Groundbreaking Doc Uncovers Truths Behind Egypt's Exemplary Black Leaders

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• KaTehuti | July 25, 2012 11:00 AMReply

  Why not the 1st Dynasty but the 25th which is common knowledge??
  Narmer who started Egypt's Dynastic period was a Kushite.

• T'Challa | July 25, 2012 1:10 PM

  Agreed. White historians acknowledge the 25th Dynasty because the evidence is too clear and "recent" to deny. But it's often portrayed as a "brief" period of rule, towards the decline of the Egyptian empire when they had already been invaded by various countries for hundreds of years.
  
  I'm still waiting on that doc/movie that unambiguously shows the original, founding, Egyptians as Black Africans. Their own legends describe their ancestors as having come from the South, which would be present day Sudan. Still, I'll check this doc out..

• ALM | July 24, 2012 8:55 PMReply

  What? What? To hear Hollywood tell it, everyone in Egypt (including Cleopatra) looked more like Russell Crowe (who is scheduled to play Noah in Noah's Ark) than Djimon Honsou or Angela Bassett. I like Russell Crowe as an actor, but this gate keeping mentally of Hollywood that keeps the truth out is just OLD and TIRED.

• CareyCarey | July 24, 2012 6:47 PMReply

  Historians, Ministers, Scholars and Colored Folks all have asked "Why has the story been downplayed for so long?" Answer: He who has the pen has the power and to the victor goes the spoils. Simple as that! "lets keep them dumb so they'll settle for crumbs" has been the motto of many white people -- but all goodbyes are not gone. Listen, Chosen By God: The Great Pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty, is sure to be highly entertaining and quite enlightening. It will be on my MUST SEE list. However, let me add a cup of coffee and a slice of dessert to this smorgasbord, as told by another black man. First man to die for the flag we now hold high, Crispus Attucks was a black man. The ground were we stand with the flag held in our hand, was first the red man's land. The guide of a ship on the first Columbus trip, Pedro Alonzo Nino, was a brown man. The liberty that we defend for with justice not for all men, history will repeat again. It's time we learned this world was made for all men. Heart surgery was first done successfully by a black man, Dr Daniel Hale Williams. farm workers rights were lifted to new heights by a brown man, Caesar Chavez. First clock to be made in America was created by a black man, Benjamin Banneker. The Scout who used no chart helped lead Lewis and Clark, was a red man, Sacagawea. But check game, if we listen to one voice we'd hear the great one line stories of the leader with a pen who signed his name to free all men, was a white man, Abraham Lincoln. And, she who led countless slaves to freedom on the underground rairoad, was a black woman, Harriet Tubman. Yeah right, we pledge allegiance all our lives to the magic colors Red, blue and white. But we all must be given the liberty that we defend to tell the whole story. For with justice not for all men, history will repeat again. It's time we learned this here world was made for, and by, all men. ~ Stevie Wonder. Why has the story been downplayed for so long? That's the question historians, ministers, and archeological and anthropological experts explore in the 90-minute DVD.

• urbanauteur | July 24, 2012 3:37 PMReply

  This is great stuff for white paint removal, and/or the dominant culture's xenophobia.

• Said in Los Angeles | July 24, 2012 3:15 PMReply

  Good stuff..good stuff.... Question, which minority culture and minority leadership is being referred to? Will Smith has been trying to produce this project for several years now, a team of brothers by UCLA already have a completed script, and National Geographic portrayed the Pharaoh with a detailed story and an awesome cover.....its been been out there and known by our brothers and sisters not ashamed of their connection to the continent..just my flow..

• AccidentalVisitor | July 24, 2012 8:03 PM

  Yep to all of the above. And there have been other mags to cover this particular run of pharaohs as well as learning series DVDs (Ex: The Great Courses). The info is out there, not a lot of people pay attention. Sure it doesn't get discussed much and thus remain relatively unknown. But then again the vast majority of history is unknown (sometimes lost) to most of us modern day citizens.

• Gary C. | July 24, 2012 3:13 PMReply

  Can we just have the stories of the great African rulers delivered from an just a historical aspect instead of with religious connotations.