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Black History Revisionists.

I think some black history revisionists indirectly hate black people. By claiming identities that are not black as black, they put a clown hat on black society worldwide & not just wherever they are. 

Black history revisionists are simply liars. Their historical sources are unclear so for them to claim as fact what has no conclusion is doing everyone harm & not just the black race. Three things such people claim is that 1) Egyptian Pharoahs were originally black, 2) Moors who ruled over Spain were black & 3) Yasuke, an alleged black gentleman in ancient Japan, was a samurai. So here are the facts from my findings: 

• Only five Egyptian Pharoahs were black: Only the 25th dynasty of Ancient Egypt had a series of black pharoahs. All other pharoahs were either Hamitic, Semitic (Arabic) or Greek. I blogged about this some time ago. (see The Five Black Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt )

• Moors were not all black: Moors were Maghrib Arabs who used black mercenaries from Morocco, Mali & Mauritania to conquer Spain. They brought Muslim rule to the Iberian Peninsula. Spain & Portugal, eventually, joined forces & forced Moor rule off of the land. 

• No evidence of Yasuke being a samurai: Yasuke was a zanj bodyguard who accompanied an Italian explorer to Japan. There is no evidence that he was a samurai as this Japanese historian states. 


Even though being truthful about history is something that does not come naturally to some, the rest of us try depict history as it was. 
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