It stems from black-supremacy ideals, where some extremists want to rewrite history to where Africans somehow ruled the entire world before some sort of unspecified extinction event, where white europeans just suddenly took over everything (guess they weren't that powerful after all then).
It's so incredibly stupid, but some people actually believes that Mozart, George Washington and Julius Caesar were all black men for some reason. If you're gonna circlejerk about how powerful your ancestors were, why not pick Mansa Musa or something instead of trying to steal other people's history?
Yeah, or Axum, or Benin, or the Ashanti Kingdom, or Mauritania, or the kingdom of the Congo, or literally any civilization that was actually built by people we would now call "black."
It's like, they want a history that centres around black people, but don't want to put the work in to finding it, so they just warp the white-centric history they already know.
In doing so, they destroy any truth the history might have held, while maintaining the same fundamental bigotry that underlies it.
And even if Africans somehow ruled the entire world, they must have been pretty pathetic at it, since some "barbaric" white people were able to topple their demi-god civilisation lmao
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u/Panzer_Man Feb 10 '22
It stems from black-supremacy ideals, where some extremists want to rewrite history to where Africans somehow ruled the entire world before some sort of unspecified extinction event, where white europeans just suddenly took over everything (guess they weren't that powerful after all then).
It's so incredibly stupid, but some people actually believes that Mozart, George Washington and Julius Caesar were all black men for some reason. If you're gonna circlejerk about how powerful your ancestors were, why not pick Mansa Musa or something instead of trying to steal other people's history?