Originally posted by Aqua-pimp
Jesus,Spawn and of course Apocolyps ...And who said Egyptians aren't black???!! 😂
All of history points out that ancient Egyptians were black 😎 ...hell even modern day Egyptians label themself as black.. men this fact isn't even debatable 😄
The ancient Egyptians pointed to the land of Nubia as thier ancestrial home. The Nubians pointed to Kush as thier place of origin. The Kushites were as black as they come. The Arabs didn't even take over Egypt until about 700 A.D. There was a clear distinction that the Egyptians were black. The Greeks even wrote about the Darkness and difference of the Egyptians. Even Napoleon shot off the sphinx's nose becuz it was of african shape.
Originally posted by Glimmerone
The Ancient Egyptians were Black. However, as we know the concept of labeling people by colors is something that is fairly recent in human history. it is true that the empire was large, but the people who were the ancient egyptians were a people of their own identity before they became a world power, or the first super power of the ancient world. Yes, other Nations were ruled by this empire and some peoples may have lived in, near or around the country of Egypt itself but don't forget that this was a sovereign state with its own people and beliefs, not a free market system of genetic trade, where anything goes. for what would they be and how could they be if they allowed everyone to become them. The melting pot system was not a making of the Ancient Egyptians, its something that took form long after the Empire-Kingdom of Egypt had faded and was a structure of the other world empire that ruled afterwards who made their way down to a then weaken but vastly wealthy ex world super power . They were a welcoming people like all Africans were and still are, and so didn't bar others from visiting, and maybe residing in Egypt or its territories but things were always govern and there were regulations that had to be followed or respected. The whole concept with this ancient Egyptians thing stems from them being a black people. You see we live in a world where people called black or viewed as such have been hated and oppressed so thoroughly for a very long time, the perception of the negative and being anything that means nothing and unworthy has been placed on them. In contrast, the perception of being everything good and of value has been placed on Caucasians/white people. When I say that this whole concept about the ancient egyptians is about being a black people, what I mean is that many of the perceptions people have about African people stems from the dramatization of all the negative and terrible conditions they have suffered over the last 1000 years. they have been painted by media, books, studies and other information mediums a people who can only be hungry, thugs, criminals, disease suffers and so on. Everything that is negative has been attach to the identity of being dark, or what non-dark people call black, since no one from Africa or of Hamitic descend has ever been called black or viewed based on the color of their skin until indo-Europeans began labeling them that way. They even created a body measurement system based on skull structure and body shape and phenotype to help them be more effective at imprinting these labels on people. In this system, if you are what they call black, you can only look a certain way and have very limited features and if you're Asian, the same in general is true as well. However, if you are what they call white then there are no such limits. You could live in the heart of Africa or Asia, with all the traditionally beliefs and cultural elements that stem from your ancestors there, and many other factors about your known and mostly known history can testify to who you are/really are but they will label you something you aren't just because they wish to. The ancient egyptians were Hamitic, to be a Hamitic is to be a person who is a descendant of one of the sons of Ham(Ham was the forefather of all the different kinds of brown skinned peoples). Africa was in ancient times called the land of Ham, along with some part of coastal and southern Arabia being called the land of Ham or Ham. What they have done today is label certain Hamitic people black(the ones from the west of Africa that were enslaved in the Americas, since black was to be a label of mockery and negatives and they also said Hamitic means white, saying anything to divide) and any one who doesn't look exactly like them or have noses and body shapes that were a little different then what Europeans viewed as being black were labeled as something else. This was especially so if the Europeans admired and knew of their achievements. The whole notion of being a certain body shape, having a certain skull shape and being labeled a color were things created by colonizing Europeans to assign themselves a place in history everywhere they know that they hadn't been, it was to redefine the world and its peoples according to what they wished. Also, it was to confuse and make hazy the indentity of others while strengthening their's through use of these detailed color chart, shape-structure, phenotype systems of classifying people. Its was all about the perception that they wanted to install of themselves in the world, not about truth, not about history and respecting it, but about manipulating it so they could claim it ALL for themselves. African culture was so rich(Still is) and their wealth and achievements so grand that many outsiders admired and desired the wealth and grace of these lands during ancient times and on up to Africa being colonize during more modern times(2000 yrs ago to present)since that's what led to it being colonized, its wealth in resources and people. For White people it has always been about their identity versus African identity, and their history versus African people's history. That is one of the main reasons why racism has striven so well, and why it still exists today. There have been some improvements on the surface, but that's it.
Dam when i first read the title of this thread i thought oh oh Pandora's box, i knew without a doubt it would kick of something which it obviously has .
the companie s are trying to give more diversity to their superheroes though (blue beetle becoming latino and fire storm becoming black) but there are plenty of characters who coul dtake out superman with preperation and luck
blade could shoot a kryptonite lined bullet filled with vampire blood into superman...superman would probably destroy himself after that (his cells being filled with soalr eergy and that being lethal to vampires)
spawn could (spawn creeps me out though, too evil for me to look at him as a hero)
there arent many black characters who have that much power output (at least popular ones) the best ones are street level or metahuman (night thrasher and black panther)