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I also heard that white Europeans knocked the noses off because they had African noses. At the time the westerners thought of Africans as savages and didn’t bel

by wsintra2022 3y ago

I also heard that white Europeans knocked the noses off because they had African noses. At the time the westerners thought of Africans as savages and didn’t believe that people of African descent could build such cultural attifa y’a so they would lop the noses off before shipping back to Europe. I think Akala talks about this in his Oxford address.

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ffhhttt 3y ago
Except Egyptians are/were more related to “white” Mediterranean Europeans than subsaharan Africans, at least in the lower Egypt. > didn’t believe that people of African descent Sounds like an absurd take considering how fascinated Europeans generally were with ancient Egyptian civilization in the 19th century...