You are absolutely right, Egyptians are not âblackâ
However, Iâm assuming that you mean that a successful country/ royal empire could not have possibly been created by black people.
No disrespect to you, but to say that an entire African civilization couldnât have possibly been âblackâ is entirely ignorant and just not true.
Firstly the term âblackâ is an American term that means absolutely nothing within the African continent, as âblackâ is not considered a race nor ethnicity. Itâs simply idiotic to describe an African as just black. So you are right in that sense.
Secondly, âThe Prince of Egyptâ, which I find to be incredibly beautiful and one of the best animated films produced by DreamWorks, was made with a lot of consideration for its truthfulness to a biblical story. An excerpt from a quick google search reveled the production process of the Film below..
âDreamWorks was concerned about theological accuracy, Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to call in Biblical scholars, Christian, Jewish and Muslim theologians, and Arab American leaders to help his film be more accurate and faithful to the original story. After previewing the developing film, all these leaders noted that the studio executives listened and responded to their ideas, and praised the studio for reaching out for comments from outside sourcesâ
âConsideration was given to depicting the ethnicities of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Nubians properlyâ
The illustration of the characters and story was fact checked an supported by actual theologians and historians. Now, thatâs not to say that as centuries have passed, Egyptians were not ethincally mixed. Egypt was susceptible to invasions from foreign nations which included Asia and Europe, specifically the Middle East and the Greeks and Romans. Egyptians have been known to be very racially mixed due to these invasions. However, at one point in time and even in some parts of Egypt today, Egyptians, including royalty, did look this way.
University of Chicago Egyptologist Frank Yurco suggested a historical, regional and ethnolinguistic continuity, asserting that âthe mummies and skeletons of ancient Egyptians indicate they were Africans of the Afro-Asiatic ethnic groupingâ. He writes:
âCertainly there was some foreign admixture [in Egypt], but basically a homogeneous African population had lived in the Nile Valley from ancient to modern times⌠[the] Badarian people, who developed the earliest Predynastic Egyptian culture, already exhibited the mix of North African and Sub-Saharan physical traits that have typified Egyptians ever since (Hassan 1985; Yurco 1989; Trigger 1978; Keita 1990; Brace et al., this volume)⌠The peoples of Egypt, the Sudan, and much of East Africa, Ethiopia and Somalia are now generally regarded as a [Nile Valley] continuity, with widely ranging physical features (complexions light to dark, various hair and craniofacial types) but with powerful common cultural traits, including cattle pastoralist traditions (Trigger 1978; Bard, Snowden, this volume). Language research suggests that this Saharan-[Nile Valley] population became speakers of the Afro-Asiatic languages⌠Semitic was evidently spoken by Saharans who crossed the Red Sea into Arabia and became ancestors of the Semitic speakers there, possibly around 7000 BC⌠In summary we may say that Egypt was a distinct Afro-Asiatic African culture rooted in the Nile Valley and on the Sahara.â
All of this is truly a google search away. Egypt is a fascinating and diverse country with a rich history and culture, please refrain from inserting such ignorant comments that do not show that.
Once again, I mean no disrespect to you, but it bothers me when people donât take the time to understand the history of our world, especially when it comes to Africa.
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