Re: "Black Studies" bullshit

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keyser Soze) wrote:
>VoiceOfReason <> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:33:34 -0800, "K. Kinte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >4: Cleopatra was black
>
>ROTFLMAO
>
>Cleopatra was white and not even Egyptian of origin;)
>She was daughter of Ptolemy Auletes 

Who was the mother?  Ptolemy's wife or a concubine?  Of what race?  I
don't think it is known.  

>and Macedonian of course.

Would this necessarily mean anything?

>Greeks ruled Egypt since Alexander the great and Cleopatra was just a
>descendant of Alexander's General Ptolemy.PERIOD
>And ofcourse greeks are 100000%white if you like it or not.

http://www.trinicenter.com/kwame/20010615b.htm
>11. The ancient Greeks were a dark people. Sir. Arthur Evans, the
> excavator of the Minoan sites, shocked Western scholars when he
> uncovered this fact in 1894 hidden among the ruins of ancient Crete.
> According Evans:
>The Grecians whom we discern in the new dawn were not pale-skinned
> Northerners, but essentially a dark skinned brown-complexioned race.

http://www.africaonline.com/jive/viewThread.jsp?forum=21&thread=3296
>There was probably no great civilization in the
>world, be it African, European, or Asian, that was entirely pure
>and homogeneous. The great Roman historian Pliny, who first
>saw the Britons in the second century A.D., describes some of
>them as having complexions as dark as the Ethiopian. Claudian,
>reporting the victory of the Roman general, Theodosius, over the
>English, mentions a good number of "nimble-blackamoors"
>among them. The Chinese themselves recorded that there were
>men of black skin among the rulers of the Shang dynasty (1766-
>1100 B.C.). They actually speak of them as Na-Khi (Na in
>Chinese means black and khi means man). Schliemann and
>Evans, who excavated Minoan Crete, also tell us of the black
>skins of many of these Cretans who entered Greece in great
>numbers at an early time. 

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