I don't remember anyone who said that the Egyptians, "because of their color", were not capable of constructing the Pyramids.
That's just silly. Gel, in his patented "drop a conversational firecracker and watch the fun" wondered mostly in jest, but with the underlying thread of truthful unease that often accompanies humor, why it was easier for people to believe it was aliens that built the pyramids than the native Egyptians, and posited that maybe it was because the Egyptians were Black Africans. I then responded that I did not think that the builders themselves would have self-identified as "Black Africans", nor even "Egyptians", as skin-color-based "race" as we know it today was not in common use at that time. That self-identification at the time was more tied to "where my family came from" than any physical characteristics. Others chimed in similarly, also adding that they understand that it is modern racial politics that have tried to conflate the various Empires in Egypt into a single racial identity. Because we are all pedants, the thread then broke down into minutia of changing racial identities. Gel then dropped another conversational firecracker, with the "don't get too comfortable with your labels. They _are_ African, and if they aren't _white_, they're _black_". Which, as he intended, kind of set everyone back on their heels to absorb that. It certainly did me. I guess I don't see any superiority implied in any of this. >From my reading of the threads is: the only people who have any rational claim to superiority are the actual people that built the pyramids, since they, in fact, "built the pyramids". On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, trish simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am happy we are able to talk about this. > > I am not an expert on racial relations, but I have spent many hours > listening to stories of discrimination, as I interviewed individuals. > Most of the time, the people I interviewed wanted to be heard and > given a "fair", if not equal, chance at employment and wages, better > living conditions, education, not to be harassed, not be labeled > inferior, etc. > > The notion that Egyptians (because of their color) were not capable of > constructing the Pyramids, and the statements that they are not Black, > and another comment that African Americans promoted the idea....It was > just too similar to "they, them, and those people", these statement > smack of superiority (IMHO) as they are separating. > > I would have thought most people reading these comments would be as > out-raged by them as I am? > > > > On 10/24/10, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Right. > > > > Obviously this thread was hijacked and steered away from the subject that > > started it. > > > > Maybe we were getting too close to the truth? Huh? > > > > Is it the aliens who have hijacked this thread? > > > > One has to wonder. > > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> I think we've taken the conversation waaaayyy off course here though. :) > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329901 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
