Actually that is untrue. Plus black Arabs do exist.
Black MUSLIMS exist. There can be no such thing as a black "Arab."
There can and there is.
No, because Islam is a religion they can adopt. "Arab" is a RACE. Africans are not Arab
This is the saudi Arabian soccer team.
As you can plenty of black men
If i show you a picture of a chinese guy in the US, does that mean Americans are chinese?
This thread has gone off the rails, predictably.
It started out with a discussion of pre-colonial African civilization.
There are several examples of technical empires prior to the colonial era.
What about those?
They were far less advanced than the rest of the world.
Actually, I can think of six off the top of my head.
When an "african" american talks about advanced civilizations in ancient Africa they are specifically thinking
black civilization.
The Kush, The Mali, The Ethiopean, The Zimabawe, the Karen Bono, the Kilwa, and Marina were all Sub-Saharan empires.
Ok but black people in America want to take credit for ancient Egypt and the muslim military incursions into Europe when they taught white people how to bathe.
See here is the thing with this thing of racking up a score about whose done what in history and declaring some historical racial winner.
Sure - Whites have invented good things.
Happy now ?
But at the same time 99.9% of white ppl have invented nothing
The argument goes like this
Racist says
"Oh, and that Egypt isn’t really in Africa"
"Or that it is, but the ancient Egyptians were white,"
Now the black person, me or im2 could spend time filling in the gaps of their ignorance, I suppose.
But he work of Cheikh Anta Diop, Walter Rodney, Molefi Asante, or even Basil Davidson would likely mean little to you.
But the problem is, if the blk person does try to prove blk history, it amounts to playing the game racist guys like you want to play, and on
their ground, in a way the blk person can’t ever win.
That's why I dont like "we did this history. Arent we great?,"
By the standards of Eurocentric excellence,
of course Europe has contributed more to the world in the last 300 years.
If a culture gets to establish the criteria by which all cultures are to be judged, it is unlikely
they will be the ones to come up short.
You understand ?
So yes even if the blk person show the existence of advanced kingdoms in sub-Saharan Africa while Europeans were still shitting in the woods — this kind of rebuttal still falls into a white supremacist trap.
How? Simple: Racists can always point to Africa and say, “Ok, so once upon a time you were kings, but look at you now,”
Check mate.
It’s racist nonsense, but it’s how guys like you play the game.
And it works.
And honestly, why should black folks assume being kings and queens — which is some elitist bullshit bragged by white folks is the best way to judge a culture or its people anyway?
What you think of as European Civilization is quite limited: composed of the achievements of only a handful of nations, and even then, only a small fraction of the persons of those states. Most people have been little more than peasants for the bulk of history.