The Black Athena (Part1)

Examines the claims of Professor Martin Bernal who questions the assumption of the "Europeaness" of our civilisation placing instead the "black" Egyptians and Phoenicians at the centre of the West's origins.

Black Athena examines Cornell Professor Martin Bernal's iconoclastic study of the African origins of Greek civilization and the explosive academic debate it provoked. This film offers a balanced, scholarly introduction to the disputes surrounding multiculturalism, "political correctness" and Afrocentric curricula sweeping college campuses today.

In his book Black Athena, Prof. Bernal convincingly indicts 19th-century scholars for constructing a racist "cult of Greece" based upon a purely Aryan origin for Western culture. He accuses these classicists of suppressing the numerous connections between African and Near Eastern cultures and early Greek myth and art.

Leading classical scholars, on the other hand, contend that Bernal, like the 19th-century classicists he attacks, uses evidence selectively, uncritically and ahistorically to support his own Afrocentric agenda. They argue that cultural diffusion alone can't account for the distinctive achievements of the Greeks during the Classical Period.

Black Athena can help students begin to distinguish between sound scholarship and cultural bias - whether inherited from the past or imposed by the present.

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[amergk]

@kcoldkchill Look Usain Bolt is the Fastest Man in the World and I have no problem with that, because it's the Truth.. What I do have a problem with are usurpers of a nationality they have no business being involved in. Prove me WRONG! Until then Grow up.

[amergk]

@knowitallification Write your crying song to Reuters/Discovery Channel/National Geographic/iGENEA they will fall on deaf ears, child. Did you think the gay segway would bother me? Is that all you got? There are more gay blacks in America currently then there were every gay Greeks.

And your whiny-assed opinion is? of no consequence. I guess you were Diop-ped on you nappy-head at birth. Did that bother you? I don't care or mean it. But insults are a two way street - your closet is full of them

[amergk]

@TheGenius360 De-Nile is in Africa as well as your mindset. There is no doubt Africa had Egypt but until you or anyone else can disprove the DNA from the iGENEA, Egyptians were not black African but Caucasian. However there was a period of 75 yrs they were and the was 710-630 BC approx. However, they left in hurry when the Assyrians invaded and conquered Egypt. As for Christianity I would look to the muslim slave traders first before casting guilt..

[TheGenius360]

@amergk I think the problem is the arrogance that springs from the angle of nation's teachings that deliberately and knowingly fail to acknowledge the contribution that Africa have in building their so called civilization. It did not only stop at denial, Europeans eventually convinced the blacks through Colonialism, Slavery and Christianity that they never contributed anything worthy in human civilization. So it is poetic justice that the truth has to come from their own mouths. Live it up.

[Ancientafrica]

Everybody watch this: /watch?v=uA-Mt4y2tAQ&feature=r­­­elated

The ancientEgyptian are very black.

[nshkreli1]

History is a trick, was writen by the ones who won, to make believe they are the real people of the land.. Albanian means white, pelazgian means white race(Human). Balkan means Barllan=bardh,bianco,blondi,Al­p-pla,alb-bla,Alpenin=white=Sn­ow=Alboran sea=God of snow=snow is white.. Gibraltar=Bey of white.Zebra=Zebarll=Ze=Zi=Ze=b­lack and bral=barll=white=black and white and Zebra is on animal with black and white stripes. Albanian=white=language of the white and Albanians preserve the oldest tongue.

[nshkreli1]

Let us talk.Carthagean,Pellazgean.,,k­arta=kara=katra=Black and gean=genetic,gjin=human=black human, and pellazgean=white humen.Hannibal conquers Portugal,Spain,France,Italy but never fights Rome.In same time as Rome fights Illyrians.===Hannibal was asked by Rome to help them to beet Illyrians.We have a city carthage in Today's Greece. Phoenician script with a mixture of Albanian language, but in Phoenician script.If interested email me at n_shkreli at hotmail dot com. Hannibal was black.

[westnblu]

Look if u want 2 b white as white can be go 2 Siberia there u will turn albino white in no time. If u want black go live in Barbados sun beach and surf !! Which would u prefer? Give me Barbados man!! haha

[whatsupinthenews]

@visionimagify THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING DR. CLARKE!!! You made your comment a year ago, but I was just getting ready to say the Dr. Clarke already covered this issue.