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- From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Face it... We depend on white people...
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:17:37 GMT
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- HF.GTD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gabrielle Daniels) writes:
-
- >In article <BzJouI.ME9@unix.amherst.edu>,
- >ddsokol@unix.amherst.edu (D. DANIEL SOKOL) writes:
- >>
- >>Havong said that, I am troubled by some historical inacurracies of a previous
- >>poster who claimed that both Cleopatra and the Moors were black.
- >.
- >.
- >Oh, barrother. Here we go again, people...
-
- >>Cleopatra wasn't even that much Egyptian let alone black. Ptolmy, the founder
- >>of the dynasty to which Cleopatra belonged, was a Greek general who served
- >>under Alexander the Great.
- >.
- >.
- >And he misspelled Ptolemy. Listen, those folks did a lot of
- >racemixing, whether they married sisters and brothers politically or
- >in reality. A great-grandfather of Cleopatra's, I have read, was
- >black.
-
- >>The Moors, who conquered Spain, were a mix of Bebers and Arabs. They were
- >>not of a singular race and varied in color much the same way that ancient
- >>Egypt did.
- >.
- >.
- >Perhaps. But they certainly utilized some Hamitic brothers and
- >sisters from the south as viziers, generals, concubines and what
- >n ot...
-
- We can talk about what we HAVE dont for centuries. What are we doing
- now my friend? And Im getting flamed.
-