S.O.Y. Keita - The Bio Cultural Origins of Egypt - Part 3

Shomarka Omar Yahya M.D., DPhil., née Jon Derryll Walker, is an African American physician and anthropologist. He is affiliated with the National Human Genome Center of Howard University and the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution. He has been interested in the origins of the concepts of race, the misconception of human variation as race, and the scientific approaches to the biocultural origins and histories of indigenous African peoples.

In this 6 Part Lecture Keita speaks on the "Bio-Cultural" Origins and aspects of the Ancient populations of the Nile Valley. He includes details on the Afro-Asiatic Language Family, Genetics of the P2 Clade, Skull Measurements and Limb Proportions.
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[123bigr]

@FrostedFlakeX But for the most part, the so-called afrocentrics have a noble cause, which is to correct the lies of the African invaders.

I think that the main problem with the debate about Africa is the use of bogus terms like Caucasoid and Negroid. Caucasoid was created to place the European in cultures they had nothing to do with and Negroid was created to exclude certain Africans from their own people. The parameters for Caucasoid r far reaching and Negroid parameters r narrow.

[osirica]

I have finally been vindicated. I been telling people that DNA studies cannot prove that Egyptians are of any race, and the DNA studies used do not show that the Egyptians are "non-black" and even if they did it's based on how they are interpreted.

You cannot ignore the social historical facts showing Egyptians related to other AFRICANS based on DNA sequence studies. You just cannot dismiss it.

[knowitallification]

@scorpianbliz

Number one: because something is 'marketed and promoted' as 'evidence', this does not in and of itself make such; number two, non-blacks have always relied on 'obscurantism' when confronted with their own cognitive dissonance with respect to historical realities attested to by the historical record itself:

"The Egyptians are very BLACK", Aristotle 'Physionomy' Chapt.6 (He used the words 'agan melanes' which is Greek for 'excessively black')

[scorpianbliz]

@knowitallification can you explain this obscure race? to both of you @AfricaTeacher why with all the latest evidence why do you suppose whites and even some so called modern egyptians to try to debate on this?

[knowitallification]

@JungleCityKilla

My bad... I deserved that one....

[knowitallification]

@JungleCityKilla

"Fellah (Arabic: فلاح‎) (plural Fellaheen or Fellahin, فلاحين), also alternatively known as Fallah (plural Fallaheen or Fallahin) is a peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa . The word derives from the Arabic word for ploughman or tiller."

Anyone not of Ancient Egyptian origin can qualify as 'Fellahin' so please...up your game.

[knowitallification]

@JungleCityKilla

The term 'Fellahin' is a non-starter as far as racial designation goes. it's an economic designation more than anything else. The term means nothing more than 'peasant' and peasants in Egypt vary with respect to historical origins. Case closed.

[BigPreme]

@osirica Diop came up with a way to test the skin to measure the melanonin in the skin and deduce if they wre black or not. Also there are eye witness accounts from people like Strabo, Diodotus and Herodotus that all say the ancient Egyptians were "Ethiopian" in appearance.

[akelly929]

with out a control group of DNA there will always be uncertainty. the people in Egypt say they are not from africa. they say king tut is white. they said they never left egypt but yet have no knowledge of how the pyramids were built and have no photos of ancient Egyptian except for what was found in the tombs of the Pharaohs.

[xcalibur4l]

@FrostedFlakeX so is dr.keita saying that the ancient eyptians weren't black?

[wooja54]

There is now a sufficient body of evidence from modern studies of skeletal remains to indicate that the ancient Egyptians, especially southern Egyptians, exhibited physical characteristics that are within the range of variation for ancient and modern indigenous peoples of the Sahara and tropical Africa. In general, the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia had the greatest biological affinity to people of the Sahara and more southerly areas." (Nancy C. Lovell,