HISTORY LESSON

Michaela claims Afrocentricity is the new Eurocentricism. She really actually had a lot more to say.

Michaela said: “The Eurocentric racist take on history died off last century and has been laughed at and demolised by modern historians and archaeogeneticists  Africentism has been called that for 30 years and is not a new thing. AFRICENTISM is now the new Eurocentric movement. Racist and idiotic. The facts and the science are all out there and now you are the ones being laughed at and constantly debunked. 

Comparing pictures like children and even being despatate enough to think that denying evolution and the migrations of the human species and being clueless about history makes you an expert....and BTW..using the Bible now...FFS...despatate times for you now science is providing the answers...It's backwards and stupid.”

Here was my response:

Dear Michaela,

Aren’t you that Nobel-Prize-winning Professor of Straw Man Arguments? Thank you for your contribution to comedy. Your attempt to paint Afrocentrism as the “new Eurocentrism” would be impressive—if it weren’t an accidental masterclass in projection. Let’s go through your claims carefully, before your strawmen catch fire and take the whole circus down with them.

You claim that Eurocentric racism “died last century.” Really? Someone better tell the authors of Egypt: Lost Civilizations (2020) still showing whitewashed reconstructions of ancient Egyptians. Or the DNA studies cherry-picking nameless, contextless mummies from Greco-Roman tombs to “prove” that 5,000 years of African pharaonic civilization was somehow “Middle Eastern.” Or the school curriculums that still pretend civilization sprang fully formed from Sumer, bypassing Africa like a cursed continent. Eurocentrism didn’t die. It bought new glasses, changed its name to “Middle Eastern migration,” renamed “Caucasoid” into “Western Eurasian,” and kept rewriting history with a fresh coat of academic respectability. Congratulations—you’ve missed the rebrand.

⸻

What Afrocentrism Actually Is—Since You Clearly Forgot

Afrocentrism isn’t about claiming samurais, Aztecs, or Vikings were Black. That’s the cartoon version built by people who lose sleep over AI-generated memes. Afrocentrism is about:

✅ Correcting the lie that Africa had no history before colonization.

✅ Refuting the lie that ancient Egyptians were white.

✅ Exposing the myth that civilization began in Europe.

✅ Demolishing the pseudoscience of phrenology and eugenics.

✅ Restoring African civilizations like Mali, Kush, Kemet, Axum, and Great Zimbabwe to their rightful places in African and global history.

You know—basic factual corrections backed by archaeology, linguistics, genetics, art history, and classical testimony. The stuff peer-reviewed journals quietly updated while you were busy screaming about “Afrocentrics stealing cultures.”

⸻

On the Topic of Straw Men: Your Real Expertise

You accuse Afrocentrists of denying evolution and “comparing pictures like children.” Cute. Let’s see who’s really behaving childishly:

✅ Afrocentrists point out that Pharaoh Ramesses III’s Y-DNA was E1b1a, common in West and Central Africans today. You reply: “But, but… pictures!”

✅ Afrocentrists reference Blombos Cave (100,000 years ago) and the Green Sahara (10,000–3000 BCE) as cradles of complex African societies. You shout: “But… Bible bad!”

✅ Afrocentrists show that ancient authors like Herodotus described Egyptians as dark-skinned and woolly-haired. You mutter: “But… myths aren’t real!”

✅ Afrocentrists cite studies like Schuenemann (2017) showing non-African elements becoming significant only after 2000 BCE. You pretend the data says “white North Africa since the pyramids.”

It’s a stunning feat of acrobatics—contorting reality to fit your tantrum.

⸻

Evolution and Migration? Thank You for Proving Our Point

You mention “evolution and migration” like a magic spell meant to shut down the discussion. Did you think Afrocentrists deny that humans migrated?

✅ All humans evolved in Africa. That’s called the Out of Africa Model.

✅ Early human migrations out of Africa are dated to 50,000–70,000 years ago.

