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COUNT VOLNEY'S POWERFUL HISTORICAL STATEMENT
Did you every hear this quote when you were in high school OR college? You're gonna love this quote!
This statement by Count Volney was so deep, that I had to go to the Library of Congress when I was stationed in the U.S. Army in the
Washington, D.C. area, to find and see for myself his statement. I finally got my hands on Volney's book and of course it was written in French.
One of the librarians spoke French and interpreted Volney's statement. Joel August Rogers, Jamaican American researcher and historian
provided the information and I had to follow through. Here's Volney's statement; you better buckle your mental seat belt:
Count Volney, French historian, in his book entitled, "OEUVRES" (WORKS) - 1821 - said:
"...de penser que cette race d'hommes noirs, aujourd'hue notre esclave et l'objet de nos me'pris,
est celle-la' meme a' laquelle nous devons nos arts, nos sciences, et jusqu'a' l'usage de la parole."
(SEE ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW).
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
"To think that to a race of black men who are today our slaves and
the object of our contempt, is the same one to whom we owe our arts,
sciences, and the very use of speech."
"Black history is deeper than most people thought. I marvel and I am humbled by the richness of
Black African History. I can't pretend to know it all; I want to remain humble and teachable.
I am an eternal student of African History. As soon as you think you've learned it all, the Creator just
places you in another classroom and you have more learning and growing to do. To be bored and complacent
is an insult against the Almighty Creator of all things. But Black History goes beyond black people picking cotton
and whining about their civil and human rights. It's not enough just to know Sports History, black people need
to know their role in world history--KNOW THYSELF. "Know thyself" is a phrase which originates with
black African scholars and NOT from white Europeans from Greece or Rome. Hey!--every month is black history
month to me. As they used to say back in the 1960's,"Can ya dig it?" Almighty God the creator didn't
put me here to be a wiseguy or a "smart-ass", but to embrace Truth and to stay in balance. May God the Creator
help the human family to desire Truth.
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What happened after the Council of Nicaea?
The following is an archive of a usenet post.
Original Source: Vlasis Rassias, Demolish Them!
Published in Greek, Athens 1994
314 Immediately after its full legalization, the Christian Church attacks
non-Christians. The Council of Ancyra denounces the worship of Goddess
Artemis.
324 The emperor Constantine declares Christianity as the only official
religion of the Roman Empire. In Dydima, Minor Asia, he sacks the Oracle of
the god Apollo and tortures the pagan priests to death. He also evicts all
non-Christian peoples from Mount Athos and destroys all the local Hellenic
temples.
325 Nicene Council. The god-man gets a promotion: 'Christ is Divine'
326 Constantine, following the instructions of his mother Helen, destroys
the temple of the god Asclepius in Aigeai Cilicia and many temples of the
goddess Aphrodite in Jerusalem, Aphaca, Mambre, Phoenicia, Baalbek, etc.
330 Constantine steals the treasures and statues of the pagan temples of
Greece to decorate Constantinople, the new capital of his Empire.
335 Constantine sacks many pagan temples in Asia Minor and Palestine and
orders the execution by crucifixion of "all magicians and soothsayers."
Martyrdom of the neoplatonist philosopher Sopatrus.
341 Constantius II (Flavius Julius Constantius) persecutes "all the
soothsayers and the Hellenists." Many gentile Hellenes are either imprisoned
or executed.
346 New large scale persecutions against non-Christian peoples in
Constantinople. Banishment of the famous orator Libanius accused as a
"magician".
353 An edict of Constantius orders the death penalty for all kind of worship
through sacrifice and "idols".
354 A new edict orders the closing of all the pagan temples. Some of them
are profaned and turned into brothels or gambling rooms.
Execution of pagan priests begins.
A new edict of Constantius orders the destruction of the pagan temples and
the execution of all "idolaters".
First burning of libraries in various cities of the empire.
The first lime factories are organized next to the closed pagan temples. A
major part of the holy architecture of the pagans is turned into lime.
357 Constantius outlaws all methods of divination (astrology not excluded).
359 In Skythopolis, Syria, the Christians organize the first death camps for
the torture and executions of the arrested non-Christians from all around
the empire.
361 to 363 Religious tolerance and restoration of the pagan cults is
declared in Constantinople (11th December 361) by the pagan emperor Julian
(Flavius Claudius Julianus).
363 Assassination of Julian (26th June).
364 Emperor Jovian orders the burning of the Library of Antioch.
An Imperial edict (11th September) orders the death penalty for all those
that worship their ancestral gods or practice divination ("sileat omnibus
perpetuo divinandi curiositas").
