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The Harvard Crimson

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Harvard Professors Condemn Jeffries' Views | News | The Harvard Crimson

Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence. The CUNY professor meanwhile continued to allege that Jews were heavily involved in the slave trade even as he denied that Egyptians had used Jewish slave labor to build the ancient pyramids of Giza--a period of bondage that Jews commemorate with the holiday of Passover.

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Words Of Inspiration: "Our Sacred Mission" By Dr. Leonard Jeffries

February 11, 2019 - We got another picture of Menachem Begin dancing in front of the pyramids that his ancestors built thousands of years ago. We want our pyramids back, and there's no need to even dialogue unless you are prepared to give them up." So you have to operate from some strength. If you operate from weakness, doubt, and you don't know what you're doing, there's no need to be in the ballpark. Let the Gordons, Jeffries and others do the shooting, because you all will be shooting the wrong people and using the wrong ammunition.

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r/AskHistorians on Reddit: Were the Pyramids built by black africans?

September 30, 2023 -

I was reading a book by Kehinde Andrews called the ' New Age of Empire' that made the claim the pyramids and ancient Egypt were populated by black descendents from Nubia; His content was based on a famous book by Cheikh Diop 1974, called "The African origin of civilisation'. There has been controversy about this in the news recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/world/middleeast/egypt-african-dutch-museum.html I am wondering what evidence there is for both sides and if anyone has a critique of Diops work.

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It depends on what you mean by black. There is a certain popular fascination with proving that ancient Egyptians were or were not "black". It is a pity that the few times someone asks a question about Africa in this subreddit, most of the time it is either about slavery or about the race of ancient Egyptians, and the latter is a topic that most Africanists (specialists in African studies) have a hard time communicating the reasons why it is actually misguided. I’ll try my best, and if you are interested u/khosikulu answered a related question long long time ago. You mention Cheik Diop’s 1974 “The African origin of civilization”. Cheik Anta Diop was a well-known philosopher, physicist, and politician from Senegal. Around the time he was writing, social movements like black power and the black nationalist movement were active in the United States, and most African nations had already become independent. Regrettably, the fruits of both the civil rights movement and of decolonization were still far from what was expected from these movements. In this context, it was natural for a movement seeking to re-center the history of Africa within the experience of Africans and the wider African diaspora to emerge. We nowadays call this worldview Afrocentrism, and though Diop never described himself as such, much of his writings became the basis for this reinterpretation of history. This ideology also made it into UNESCO's General History of Africa, and its presence in book 2, chapter 1 is one of the reasons why AskHistorians' booklist for Africa includes the disclaimer “Please note that much of the scholarship is upwards of 30 years old, and may not represent current consensus based on new evidence.” It is expected that a new volume which reviews this controversy will be published at the end of the year, and I am looking forward to it. Afrocentrism must be seen as a reaction to the Eurocentrism of the historical community in the 70’s. Things have changed, yet it was not so many years ago that professional historians would speak about “Western civilization” as the benchmark against which every other culture had to be measured. I am not saying that this no longer happens, but these days you are more likely to hear it from a conservative politician than from a young historian. Did you ever notice how older museums used to present a sort of "linear evolution" of human civilization? Something along the lines Egypt -> Greece -> Rome -> Europe? And why is Egypt so often presented separately from the rest of African history? Africa is a geographic convention, and of itself there is no doubt that Egypt is located in the continent. Well, Diop argued that actually, “Graeco-Roman civilization” took all its good ideas from Egypt; hence, from Africa. Some classicists took offense at this suggestion, no doubt traces of institutional racism and elitism in the ivory tower played a role, however what really took this theory into the realm of pseudo-history was conflating being African with being “black”, especially “black” as belonging to a monolithic “black civilization” common to every person whose skin tone was/is on the darker side. This is not to say that people with a darker hue have not been racialized by contemporary society, the effects of the transatlantic slave trade unfortunately are still present and discrimination is common on both sides of the Atlantic; yet, it is not possible to assume that the experiences of the every black person to have ever lived were common to what it currently means to be black. Moreover, looking for proofs of this theory, Afrocentric scholars often essentialize "blackness" by stereotyping the cultural, phenotypic, genetic, or intellectual characteristics of “black people". Your mileage may vary, but it is not uncommon to find Afrocentric aficionados discussing “subnasal prognathism”. Research results consistently show that there is more variation within human populations than between them. I am aware that race as a concept has a very peculiar meaning in countries such as the United States, yet as a social construction, it is historical malpractice to apply our cultural logic to a society foreign to it from the past. Back to your question, it is very likely that some of the Egyptian pyramids were designed and constructed by humans with a darker skin tone. We know that the 25th dynasty originated in Nubia; however, this doesn’t prevent other pharaohs or dynasties from also having a similar skin color. On the other hand, current Egyptians are extremely sensitive to images of Cleopatra that present her with a dark skin tone; blackness and Islam are a topic for another question. I understand the irritation that foreigners misrepresenting their proud past cause, nonetheless, I have never heard them complain about the lack of black extras in movies set in ancient Egypt; banning a TV series is too much for me. I personally find Afrocentrism annoying, but would I ban it? No. The reason I am writing this long text is to have an answer to which I can redirect future questions. Afrocentrists tried to substitute “white civilization” with “black civilization”, not realizing that neither of them exists at all. Clarence Walker is even more severe, calling it “Eurocentrism in blackface.” (Walker, 2001). For my part, I have tried to make it understandable why such a movement developed; nevertheless, there is no need to plagiarize from ancient Egypt in order to have African history to look up to. Egyptian history is African history, yet there is way more. The continent is so complex and diverse that it would be great loss for humanity to concentrate only on sphinxes and pyramids, and it does a disservice to countless African societies worthy of study on their own. Sources: Banner-Haley, C. P. (2003). Review of “We can’t go home again: an argument about Afrocentrism”, by C. E. Walker. The Journal of Southern History, 69(3), 663–664. DOI: 10.2307/30040016 Bernal, M. (2014). Black Athena. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Diop, C. A. (2014). The African origins of Western civilization. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Hall, B. (2011). A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600 – 1960. Cambridge University Press. Lefkowitz, M. & Rogers, G. (Eds.) (1996). Black Athena revisited. The University of North Carolina Press. Mauny, R. (2014). A review of Diop. In R. O. Collins & R. Iyob (Eds.), Problems in African history : the precolonial centuries (fourth updated edition). Markus Wiener Publishers. Walker, C. E. (2001). We can't go home again: an argument about Afrocentrism. Oxford University Press.

