Of What Race Were The Ancient Egyptians? A Brief Guide To Correcting The Modern Falsification Of Ancient History And To Implementing The Scientific, Historical, And Cultural Legacy Of Cheikh Anta Diop

By Alexander Otis Matthews

The ancient Egyptian civilization made seminal contributions to the world in science, math, astronomy, religion, philosophy, and engineering, among other fields, that modern man still struggles to explain. Critically, the ancient Egyptians were careful to leave a record of their astounding achievements in the form of monuments, elaborate tombs and sarcophagi, art, and papyri illustrating complex mathematical and engineering formulas. When Europeans first "discovered" the remains left by the ancient Egyptians, Europe and America were in the midst of the Atlantic Slave Trade and all of that trade's theories about the white race's supposed superiority and primacy to all other races, with a focus on the black race as being inferior and primitive, without a history to speak of.

Therefore, while the fact of ancient Egypt being a black civilization was such common knowledge in the ancient world that the issue was never raised, those Europeans who became Egyptologists in the early 1800s could not attribute this highest of civilizations to a race they had declared savage and subhuman. From that point onwards, all European and Western Egyptologists made it their primary goal to deny that ancient Egypt had been a black civilization. They would proceed to devise all types of racial theories to support their invented version of history, calling the ancient Egyptians dark-skinned whites, arabs, asians, and any number of other terms meant to obfuscate the truth. When all else failed, they simply declared that the ancient Egyptians were such a mixture of races that the concept of race cannot be applied to them. These types of theories still abound in the internet and in European and American scholarship about ancient Egypt.

In the 1950s a young student from Senegal showed such promise in physics that he left Senegal to go to Paris to further his studies in the field. That young man, Cheikh Anta Diop, eventually developed a keen interest in African history, specifically the study of ancient Egypt. He chose as his thesis for his doctorate from the University of Paris the subject of ancient Egypt as a black civilization that forms the foundation of the black race's history in the same manner as the ancient Greek civilization does for the white race. In the course of developing his thesis Diop would become proficient in the fields of world history, prehistory, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology. Initially the University of Paris roundly rejected his thesis. Diop did not wilt under that initial rejection, and after two more attempts over a period of ten years, he would finally prevail on his argument after bringing enough objective and honest historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists to accompany him to appear before the committee and support the truth of his argument.

The methods Diop used to carry his thesis were ingenious. To wit, the records of history don't lie, and he meticulously researched the ancient record of Europe's own classical authors and thinkers from Antiquity, many of whom studied in Egypt and were contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians, and used their testimony to confirm his argument. From the mouths of Strabo, Aristotle, Diodorus of Sicily, and Herodotus himself, Europe's own Father of HIstory, came the truth that had been obscured for the past few centuries. Diop reminded Europe of what its own record- keepers had recorded about the race of the ancient Egyptians, a record that they cannot escape.

In this volume those records are explored, as well as the implications of those records, and the author produces a brief outline for the black race to adopt to translate Diop's ideas into practical institutions and systems that both the scholar and the layman can understand, and benefit from. The book aims to keep the legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop alive for the masses, and to reconnect those masses of black people to their oldest and greatest civilization.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alexander Otis Matthews
• Release date: Mar 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781370243891

Alexander Otis Matthews

The author, Alexander Otis Matthews, is a native of Washington DC, from a respected African American family involved in local government and education. He is the author of three books: " My-America: A Memoir On Justice And Race In The U.S. Federal Legal System", "Of What Race Were The Ancient Egyptians," and "Son of Qinghua: Shi Yong Wei's 15- Year Prison Saga After Being Falsely Convicted In The U.S. Federal Legal System." In addition to being a writer and amateur Egyptologist he has an M.A. in clinical and comm psychology and is a trained clinical therapist who became a real estate broker and developer in the early 1990s in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. In 2006 he purchased a project in an exclusive suburb in Clifton VA for 4.5 million dollars, and the lawyer for the seller disliked the author's racial and religious characteristics and began a four year campaign to have him investigated and prosecuted by his friends in federal law enforcement as a means of punishing him for owning a home in the private subdivision. The author was convicted in 2011 of wire fraud, but used his formal education to learn federal law and appeal his conviction on his own without an attorney. After litigating his appeal for five years, on November 5th, 2015 the Fourth Circuit finally vacated and remanded the case back to the lower court's district judge in Fourth Circuit Appeal 15-6656. The author has written this memoir to bring to the public's attention the grave issues of racial bias and injustice currently plaguing our nation's federal legal system. His story is an incredible one that he hopes will add to the public's knowledge about the very grave issues we face in our federal legal system. The hard copy book will be published and available in April 2017 by a London publisher, the paperback book will be published by Amazon on January 31st, 2017, and Smashwords is also publishing the ebook on January 31st, 2017 to its platform and all major ebook platforms. Most Americans have no idea what federal judges, prosecutors, and agents are getting away with against criminal defendants. Our current federal system system is generally not interested in winnowing truth from falsehood in the cases brought against defendants, this system wants convictions only, and is not interested in the other side of justice, the side which subjects the government's case to the rigorous scrutiny of habeas, which the U.S. Supreme Court has called a court's highest duty under law under our constitutional system. The few chapters on the author's website deal mostly with his family and educational background, but the remaining parts of the memoir addresses the issues of procedural and racial injustice carried against our nation's citizens when they find themselves entangled in the current system. Our legal system was designed as a two-way street, not a one-way street; we in this nation are subject to the penalties of the law when accused of breaking them, but we are also subject to relief from those penalties when our constitutional rights are violated during the criminal process. Habeas lies at the center of that critical guarantee, and was instituted by our wise Founding Fathers as an essential thread in the very fabric of our legal system. Habeas was put in place as a necessary counterbalance to the human error, bias, evil design, and negligence that all humans are prone to. The Founding Fathers knew of the dangers of unchecked power, and designed habeas to even and balance our legal playing field. The power we as a society currently vest in our federal prosecutors and judges has far exceeded the reasonable bounds the system was designed for. The author demonstrates in a painstaking manner in the memoir how the prosecutors and judge in his case tried at every turn to avoid his habeas claims, acting in square violation of their own law, and soiling the judicial soul of the legal system we ask others around the world to practice with us. If we could trust federal prosecutors, agents, and judges, the Founding Fathers wouldn't have felt the need to give us habeas. When confronted with the author's habeas claims, the government and the judge acted to brazenly obfuscate and avoid adjudication of those claims, knowing the claims had laid bare the illegality and corrupt nature of the case against him. The author encountered untold men in the system subjected to these and other types of legal charades, and realized it is all too common, thus he decided to write this memoir not only for himself, but for the many whose stories would never be told. Read a firsthand and in-depth account of what our federal legal system has come to represent far too often for our nation's citizens.