Three different edicts (4th February, 9th September, 23rd December) order
the confiscation of all properties of the pagan temples and the death
penalty for participation in pagan rituals, even private ones.
The Church Council of Laodicea (Phrygia - western Asia Minor) orders that
religious observances are to be conducted on Sunday and not on Saturday.
Sunday becomes the new Sabbath. The practice of staying at home and resting
on Saturday declared sinful and anathema to Christ.
365 An imperial edict from Emperor Valens, a zealous Arian Christian (17th
November), forbids pagan officers of the army to command Christian soldiers.
370 Valens orders a tremendous persecution of non-Christian peoples in all
the Eastern Empire. In Antioch, among many other non-Christians, the
ex-governor Fidustius and the priests Hilarius and Patricius are executed.
The philosopher Simonides is burned alive and the philosopher Maximus is
decapitated. All the friends of Julian are persecuted (Orebasius,
Sallustius, Pegasius etc.).
Tons of books are burnt in the squares of the cities of the Eastern Empire.
372 Valens orders the governor of Minor Asia to exterminate all the Hellenes
and all documents of their wisdom.
373 New prohibition of all divination methods is issued. The term "pagan"
(pagani, villagers, equivalent to the modern insult, "peasants") is
introduced by the Christians to demean non-believers.
375 The temple of Asclepius in Epidaurus, Greece, is closed down by the
Christians.
380 On 27th February Christianity becomes the exclusive religion of the
Roman Empire by an edict of the Emperor Flavius Theodosius, requiring that:
"All the various nations which are subject to our clemency and moderation
should continue in the profession of that religion which was delivered to
the Romans by the divine Apostle Peter."
The non-Christians are called "loathsome, heretics, stupid and blind".
In another edict, Theodosius calls "insane" those that do not believe to the
Christian God and outlaws all disagreement with the Church dogmas.
Ambrosius, bishop of Milan, begins the destruction of pagan temples of his
area. The Christian priests lead the hungry mob against the temple of
goddess Demeter in Eleusis and try to lynch the hierophants Nestorius and
Priskus. The 95 year old hierophant Nestorius ends the Eleusinian Mysteries
and announces "the predominance of mental darkness over the human race."
381 At the Council of Constantinople the 'Holy Spirit' is declared 'Divine'
(thus sanctioning a triune god). On 2nd May, Theodosius deprives of all
their rights any Christians who return to the pagan religion. Throughout the
Eastern Empire the pagan temples and libraries are looted or burned down. On
21st December, Theodosius outlaws visits to Hellenic temples.
In Constantinople, the Temple of Aphrodite is turned into a brothel and the
temples of the Sun and Artemis to stables.
382 "Hellelujah" ("Glory to Yahweh") is imposed in the Christian mass.
384 Theodosius orders the Praetorian Prefect Maternus Cynegius, a dedicated
Christian, to cooperate with local bishops and destroy the temples of the
pagans in Northern Greece and Minor Asia.
385 to 388 Prefect Maternus Cynegius, encouraged by his fanatic wife, and
bishop 'Saint' Marcellus with his gangs, scour the countryside and sack and
destroy hundreds of Hellenic temples, shrines and altars. Among others they
destroy the temple of Edessa, the Cabeireion of Imbros, the temple of Zeus
in Apamea, the temple of Apollo in Dydima and all the temples of Palmyra.
Thousands of innocent pagans from all sides of the empire suffer martyrdom
in the notorious death camps of Skythopolis.
386 Theodosius outlaws the care of the sacked pagan temples.
388 Public talks on religious subjects are outlawed by Theodosius. The old
orator Libanius sends his famous epistle "Pro Templis" to Theodosius with
the hope that the few remaining Hellenic temples will be respected and
spared.
389 to 390 All non-Christian calendars and dating-methods are outlawed.
Hordes of fanatic hermits from the desert flood the cities of the Middle
East and Egypt and destroy statues, altars, libraries and pagan temples, and
lynch the pagans. Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, starts heavy
persecutions against non-Christian peoples, turning the temple of Dionysius
into a Christian church, burning down the Mithraeum of the city, destroying
the temple of Zeus and burlesques the pagan priests before they are killed
by stoning. The Christian mob profanes the cult images.
391 On 24th February, a new edict of Theodosius prohibits not only visits to
pagan temples but also looking at the vandalized statues. New heavy
persecutions occur all around the empire. In Alexandria, Egypt, pagans, led
by the philosopher Olympius, revolt and after some street fights they lock
themselves inside the fortified temple of the god Serapis (the Serapeion).
