The last blog talked about racism beginning in 1820--or there about. Today I went to Lincoln University to discuss Nubia with Dr. Larry Ross, an anthropology and sociology professor.
He said that racism began a couple of centuries earlier--with the Spanish.
There was no racism in antiquity. The Greeks not only respected the Nubian and Egyptian people, but they held them to a higher standard. Ethiopia means "people with burnt faces," and when you read the Greek historians of that time, they regard these African people to the highest regard.
Nowhere do these two nations--Nubia and Egypt--discuss each other by their skin color--the word negro came centuries later.
There are some notations about not allowing dark skinned people into Egypt--but this was translated wrong.
According to Dr. Ross, racism begins in the early 1600's.
But this blog is not on racism--this blog is on Nubia and now I have a lot of new material, new books, even a manuscript.
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