Why do some African Americans try to appropriate North African History? From where do they get their information? (Page 2)

ElissaDido · 2017-10-17T23:05:16Z

I really don’t want to stir a race war here, but this topic really itches me and I have been noticing very ignorant claims online from many African American rights militants. I’m not even going to mention the famous ancient Egyptians were black argument (they were neither black nor white ). But some even claim that Moors and Carthaginians were black as-well (some even go as far as to claim that Phoenicians were black). I feel offended because I have already been yelled at by a black woman face to face and told that I’m not an original North African because I don’t have "African features" and that North Africa was originally Black. Original North Africans look more similar to me than to her... I have even read some crazy theories by African Americans claiming the reasons why us North Africans aren’t black anymore is because of the Eastern European slave trade by the Ottoman Empire which is a ridiculous claim for many reasons and mainly because modern day North Africans do not have Eastern European in them, and most DNA ancestry results of North Africans show that the only decent European input we have is Italian/Greek and Iberian. This feels like historical appropriation. We're neither black nor white... Masinassa king of Numidia (around modern day Algeria) Hannibal Barca of Carthage (around modern day Tunisia)

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Historical appropriation. I don't even know what to make of that. I can't keep up with all the new ways people find to get offended.

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