Correcting White Supremacy Distortions

Summary


Upon further examination, Dr. [Jacob H. Carruthers] reveals, "Obviously the emerging doctrine could not gain credibility among those who were familiar with the traditional wisdom among Europeans that the ancient Africans of Egypt had achieved a very high level of civilization and had transmitted to the ancient Greeks many of the major ideas considered a part of Greek civilization."

Through this conceptualization, Dr. Carruthers reveals, "Thus, Hegel took Egypt out of Africa and Africans out of Egypt. He also removed Africans from history."

Egyptologists have literally attempted to remove Egypt from the geographical confines of Africa and reposited it within the geographical domain of Asia, in an area that is even now referred to as the "Middle East." The removal of Egypt from Africa serves a two-fold purpose. First, it leads to the obvious idea that Egypt is not a part of Africa therefore its population could not have been Black. secondly, it serves the purpose of implying that civilization did not begin with the Black race.

See the full content of this document

Extract


Correcting White Supremacy Distortions

Part of our repair in the Reparations Movement is to correct blatant white supremacy distortions of history-Case in point: Egypt Belongs To Africa!

Up until recent years, there had been a scholarly debate...

See the full content of this document

Sponsored links




ver las páginas en versión mobile | web

ver las páginas en versión mobile | web

© Copyright 2012, vLex. All Rights Reserved.

Contents in vLex United States

Explore vLex

For Professionals

For Partners

Company