You Tube and Afrikan people

The computer age has brought about some monumental changes in social  habits. There have been studies showing that people are starting to  spend more time on the computer than watching television. This can be a  good and/or bad thing, depending on how it is used. There are very  valuable educational sites, as well as extremely negative sites. The  information is endless. It is so easy to get sidetracked. You go on your  computer for one thing, see something that captures your interest, and  before you know it, you have gone five, ten, or so places before you get  back to your original reason for getting on the computer, if you  remember at all.
What has been a fairly recent innovation, just a few  years, is the proliferation of Afrikan information. This summer, when  we lost one of our greatest scholar/teacher/thinkers, Dr. Asa Hilliard, I  looked on You Tube to see if there were any visual sites with him on  it. There was none. This was appalling to me, so my life-partner, Isidra  Person-Lynn and I took an excerpt of an interview I conducted with Dr.  Asa, added some graphics and put in on You Tube (go to: In Memory of Dr.  Asa Hilliard). Now, there are several. More than that, there are  hundreds of videos uploaded which are related to Afrikan history,  culture and people. One can learn a lot at these various sites.
The  other side of that coin, each video on You Tube allows you to make a  comment. Looking at a site on You Tube that talked about the ancient  Kamites (Egyptians) being black, some of the comments, not all, were  very negative. A few will be illustrated here. No effort is made to edit  them, so you will see the comments exactly as they were written.
The  first one is by an Arab woman who basically denies that the ancient  Kamites were black. This is a futile attempt by black Africans and  black Americans to lay claim to a culture/language civilization that  does not belong to them, Egyptians in general were never a black race,  Nigerians or people from the Congo have absolutely no bearing of the  splendor of ancient Egyptian society, Slavery is only the history of  black.
The ancient language of Egyptian was and is a language  closest related to the Semitic languages of Arabic, Assyrian/Akkaidian,  Aramaic and Berber, not to the sub Saharans languages of black Africa,  we even still use some pharonic words in our slang and we are the only  Arabic country now talk Arabic but with a special slang anyone can know  that we are Egyptian from it.
The next is from a Caucasian man who  denies that Afrikan people even have a history. Neegrows dont have a  history because they never developed a written language. Written  African history is mostly contained in the police blotters and court  criminal files of whatever country they infest. Thats black history in a  nutshell.
Negroes -because they have NO history came from mud huts  and inbred mutants they cry and make up the most absurd myths. Listen  rubber lip Negroes go back to west Africa in your mud hut where youll  be at home with tribal killing, no running water or electricity and your  primitive way of life. USA and Europe has given it to cushy for you  savages.
The last is how an individual attempts to use linguistic  science to show that black Afrikans had nothing to do with ancient  Kemet. The analysis of discrete dental traits is often used to  determine biological relationships of populations using dental remains.  The recent work of J.D. Irish (Irish 1997, 1998a, 1998b) examines  several African populations and concludes that Egyptian populations show  more dental similarity to modern North Africans, Arabs, and even  Europeans, than to Sub-Saharan Africans.
What this demonstrates is  not only the ignorance and racism on You Tube, as relates to Afrikan  people, but that even when legitimate information about Afrikan history  and culture, no matter the credibility of the information, there are  some who will never accept that fact that the ancient Kamites were  black. To do so, certifies that Afrikan people created civilizations,  the sciences and the arts. Under the philosophy of white supremacy, that  can never be accepted.
– Dr. Kwakus class, Afrikan World  Civilizations (Part II), is conducted on Friday evenings, 7-9 p.m. at  Kaos Studios in Leimert Park. You can now pay per class. For details go  to: www.drkwaku.com.