After a violent siege, the Christians take over the building, demolish it,
burn its famous library and profane the cult images.
392 On 8th November, Theodosius outlaws all the non-Christian rituals and
names them "superstitions of the gentiles" (gentilicia superstitio). New
full scale persecutions are ordered against pagans. The Mysteries of
Samothrace are ended and the priests slaughtered. In Cyprus the local bishop
"Saint" Epiphanius and "Saint" Tychon destroy almost all the temples of the
island and exterminate thousands of non-Christians. The local Mysteries of
goddess Aphrodite are ended. Theodosius's edict declares:
"The ones that won't obey pater Epiphanius have no right to keep living in
that island."
The pagans revolt against the Emperor and the Church in Petra, Aeropolis,
Rafia, Gaza, Baalbek and other cities of the Middle East.
393 The Pythian Games, the Aktia Games and the Olympic Games are outlawed as
part of the Hellenic "idolatry". The Christians sack the temples of Olympia.
395 Two new edicts (22nd July and 7th August) cause new persecutions against
pagans. Rufinus, the eunuch Prime Minister of Emperor Flavius Arcadius
directs the hordes of baptized Goths (led by Alaric) to the country of the
Hellenes. Encouraged by Christian monks the barbarians sack and burn many
cities (Dion, Delphi, Megara, Corinth, Pheneos, Argos, Nemea, Lycosoura,
Sparta, Messene, Phigaleia, Olympia, etc.), slaughter or enslave innumerable
gentile Hellenes and burn down all the temples. Among others, they burn down
the Eleusinian Sanctuary and burn alive all its priests (including the
hierophant of Mithras Hilarius).
396 On 7th December, a new edict by Arcadius orders that paganism be treated
as high treason. Imprisonment of the few remaining pagan priests and
hierophants.
397 "Demolish them!" Flavius Arcadius orders that all the still standing
pagan temples be demolished.
398 The 4th Church Council of Carthage prohibits everybody, including
Christian bishops, from studying pagan books. Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza,
demolishes almost all the pagan temples of his city (except nine of them
that remain active).
399 With a new edict (13th July) Flavius Arcadius orders all remaining pagan
temples, mainly in the countryside, be immediately demolished.
400 Bishop Nicetas destroys the Oracle of Dionysus in Vesai and baptizes all
the non-Christians of this area.
401 The Christian mob of Carthage lynches non-Christians and destroys
temples and "idols". In Gaza too, the local bishop "Saint" Porphyrius sends
his followers to lynch pagans and to demolish the remaining nine still
active temples of the city.
The 15th Council of Chalcedon orders all the Christians that still keep good
relations with their non-Christian relatives to be excommunicated (even
after their death).
405 John Chrysostom sends hordes of grey-dressed monks armed with clubs and
iron bars to destroy the "idols" in all the cities of Palestine.
406 John Chrysostom collects funds from rich Christian women to financially
support the demolition of the Hellenic temples. In Ephesus he orders the
destruction of the famous temple of Artemis. In Salamis, Cyprus, "Saints"
Epiphanius and Eutychius continue the persecutions of the pagans and the
total destruction of their temples and sanctuaries.
407 A new edict outlaws once more all the non-Christian acts of worship.
408 The emperor of the Western Empire, Honorius, and the emperor of the
Eastern Empire, Arcadius, order all the sculptures of the pagan temples to
be either destroyed or to be taken away. Private ownership of pagan
sculpture is also outlawed. The local bishops lead new heavy persecutions
against the pagans and new book burning. The judges that have pity for the
pagans are also persecuted. "Saint" Augustine massacres hundreds of
protesting pagans in Calama, Algeria.
409 Another edict orders all methods of divination including astrology to be
punished by death.
415 In Alexandria, the Christian mob, urged by the bishop Cyril, attacks a
few days before the Judeo-Christian Pascha (Easter) and cuts to pieces the
famous and beautiful philosopher Hypatia. The pieces of her body, carried
around by the Christian mob through the streets of Alexandria, are finally
burned together with her books in a place called Cynaron.
On 30th August, new persecutions start against all the pagan priests of
North Africa who end their lives either crucified or burned alive. Emperor
Theodosius II expels the Jews from Alexandria.
416 The inquisitor Hypatius, alias "The Sword of God", exterminates the last
pagans of Bithynia. In Constantinople (7th December) all non-Christian army
officers, public employees and judges are dismissed.
423 Emperor Theodosius II declares (8th June) that the religion of the
pagans is nothing more than "demon worship" and orders all those who persist
in practicing it to be punished by imprisonment and torture.
