hey ddv youre just stirring around the elements emphatically making an awfully lengthy show but proving nothing  you cant 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 cant 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 wasnt 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 were a little differently hued standing next to each other and of slightly different skeleton  why should that not make us brothers