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The first female pharaoh was described in contemporary texts as being blonde. There are blonde mummies and archeologists tried to pass them off as having had th

The first female pharaoh was described in contemporary texts as being blonde. There are blonde mummies and archeologists tried to pass them off as having had their hair 'lightened' but that has recently been shown to be completely made up and that they are natural blondes. What bias does it show that a false narrative of 'lightening hair' was wholly made up? Not the one you are trying to push.

ashwagary 4y ago
>The first female pharaoh was described in contemporary texts as being blonde. Never heard this claim, but it's a weak argument to rest on if we believe it to be true. Naturally blonde and red haired black people arent that uncommon. Furthermore, if we are being honest, every genetic trait on this planet is represented in a subset of the African population. Every variation of hair color, eye color, skin color, eye lid, etc...naturally occur among the population.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Naturally blonde black people arent that uncommon. Yes, they are, which is why every reference to “naturally blonde black people” focusses on one group—Melanesians of the Solomon Islands—as the emblrmatic group, of whom about 5-10% are naturally blonde, which would be an incredibly tiny share of the overall Black population, if they were racially Black in the first place, rather than dark skinned Pacific Islanders.
  - ashwagary 4y ago
    These traits including naturally gray and white hair are recessive but they exist in the black African population, literally millions in number. People just rarely talk about or catalogue them outside of the African continent. Black subsaharan African parents give birth to children with every variety of these traits with regular frequency, this has been true for atleast all of Africa's recorded history.
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > These traits including naturally gray and white hair are recessive but they exist in the black African population, literally millions in number. There are over a billion racially black (by recent sub-Saharan African descent) people in the world. “Literally millions” is tenths of a percent of that population—quite rare.
- to1y 4y ago
  The point is surprisingly ancient Egyptians were much closer to modern day Arabs and Europeans than modern day Egyptians who are recent migrants from sub Saharan Africa

ashwagary 4y ago

>The first female pharaoh was described in contemporary texts as being blonde. Never heard this claim, but it's a weak argument to rest on if we believe it to be true. Naturally blonde and red haired black people arent that uncommon. Furthermore, if we are being honest, every genetic trait on this planet is represented in a subset of the African population. Every variation of hair color, eye color, skin color, eye lid, etc...naturally occur among the population.

dragonwriter 4y ago
> Naturally blonde black people arent that uncommon. Yes, they are, which is why every reference to “naturally blonde black people” focusses on one group—Melanesians of the Solomon Islands—as the emblrmatic group, of whom about 5-10% are naturally blonde, which would be an incredibly tiny share of the overall Black population, if they were racially Black in the first place, rather than dark skinned Pacific Islanders.
- ashwagary 4y ago
  These traits including naturally gray and white hair are recessive but they exist in the black African population, literally millions in number. People just rarely talk about or catalogue them outside of the African continent. Black subsaharan African parents give birth to children with every variety of these traits with regular frequency, this has been true for atleast all of Africa's recorded history.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > These traits including naturally gray and white hair are recessive but they exist in the black African population, literally millions in number. There are over a billion racially black (by recent sub-Saharan African descent) people in the world. “Literally millions” is tenths of a percent of that population—quite rare.
to1y 4y ago
The point is surprisingly ancient Egyptians were much closer to modern day Arabs and Europeans than modern day Egyptians who are recent migrants from sub Saharan Africa