✅ Civilization did not migrate out with them. Agriculture, cities, writing, and monarchy all began in Africa—after those early migrations.

✅ Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia are direct descendants of African Neolithic societies, not Eurasian migrants.

Thanks for reminding everyone that civilization itself is a relatively recent African invention. Appreciate the assist.

⸻

Bible Panic: The Last Refuge of the Cornered

When you screech about “using the Bible now…FFS,” it shows you don’t understand basic source analysis. Afrocentric scholars don’t use the Bible as archaeology—they cite it alongside Egyptian inscriptions, Greek testimonies, radiocarbon dating, DNA, and linguistic reconstructions. You know, the way historians actually cross-reference evidence—not pick and choose quotes like conspiracy theorists on Facebook.

Also, it’s rich to dismiss ancient religious texts as worthless when Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Manetho, and every classical historian before the common era believed deeply in myths, gods, and omens. History didn’t start with atheists in lab coats. It started with kings, priests, and scribes documenting reality as they understood it.

⸻

Science? Let’s Talk About It Properly

✅ Craniometry and “scientific racism”—destroyed by Franz Boas and Cheikh Anta Diop.

✅ Polygenic theories (separate evolution of races)—annihilated by modern genetics.

✅ Skin color bias—debunked: light skin became widespread in Europe only after 3000 years ago.

✅ Ancient Egyptian DNA—Ramesses III tested positive for E-M2, implying 9 other Pharaohs likely carried E-M2 as well.

✅ S.O.Y. Keita proved that the Amarna royal family, including Tutankhamun, showed biological affinities with ancient Saharan and Northeast African populations, not Europeans or Near Easterners, reinforcing their African origins.

✅ Egyptian art—shows rulers with brown to black skin, broad noses, and coiled hair (e.g., Queen Tiye’s bust, Nebamun’s tomb paintings).

In short: Afrocentrism is aligned with science. Eurocentrism is aligned with outdated 19th-century pseudoscience you’re still peddling.

⸻

What Afrocentrism Actually Opposes (Not That You Asked)

Afrocentrism challenges:

✅ The lie that Africa was a passive, backward place before colonization.

✅ The lie that Egypt was an “outpost of the Middle East” rather than the fountainhead of African civilization. (Pyramids were not only built in Egypt—over 1,000 were built in Sudan. 255 pyramids still remain standing in Sudan, double that of Egypt.)

✅ The lie that darker-skinned people couldn’t have built complex societies.

✅ The erasure of African philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and kings from the world’s intellectual map.

Not “stealing cultures.”

Not “making Aztec memes.”

Not “rewriting history to feel good.”

Restoring accuracy. Period.

⸻

And the Funniest Part?

Afrocentrism doesn’t even claim every ancient civilization was Black. It just says: stop erasing Africa’s role in the civilizations we can clearly prove were African. Meanwhile, Eurocentrism literally invented “White Egypt,” “White Jesus,” “Indo-European Sumerians,” and the idea that non-Europeans were incapable of civilization without European help.

Who’s stealing cultures again? Find me billions of artefacts kept in the basements of African museums?

⸻

Final Word, Michaela

Your post was a shining example of how projection works. You accuse Afrocentrics of racism, ignorance, and desperation, but each accusation describes your own strategy:

✅ Racism—pretending African civilizations couldn’t possibly exist without “outside help.”

✅ Ignorance—repeating debunked 19th-century myths about African history.

✅ Desperation—building straw men because you can’t refute the actual evidence.

If you’re wondering why Afrocentrists are calm while you’re flailing, it’s simple:

Facts aged like wine. Lies aged like milk.

Next time, bring a peer-reviewed study that actually refutes Afrocentric evidence—not Reddit rants. I’ll wait. Maybe then we can have a real conversation.

Until then, Afrocentrism will continue doing what it does best:

Correcting the lies you were too comfortable to question.

#America #History #World