S.O.Y. Keita - Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, The Reinforcement of African Diversity.

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.

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[Helcomlatly]

So the Sumarians who are the most ancient prolific culture on the planet...were black!? Bull-fucking-shit...they were Arab...everyone know this...all these freaking blacks want is to lay claim to something that matters...if they were so great, so strong...how come there are arabs in Egypt today? Who dropped the fucking ball!? I'm sick of Afros, all they want to do is say they are better, they arn't

[AfricaTeacher]

@Helcomlatly

I dont think anyone here, and I am SURE that Keita makes no mentions of Sumarians being "black". Also keep in mind the Sumerians may not have been "Arabs". The earliest Sumerian languages were NOT of the African language group "Afro-Asiatic" - these people came LATER. Sumer nor Elamite are AfroAsiatic. These langues and people came LATER from the West bringing the Akkadian language.

"Arab" is a n Ethnic identity that is somewhat recent. And "Arabs" are Nomadic.

[Helcomlatly]

@AfricaTeacher I love how you have no written history for 70,000 years and yet you know all this how!? Afro-Asiatic? what the fuck are you smoking. That term doesn't even exist. You want to lay claim to everything in the world and yet take no responsibility for anything in it. That's what I love about black supremacists, we did it all, except for the baddie stuff, that was in fact the Akkadian...the bullshit is so deep they can smell it in Kenya..LMFAO

[AfricaTeacher]

@Helcomlatly

The POINT of the post that you failed to grasp is that SUMERIANS at their EARLIEST point (Sumer / Elam) where NOT people of the Near East or NE Africa in culture and language. This is why Sumer and Elamite languages are ISOLATES. They both may be related to DRAVIDIAN which has NOTHING to do with "ARABS"

It was Akkadian (Semitic) from the West that converged UPON and REPLACED Sumerian languages in Mesopotamia.

Arabs are related to the LATER group NOT the earliest Sumerians.

[Helcomlatly]

@AfricaTeacher And yet Sumerian is the oldest known written cuneiform language in the world. So you are proposing that "others" basically meaning whites or other non-nubian cultures moved into this area and wiped out any trace of the earlier more powerful, smarter, nubian forms of written language.how come there is no trace of written language in the deepest parts of Africa.forget Egypt like you are telling me to do.oral tradition is one thing but cuneiform? And Elam biblical not Archeological

[AfricaTeacher]

@Helcomlatly LOL What are you talking about? Constructing an argument that I didnt make just to knock it down is a called a "Strawman argument"

Egypt / Nubia / N.E. Africa = AFRICA

EARLY Sumer / Elam / Fertile Crescent = NON AFRICAN.

Early N.E. Africa = Afro Asiatic AFRICAN Language

Early Sumeria = NON AFRICAN Languages

LATER - NEAR EASTERN peoples, probably mixed with N.E. Africans speaking an African Affiliated language family (Semetic) converged UPON Non the African Sumerian.

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[AfricaTeacher]

@Helcomlatly This is COMMON knowledge if you actually study the history of the people your are talking about. When does anyone here say that Sumerian are Nubian? This video is about Sudan and Egypt, which are not a part of "Mesopotamia"

Now your are telling me "Elam is Biblical" only ?

Elam = South Western Iran.  Read a book, better yet just "Google it"

King Sargon conquered Sumeria, Sargon was Akkadian, Akkadians came from the WEST and spoke Semitic UNLIKE Sumerians and Elamites.

[AfricaTeacher]

@Missy5464

Like I said Keita doesn't have to SAY it, I have been to Egypt and have SEEN it for myself. Have you been? [crickets...]

Even when you look at the historical borders of Egypt: ASWAN and BELOW was the territory of NUBIANS and not "Egyptians" proper. But this territory itself comprises 1/4th of EGYPT and HALF of southern Egypt............and NOT Sudan.

You dont know this because you work with Sound bytes. We are not talking about non-Africans we are talking about AFRICANS.

[2020TYBO]

@2020TYBO..7:36

[2020TYBO]

7:38..OH REALLY??..

[SundiataOfMali]

@IEtherianSoul9 Shame to Afrocentrists why?

You’re basically saying what “Afrocentrists” have been preaching for a long time:Egypt was a black civilization which became multi-ethnic over time due to countless invasions, mixing,etc...

And they are still there in the South. Shame on who?

There is lunatics on both sides.

[HeruTutankhamun]

@Helcomlatly Sumer is not the oldest civilization. There has been a 160-200K yr old civilization found in S. Africa. And Egypt is even older than Sumer. Egypt has Predynastic & Zep Tepi time period which is circa 30K yrs old. Kush/Ethiopia is older than Egypt as the Ethiopians told Diodorus (a Greek) that the Egyptians were a colony sent out by the Ethiopians. Africans are the oldest people on the Earth and everyone has African mtdna in them.

[SystemEquation]

I find these lectures very informative. It's a shame that Eurocentrism cloaks itself behind "mainstream" so that we could approach it with just as much criticism.

[IEtherianSoul9]

There is so much shame put to Afrocentrists' views. Yet at the same time, Eurocentric view points are not attacked in such rigorous ways as the former group. Neither ethnocentric view point is right in my honest opinion

A civilization that lasted some 3,000 years could not have remained homogeneous for that length of time. The Ancient Egyptians were most definitely African and due to an influx of foreigners from Asia & Europe, it resulted in Egypt being a multi-ethnic civilization.

[shango1963]

gulps ...africanteacher has his research tight, as well as the mexican poster ninja...funny to now see white supremist thought gettin' a much deserved , long overdue academic asswhippin'!!!

[kim66660000]

I'm glad that there are Teachers that wil stand up for the truth and not afriad of losing their job. Great Hotep 100% to you.

[CeeCee2290]

arab dog the sumarians where are there great works where are there structures they built with mud while we were cutting stones 20-ton blocks your fake made up alien bullshit history what have tha arabs ever done the sumarians came after the egyptians you peckerwood cracka dog