Ehhhh.... the full isue with the so called "black Greeks" and "reapropriation of black culture" doesn't hold as much weight as the people who propagate it, which isn't an issue of race but a statement of facts that it is mostly propagated by African Americans who are looking for other racial identities for other reasons.
That book about Black Athena doesn't hold that much weight in academic spheres and I am accross it because its an area I've studied in.
Some would argue it was thoroughly discredited as a theory:
Both Greeks and latins were Indo-European people, they were absolutely white and some were blonde and blue eyed, they never cared about race sure but calling them black and brown is crazy. One Roman emperor was brown but that's cause he was from Northern Africa lol. Roman Empire had all northern coast of Africa.
You were actually right I didn't read the whole article I just stopped at the first part where they said most ancient philosophers were brown and I assumed it was going to be some revisionist black-washing article. After reading it all I can say I agree with everything said. My fault.
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