Quote from: Herbie on March 13, 2016, 11:34:00 PM
Quote from: Young on March 13, 2016, 10:11:21 PM
Quote from: Herbie on March 13, 2016, 09:51:58 PM
I love that image, but it's important to note that Egypt is in North Africa. A majority of Africans who were brought here as slaves had roots in West Africa. They were taken from that coast. So I can appreciate the message but can't clap for its accuracy.
West, North, etc. doesn't sound like much of a difference but it is.
Oh wow true. Didn't really think about it like that. Were any of the Egyptians taken or was it just west mostly?
I do like the message they're trying to tell tho
Mostly the west coast. That's why when we take DNA tests, a majority of us have countries in west Africa listed as major parts of our deep ancestral makeup.
I think a big part of that has to do with how easy it was to transport Africans from the West coast of Africa, back to the states, Caribbean and South America. It's a straight shot across the Atlantic. Instead of going further inland for east Africans, etc.
That's just a personal theory of mines, though.
Actually they took West Africans because of their impressive physical resilience and endurance. They tried to enslave everybody else but they were too weak.
You know they had West African slaves in India as well because the Desis couldn't take the work load.
As for the clothing. The stuff he shared on the first pic looks typically West African, don't think it's Egyptian wear, especially since the nation is so islamized and arabized nowadays.
But then even West African is not West African, hell even among the Yorubas are so many differences internally. So it's hard to draw the line of "my people", or not.
I think sth. Black/African is a good starting point. Whites wear French/Swedish mess to look fancy too, when in reality they might be Austrian.
