bows and arrows which we had

abandoned long since .

4. In general, they have no swiftly moving, mounted soldiers . One

hundred of our dashing calvarymen with fire-power could put 10,000 of

them to flight.

5 . They are a secretive people . For while they are fully aware of the

great mineral wealth of the continent, they use it in a very limited way,

mainly for personal adornment, and have no desire to open up to

foreigners for world commerce that would greatly benefit them .

Accordingly, they rigidly limit their trading activities, but mainly because[/b]

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[b]was not always due to any opposition to slavery, but to this kind of

direct action which bypassed the chiefs and thereby eliminated their

profits .

THE CONQUEST OF
THE BLACKS BY RELIGION

Other invaders found penetration easy under the banners of religion .

Full advantage was taken of the fact that Africans are a very religious

people . First came the Crescent flag of the Prophet . The Islamic advance

was three-pronged : proselytizing missions claiming one brotherhood ;

widespread intermarriages and concubinage with African women, due

to the Muslim system of polygamy ; and forceful conversions at sword

point . The Cross of Jesus Christ followed the Muslim Crescent . The

cloak of Christianity was a most convenient hiding place for those who

had other designs . Hence, the drive to convert . Conversion here meant

far more than conversion to Christianity . As in the case of Islam, it

meant change into the white man's image, his ideas and value system .

The real object of worship turned out to be neither Jesus Christ nor His

Father, God, but Western man and Western civilization . Christian

brotherhood? Well, eh, yes! In principle . Or, to be practical, you Blacks

can have all the Christian brotherhood you desire-among yourselves .

Apartheid was Africa-wide under colonialism, and not a peculiarity of

the South African system as so many are led to think .'

But what happened in the process of converting the Blacks to Islam

and Christianity was the supreme triumph of the white world over the

black . Millions of Africans became non-Africans . Africans who were

neither Muslims nor Christians were classed as "pagans" and therefore

required to disavow their whole culture and to regard practically all

African institutions as "backward" or savage . The Blacks in their own

right became non-persons, members of a race of nobodies, so hopeless

that self-realization as personalities, even in a subordinate status, could

only be achieved by becoming Muslims or Christians . Indeed, in order

to destroy completely not only their African heritage, but also their very
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1 . There were, however, numerous chiefs who not only opposed

slavery, but fought against it to the death =literally . Some were encircled

and with their whole people died fighting the enslaver to the end .

2. The pattern of continent-wide segregated communities can be seen

even today in independent African states .[/b]

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[b]keeping in touch with their homeland and the trade countries farther

away. Black Africa was thus hemmed in and effectively cut off,

commercially and otherwise, from the rest of the world .

The techniques of penetration and dominance were varied . Some

came as peaceful traders and, doubtless, trade was all that was intended

by many . Africans were always eager traders . The main attraction of

foreign traders was that they brought in many new kinds of commodities.

These traders had little or no trouble in gaining coastal footholds as

trading posts . The land was not sold, but leased . However, the Blacks

had what the world wanted most : gold, diamonds, ivory, copper, iron

ore and, themselves.

The "trading posts" soon became strong fortifications around which

villages and towns sprang up as settlers from Asia poured in and armed

forces became organized . The Africans watched these developments

with increasing apprehension, for the "traders" were often armed with

superior and different types of weapons of war and spent much time in

training recruits, including Africans . Indeed, in some areas a definite

pattern emerged : an all-African army under Asian officers (a pattern to

be followed later by the Europeans) .

This was easy enough for the Arabs . They owned the captured

Africans who made up their fighting forces . The Africans could blame

only themselves for this . Here, as in certain other things, they were still

engaged in practices which, while once universal, had long since been

dying out or generally abandoned by the rest of the world . This one was

the enslavement of captured prisoners of war . When African chiefs and

kings began to sell these to slave-hungry Arabs, they set in motion a

chain of events that was to undermine the civilizations of the most

advanced societies on the continent, further checking their progress and

degrading their whole race for another two thousand years . When the

sale of their fellows became the chief source of wealth, African leaders

became increasingly estranged from the finest thing in African life, the

sense of community and of kinship with all who would be friends . When

Freed severed the traditional ties of brotherhood, the gradual movement

of the invaders from the coastal areas inland became relatively easy .

Blacks against Blacks with increasing suspicion and hatred may be

traced to the Africans' own slave raids . The inland raids for slaves were

resisted by some chiefs and the raiders were attacked . But this opposition[/b]

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[b]national community among the various language groups that make up

the country . This is so important that it cannot be left to wishful

thinking or chance . It must be programmed in such a way that a sense of

loyalty and of being an important part of a great united brothersisterhood,

which is the nation itself, will develop naturally and allow (4)

a strong army for defense, and (5) the reign of law and justice to apply

equally to all classes in the society . The people must feel absolutely

secure as individuals, that in their country there is equal justice for all .

