From: "nkrumah lumumba" <[log in to unmask]>
> Black achievements and destruction in ancient Africa
>
> One of the most significant aspects of William's book is the way in which
> he
> corrects centuries of racism that saw white archaeologists and historians
> seek to deny the presence of African civilization even when the evidence
> was
> overwhelming.
>
> For example, even when Sneferu's Black Queen Mertitefs was found by
> archaeologists she was described as of an inferior race and not of "the
> high
> type." The Great Sphinx is the portrait statue of the Black Pharaoh Khafre
> and his African facial features are quite unmistakeable.
>
> Nekheb was the African Egyptian capital and Thebes and Napata were the
> cultural centres of the Black world.
>
> It was Black Africans who established the Dynastic system in Egypt about
> 3100 BC. The chief pyramid builders came from the Fourth Dynasty. Africans
> also developed one of the oldest written languages. Egyptian is an African
> language with a later influence similar to Arabic or Swahili.
>
> Early Africans were very religious people and built several religious
> cities, each one having a special God or Goddess. Many of the temples were
> more like colleges as different fields of study took place within the
> temples.
>
> However, Early Greeks and Romans reshaped them making them parts of
> western
> culture. Both Europe and Asia seized and transported from Africa as much
> of
> the artefacts of its civilization as they could.
>
> As early as the 6th century BC, Cambyses hauled away over $100,000,000 of
> precious historical materials from Thebes because the Black tombs
> contained
> not only historical material but treasures in gold and precious stones.
>
>
> Religion and the Destruction of Black Civilization
>
>
> The whole continent of Africa was taken over, its wealth exploited and its
> people dehumanized through enslavement, all in the name of Jesus Christ,
> Allah and civilization
>
>
> Although Williams admitted to being a devout Christian he nonetheless
> blames
> a lot of Africa's problems on the infiltration of Christianity, writing
> scathingly:
>
> "The cloak of Christianity was a most convenient hiding place for those
> who
> had other designs."
>
> Conversion to Christianity "meant change into the white man's image, his
> ideas and value systems.
>
> "What happened in the process of converting the Blacks to Islam and
> Christianity was the supreme triumph of the white world over the Black."
>
> According to Williams Africans did not need Christianity because they had
> their own ancient religious beliefs that were not dissimilar to some of
> the
> tenets of the Christian religion.
>
> For example, the practice of sacrifice for the remission of sins existed
> in
> Africa at least 2000 years before the arrival of Abraham. Furthermore:
>
> "Practically all of the Ten Commandments were embedded in the African
> constitution ages before Moses went up to Mount Sinai in Africa in 1491
> BC."
>
> According to Williams Moses himself was born in Africa and his wife was
> the
> daughter of an African priest. Christianity only began to spread in
> Ethiopia
> after the destruction of the Central Empire.
>
> Christianity was a tool for capturing, enslaving and exporting Black
> Africans for over a thousand years. Williams describes Africans as
> "gullible" for believing that the God referred to by foreigners was the
> same
> as their own.
>
> Both Christianity and Islam, writes Williams were used by men who were
> motivated by social, economic and political power over Black Africans:
>
> "The whole continent of Africa was taken over, its wealth exploited and
> its
> people dehumanized through enslavement, all in the name of Jesus Christ,
> Allah and civilization."
>
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