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Of What Race Were the Ancient Egyptians?

A Brief Guide To Correcting The Modern Falsification of Ancient History And To Implementing The Scientific, Historical, And Cultural Legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop

By

Alexander Otis Matthews

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To Kawthar, Ezana, Segen, Sara, Jihane, Yassine, Dr. Martina P. Matthews and Alexander Matthews, Sr.

To Joseph Purnell Pinkney, who lit the flame of African History within me as a young man

To Dr. Bruce Bridges, my professor and mentor who taught my first class in African History at NCSU

To Cheikh Anta Diop, an intellectual giant whose mind altered the course of world history and awoke us from our slumber

The ancient Egyptian civilization made seminal contributions to the world in science, math, astronomy, religion, philosophy, and engineering, among other fields, that modern man still remains in awe of. Critically, the ancient Egyptians were careful to leave a record of their astounding achievements in the form of monuments, elaborate tombs and sarcophagi, art, and papyri illustrating their complex mathematical and engineering formulas. When Europeans first discovered the remains left by ancient Egypt, Europe and America were in the midst of the Atlantic Slave Trade and all of that trade’s theories of the white race’s superiority and primacy to all other races, with focus on the black race as being inferior and primitive, without a history to speak of.

Therefore, while the fact of ancient Egypt being a black civilization was such common knowledge in the ancient world that the issue was never raised, those Europeans who became Egyptologists in the early 1800’s when the civilization of ancient Egypt had come to their attention, could not attribute this highest of civilizations to a race they had declared savage and subhuman. From that point onwards, all European and Western Egyptologists made it their primary goal to deny that ancient Egypt was a black civilization, devising all types of racial theories to attempt to support their new version of history, calling the ancient Egyptians dark-skinned whites, arabs, Asians, and any number of other terms meant to obfuscate the truth. When all else failed, they simply said their race couldn’t be determined, or that the ancient Egyptians were such a mixture of races the concept of race cannot be applied to them. These types of theories still abound on the internet and in European and American scholarship about ancient Egypt.

In the 1950’s a young student from Senegal showed such promise in physics that he went to Paris to further his studies in the field. That young man, Cheikh Anta Diop, eventually developed an interest in African history, and specifically the history of ancient Egypt. He chose as the thesis for his doctorate from the University of Paris the subject of ancient Egypt as a black civilization that forms the foundation of the black race’s classical civilization, in the same way the civilization of ancient Greece does for the white race. In the course of developing his thesis, Diop would become proficient in the fields of pre-history, ancient and middle European history, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology, all of which he very thoroughly showed his proficiency in in the formulation of that thesis. The University of Paris initially roundly rejected his thesis of a black ancient Egypt, it being part of the European mainstream educational establishment. Diop did not wilt under their initial rejection, and after two more attempts over a period of ten years, he was able to prevail on his thesis after finding enough objective and honest historians, archeologists, and anthropologists to accompany him to appear before the committee and support the truth of his arguments.

The methods Diop used to carry his thesis were ingenious. To wit, the records of history don’t lie, and he meticulously researched the ancient record of Herodotus, Europe’s own Father of History, and many other Greek and Latin classical authors of antiquity, many of whom were actual contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians who studied in Egypt, and used their testimony to confirm his argument. From the mouths of Strabo, Aristotle, Diodorus of Sicily, and Herodotus himself, came the truth that Europe and the West has attempted to obscure for the past few centuries. Diop reminded Europe of what its own record-keepers had recorded about the race of the ancient Egyptians, a record that they cannot escape. These classical personalities from European antiquity, and many others, confirm what was always known, but what has been so obscured in modern times.

In this volume those records are explored, as well as the implications of those records, and the author produces a brief outline for the black race to adopt to translate Diop’s ideas into practical institutions and systems that both the scholar and the layman can understand, and benefit from. The book aims to keep the legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop alive for the masses, and to reconnect those masses of black people to their oldest civilization.

From Ancient Egypt, from the oldest world civilization, came the scientific and technological knowledge, the religious ideas and cultural, artistic contributions which shaped the