429 The temple of goddess Athena (Parthenon) on the Acropolis of Athens is
sacked. The Athenian pagans are persecuted.
431 Council of Ephesus ("Robber Synod"). Promotion for the god-man - "Christ
is complete God and complete man."
435 On 14th November, a new edict by Theodosius II orders the death penalty
for all "heretics" and pagans of the empire. Only Judaism is considered a
legal non-Christian religion.
438 Theodosius II issues an new edict (31st January) against the pagans,
incriminating their "idolatry" as the reason of a recent plague!
440 to 450 The Christians demolish all the monuments, altars and temples of
Athens, Olympia, and other Greek cities.
book burning
448 Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books to be burned.
450 All the temples of Aphrodisias (the City of the Goddess Aphrodite) are
demolished and all its libraries burned down. The city is renamed
Stavroupolis (City of the Cross).
451 Council of Chalcedon. New edict by Theodosius II (4th November)
emphasizes that "idolatry" is punished by death. Assertion of orthodox
doctrine over the 'Monophysites' - 'JC has single, divine nature.'
457 to 491 Sporadic persecutions against the pagans of the Eastern Empire.
Among others, the physician Jacobus and the philosopher Gessius are
executed. Severianus, Herestios, Zosimus, Isidorus and others are tortured
and imprisoned. The proselytizer Conon and his followers exterminate the
last non-Christians of Imbros Island, Northeast Aegean Sea. The last
worshippers of Lavranius Zeus are exterminated in Cyprus.
482 to 488 The majority of the pagans of Minor Asia are exterminated after a
desperate revolt against the emperor and the Church.
486 More "underground" pagan priests are discovered, arrested, burlesqued,
tortured and executed in Alexandria, Egypt.
full body baptism 515 Baptism becomes obligatory even for those that
already say they are Christians.
The emperor of Constantinople, Anastasius, orders the massacre of the pagans
in the Arabian city Zoara and the demolition of the temple of local god
Theandrites.
523 Emperor Justin I outlaws the Arian heresy and campaigns to suppress
Arianism everywhere.
528 Emperor Justinian outlaws the "alternative" Olympian Games of Antioch.
He also orders the execution-by fire, crucifixion, tearing to pieces by wild
beasts or cutting to pieces by iron nails-of all who practice "sorcery,
divination, magic or idolatry" and prohibits all teachings by the pagans
("the ones suffering from the blasphemous insanity of the Hellenes").
529 Justinian outlaws the Athenian Philosophical Academy and has its
property confiscated.
532 The inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus, a fanatical monk, leads a crusade
against the pagans of Minor Asia.
542 Justinian allows the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus to forcibly convert the
pagans of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia in Asia Minor. Within 35 years of this
crusade, 99 churches and 12 monasteries are built on the sites of demolished
pagan temples.
546 Hundreds of pagans are put to death in Constantinople by the inquisitor
Ioannis Asiacus.
556 Justinian orders the notorious inquisitor Amantius to go to Antioch, to
find, arrest, torture and exterminate the last non-Christians of the city
and burn all the private libraries down.
562 Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of
gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople.
578 to 582 The Christians torture and crucify Hellenes all around the
Eastern Empire, and exterminate the last non-Christians of Heliopolis
(Baalbek).
580 The Christian inquisitors attack a secret temple of Zeus in Antioch. The
priest commits suicide, but the rest of the pagans are arrested. All the
prisoners, the Vice Governor Anatolius included, are tortured and sent to
Constantinople to face trial. Sentenced to death they are thrown to the
lions. The wild animals being unwilling to tear them to pieces, they end up
crucified. Their dead bodies are dragged in the streets by the Christian mob
and afterwards thrown unburied in the dump.
583 New persecutions against the gentile Hellenes by Emperor Maurice.
590 In all the Eastern Empire the Christian accusers "discover" pagan
conspiracies. New storm of torture and executions.
NOW...LISTEN TO DR. CHARLES FINCH AS HE BREAKS IT DOWN EVEN MORE...
The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ with Dr. Charles Finch
How and why did Heru become Jesus and Aset become Mary? How is John Coltrane’s “Sheets of Sound” an extension of ancient African wisdom, specifically spiritual mathematics played out through music?
CHRISTIANITY
AS OUR GOOD BROTHER STEVIE WONDER SAID, "Very superstitious, Writing's on the wall, Very superstitious, Ladders bout' to fall, Thirteen month old baby, Broke the lookin' glass Seven years of bad luck,
The good things in your past... When you believe in things That you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition aint the way! FOR ALL OF THE TRADITIONALIST CHRISTIANS...
