What is Reddit's opinion of Not Out Of Africa: How ""Afrocentrism"" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History (New Republic Book)?

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She's also an elf.

And not wearing any clothing remotely resembling Egyptian fashion of any era.

I suspect the artist doesn't actually know what "Egyptian" means.

However, many Egyptian queens were "white". Cleopatra VII, for example, was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The Ptolemys were Macedonian Greeks who ruled the country as an elite class after Alexander the Great conquered it. They were "white" (although, at the time, that's not a racial distinction anyone would have made). Even before the Ptolemies, Egypt had been a multicultural crossroads for literally thousands of years and its racial makeup was thoroughly varied and mixed.

This, however, is a charged issue because African American scholars in the '70s began pushing an "afrocentric" agenda that attempted to reinterpret the history of the ancient world. (Check out Not Out of Africa for a pretty good survey of the issue from a rational viewpoint.) In addition to claiming that Alexander invaded the city of Alexandria in order to loot its library so that his childhood teacher Aristotle could steal the knowledge it contained and pretend that Greeks had invented a bunch of stuff that was actually "stolen" from Sub-Saharan Africans (none of which makes any sense whatsoever), they've also pushed hard on the idea that Egypt was actually a black nation founded by a Sub-Saharan civilization.

This book informed me about the Afrocentrist myths: "Not out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History" by Mary K. Lefkowicz. Complete 'red-pill'. Amazon link

also she said about another of her books: > Although I had been completely unaware of it, there was in existence a whole literature that denied that the ancient Greeks were the inventors of democracy, philosophy, and science. There were books in circulation that claimed that Socrates and Cleopatra were of African descent, and that Greek philosophy had actually been stolen from Egypt… some of these ideas were being taught in schools and even in universities... My article in the ‘New Republic’ soon propelled me into the center of a bitter controversy… I found myself fighting on the front lines of one of the most hotly contested theaters in the Culture Wars…

The attempt to redefine "racism" to mean only "institutional racism" is deliberate propaganda arising out of academia. If you trace it back to its roots in the '70s and '80s, you find a lot of the same people who were also pushing the claim that the Ancient Greeks and Arabs stole philosophy and mathematics from Sub-Sahara Africans.

(If you're interested in that latter insanity, I recommend checking out Not Out of Africa, which is a brilliant repudiation of the nonsense. If you enjoy watching Bill Nye dismember climate-deniers, this is the kind of rationalist porn you'll enjoy.)

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Out-Africa-Afrocentrism-Republic/dp/046509838X