For those of you who would really like to KNOW Black ancient history, there is an on-line book just up, titled "Ancient man and his first civilizations".

I covers Egypt/Nubia, Canaan (Israel), Sumer (Iraq), Elam (Iran), Etruria (Italy), Minoan (Greece), Indus Valley (India), The Mon, Khmer, Chams, of S.E. Asia, the Xia/Shang of China, The Olmec/Xia of Mexico, plus a few others, Black civilizations all.

It covers the dawn of man to the end of these first civilizations. Some may feel that it doesn’t have enough detail – but hey, it’s covering several thousand years, who wants to do THAT much reading – lot’s of pictures though.

But the real kicker is at the end of each civilization, that’s when you find out what happened to the people (many surprises here. Even if you skim the rest, don’t miss the ends.

I offer this because, though some of you were heading in the right direction, it's clear that you didn't have all the facts. The site's at http://www.realhistoryww.com

Each one, Teach one: I told you, now you pass it on.

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Originally posted by passingthru: the Xia/Shang of China, ........................ Black civilizations all. .

A fascinating site, just up my street.
But I think the chinese may have something to say about the above quote

The Chinese nor the Japanese dispute that the original inhabitants were black. True they do not advertise the fact, but they don't dispute it either.

The only people that don't know Black history are Black people (and I'm talking educated people here). Which seems to say something about the only blacks left in the west,(sub Saharan types like us). But that's another story.

By the way, everything presented on the site is true and verifiable. Things may seem strange to you, but that's only because you never knew. That's why I told you about it, and asked you to pass it on.

I think two relevant publications to this thread are:
1) Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History

2) Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes ~ One analysis of the book is: "Afrocentrism, asserts Oxford historian Howe in this forceful scholarly critique, is a dogmatic ideology promoting a mythical vision of the past that involves an erroneous belief in fundamentally distinct African ways of knowing and feeling. Using archaeological and other studies, he refutes the claims of influential Afrocentrist Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop, who held that ancient Egypt was a black African civilization and that a single cultural system unified the African continent. Howe deftly exposes the shaky underpinnings of Cornell historian Martin Bernal's popular tome, Black Athena, which claims that classical Greece was massively indebted to Egyptian and Semitic sources, and to Egyptian colonization. Tracing the evolution of Afrocentric views from 19th-century pamphleteers, romantic anthropologists, occultists and political activistsAboth black and whiteAthrough contemporary Black Muslim doctrine and what he considers the distortions of U.S. academics such as Leonard Jeffries, Ron Karenga and Molefi Asante, Howe finds that much Afrocentric writing "slips from ethnocentrism and neoconservatism into full-blown racism, sexism and homophobia." A major contribution to the debate, this dense study will appeal mostly to scholars."

You may be a black person with a victim complex but that doesn't make it OK to nick everyone else's heritage (you obviously think having black skin, as opposed to white or yellow/brown skin, makes for a different heritage).

I second Martin Bernal's "Black Athena". One of the most interesting books I have read.