Holger Dansk wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:31:45 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
wrote:
wrote:
Bob LeChevalier wrote:
wrote:
Reading and writing were invented by whites and Asians.

Really? Got any names?

Confucious...

Not hardly.

Guess those people in Upper Egypt weren't reading and writing.

Mediterranean types were essentially white (as opposed to DAFN).

No. The people of Upper Egypt were also called Nubians. They
conquered and ruled Egypt for a millennium or so.

The pharaohs were Copts.

*Some* of the pharoahs were Copts--after the invention of Christianity,
anyway. In view of the fact that the flowering of Egyptian civilization
preceded the birth of Christianity by several thousand years, I think it is
quite safe to say that the rulers of upper Egypts between 3500 BCE and about
100 AD were most certainly *not* Copts or, in fact, Christians of any kind.

Moreover, of course, being a Christian (Coptic or otherwise) does not say
anything at all about one's ethnicity or skin color.
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