Arab Racism And Imperialism In Sudan (Africa)
ARAB COLONIALISM AND SANCTIFIED RACISM IS RAMPANT IN AFRICA AND ITS TIME AFRICANS SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
One of the most insulting events occurred a few months ago when thousands of Nigerians, Ghanians and other West Africans were lynched, attacked and killed in the streets of Libya, an Arab nation. Yet Africans continue to allow the Arab extermination of Blacks in Sudan and Mauritania, Arab racism and apartheid/racism in Zanzibar and parts of East Africa, and Arab mischief in some of the wars in West Africa. The time has long past for Black Africans to realise two things.
(1) Arabs are Caucasians whose racism and religious imperialism is responsible for the destruction of African civilizations.
(2) The Arabs and other Semites will never respect Black Africans and will continue to use their henchmen in Sudan and elsewhere to continue the extermination of Black Africans so they can depopulate the continent of Blacks and occupy it, as thy have done in Northern Africa. Hence, the solution is for the unification of BLACK AFRICANS/PAN-NEGRO PEOPLES all over the world to unite in the fight to stop what is an ancient war of genocide against Blacks which began with the invasion of Nubia by the Arab armies during the 600's A.D. Although they were defeated, they continued harrassment and imposed enslavement on Blacks, destroying the Great Nubian Kingdom and occupying much of Sudan today, while imposing their religion and culture on the region.
The unification of Africa was an important step, yet for some reasons it seems that some Africans are still unaware of Arab intentions in Africa which has been the same since the invasions of Egypt during the six hundreds a.d. When one looks at a map of the world and sees Sudan, Somalia and a numnber of Black nations suddenly classified as "Arab," one has to wonder what are Africans/Blacks worldwide doing to stop this swollowing of African lands, extermination of African people, enslavement and destroying of African men, women and chiildren, and imposing of non-African religions and culture that is totally against African traditions on Africans.
What does that say, that we as Blacks will follow the cultures and religions of people like sheep, simply because we think their religions are better?
RETURNING TO AFRICAN RELIGIONS
The main problem in Africa today is one of alien occupation of African lands, alien control of African resources and alien control of the African mind. African religions MUST BE REESTABLISHED ALL OVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT AND RELIGIONS THAT PROMOTE THE CULTURE, BELIEFS AND RACISM OF OTHER PEOPLES SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED.
The same religious concepts such as the lie called "the curse of Ham," used by the Semitic religions to justify slavery of Blacks is used to justy and promote/practice Arab and European racism against Blacks under the guise of religious teachings.
Any religion that calls for the enslavement of Africans or whose practicioners justy and practice the enslavement of Africans or anyone else should be eliminated from the consciousness of Blacks.
The same beliefs that are used to enslave Blacks in Sudan and Mauritania are used to occupy the lands of Blacks in Indonesia, Iryan Jaya and elsewhere. Slavery and kidnapping of Blacks in SE Asia, Melanesia, Papua-New Guinea has been going on for centuries and has been carried out by people who use the very same religious beliefs they use to justify their occupation and destruction of the Nubas, Dinkas, Nubians and other Africans in Sudan, Mauritania, East Africa and elsewhere.
AFRICAN RELIGIONS SERVE AFRICAN SPIRITUAL NEEDS
The original African religions such as Shango, Imbanda, Vadu, Condomble, Lucumi and even the ancient African Coptic Christian religion found in Nubia (which the Arabs are trying to eliminate) and Ethiopia are religions that contribute to the mental, psychological and spiritual needs of Africans. These religions deal with aspects of our being. When we observe the forces of nature and the power of the human mind and human capabilities in Shango, Vadu or Condomble, we recognize our devine powers, bestowed upon us by the Devine Mind (God), instead of kneeling before the statue of what is supposed to be some god imposed on us by people who continue to apply racism and enslavement on Black people on a worldwide scale.
Obviously, it is true there needs to be a reformation in African Spiritualist Religions. For example, religions such as Condomble of Brail, Shango of Trinidad, Vadu of Haiti, African Spiritualism practiced in West and Southern Africa and the religions of the Black Dalits of India and the Blacks of the Pacific/Melanesia should be unified. There should be a system of rules, lore, traditions, writings, sacred texts to store the sacred knowledge and a system of temples and architecture. THERE SHOULD BE A REFORMATION IN TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION. For example some teachings should be refined such as depending on our ancestors (as we depend on Christ for all our needs, while sitting on our backs waiting). We should say, "with the guidance of our ancestors, we shall work harder," rather than believing, "God the ancestors will provide," therefore we need not work hard or strive for improvement.
