People really donât believe Ancient Egyptians were ethnically African?
Perri: Itâs sad but true, so many people donât believe it. :(
Yup and if you ask the average American they will automatically say The Middle EastâŚ
This man up there favors my great great granddaddy (Iâm of African descent, just so you all know)
IT SHOULDNâT BE THIS HARD TO GRASP.
Remember, around the time white people became obsessed with Egypt and began romanticizing its history, they still were allowed to openly hate POC. They refuse to believe that so much power, grace, and beauty could come from people they despised(read: were jealous of).
Itâs all just a superiority complex to mask their innate insecurity. Itâs why they happily lump Egypt in with the Middle East and completely erase Black Egypt from the picture and instead focus on Arab Egypt.
Itâs also why they have taken to dividing Africa into North Africa and âSub-Saharan Africaâ as if everything that is not of the âexotic desertâ is inferior and savage.
Taxonomy and classism are just a few of white peopleâs favorite things to do to make themselves feel like they run shit.
The term âmiddle eastâ didnât even exist before the 1960s.