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Ten Best Lies of Black History

1. Whites were the first people on earth. 2. Blacks in slavery were only cotton pickers and maids. 3. Lincoln freed the slaves. 4. Blacks ate each other in Africa. 5. Blacks were cursed black by God. 6. The United States government has helped Blacks succeed. 7. Jews built the pyramids.

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Quora

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Did black people build the pyramids? - Quora

They would have more closely resembled ... damaged. Yes, it had a head. Hemiunu is a man who lived in ancient Egypt, and who is believed to have been the architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza. As vizie......

The Conversation

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Racism is behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture

August 28, 2024 - Despite all this evidence, some people still refuse to believe that anyone from Africa (or anywhere in what is today considered the developing world) could possibly have created and constructed the Giza pyramids or other ancient masterpieces. Instead, they credit ancient astronauts, extraterrestrials or time travellers as the real builders. Well, you may ask, so what? Who cares if relatively few people don’t believe the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids?

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Pelosi's replacement Hakeem Jeffries is nephew of black supremacist HBD theorist Leonard Jeffries, by Steve Sailer - The Unz Review

I bet Rep. Jeffries has some fun ideas about who built the pyramids.

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Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It? | Open Culture

April 5, 2025 - They know who built the pyramids …. It was the Nubians (modern Sudan) they ruled the upper and lower. They were black Africans

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When did the black people of Africa truly build the pyramids of Giza? - Quora

Answer (1 of 7): A quick Google search will tell you when the pyramids of Giza were built. The Great Pyramid of Giza (built for Pharaoh Khufu) was built around 2580 to 2560 BC. That’s over 4500 years ago.

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Why do people think that black people invented the concept of a pyramid when there are pyramids in Peru that are older than the ones in Egypt? - Quora

Answer (1 of 8): The first pyramid ever built was in MESOPOTAMIA. Secondly, the ancient Egyptians were not black. Anu ziggurat from Uruk, Mesopotamia dated to 4000 BCE: The Egyptians were influenced by the Mesopotamian ziggurats and their early pyramids were step pyramids, like the pyramids in ...

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NOVA Online/Pyramids/Who Built the Pyramids?

NOVA Online presents Pyramids—The Inside Story. Tour the Great Pyramid in QuickTime VR, follow the current excavation, learn about how the pyramids were constructed and who constructed them.

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r/badhistory on Reddit: r/CringeAnarchy: "Black people couldn't have built the pyramids, their collective IQ's are too low! They were built by Western Europeans" flair: Accurate

June 6, 2017 -

Badhistory in question: https://np.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/7ld9bo/we_were_kings/drmrhuh/?context=10000

Badhistory image in question: https://i.imgur.com/H4hBcas.jpg

R5 for the article?

