This is the first time in history that I am seeing people celebrating something that has lost credibility
And the funny part is that they paid for it 🤣😂🤣
Cleopatra. You picked Cleopatra.
Out of three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history, three thousand years of pharaohs, pyramids, medical texts, mathematical papyri, architectural achievements that engineers still study today, you reached for the one ruler whose dynasty wasn’t even Egyptian.
The Ptolemaic dynasty was founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general of Alexander the Great.
His descendants intermarried obsessively, and we mean obsessively, sibling-marriage-as-policy obsessively, within their own dynasty, while also marrying into the Seleucid royal family, founded by another Macedonian general, Seleucus I Nicator.
What the Ptolemies were not, in their dynastic origins, was indigenous Egyptian. They were a Hellenistic foreign dynasty that ruled Egypt for its last 275 years before Roman annexation.
At the very end.
Before them came the Persian conquests.
Before the Persians came over two and a half millennia of Egyptian civilization.
So your argument against the Africanness of ancient Egypt is: the last dynasty, installed by a Macedonian conqueror, whose ruling family maintained its predominantly Greek bloodline, wasn't indigenous Egyptian.
That's like arguing Britain was never Celtic because William the Conqueror was Norman.
You have just independently confirmed that foreign conquerors took control of a civilization that had existed in Africa for millennia before they arrived.
Thank you, Mike. You walked in to rebut the argument and handed it ammunition instead.
The pyramids were not built by Macedonians.
They were built by ancient Egyptians. Africans. More than 2,500 years before Cleopatra was even born.
The lie about Africa was not a small lie carelessly told.
It was a structural lie, deliberately constructed, institutionally maintained, academically defended.
It required the renaming of things. Egypt became, in the Western imagination, not quite African. The pyramids became a "mystery," because the alternative was crediting Africans with their construction, which the framework could not accept.
It required the discrediting of Arab and African scholarship about African history.
It required the dismissal of oral traditions as legend rather than history.
It required deciding that writing on paper counted as "civilization" and other forms of knowledge transmission did not.
It required, essentially, redesigning the criteria for what counted as "civilization" so that the places being colonized would fail the test.
The test was not neutral.
The test was written to produce a specific result.
And that result was: "Africa has no history worth the name."
Therefore what colonialism destroyed was not civilization. Therefore what colonialism did was not destruction.
This is not an accusation of individual ignorance.
This is a description of institutional architecture, built over centuries, maintained by people who understood exactly what it was for.
@naraniesta8 Already Unfollowed that cunt team, fuck zioporta, what he did to my team. I hurt me knowing my GOAT will retire soon, i wish he never played for this looser team
@robbiewh1198205@zaidinvoid Where did you get 30k numbers, blablah, check tweets from literally CIA chief saying they sent weapons to protesters or check palantir ceo calling for protesters to use weapon against iranians. But i know you wont becz you dont care about truth
Africa does not need intellectuals who simply translate Western thinking into African languages.
We need scholars who begin with African experiences, challenge inherited assumptions, and produce ideas capable of changing the material conditions of our people.