Egyptian origins (race/ethnicity) - History Forum ~ All Empires

Being African doesn't equal being negroid or so called "black". North Africa was and is always predominantly Caucasian. The Caucasian Berber especially the Kabyle people from the algerian Mountains are the native inhabitants of North Africa. They are even more pale than Arabs and some have also blue eyes and even sandy brown hair. The today Northern Ethiopians, Eritreans themselves are mixed race (between East African Nilotics and Arabs DNA Test proved it). Furthermore the Nothern Ethiopians/Eritreans are genetically more close to Caucasians than to the Negroid Bantus or to the Afro-Americans. The direct descendants of ancient Egyptians are the christian Copts who used to speak a language close to ancient egptian language and their features, look are very ancient egyptian like. Besides the amount of melanin or the skin colour alone doesn't determine the race. The term black itself is very unscientific. Egypt had conquered Nubia and and many Nubians warriors were working for the egyptian army and also lived in Egypt.

There were even 3 Nubian Kings ruling over Egpty but just because the Nubians were black doesn't mean they can be claimed by all people with black skin and that doesn't mean that Afro-Americans can claim "we build the Pyramids" and that ancient Egypt was entirely "black".

People forget that Egypt is a hot place, a desert and if your live and work outside you will be brown no matter what your real skin colour is like and what race you are. Many Northern Europeans that got to Egypt get brown too that doesn't make them black, therefore you see many egyptian paintigs with brown skinned people. Since many years Afro-Americans are busy to steal all kind of great history, identity and achievements. According to Afro-Americans and Afrocentricism the real ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Israelites, Hebrews, Phonecians, Mesopotamians even the Vikings and native Americans (Aztecs) were black.

Now Afro-Americans claim that Jesus, Mozart and Bethooven were black. It's beyond crazy and has nothing to do with serious scientific researches but only with a desperate try to escape your real identity. Afrocentricism is a hoax at every level and the result of a bruised pysche and self loathing. The today Egyptians are more or less the descendants of the ancient Egptians. The invaders are often small in Numbers compared to the native that they couldn't change the ethnicity of the entire native inhabitants. I can distinguish a Yemini Arab, Saudi from an Egptian and DNA test showed that Egptians are quite different from Arabs. The today Egyptian are just arabised Berber.