TODAY'S BLACK EGYPTIANS: 2006
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*PHOTOS: The Ancient Egyptian Type in the Flesh (Very Educational)
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About a year ago, one of my uncles wrote to me from Egypt, quite bitterly.
He said:People are so busy discussing and fighting over whether or not
the ancient Egyptians were "black" ---that they forgot we're still here.

We still exist. The Arabs who claim to be Egyptians have not exterminated ALL of us yet. Kola, you live in America, you're somebody over there. Why don't you say something? You're only claiming SUDAN. But that's not right. Your father was an Egyptian.

And he's right. Because of my own bitterness...my hatred and loathing
for my father's country...I have been remiss to mention anything about the country.

My only real memory is a very painful one.
the memory of my White
Arab grandmother going to the Mullahs
after my birth parents had been executed
in SUDAN for speaking out against slavery
to get PERMISSION to put me up for
adoption (as adoption is primarily
illegal in EGYPT)...because of course,
my black skin would have exposed her

--Miss Najet Kolbookek---as having BLACK
African blood in her family's veins.
A fact that she, unlike my Uncle, has
spent her whole life trying to hide
from the Arab Muslim social set.

BUT my uncle is right.
The true Egyptians--the Black Egyptians
do still exist, and instead of debating
about the "ancient" people....why do
we never force the WHITE MEDIA to show
images of the black ones?

Why is it that in America--only the
WHITE ARAB INVADER groups, the BEJA
and the Noor are ever shown on television
or in magazines?

Why do they insist on painting EGYPT
as a WHITE nation with no connection
to Africa?

Clearly..these photos of EGYPTIAN
Black people---photos that are NOW
TODAY---demonstrate that Egypt is/was not
a White nation. There are millions
of BLACK EGYPTIANS who still exist.


If I had not been
put up for adoption by
my colorstruck Egyptian grandmother

---I would never have been
adopted by the most wonderful
people in the world---my Black American
family...the JOHNSONS of Washington D.C.

And I would be somewhere
on the Nile River,
and like all other BLACK people of
Egyptian blood...I would be INVISIBLE.

But because I am a BLACK WOMAN who
is now an American citizen....I am
able to bring some clarity through
my work and activism....and this has
been extremely painful

....because as my good friend, pointed out to me
---AMERICA doesn't want any image
that is black to represent the
Nile River Valley....and he
told me that this is one of the
reasons that AMERICAN media has
been so hostile towards me--because
I am too black and my hair is NAPPY
as the Black Americans say. I am not
the right "image"

....and just like they WHITENED
the recent exhibition of KING TUT
when it toured California (and for
those of us who are North African,
we know full well that the CHARCOAL
Nubian Queen Tiye was TUT's mother

and just like they fought against the Scientists
who reconstructed the face of NEFERTITI
only to discover that she was a dark
brown black woman....

The Americans are very
racist against the idea of EGYPT
being represented by those of us who
are BLACK.

For those Egyptians reading
this post, I, Kola Boof, can promise
you that I have been treated like trash
by the American media---and because of
the controversies surrounding my life,
they even tried to pretend that I do not
exist. That I was made up and not a real
person. And they have slandered my name
with every chance they could slander it.

I tell you all....as AFRICANS...that
we must begin to recognize that there is
a hideous racism in [some of these] *American
people--far worse than the African immigrants
have wanted to believe. They are not honest
people....and as they have falsely branded me
a LIAR...I know their real face now.