Adam & Eve were white. Therefore, God was white. Thread closed.
Adman and Eve were Black. Therefore god is Black. Thread reopened.
How about you take your Afrocentrism bullshit to one of these black racist boards?
The ideology of black supremacy, of course, is the mirror image of white supremacy. While different groups put their own spin on things, black supremacy often involves the
racialist pseudoscience called "
melanin theory" and the
pseudohistory called
"Afrocentrism". The basic idea behind melanin theory is that black is the "natural" skin color because humans originated in Africa, so lighter skin tones are aberrations. Various melanin theorists build on top of this, positing all sorts of biologically unsupportable claims about melanin increasing muscle tone, brain activity, physical ability, etc. Some theories get into really batshit territory, claiming that melanin can grant
paranormal powers like
ESP.
Afrocentrism and melanin theory often cross-pollinate, but Afrocentrism as a separate concept has a historical rather than biological focus. It's important to separate legitimate
historical revisionism from the kind Afrocentrists engage in. The early histories and ethnographies of African cultures were written largely by
European historians and anthropologists from an
imperialist perspective. Thus, these works are often skewed by
racism and filled with factual inaccuracies, and are outdated due to new findings in archaeological and historical scholarship. There have been many revisionist works throughout the 20th and 21st centuries that attempt to look at this history from an African perspective, but remain factual. This is simply an attempt to "correct the record." Afrocentrism, on the other hand, engages in distortion and fabrications of its own. One of the central claims of Afrocentrists is that Egypt was ruled by a black race. They use this to claim that Greco-Roman civilization, and by extension, Western civilization, is actually based on black culture. Working from this point, they rewrite many historical figures like Socrates as having been black and
shoehorn various events into the ideology. When called on their
bullshit, they tend to justify their factual inaccuracies by claiming that critics are using a
Eurocentric methodology that is unable to ascertain a true understanding of history and that
only those using the Afrocentric methodology can do so. And just for the record, Ramesses II was a ginger.
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Similar crank claims point toward India (implying that the existence of the "Negrito" people, mean that Indian culture comes from black Africans, and the Dravidians are so dark that they must be Africans), China (depictions of people in dark materials, imply they were black, for example, Terracota Army), Japaneses (Jomons would have been black, and so did the Ainu, as they used black bronze in their sculptures, and were painted in light-brown, which is clearly white washing from the Japaneses bigots) and the Mongols ("black khans"), in America, rewriting Central America, Aztecs, Mayas, and particularly, the Olmecs, since they had wide noses in their statues, something that maya-quiché completely lack nowdays, no matter the look of Rigoberta Menchú
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Oddly,
some black supremacist groups have formed friendly relations with white supremacist groups. Part of it may be that both ideologies tend to promote
anti-Semitism and
homophobia. The other part is that both are extreme nationalists, and have the (ostensible) end goal of a series of seperate states for each "race". Thus if White Nationalists want to move all the white people to, say,
Montana and kick out all the black people, and Black Nationalists want to move all the black people to, say, not-Montana and kick out the white people, they both have the same goal.
Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam invited the
neo-Nazi Tom Metzger to NOI meetings. Metzger remarked:
“”They speak out against the Jews and the oppressors in Washington. . . . They are the black counterpart to us.
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Support for racial separatism also tends to unite both ideologies.
The black supremacist sect that probably most promotes anti-Semitism ironically identifies as "
Black Hebrew Israelites."
[4] This ideology has its roots in
post-bellum Pentecostalism, which transmuted into "Black
Judaism." According to Black Judaism and Black Hebrew Israelism, the newly freed slaves of America's
South were the true Hebrews and descendants of the
tribes of Israel (an assertion that mirrors the
Christian Identity theology held by some white supremacists, which claims
Aryans as the true Hebrew race). F.S. Cherry, a late 19th century proponent of Black Judaism's more hateful elements, also preached about a
race war with
apocalyptic overtones that would supposedly occur in the year 2000 and refashion society into one where blacks were the superior race. The belief that blacks are the "true" Hebrews also leads many in the Black Hebrew Israelite movement to espouse anti-Semitic pseudohistory such as the
Khazar myth and
Holocaust denial.
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