In short, certain conditions in a country can bring about that internal

peace, stability, and confidence which unshackle the mind . There is

now time to think . No more trekking with bleeding feet for hundreds of

miles across rocky deserts . No more seeing your kinsmen fall out to

welcome death along the way . A home at last, better farms, plenty of

food . And now . . . time to think .

There is nothing mystical about the reasons why one group of people

can easily become physically and mentally strong while another becomes

physically weak and less mentally alert . An abundance of nutritious

food and pure drinking water may spell the difference between advance

and decay . The number of death-dealing diseases developing from malnutrition

alone is alarming . But what should be stressed above everything

else is that millions of babies may become both physically and mentally

retarded by disease while in their mother's wombs-which is another

way of saying that a people wholly ignorant or indifferent to basic health

can themselves become inferior in fact . But even this central fact, when

fully realized, will still remain in the field of mere discussion until Blacks

everywhere begin mass organization for mass education for the masses .

The system is so structured, worldwide, that Blacks are forced into

conditions that can even lead to genetic inferiority . There must be a

breakthrough or there will be gradual extinction . This is the final precondition

for survival and advancement .

Your attention is called again to the map of Africa, for it is very

significant where the earliest invaders entered and permanently settled .

They took over the areas of trade that allowed easy contact with their

homeland and the other nations of the world . This is a point that

simply cannot be overstressed in considering the plight of the African

people . In the north they settled around the Meditteranean, thereby

maintaining contact with Europe and Asia . In the northeast, east, and

south, they settled along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, thereby[/b]

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[b]everywhere the offspring of distress, privation, hunger and malnutrition .

It spread over the land as advance scouts for death . Over half of Africa's

babies were either born dead or died soon after birth . Old age was

between forty and fifty years . Three-fourths of the people, as even

today, are still weakened by malnutrition and malarial water, and a

number of diseases that are largely traceable to these two causes :

beriberi, pellagra, scurvy and even leprosy . The scourge of childhood is

Kwaskiokor, or malignant malnutrition .

This accelerated depopulation of the black man's countries resulting

from the nature of soil and climate, mass enslavement, deaths in

resisting slavery, wars of conquest, intertribal conflicts, exhaustions

from endless flights and migrations and ever-present disease-all this

reduced the Black population by three-fourths! Under reasonable,

favorable conditions, the African population today would he four times

its present number . And when it is pointed out that three-fourths of the

people today are still weakened by malaria and malnutrition, reference

is made to the one-fourth of the people who survived in spite of it all .

How, then, were the Blacks able to battle invading enemies from one

end of the continent to the other for several thousand years? True, they

were overcome in the end, but what sustained them through all those

centuries of struggle on so many different fronts and against so many

different kinds of enemies? Weakened so generally by both disease and

what became perpetual hunger, whence came their strength and courage

to carry on? It may well he that the answers lie in the death-defying

pyramids they built in Egypt when the land was theirs .

PRE-CONDITIONS FOR PROGRESS

THERE MUST BE A NUMBER OF PRE-CONDITIONS WITHOUT

which the genius of any people for thinking, inventing, discovering and

building will be inhibited or eventually die under extreme circumstances.

A few of these pre-conditions for progress are : (1) The people must

become famine-free and able to settle down and end their perennial

roaming from place to place in search of food and water . (2) Finding

suitable territory, the leaders must proceed, through negotiations with

other neighboring societies and fragmented groups, to nation-building .

(3) A crucial pre-condition : There must be developed a sense of[/b]

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[b]not to have been known or fully appreciated . In treeless and grassless

areas the periodic rains evaporate into non-water-holding earth . One

may travel hundreds of miles over regions of this kind without finding a

single stream . All rivers and streams have disappeared like the raindrops

in the sand . Because of the same physical characteristics of the

land previously discussed, irrigation was extremely difficult, and in most

places impossible, outside of Egypt .