In retrospect, as long as Africans/Blacks worldwide continue to allow the religions and cultures of others to permeate our minds, destroy our cultures, corrupt our morality, we will always be slaves to Arabs in Sudan and Mauritania, Indonesia and the South Pacific. We will always be used by missionaries from religions such as Mormism whose texts and writings still contain statements that some say are very insulting to Blacks, yet whose religion is spreading in Africa, as if they realize Africans have no time to think, but will accept anybody's religion, including those that say Blacks are "cursed."
Africa and the Black world from Latin America through the Caribbean and the U.S. to Africa, Dalit India, Melanesia, Australia and elsewhere must bring into being a world Black cultural and spiritual renaissance. Religion more than any other ideology digs deep into the essence of human spirituality and being. How can we be who we are if we are permeated with the religious beliefs invented by other people, speaking their languages, wearing their attire, following their holidays and brutalizing our own people because they (the religious imperialists) hate us and told us too (as in Sudan).
The time has come to return to our own religions and culture. The key is reforming beliefs that ar4e outdated, preserving and improving what will contribute to the progress of Blacks worldwide. THE ESSENCE OF AFRICAN RELIGION IS BELIEF IN SELF AND BELIEF IN THE POWER OF THE DEVINE MIND (GOD) WITHIN US. With such belief, we will never feel inferior to anyone, we will never sit aside and watch invaders and religious imperialists swallow our motherland and exterminate our relatives (as some Africans are sitting back while Arab religious imperialism and racism destroys Africans), we will work to earn and take our place in the world as a great people, as we were before our minds become confused and our objectives changed.
THE 2011 PTAH AWARDS
Not The Oscars! Wake Up African People!
THERE STEALING OUR LEGACY!
The 2011 Ptah awards goes to individuals for their work in the African American community in returning and reclaiming the stolen legacy of the Africans history to African people globally.
They continue to do the work that the Grand Master teachers such as Dr. Diop, Dr. John H. Clarke, Dr. Ben Jochannan, Professor Van Sertima, Dr. Walter Williams, George G. M. James, Dr. John G. Jackson, Dr. Amos Wilson, Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, J. A. Rogers, Priscila Dungee, Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ani, Marchus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, Jones, Khalid Muhammad, Attorney Alton Maddox, Dr. Leonard Jeffries and many many others who have fought and died to defend an infinite history denied us by the powers that be, for now.
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AND THE AWARDS GO TO...
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke Ancestral Sheild
High school, college and university students all over the world are taught that philosophy began in ancient Greece with Thales of Miletus.
So most people today believe that the first philosopher was Thales of Miletus, although Thales had studied in ancient Egypt; that is, African Egypt.
Everybody regards Socrates as the prototypical philosopher even though he practiced only oral philosophy. Unlike Socrates, the African and ancient Egyptian Ptahhotep or Ptah-Hotep of the Old Kingdom or Empire of ancient ( 2780 – 2260 B.C. E.) Egypt bequeathed to the whole world a manuscript containing his philosophical maxims.
Ptahhotep left us a manuscript which is known nowadays as “The Maxims of Ptahhotep.” Most philosophers around the world aren’t aware of the fact that the first book written in this world was composed by the African Ptahhotep. They don’t know that philosophy doesn’t originate in Greece, but in ancient Egypt. Ptahhotep lived in ancient Egypt, during the Old Kingdom or Empire.
The contemporary populace of present-day Egypt does not reflect the populace of ancient Egypt.
That’s why many present-day Egyptians and North-Africans oftentimes argue that they’re not Africans. They more often than not claim that they’re from the Middle East.
The ancient Egyptians called their land “Kemet” The “Black Land” because it was peopled by Black people, just as Africa is at times called “The Black Continent.
The Greeks gave “Kemet” the name Aegyptos or “Egypt,” which means “House of the Spirit Ptah.” Ptah was the name ancient Egyptians gave to the Creator of all things. In Hebrew Egypt is called Misrayim, after the name of one of Ham’s sons. Nowadays, Egypt is called “Misr” in Arabic, still after the name of one of the four sons of Ham. I learned this when I started learning Arabic many years ago.
According to the Jewish Testament and the First Testament of the Bible, Egypt was the land of Ham and of his son Misr-Misrayim.
The other sons of Ham – sons of Noah – were Canaan, Put and Kush.
Kush or Cush is the ancestor of the early inhabitants of Nubia; contemporary Sudan. The Nubians had and still have a great deal of melanin, pitch-black, so that they were referred to as “Aithiopes” by the Greeks, which means “Burnt Faces.”
