when blacks are writing
their résumé, they make it point to highlight their contributions to the civilized
world, like building the pyramids at giza and how the greek philosophers were
influenced by ancient egyptians
for example here is a verse from freemasons a song by rickross and jay z1
“...big
contracts, big contractors
built
pyramids, period
we masters
no
caterpillers, it was just a lot of niggas
a lot of
great thinkers and a lot of great inventors...”
okay, i know you don’t really care much about the rumblings
of a fat man drunk on mild success, so let’s see what the black scholars have to say
chikn anta diop, a Senegalese historian has argued
that pythagorean theory, the concept of pi, geometric formulas and the screw
and level are only some of the inventions from north africa
george g. m. james in his book the stolen legacy argues that the ancient egyptians developed the
concept of the right angle, which is the basis of the pythagorean theorem. it
is reflected in the designs of the ancient egyptian pyramids, which were
initiated centuries before the birth of pythagoras2
philosophers such as plato and aristotle and scientists
such as copernicus, kepler, galileo, and newton based their works , to some
extent, on pythagorean ideas3
the funny thing is
though, we blacks refer to modern day egyptians as terrorists or arabs (on a good
day) but rarely call them africans. for some reason, we are not so proud of
them yet we take credit for their work. we like to think that the modern day egyptians are cut from a different cloth
compared to the ones we are so proud of, but this is hardly the case, recent
DNA studies have indicated that ancient egyptians had an approximate 90% genetic
commonality with modern egyptians, which would make the current population
largely representative of the ancient inhabitants
if we don’t feel comfortable
being associated with the modern egyptians, then we shouldn't take credit
for the blood, sweat and tears of their ancestors.
3-universe of numbers by ralph m lewis
2-the stolen legacy by george g. m. james
1-rickross ft jay z freemason
Love the rap references. People love to associate with success. if its good, then Africans built the pyramids, if it sucks, then its fuck those Arabs. Also, more pics! Walls of text tempt tl;drs
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