We have spoken so much about African deserts of sand and rocks

that one might be misled into thinking that it was this kind of land alone

that could not support a population . But there were vast non-desert

areas of hard red and red-brown soil that had been leached by heavy

rainfall, robbed of its essential elements for vegetation (such as calcium

and phosphorus), and, of course, its once rich humus of top-soil . This

continuous weathering was obviously destructive . The soil problem was

further aggravated by having underneath floors of hard laterite elements,

just as though there was a master plan to guarantee that this soil would

not hold any water . Therefore, the problem involved far more than

restoring top-soil and a land conservation program to prevent erosion,

because the hard floor underneath drained away the rainfall as fast as it

reached that level . "No corner or scrap of land in Africa has escaped

hunger," says Josue de Castro in his Geography of Hunger . "This is a

continent of the starving, all of it . And in hunger and chronic

malnutrition may be found one of the most decisive reasons for the

backwardness of Africa, for the relative stagnation and lassitude of the

greater part of its people ."

But the "Garden of Eden" areas must not be overlooked when we are

considering the general, overall conditions . These are areas which,

while not comparable to the rich flood plains of the Nile valley and

Delta, have unfertilized soil that nevertheless produce a surprisingly

rapid growth of abundant vegetation and a heavy concentration of

animal and bird life . These are the areas where fruits and nuts of many

varieties grow in abundance without the aid of man . Without these

areas of salvation here and there over the continent, along with pastoral

grazing land, the Blacks as a race would have doubtlessly perished from

the earth .

They almost did . The trend once seemed to be definitely in the

direction of extinction . Even if we dismiss accounts of planned mass

extermination by their enemies as "unreliable," too many other threats

to survival remained to darken every ray of hope . Disease was[/b]

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[b]their mothers-African . When these later became known as Egyptians

in Egypt, Moors in Morocco and Mauretanians or Carthaginians in

Carthage (Tunis), great care was taken to distinguish them from Africans

in daily intercourse, in paintings and in documentary literature. This

"New Breed," half-African, was to join with their Asian fathers and

forefathers in the wars and enslaving raids against the Blacks that went

on century after century until all North Africa was eventually taken .

Still another fateful geographical factor that favored the invaders has

been implied or partly stated in the foregoing observations . Aside from

the easy occupation of the lowlands of the seacoast and the gradual

taking-over of the rich lands of the Nile valley and its ancient civilization,

both Asians and Europeans found the highlands of southern and

eastern Africa "more pleasant and healthy for Caucasian settlement ."

This meant that even after nature had damned three-fourths of the

continent's land mass as impossible to support human life, the Asians

and Europeans came in to seize and hold the best of the one-fourth that

was left . The Blacks found themselves cut off from all seacoasts that

then mattered, hemmed in from all directions, and confined within

narrower and narrower limits . Thus they became a wandering people,

forever migrating in their own vast homeland, fragmenting from great

united nations into countless little splinter societies, becoming so isolated

from each other that each formed a new language of its own, considering

themselves quite different from their original brothers who were then

regarded as strangers and enemies in the endless tribal wars that ensued

over the inhabitable land . The land over which these struggles took

place varied in different regions . So did the climate that so greatly

affected it ; the people, and even some of their institutions, varied under

environmental influences . The land mass in the eastern regions, for

example, has been undergoing a vertical movement of elevation, a

sinking and leveling process occasioned by the atmosphere and

weathering since Miocene times . Geologists trace the elevation of the

mountains in the area, including Kilimanjaro, and the faulting and

fracturing that created the Great Rift, to early volcanic activity .

In the arid and semi-arid regions there are vast stretches of desolate

land which were not made so by nature alone . For, like the Sahara itself,

much of it was once woodland where animal life flourished and streams

flowed . Man played the leading role in this destruction by the use of fire

in his shifting farm methods. Animals also helped in the process . The

relation of green grass and forest to climate and climate to rainfall seems[/b]

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[b]the sea does it overflow to further enrich 13,500 square miles of already

fertile soil in Egypt! For its 3,377 miles through the heart of Black Africa,

the Nile sank as it cut deep canyons in its soft limestone floor, leaving

cliffs at places from a few hundred to a thousand feet high . What this

means is that for over 3,000 miles through the eastern side of the

continent the Nile was collecting the rich soil carried to it by the heavy

rains and a thousand tributary streams . These flow into the "Mother of

Rivers" add to the enrichment of its waters flowing northward,

"guarded" all the way by her deep channels until it reaches the hard

sandstone bottom above Assuan and then begins its periodic overflow

the rest of the way to the sea! Here, a natural phenomenon cheated the

Africans in a big way that was to have dire consequences . There could

be no black ''Daughter of the Nile'', observed Parsons in his Streams of

History . For the Nile, in making Upper Ethiopia (Egypt) so rich in food

production that it became world famous not only as the "Bread Basket

of the World," but also for its highly advanced civilization, stirred the

envy of Asia and Europe-from which continents migrants began to

settle .

