birth of the negro myth

​The African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop 

In chapter two, 
The Persians have conquered Egypt in 525 and the control of the land never went to the native Black Egyptians again. With the invasion came mixing of blood, languages and customs. The native Black Egyptian became slowly subordinate in their own society. The new bloodlines and cultures slowly took over slowly changing the face of Egypt as we know it today.  The current people of Egypt are a result of invasion and assimilation and as a result, Egypt became, ''ruined by all these successive invasions, Egypt, the cradle of civilization for 10,000 years while the rest of the world was in steeped in barbarism, would no longer play a political role.'' Diop., page 10).  

The invasions created a reality that forgot and suppressed the true ancestors of the land. The open door policy Egypt had with her neighbours in the ancient world produced current Egypt. Representation of power shifted to the new class of people. The new faces of Egypt played a huge role in whitewashing and Arabising the history of ancient Kemit. Currently in Egypt people of darker skin are prosecuted, abused and often have their organs harvested. Native Black Egypt and the current one have severed their connection. The true sons and daughter of the soil are often at the bottom of the totem pole in current Egyptian society. Dark skin became a mark of the lower class and a prerequisite for being denied access to humanity, rights and representation in current Egypt. 

The African Arab, Middle Eastern Arab and White European were operating from the same mindset in the mistreatment of native Africans because ''the desire to legitimize colonization and the slave trade - in other words, the social condition of the Negro in the modern world - engendered an entire literature to describe the so-called inferior traits of the Black.'' Diop., page 25). Both the Arab and the white world needed black labour, access to cheap resources and colonization of knowledge. They had to reduce the people into a subhuman category because you can't consciously abuse people that you consider human or equal to you. 

It is now apparent that the vilification, demonization, otherization and inferiorization of the African, Black and Negro identity became aggressive after the fall of Egypt. Because Egypt was important to the rest of the African continent. Colonizing and changing the intrinsic nature of ancient Kemit produced a plethora of problems that we are still dealing with today. 

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