It's by the EU Times

Never heard of it?

Well if you had any doubts about it's authenticity, here's it's homepage! ~~Do yourself a favour and don't click the link, it's a massive crock of shit seriously dont~~

Impressed by the EU Time's stunning journalistic standards? Credible research? or it's high benchmark for merit?

No?

Why the hell not!?!

After all, with catching headlines like "Black man struck two women with aluminum bat and robbed them in Bucktown" and "Porn used by Zionists to destroy Christian values" how can you not recognise it for the absolute bastion of truth it is?!?

Oh and here's an EU Times article from 2010 that discusses the aliens set to arrive in 2012.

A clip from the article:

Three giant spaceships are heading towards Earth. The largest one of them is 240 kilometers wide. Two others are smaller. At present, the objects are beyond the orbit of Pluto.

2012 was what... 5 years ago? I have yet to see any spaceship arrive, let alone ones that are 240 "kilometers" long. Oh well, I guess this Quality News Organisation^tm wasn't as factual as I originally thought, oh well! It still doesn't disprove the part where King Tut is Western European!

Sarcasm aside, here's how Carsten Pusc - the geneticist at Germany's University of Tubingen who unraveled the DNA taken from Tutankhamen's mummy - eloquently labels the notion of the Boy Pharaoh being "western European":

"Simply impossible"

As for the r5 for r/CringeAnarchy, It's not to difficult to disprove. For one, even if it was true (that KT was Western European), it wouldn't say too much. Tutankhamen wasn't that all that impressive (no offence to any Tutankhamen's out there). He didn't have many historical achievements to his name and was horribly inbred. He had a cleft palate, a club foot, and possible hormone disorder. This was mostly due to the practice of brother-sister marriage that Egyptian dynasties practised for millennium. In fact, pretty much the only reason KT is remembered to this day was for having his tomb discovered by Howard Carter and Lord

The second reason that it's wrong is because Tutankhamen didn't construct any of Ancient Egypt's Great Pyramids. In fact the last one (Khendjer's Pyramid at Saqquara) was constructed centuries before he was even born.

I'll analyse some of the comments which I can nitpick. For fun I guess?

MLK. A commie, plagiarizer, and adulterer. [+10]

The truth is always buried in the comments [+5]

Ummm...

A Communist?

J. Edgar Hoover’s (FBI) considered Martin Luther King to be a threat to white America (terming him “the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation”) and spent years trying to dig up and manufacture derogatory information about him in order to publicly discredit him and thereby neutralize his effectiveness as a civil rights leader. The FBI asserted that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organization which King headed was controlled and funded by the Communist party and spent years trying to prove it, making King the target of an extensive surveillance program intended to gather evidence documenting ties between the SCLC and communists. But the Bureau was unable to uncover any credible evidence of active participation or funding between the Communist party and the SCLC, as David Garrow chronicled in his exhaustive study of Martin Luther King and the SCLC

The same goes for the "adultery" tidbit. Hell, the FBI sent a letter to King pretending to be a black person, claiming that they had evidence that he cheated on his wife and he should kill himself

Nothing came out of it.

And for "plagerizer"... W- what? Why and how does that matter?

Become a civil rights activist

Have a lasting impact on American society

Bring publicity to major civil rights activities and efforts

Emphasize and encourage the importance of non-violent protest and resistance.

Die trying to bring equality to discriminated races

i shleep

BOY HE COPIED SOME ELSE'S SCHOOL NOTES!!

REAL SHIEET

[[none-white people]They were too stupid to come up with a written language] (https://np.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/7ld9bo/we_were_kings/drmh8cf/)

okay

okayyyy

Moving on.

Finally, in 2017 white people can finally say we used to be kangz.

Nope. It's not '17 no more.

You mean the pyramids weren't designed by people with 85 IQ? Who would have guessed? [+31]

Ahhh, the awaited comment. As I said before, Tutankhamen didn't actually build the pyramids of Egypt, or the pyramids of anywhere for that matter.

and 85 IQ?

... no m8

Hell the entire thread is a shitmine

85 IQ

85 is the average African American IQ.

The correct number for sub-saharan Africans is 60-70. Slightly less than Koko the gorilla. [+5]

It always pisses me off when people compare them to gorillas.

Koko is a gentle giant with so much to offer this world. [+4]

I completely agree. Also, gorillas are actually able to form peaceful societies. [+2]

Most human's aren't good at that either [-1]

The white crime rate suggests differently. [+2]

I... am not even going to bother to address this.

'bye