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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#4 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by name

This may not be the right place to ask but well y'know...

Anyway one thing that I don't understand is why are you (and others) against using the word 'Black' as an ethnic identifier when Egypt's 'real' name is 'Kemet' which means the Black Land I think. (I'm a little sketchy on this type of stuff).

Seems like Blackness has always been an integral way of defining ourselves even if in recent times it was an imposition from Whites.

Correct anything you want since I'm not completely sure about these issues.

First and foremost...there has never been an African people who called themselves "black" absent of psychopathic white aggression. All Africans have called themselves by their ancestral, family, or tribal/klan name, and never by the color of their skin. African people, including migrant Africans (Sumer, ancient China, ancient India, etc.), only resorted to being "black" after being invaded by Indo-European/Semitic people; and that includes Egypt. Most people don't realize that Sumer means "the land of the Black-headed ones". However, the land had a name before it was invaded by the nomadic "whites" out of the Caucasus mountains.

Likewise, with what we call ancient Kemet, it means "the land of the Blacks". However, the name only came into existence because a particular Pharaoh renamed the country to differentiate between the Indo-European/Semitic/Asiatic invaders into the Nile Valley. Before then, the name of ancient Egypt/Kemet was Ta-Mery which means "the beloved land".

So again, I reiterate (as Dr. Clarke said), there is no such thing as a "Black Africa". If you are not indigenous to Africa (eg Arab, Coptic, etc.) then you are an invader. Calling one part of Africa "black" presupposes that a "white Africa" actually exists when it doesn't.