Even in this, the physical geography of Africa was favorable to the

"peaceful" settlers who later were to become its conquerors and rulers ;

for the seacost is lowland everywhere, not more than 500 feet above sea

level, and remains lowland 500 miles inland . Asian and European

occupation of the sea coasts of North Africa and East Africa was,

therefore, relatively easy, and probably even welcomed at first by the

Blacks as co-partners in world trade . But the poor and hungry nomads

from the vast desert areas of the Middle East poured into the most

fertile and easily accessible areas of this other land of deserts that is

North Africa .

There were several consequences of the greatest historical importance

which are generally not sufficiently stressed . The first was that both the

Saharan transformation and the steady incursion of Asians pressured

more and more Blacks back into the interior to concentrate in the

already limited survival areas where just to subsist was a daily struggle .

The second important result was the wide-spread amalgamation of the

races. For the weaker, more submissive Blacks remained in Asian occupied

territory to become slave laborers and slave soldiers, . and to

witness a ruthless sexual traffic in Black women that gave rise to a new

breed of Afro-Asians . These were classed as Caucasians or Asians .

They themselves bitterly objected to being identified with the race of[/b]

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[b]had sunk to the lowest levels of dog-eat-dog existence . These last are the

people about whom European and American authors delight to write .

No cartoons are better known than those showing a sweating white man

(usually an explorer or missionary) being cooked in a huge black pot,

while black savages dance around with human bones decorating their

heads or stuck through pierced noses . The idea these "experts" on

Africa have been planting, and still actively plant, in the minds of the

peoples of the world is that "This is Africa, and these are the savages

who are now clamoring for independence!"

NATURE JOINS THE ATTACK

The question of physiology, vegetation, climate, water, and soil are all

more crucial in the history of the Blacks than they are in the case of any

other people . For here a whole continent is involved, and on that

continent a people who, in one period of time, were among the

foremost people on earth, and in a later period, the farthest behind .

Nature itself set an environmental stage in a manner and under

conditions which appear to have been designed to test to the utmost

one race's moral, intellectual and physical powers to override all obstacles

to survival .

The slow but relentlessly steady withdrawal of inhabitable land over

the centuries eventually left Africa a land of desolation, a wasteland, the

greater part of which was desert and treeless grassland with only a

fractional part, about ten percent, with the much needed forests and

thickets . Even the continental land configuration was against its native

inhabitants . Like a vast inclined plane, the highlands, beginning in

Central Africa at 3,000 feat above sea level, rose southward to higher

and higher levels, reaching the highest level of 15,000 feet in the southeastern

provinces of the ancient Ethiopian empire. This caused Africa to

slope northward and its principle, the Nile in particular, to flow in the

same direction . This single circumstance cause the Blacks to lose the

very earliest centers of their civilization and the heartland of the race-

Egypt and the southern area that was later called the Sudan (or Land of

the Blacks, just as though Egypt itself was not also formerly the ''Land of

the Blacks'') . For the greatest of their rivers, the Nile, played still another

tragic joke on its people . This river, the longest in the world, flows 4,127

miles across Africa from Lake Nyanza to the Mediterranean . Yet not

until it reaches Assuan (Aswan) and begins its last stretch of 750 miles to[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 9:06pm On Feb 21, 2012*

[b]Insofar as those who were fortunate enough to find promising areas

for settlement are concerned, the picture was generally one of state building

and the revival of basic African institutions which, though not

forgotten, could neither be maintained nor developed by any people

forever on the move .

But what about the countless societies, fleeing before the conquering

hordes and the enslavers, as well as famine and the deaths which were

their daily companion ; what about those who found no Promised Land

anywhere? For quite unlike the societies I mentioned that could settle

down and had the opportunity to start and develop civilizations

comparable to any elsewhere in the world at the time, these people

could neither settle down nor, therefore, develop a civilization . What

they suffered from year to year as they wandered over the continent is

almost beyond both description and belief . In fact, while the story is

well-known, few writers would want to go into its awful details . Suffice

to say at this point that, here, then, were numerous societies of Africans

that were virtually sentenced either to death from starvation or

enslavement by Arabs (I am still in the pre-European period) or

barbarism and savagery and, in many cases, even cannibalism .

Under such conditions I would defend not only the retrogression of

these people to barbarism, but to cannibalism itself . The defense of the

latter is easy, since it has been well-established that other supposedly

highly civilized men will revert to savagery and cannibalism under prolonged

conditions of extreme hunger and thirst, when survival itself was

the only question that dominates the human mind . This phenomenon

of reverting to a state of savagery and even cannibalism under extreme

conditions of starvation is known to occur universally among various

peoples-white, black, brown, red, or yellow .

