question about the Egyptians..?

If I were to make a statement such as "Hebrews' original homeland was in Asia, therefore the Hebrews are Asian and they have an Asian culture", then pretty much everyone would point out that this is a wildly inaccurate and misleading statement because Asia is so large and diverse. For some reason, Afrocentrists don't have a problem making a similar statement about Egyptians in Africa though...

Here's the problem the way I see it: during colonial times, Europeans were looking for an explanation for their supposed superiority and they divided humanity in some convenient but very inaccurate divisions called races. All the Sub-Saharan Africans were termed "blacks". This of course came at a time when European knowledge of African peoples, cultures and civilizations was extremely limited, so the generalization is not only arbitrary, it is also ignorant. During post-colonial times, Afrocentrists, instead of pointing out the vast variations which occur in the Africans' appearance and culture (Africa being the most diverse continent from that point of view, being the original home of mankind), instead accepted the racist classification of all Africans as black. They tried to show afterwards that Egypt was a "black" and "African" culture (whatever that means) and that all other cultures, especially the European ones borrowed from it. So you see, by accepting this arbitrary and racist division and turning it back on the Europeans, the Afrocentrists are in fact guilty of taking the same attitude as the old-time racist Europeans but in reverse. Instead of the old racist motto of "Africans did not have a civilization of their own and borrowed everything from the Europeans and Arabs", the Afrocentrists say "Europeans did not have a civilization of their own and borrowed everyhting from the Egyptians who were black". The two statements are very similar, wouldn't you say?

The crux of the Afrocentric racist argument rests on the assumption that Egyptians were "black" and "culturally African", ignoring the fact that there is no such thing as a black race and an African culture. Rather Africa is the most diverse continent in terms of the peoples' appearance and it is also extremely diverse culturally. This is natural because Africa is the oldest continent as fas as human habitation is concerned. Anyway, to prove that the Egyptians were "black", they point to a few statues of pharaohs (which don't show skin color anyway) and some of their features (such as thick noses or broad lips). Of course, those traits are not the exclusive appanage of Sub-Saharan Africans, who have a wide variety of facial features; also many Middle-Easterners, Asians, Indians,etc, have them as well. Rather, what has happened is that most Afrocentrics are from the United States or other parts of the Americas, where most African people come from West Africa and are therefore more homogenous in appearance. They assume therefore that all African people must look like them, and they look for features such as frizzy hair, broad lips and thick noses in the Egyptians. They ignore however the fact that not only are those features not exclusive to black people, but also the fact that many Africans don't even have them. What's worse, Afrocentrists ignore the overwhelming evidence against their argument which is evident in Egyptian painting and most sculptures besides the ones they hold as proof of the Egyptians' "blackness".

AfrikaJamaika and viola, instead of wasting your energies on proving an argument which is flawed from the beginning and racist to boot, why not concentrate insted on spreading the word about the rich cultures and civilizations of Africa? Instead of appropriating a culture as "African", why not explore the variety of all the cultures in Africa?