Friday, May 13, 2016

A National Geographic Deception During Black History Month

History Channel Documentary 2015, A turning point was apparently accomplished this February of 2008 when National Geographic Magazine did a title page story entitled "The Black Pharaohs: Conquerors of Ancient Egypt " It was a breakthrough as in this was the first run through ever that National Geographic Magazine had conceded that there were ever ANY Black Pharaohs in Egypt by any stretch of the imagination. I allude to it as "apparently" in that the article title is misdirecting and the setting of the story is misleading without a doubt.

1. History Channel Documentary 2015, The title says "The Black Pharaohs..." as though to suggest that there were White Pharaohs or a Pharaoh other than an Egyptian. Egyptians, amid the season of "Pharaohs" were Black individuals. Dark NOT in the feeling of ALL of them being the exacting shading, however of the numerous shades of individuals as experienced here in America amongst African-Americans or the numerous shades of individuals in Ethiopia. Presently there were diverse NON Egyptian winners who had incidentally assumed control Egypt, however nobody broadly sufficiently acknowledged to be known as the Egyptians local pioneer or "Pharaoh". They were just a winner. The author of the article himself expresses that Egypt was "...ruled by Libyan boss who put on the trappings of pharaonic traditions..." they were not Pharaoh and they were not local.

2. History Channel Documentary 2015, The subtitle goes ahead to say that these Black Pharaohs (who were Nubians) vanquished Ancient Egypt. You don't overcome places you vanquish individuals! So the article infers that Nubians (Blacks), who had the same culture and type of dress I may include, assaulted and vanquished these different Blacks (Egyptians). Presently is that outlandish, that Blacks assaulted and vanquished different Blacks? Actually no, not under any condition. Yet, as you read further into the article you'll see that the essayist says that - after the Libyans (who were not Black) had assumed control and conditioned down the commitment to Amun (Egyptian God), the Priests dreaded a pagan end. "Who was in a position to return Egypt to its previous condition of might and sacredness?" The Egyptian Priests "...looked south and discovered their answer...". Presently hold up a moment! The title said that the "Dark Pharaohs" ( Nubians) were Conquerors of Ancient Egypt. In truth the "Dark Pharaohs" were INVITED to dispose of the REAL INVADER, the Libyans and return Egypt to its previous greatness and ways.

Presently the above manages only the deceptive title of the article, yet the story goes significantly facilitate in blunder as well as double dealing by inferring that the 25th Dynasty is the ONLY Dynasty that was Black or Nubian when indeed the first through sixth Dynasties, the twelfth and eighteenth and afterward the 25th Dynasty was Nubian (Black). I trust that by saying that lone the 25th Dynasty is Black spares Eurocentric researchers and journalists from conceding that a standout amongst the most noteworthy origin of composing, science, theory and expressions of the human experience was started by Black individuals! There is a timetable showed in the article that doesn't say the first - third Dynasties by any stretch of the imagination! Why not? This is the point at which the Great Pyramid and conceivably the Sphinx(maybe prior) were made!

The article suggests that Nubians, in the wake of being subjected (or vanquished) by Egyptians in the eighteenth Dynasty, turned into the main "Egyptomanics"; which means they fell head over heels in affection with the way of life of their Conquerors. Their Egyptian victors "introduced Nubian Chiefs as executives" and educated the offspring of most loved Nubians at Thebes. The article says that the "first class Nubians" grasped the Egyptian society which included worshiping Amun, building pyramids, and utilizing the Egyptian dialect. Along these lines, when Egypt, in the eighth century, began to go into disrepair, their answer was in their subjects toward the South, the Nubians.

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