The facts we have, then, show that after they lost Egypt and the

Eastern Sudan, some Africans, overriding all adverse conditions, grouped

themselves to form nations and developed a high order of civilization

independent of any external influences . Others never settled anywhere

long enough to develop anything notable, but seemed to remain in a

state of lethargy or suspended animation . They had surrendered to fate

and became too weak to fight hack . They descended to a state of semibarbarism.

''Descended,'' because most of these societies had known

better times and a higher order of life . Some in more favorable circumstances,

nevertheless, failed to advance . Still others were in the class

discussed in connection with cannibalism-hunger-crazed people who[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 9:00pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]and larger chiefdoms, kingdoms, and finally empires that began the

rebirth of their long lost civilization .

The fiercest wars between the Blacks occurred in the founding and

expansion of new kingdoms and empires . For while the core groups

were voluntary confederations, expansion of an empire required the

conquest of neighboring states, usually small, independent chiefdoms,

that preferred to maintain their absolute sovereignty . The repercussions

from this forced unity by conquest were to shake the continent from

end to end centuries later when European political rule ended .

Modern Africans and students of Africa have tended to emphasize

the destructive impact of European imperialism in Africa while ignoring

the most damaging developments from the Arab impact before the

general European takeover in the last quarter of the nineteenth century,

a relatively recent period . This point is important. For one of the most

remarkable chapters in the history of the Blacks is that dealing with

those dauntless leaders and people who, having lost one state after

another along with three-fourths of their kinsmen, nevertheless overrode

all the forces of destruction and death and began to build, always once

again, still another state . From the earliest times the elimination of these

states as independent African sovereignties had been an Asian objective,

stepped up by Muslim onslaughts after the seventh century A .D . So the

reestablished black states were still being conquered and Islamized

when Europeans began to arrive in great numbers to impose their rule

over both Asians and Africans. The big thing that happened here, to

repeat, is generally glossed over, ignored or forgotten . The last being a

pretension, since a historical development of this magnitude could

hardly be forgotten by serious writers on Africa . For what happened,

very simply, was that European imperialism in Africa checked and

replaced Arab imperialism . The Arab screams against Western imperialism

are the screams of outrage against Western imperialists for checking

and subduing Eastern imperialists in the very midst of the Blacks they

had conquered . There are still countless thousands of Blacks who are

naive enough to believe that the Arabs' bitter attack on Western

colonialism show their common cause with Black Africa .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:56pm On Feb 21, 2012

[b]It was for reasons of security that so many of these groups, later called

tribes or societies, sought the most hidden and isolated areas they could

find . This permanent separation from their kinsmen in other groups

was generally quite contrary to their hearts' desires . The original

splintering off and parting was often done in tears . But breaking up into

smaller units seemed to be the only route to survival in a permanent

crisis situation-apparently permanent, since the movement of people

over the continent had been going on so far beyond the memory of each

generation that migrations and temporary settlements were among the

most significant facts in the oral tradition of each society .

Fragmentation and isolation had two momentous consequences . The

first was that the isolation of various groups led to the development of

over two thousand different dialects and languages . The second fateful

outcome was that the rise of all these tongues widened the gulf between

the Blacks that territorial distances had already achieved . One should

pause here for reflection if there is any serious attempt to really

understand what happened to the African people and why . For even

without the aid of Western writers in emphasizing the language

differences and the cultural variations and attempting to show how

unrelated the Blacks were, they, in time, came to consider themselves

unique with each society not only independent of the other but

independent of its enemy, if only potentially . Disunity and mutual

suspicion became an African way of life . Small chiefdoms sprang up

everywhere, often no more than a village of one or two hundred people .

Africa, therefore, presented itself to Asia and Europe as the ideal land

for exploitation, enslavement and conquest .

The history is complex and many-sided, and would be so if we were

discussing just one nation and not an entire continent . Ths is why our

focus must be on the main lines of development, the African-wide

aspects, and the unmistakable common origin and continent-wide

sameness of basic institutions which these universal aspects reflect .

There were, then, different outcomes for different societies . Some

perished even to the last member from disease, starvation or warfare .

Others, despairing of ever again being able to have a fixed abode,

became nomads . Some, although isolated so long that .they had

developed different languages and customs, had nevertheless decided

that salvation required a union with other groups. These were the tribes

that merged with other tribes, lost their separate identity and languages ;

and who evolved from this process a single common language, larger[/b]

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