The Arabs called Sudan “bilad es- Sudan, which means “Land of Black people.” Once again, the people of that region were predominantly and are usually pitch-black; that is, darker than those of other regions of Africa. One could find scattered Kushite communities in Tanzania down to contemporary times.
Latter-day Egypt only made up a portion of the ancient Egyptian empire. The Egyptologist and historian Nicolas Grimal wrote: “The Egyptian empire encompassed the whole of Nubia and Nubian gold mines supplied Egyptian Treasury.” We know in chemistry and physics that gold was discovered for the first time in antiquity by African ancient Egyptians.
Furthermore, our grade school professors of history taught us that Egypt was and is a “Gift of the Nile,” which means that Egypt economically depends on the Nile, also as a water way, for its survival. Junior high school geography has it that the White Nile rises in Lake Victoria in Uganda, a country that straddles the African equator ; the other source, or the Blue Nile, is Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
The White Nile and the Blue Nile flow and meet up in Khartoum, Sudan, where they form one single river, the Nile that flows on through Northern Sudan –Kush or Nubia— down towards and through Egypt and as far as the Nile Delta into the Mediterranean.
The founding dynasty of ancient Egypt was based in the Egyptian-Nubian valley, also known as the Nile valley or Upper Egypt. The historian Michel Mourre claimed that the ancient Egyptian language was related to Kushite languages of Upper Nile – the Egyptian-Nubian valley.
Moreover, the German Egyptologist Dietrich Wildung—who is director of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Germany, stated in 1998 that it’s “crystal-clear that the cultural explosion in ancient Egypt has its roots in Black Africa,” just as Malcolm X made it plain that African-Americans have their roots in Africa. Wildung styled this as “paradigm shift” in Egyptology.
Yet before Wildung, the renowned Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop had already brought about this “paradigm shift” in Egyptology in the 1950s. Diop had proven that ancient Egyptian culture and history had their roots in Black Africa.
Even Herodotus, the pioneer and founder of historiography contends in his “Histories” that ancient Egyptians were “dark-skinned” and had “woolly-curled hair”; therefore they were Africans. Elsewhere in his Histories, Herodotus calls them “black.”
As far as philosophy and thinking is concerned, the Greek philosopher Socrates explains in the “Apology of Socrates” by Plato that to philosophize means to exhort fellow humans on a daily basis that they ought to first of all strive for wisdom, truth, virtue and making their souls perfect.
Only then would they have laid a strong foundation and basis for lasting and sustainable wealth, fame and honor—not the other way around.
The philosopher of Königsberg Immanuel Kant formulated his “Categorical Imperative” as follows: “Act in such a way that the maxim of your will might always be rated at the same time as principle of a general legislation.” Ptah-Hotep had just done that.
These are two of Ptah-Hotep’s maxims one can read in his book: “If you’re a ruler or leader or executive, pursue only salutary and beneficial acts so that your behavior may be beyond reproach.”; “Don’t be bumptious about your knowledge, but take advice from the ignorant as well as from the learned, for the frontiers of art and/or science can’t be reached, and nobody can ever completely attain to his or her mastery.” This second Ptah-Hotep’s maxim is the source of the today’s widespread saying: “You live and learn.”
The Greek philosopher Epicurus, founder of the Epicurean school of thought opined: “Greed based on injustice is impious; and even though it doesn’t violate the Law, it’s ugly, for it’s despicable to amass in a sordid way, even by abiding by the Law.”
The Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wondered: “Who is scared of change? But what can be constructed without change?—Can you state one single useful action that can occur without change?”
If Socrates, Kant, Amo, Jacob Zera, Heywat Walda, the Greek and Roman Cynic, Stoic and Epicurean philosophers such as Diogenes, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Cleanthes, Epictetus and Epicurus are regarded as philosophers and thinkers because of their moral teachings, ways of life and maxims, then it is evident that the ancient African Ptah-Hotep is the first philosopher and thinker in humankind history.
The “Egyptomania” or the fascination of people north of the Mediterranean with ancient Egyptian culture and history can only be candid if the civilization of ancient Egypt is embedded in its African context.
By swooning over ancient Egypt, “Mediterranean Northerners” simply prove that they are hole-and-corner admirers of Black Africa because nobody can honestly relish a tree, its branches and fruits without at least appreciating and savoring its roots.
Black Star News columnist and news analyst Mathias Victorien Ntep is a PhD researcher at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany, and at the Leiden University of Leiden, Netherlands.
