@everyone ( cancoesdesxbia, arabtrash, washingdumb), stop bein dicks
listen. NOBODY is saying that black and white are the only skin colors. y’all can shut up about that now, cool?
race is a weird thing and ancient race is a even weirder thing. I know a few things but I’m not gonna pass myself off as any sort of expert on this
what I DO know is the claim that native Egyptians would have all been ethnically Arabs is false. I think the contest about calling Egyptians black is that black is being mistaken for African American. No. They are two different concepts. No one is using the word black in an American context
What we can all agree on is that Egyptians were not white. There has obviously been a lot of research and debate on what exactly we can really say they are, and everyone’s best guess appears to be mixed. I really don’t think that any of us can make the claim that they are one specific thing, which is what BOTH sides were trying to do.
Essentially: don’t be a dick about this, don’t be patronizing, don’t make up beliefs for the other side of the argument to hold
Also, something conveniently ignored from the post by the Egyptian person
the purpose of this is not to deny that under US-centric classifications, most ancient egyptians would be considered black*, because they most certainly would and white-washing of ancient egypt is prevalent and harmful*, but to assert that modern egyptians are not a separate ethnicity from their ancestors and that separating “modern” and “ancient” egyptians is equally harmful, and denies egyptians a connection to their own heritage. here are some posts i’ve made to clarify how race works in egypt*
Arab is a cultural term, not an ethnic one. Identification as Arab is based on linguistic, political and cultural influences*, not ethnic ones. Egypt identifies as Arab today due to the arab nationalist movement in the 1950s, which was a response to British colonialism.*
There. You’re welcome. Stop being nasty to each other
