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Portland Observer Thursday, September 7, 1978 Page 3 t Black? ( Was Snow White white? ) W h ite Comedian* in Black Face. Nothing chongos bot 'The nomo of the gome’ by McKinley Burt Well, was Snow White white? The best approach to an examination o f a subject o f this nature is firs t to establish a later and more familiar framework o f reference, and, then, allow the reader to determine that the obvious is indeed obvious! The visit of the treesures of King Tutankhamen to the United States was an opportunity to see a part of the heritage of Bieck Americene. However, the feet that the King was Black is e well guarded secret, depriving ell Americans of the opportunity to study end appreclete the con tribution of Black people to western civilization. Those o f us who have relied upon the alleged in te g rity o f many historians have been treated not u n lik e the 19th-century theatre crowds in Ireland. O f all the white American minstrel shows that reaped fortunes in Europe with their Black face im itations o f A fro-A m erican song and dance, none were more successful than the old Christy M in strels who came to Dublin, Ireland in 1859 (we now have the new Christy Minstrels). The Black a rtis ts w ho fled American slavery to find economic opportunity in Europe were soon to discover that, as usual, the master HOWTO HABIT. Relax. A t a W eight W atchers" m e e tin g y o u 'll learn h ow to deal w ith stress w ith o u t e atin g your w ay o ut of it. Join a m e e tin g today. The Authority J O IN A N Y C L A S S A N Y T IM E ! Carpenter* Hall 2226 N. Lombard St. Mon. 7:00p .m Thur* 9:30a.m . Emanuel Hospital 2801 N Gantenbein Emanuel East, Hoorn 8 1 Thur*. 7:00p.m . Maranatha Church 1222 N.E. Skidmore Sat 9:30a.m For further information call Collect Portland (6031 297 1021. W eekdays 8:30 6:30 YOU’RE THIS CLOSE TO LOSING WEIGHT V» was one step behind, determined to continue his exploitations and theft. And this happened despite the warn ings . . . to the Irish theatre-going public by ‘ Freemans Journal’ that they should wait and see. . . “ A practical company o f real niggers with genuine woolly heads and skins o f sable that could not be washed white. " (Cambridge Univer sity Journal, 1973 — Locally, at Port land State University Library.) W ith the fo u n d in g o f the Eighteenth Dynasty, the beginning o f the New K ingdom w ith the Africans driving the Hyksos invaders back to Asia (1567 B.C.), the most spectacular era in w orld h isto ry began. F o rty centuries later Napoleon standing before the Great Pyramid cried out to his soldiers and scholars, “ Behold The greatness that looks down upon you!” — and they prom ptly proceeded to load their ships w ith the treasures o f m athem atics, science, je w e lry, astronomy, furniture, clothing styles and whatever else they could lay their greedy hands upon, carting it all o ff to Europe to form the basic collec tio n o f the recently established Louvre Museum. T heir booty, in fact, sparked a second Renaissance in all o f the above disciplines and crafts. And you “ behold ,” dear reader, the empire style o f furniture and dress and the p o la r to rec tangular coordinates o f the Pyra m id called M odern p ro je c tiv e mathematics. (For this era o f Tut-o- mania see, Sewell, ‘ Egypt Under The Pharaohs’ ; Zudwig, ‘Napoleon’) and so we come to meet the genius o f the dynasty o f King T ut, the civilized w orld coming to fu ll flow er here among the melanin and sickle-cell saturated stone masons o f the Nile, not among the p itifu l baked-mud structures o f some strained and racist concept o f a near Eastern “ Fertile Crescent” . Does a Milwaukee High School basketball team belong on the same court as the Harlem Globetrot ters? ‘ Freeman’s Journal* said no to this proposition in Ireland last cen tury. (See Diop, ‘African Origin of C ivilization’ ; Marius Fontaes, ‘ Les Egyptes’ .) But the lie is put down because o f this 1803 expedition to A fric a by Napoleon for the prime purpose of securing these treasures (an entire ship was devoted to scholars, ar chaeologists, scientists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians) — and, only incidently to fight the British, albeit unsuccessfully. In consequence neither King Tut, nor his magnificent woolly-haired, sable-skinned tribe and their seminal outpourings o f technical and cultural genius can ever be “ washed w hite” by peripatetic new minstrels. On this tour, and even more em phatically, at The Louvre and British Museums, you w ill see that almost every statue, bust, stele and engraving has the fu ll-lip p e d , alm ond-eyed, s o ft nosed, lo n g headed, b ig -fo o te d , steatopygic behind (protruding butt) attributes o f the African Presence. (See Carter, ‘ The Tom b o f T utankham en*; B u lle tin o f The M e tro p o lita n Museum o f A rt: ‘The Egyptian Ex pedition, 1925-27’ .) I f this is not enough — and there are some whose behavior has been so modified by these deliberate racist omissions from our history, that they cannot perceive the w hite upon grains o f rice — then, I next shall solicit testimony from the vaunted Greeks who surely at this early time (for them — 1500 B.C.) . . . must have suffered fro m massive hemorrhoids, sitting around upon their stones while King Tut and his folks hung out on canopied beds w ith fine linens, on m agnificent chaise lounges and comfortable, con toured chairs and thrones. A nd, when sipping brews on the patio, en sconced their ample (stc-ato-py-gic) behinds in the folds o f canvas covered, folding lawn furniture. But you may see all o f this for yourself at the King Tut Exhibit. What was happening in Greece and the rest o f Europe at