hey, ddv, you're just stirring around the elements emphatically, making an awfully lengthy show but proving nothing.  you can't call an ancient egyptian a black man and keep a straight face.  can you?  have you studied it at all?  (and i mean outside of the propaganda site bibliographies).  egyptology is a respectable field but people like you make a circus out of it.  your arguments are shifty, imbalanced and halting.  trying to prove your point, for example, by indicating an article as if it should be taken for sooth, in an encyclopedia you openly proclaim "racist," not to mention published before world war I, is ridiculous.  in the real definition of that word: worthy of ridicule.  the same with referencing historical commentaries long removed from actual events, to prove egyptians were black men, when we have real egyptian records and artifacts to examine.  herodotus a reliable source on eighteenth dynasty egypt?  hello.

i can't say i understand the impulse.  egypt was a repetative place; always the same sculptures, always the same rituals, always the same supplications, always the same monuments to egos in stone.  its colonnades inspired later architects in greece and rome, but for all its monumentality egyptian architecture wasn't worth much more than that.  is it because you suppose egypt was the first real civilization?  look up ancient sumer.  

all the while . . . the heart of the world is africa.  we evolved there as a species.  erectus to sapiens.  after that, we diverged.  biodiversity.  environmental adaptation.  and now we're a little differently hued standing next to each other and of slightly different skeleton.  why should that not make us brothers?  ( )