(05-18-2025, 11:19 AM)gortex Wrote:Quote:Posted by BIAD
Ah yes, but it seems others wish those days to be... 'slightly different'!
I think the motive for that book is exemplified by the black woman giving the Black Power salute on the cover.
I believe the woman on the cover you refer to, in the lower right corner, is supposed to represent Shirley Chisholm, a notorious American radical black communist from the 1960's and 1970's. She's not even British.
Sub Saharan Africans have been pushing for several years in the U.S. to culturally appropriate the achievements of other cultures, a phenomenon I've encountered in person. For example, American Blacks claim that the "original" American Indians were black. They claim that Cleopatra was black as well, and lay claim to Egyptian civilization partly upon that basis - but Cleopatra was a Ptolemaic Greek, not even really Egyptian, much less sub Saharan African.
There are entire websites devoted to the glorious, but fictitious, cultural achievements of sub Saharan Africans that are actually culturally appropriated from most other cultures on the planet.
The first people provably in Britain were probably Homo Antecessor. Their footprints were found on a beach on the eastern coast of England (Happisburgh?). No one knows what color their skin was.
Then there were the Heidelbergensis people in Britain, demonstrated by finds at Boxgrove and Clacton-On-Sea. No one knows what color their skin was, either.
After that, the Nenderthals came to Britain. Genes for pale skin, red hair, and blue eyes have been isolated from Neanderthal specimens. So, probably not "black", definitely not sub Saharan African black
Cheddar Man is an interesting case. I happen to carry some of Cheddar Man's DNA, so I have an interest. People think Cheddar man was "black" due to a reconstruction bust made of him. The bust looks more like what is referred to as "Asian" in Britain rather than sub Saharan African - dark sin, coarse, wavy, dark hair, but otherwise typically Caucasian features, just covered in darker skin.
However, that is only a guess, based upon a partial DNA profile. Skin, hair, and eye pigmentation are more complex than that. They are governed by a multiplicity of genes, so we can't simply pick one and run with that for colorations. Many genes are involved, with some modifying the traits and strengths of others. For example, my DNA profile says that I have extremely pale skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. The closest thing to match that profile are my eyes, which are a steel gray. My hair, before it went gray, was as black as a banker's heart. My skin varies with the time of year, but is never extremely pale. At the height of summer, I could also be described as "black", in the Cheddar man sense. I was actually standing guard duty at a bank one summer day when a black woman came up to me and asked me to hold out my arm. I did, and when she laid her arm aside mine, I was actually darker skinned than she was.
I happen to believe that "race" does exist, and can be proven scientifically despite the left-wing academics who claim it ain't so. I've always gotten a kick out of the fact that they can claim race does not exist, and decry racism all in the same breath, as if it DOES exist. That is a classic example of "cognitive dissonance" - the astounding ability to believe two things that are polar opposites are both true at the same time.
But no, Britain has never been a "black country", great-great grandpa Cheddar notwithstanding. The Neanderthals were not black, the European Hunter-Gatherers were not black, the Neolithic Farmers were not black, and the Bronze Age people like the Bell-Beakers were not black. All of that can be shown by DNA, all the way back to the Neanderthals. So, of course ancient sites in Europe like Stonehenge, Newgrange, and Carnac could not have been built by black folks.
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