the time? I suggest that the reader check at the public library: Richter, G. ‘ The Fur niture o f the Greeks, Estruscans and Romans,’ Loridon, Phaidon Press, 1966 — and then — when you have finished giggling, take a gratifying trip through the pages o f Baker, Hollis S. ‘ Furniture in the Ancient W o rld : O rigins and E v o lu tio n s, 3100-475 B .C .,’ N .Y ., M acM illan, 1965. And there it is; the African craftsmen o f what many students are beginning to call the ‘ Big-Bad-Black 18th D ynasty’ also invented the tongue and groove jo in t — • the rab bet and m iter — the mortise and tenon — and on, ad infintum (well, o f course they did, that’s the way the fu rn itu re in the E x h ib it is put together). NOW FOR THE GREEK TESTIM ONY A. “ He (Theuth or Thoth), they proved was the first to invent num bers and arithmetic, and geometry and astronomy, draughts moreover . . . and above all letters! Now the whole o f Egypt, A frica at that time was under the sway o f the God Tham us, who resided near the capital city o f the upper regions (Nubia) which the Greeks call Egyp tian Thebes . . . the God himself they call A m m o n .” (P la to in ‘ The Phaedrus’ , page 77: Socrates speaks.) B. " . . . I ought to warn you that you must not be surprised i f you should hear Greek names being given to foreigners” (Africans). “ Solon . . made an investigation in to the meaning o f names, and found that the early Egyptians in writing them down, had translated them into their own language . . . therefore if you hear names (in A frica) such as a rj used in this country (Greece) you must not be surprised . . . ” (Plato in the Timaeus: Critics ad dresses Socrates.) C. l “ The caste o f interpreters is in several respects, remarkable. It arose in the period o f Psammetichus . . . He left a considerable number o f Egyptian children in Greece to have them instructed in the Greek language and manners. (Herodotus, Book II, 154) C.2 “ There was national dislike o f these innovations . . . these Greek- educated children with Greek names, were no longer regarded as forming part o f the A fric a n nation . . . nothing was left fo r them but to form a separate caste o f themselves. (Herodotus, Book II, 178,179.) It is readily apparent that the deliberate om ission o f these documented facts from American classrooms, text books, en cyclopedias, movies, television, and all other forms o f instructive com m unications could not help but achieve its goal — to produce large numbers o f the public so thoroughly brainwashed (many Black as well as white) that they are able to look right at King Tut and his peers and not perceive that i f the 18th Dynasty were in the United States today they would be red-lined from the better, ‘ leverage’ real estate, need Small Business A d m in istra tio n ‘ guaran teed’ loan to finance a plant to manufacture the furniture they in vented, and then would have to beg the craft unions w ith their ‘ white male’ only constitutions to permit a quota (goal) o f their relatives to work. It is not d iffic u lt to project that within a short time a reporter would be inquiring in a network interview “ M r. Tut, how is it that in this land o f opportunity, so many o f your people are on welfare, just plain don’ t want to work? And, this thing about your I.Q ., we’ re beginning to th in k th a t, app a re n tly, you are uneducable . . . there is a strong correlation . . . and crime! . . . No, we w ill not discuss the ‘ G .S .A .’ , I ’m in control here!” Now, the citations I have given from the Greek, A and B, are self- explanatory on th e ir face, the ‘ A frican O rigin o f C iviliza tio n ’ is real, not fancied. Citations C, and C2 are a different matter. For they deal with what is close to being the most tragic disaster that the Black . . race has ever suffered: A loss o f African identity that not only per mitted the easy obfuscation o f the true ethnic background o f King Tut ' and the other giants o f the great 18th Dynasty. They range from w orld shaping Queen Hatshepsut who gave the best o f modern cities their clean, urban panorama, the first to hire city gardeners and to specify fountains, parks and soaring, tree-lined boulevards — to precedent-setting Akhraten who dared not only to close down the polytheistic shop o f a score o f com peting deities, but moved the action down the pike to his own base where he established the then m ind-boggling concept that (Please turn to Page 8 Column I) Notice Thothmes III, called "Alexander the Great of Ancient Egypt" reigned from 1500 to 1445 B C. The great warrior had Kushite affinities, but his family lived in Sudan before he ascended to the throne. The C om m unity C o a litio n fo r School Integration is currently spon soring a series o f seven Community Forums to 1) share new findings, 2) hear citiz e n ’ s responses and , discuss possibilities for recommen dations. The first two forums w ill be at Franklin High School Cafeteria, September 11th and at Grant High School Cafeteria, September 13th, 7:30 p.m. To see how he would look in modern dress, a student drew this picture of Thothmes III — a com posite from photos of the statue and his mummy. (From Ebony Magazine) "Ancient Egypt," Alexander Cham berlain said, "knew (the Negro) bond and free, his blood flowed in the veins of not a few of the mighty Pharaohs." H. Vacuum values. Saia and* Saturday, Saptambar 6. Powerhead sale ! C hoose the features, price you want. $ 1 5 o ff. Wards upright vacuum deep-cleans your rugs. 64 88 Regularly 79.95 • Beater-bar brush pounds out dirt as it fluffs carpet nap • Head adjusts to 4 pile heights • 3-pos handle for easy reach • Toe touch on/off switch $3 0 o f f . 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