The Black Athena (Part4)

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 (more)

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[youngoldbones]

LOL! Enthusiast! That says it all.

[rrrgovernment01]

@wooja54 i mean, egypt is in africa. that could possibly be the reason

[90rashad]

@EducatedRebellion101 i cant believe you white people lied to us all this time

[Bulllseye2012]

@AFRICA4AFRICANS

You obviously haven’t been paying attention , this hasn’t been a recommendation for Bernal, who’s field is in far eastern studies. But a systematic demolition of his book, by people in various fields. Pointing out why he's wrong. Nor I might add does it show that the Egyptians were Black as the statues of Rahotep and Nofret Ketep, Hetepheres, Seneb and his wife etc. The Fayum portraits from Hawara as well as the pictures from Seti the I tomb show.

[AFRICA4AFRICANS]

this scared the hell out of white people....thats when you its the truth...because thats the only thing the scares the hell out them...THE TRUTH

[rrrhistoricalconspir]

everyone on the internet needs to know that we're all one regardless of race. We're complaining about race and what not, all just because of the weather changes that changed our complexion but we all come from adam and eve (specifically, we come from Ham Shem and Japeth)

[wooja54]

@FoziaAbdi  how do you know their half African

[Skyduke]

Funny. I guess even as far as culture and history goes, blacks do what they do best... And I'll leave it at that.

[kyriacos40]

now thier saying thier creators of chinnese culture your stupid.I find all this disturbing

[tw1704]

@PaulBlank85 This effort to separate North Africa from the south is constantly falling apart because too many base their research on Europian and Asian imperialist. Every debate that has taken place on the subject has exposed to truth everytime. Especially the debate in the 1970s between Diop/Obanga VS 20 other Egyptologist which Diop and Obanga proved their case.