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Cheikh Anta Diop, a trained physicist and historian was able to scientifically prove that ancient Egyptian culture and history had their roots in Black Africa—he rocked the academy and established thinking to its foundation
WHEN ARABIA WAS “EASTERN ETHIOPIA” Part I – By Dana Marniche
WHEN ARABIA WAS “EASTERN ETHIOPIA” Part I
By Dana Marniche
The Indigenous Populations of Arabia
The following quotes are from 19th and early 20th century Western historians, whom unlike today’s historians, understood the strong connection of the original Arabians with the Ethiopic peoples of Africa.
1869 “The Cushites. the first inhabitants of Arabia, arc known in the national traditions by the name of Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad, the grandson of Ham.” — The New Larned history for Ready Reference Reading and Research, 1922citing F. Lenormant, Manual of Ancient History, bk. 7, ch. 2. published 1869.
1869 – “To the Cushite race belongs the oldest and purest Arabian blood, and also that great and very ancient civilization whose ruins abound in almost every district of the country. ..The south Arabs represent a residue of hamitic populations which at one time occupied the whole of Arabia. “ John Baldwin from Pre-historic nations or inquiries Concerning Some of the Great peoples and Civilizations of Antiquity. Harpers 1869
1881 “ A third body of the Cushites went to the north of the Egypt and founded, on the east of the Delta, the kingdom of the so-called Hyksos , whom tradition designated sometimes as Phoenicians sometimes as Arabians, and in both cases rightly…Lepsius has proved by excellent reasons the Cushite origins of the Hyksos statues from San (Tanis) now in the museum of Boulaq and has made more than merely probable the immigration of the Cushites into the region of the Delta…” p. 402 Heinrich Karl Brugsh in A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs Derived Entirely from the Monuments, published by John Murray 1881, Vol 2, 2nd edition.
1872 – “Mr. Baldwin draws a marked distinction between the modern Mahomedan Semitic population of Arabia and their great Cushite, Hamite, or Ethiopian predecessors. The former, he says, ‘are comparatively modern in Arabia,’ they have ‘appropriated the reputation of the old race,’ and have unduly occupied the chief attention of modern scholars.” Traditions Superstitions and Folklore, Charles Hardwick , Manchester A. Ireland and Company, 1872
1891 – …the Cushite Arabians and the Chaldeans, the founders of the first historic civilization in Babylonia being certainly Hamitic, though early mixed with Semitic tribes, long before Assyrian rule. Charles William Hutson , The Beginnings of Civilization, The Columbian Publishing Co., New York. 1891.
1902 – Modern Arabians are described thusly – “Among ‘these Negroid features which may be counted normal in Arabs are the full,rather everted lips, shortness and width of nose, certain blanks in the bearded areas of the face between the lower lip and chin and on the cheeks; large, luscious,gazelle-like eyes, a dark brown complexion, and a tendency for the hair to grow in ringlets. Often the features of the more Negroid Arabs are derivatives of Dravidian India rather than inheritances of Hamitic Africa. Although the Arab of today is sharply differentiated from the Negro of Africa, yet there must have been a time when both were represented by a single ancestral stock; in no other way can the prevalence of certain Negroid features be accounted for in the natives of Arabia.” by Henry Field Anthropology, Memoirs Field Museum Press Anthropology, Memoirs Arabs of Central Iraq; Their History, Ethnology and Physical C haracters, Anthropology Memoirs Volume 4,
1923 “There is a considerable mass of evidence to show that there was a very close resemblance between the proto-Egyptians and the Arabs before either became intermingled with Armenoid racial elements.” Elliot Smith p. 54 The Ancient Egyptians and the Origins of Civilization, p.61 2007, earliest publication 1923.
1948 – “In Arabia the first inhabitants were probably a dark-skinned, shortish population intermediate, between the African Hamites and the Dravidians of India and forming a single African Asiatic belt with these. From the Handbook of the Territories which form the Theatre of Operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited and its Associated Companies, First Edition, Compiled in the Companies Head office at 214 Oxford Street London 1948.
By the middle of the 20th century, whether due to corresponding the withdrawal of European colonialists from many lands or the establishment foundations of modern Europeans in the Levant and consequent flourishing of Biblical archeology, it appears that many historians became less acquainted or familiar with the early documented history and genealogical traditions of the Arabian peoples. The notion of a race of “black Caucasoids” had already been established in the late 19th century and the idea that developed in the 1st centuries after Christ in Neareastern Muslim and Judaeo-Christian tradition of different colored children of Noah had come to permeate the interpretation of Afro-Asiatic or Arabian genealogy.
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