it rather appears to me that you have pulled much of your information from anthropology texts or US State Department publications.
Quite frankly, a Nazi-Ku-Klux-Klansman has hope of redemption, but never an anthropologist.
I say so because you use the term "sub-Saharan Africans."
This brochure covers all of Africa except the five nations bordering the Mediterranean. Sub-Saharan Africa includes 48 nations. Forty-two of these nations are on the mainland. In addition, four island nations in the southwest Indian Ocean (Madagascar, The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles) and two island nations in the Atlantic Ocean (Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe) are considered part of Africa. For convenience, we will often use the word "Africa" to refer to the sub-Saharan region. For information on the five northern African nations of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, and Egypt, see Tips for Travelers to the Middle East and North Africa .
http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/brochures/brochures_1218.htmlI do hope that you appreciate the difficulty I am experiencing in discussing that most pejorative epithet.
First of all, Africa is a continent.
ALL the people
found on the continent of Africa are, by definition,
AFRICAN.
This means that Muammar Qaddafi of Libya
is every bit as much an African
as Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
Remember that.
So why is there this strange disconnect?
I dunno.
But I do know that whenever the pyramids of Egypt are discussed,
they are NEVER referred to as being examples of AFRICAN architecture.
And yet, drag your Western-printed-official map out and tell me the name of the CONTINENT where Egypt is found.
I also know that the history of Egypt goes back a long long way and that the river Nile plays a major role in world history. In other words,
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA has played and is playing a MAJOR ROLE in WORLD history.
Egypt,
Kush,
Axum,
Mali,
Songhai,
Kanem-Bornu,
Ghana,
Benin,
Mwenumatapa.
These are all names with which you should be familiar. And yet most of you are encountering them HERE for the first time.
The Sahara was not always desert.
The Sahel has not always been dry.
There are black people and "Arabs" on BOTH sides of the Sahel.
And therefore the term "sub-Saharan African" is a total crock.
The Blackamoors of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, were AFRICANS.
In heraldry the Moor is shown as Sub-Saharan African.
This depiction goes far to explain
the worldwide connection between the upper classes who comprise the intelligentsia, and their enduring love affair with coffee,
which plant is native to the province of Kaffa, located in modern-day Ethiopia. Yeah, the Frasier-Crane Starbucks crowd is following a great AFRICAN tradition. Namely, sipping a "sub-Saharan" drink while exercising the noggin.
But yet, the Frasier-Crane Starbucks crowd are only posers. They do not know the African origin of their beverage nor that of the coffee house. And some of those the bastards STILL claim that Africans are cannibals.
"Just as the Slavs spread out 400-1000 AD (a tad later, if you count the expansion into Siberia), so also the Bantu spread. Whenever you see a really large linguistic area, can bet that the tribes in that area didn't willingly and avidly give up their language and culture."OK.
Lets take a look at the origins of the term "BANTU."
Wilhelm Bleek was born in Berlin (Kingdom of Prussia). From 1845 to 48 he studied theology in Bonn and then went to Berlin to study Hebrew. He was a student of Karl Richard Lepsius. His doctoral thesis 1851 dealt with noun classes. 1853 he went to Africa to explore Khoisan- and Bantu languages. He wrote a grammar of isiZulu. In his major work Comparative Grammar he studies noun prefixes of the Bantu languages. He introduced a numbering system for the classes which is still used today. In age of 48 he died of an illness in a hospital of Cape Town (Cape Colony). After his death his daughter Dorothea together with his wife's sister Lucy Lloyd continued his work. His daughter died in 1948.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_BleekIn other words,
some foreign twit came up with a thesis
and the entire continent of Africa now has to play along with his grandiose notions.
Go take a look at the crap that slid out of Wilhelm Bleek
and see if YOU YOURSELF are willing to play along.
You can start by taking a good hard look at the word CHAI.
Then take another good hard look at this statement.
" Whenever you see a really large linguistic area, can bet that the tribes in that area didn't willingly and avidly give up their language and culture."I mentioned earlier that anthropologists irk my soul.
Some 22 year old C-student named Charles Darwin, went on a voyage and scribbled a book entitled:
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The
Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle of Life.
Look at that second part again.
THE PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE OF LIFEWho the heck is the
FAVORED RACE?Well, take a look at the color of the skin of the majority of the anthropologists who write crap about Africans that gets repeated endlessly as if it were actual fact.
Take a look at the origins of Wilhelm Bleek,
aka GOD of the Bantu and the Khoisan.
Before Wilhelm Bleek published his theories, there was such thing as "Bantu."
Bleek's linguistic theory defined them, therefore He and He alone, is the God of the Bantu.
And the Khoisan.
You're right. There have been cannibals in the US. And recently in Germany. But nobody disputes the practice is rooted culturally in some New Guinean tribes as a way of honoring their dead, that the Anasazi engaged in it (probably not routinely), and that the Aztecs did (ritualistically).I DISPUTE IT.
I DISPUTE THE NOTION THAT CANNIBALISM IS ROOTED CULTURALLY
IN ANY NEW GUINEAN TRIBE.
ONCE AGAIN,
I DEMAND THAT THOSE WHO MAKE SUCH ALLEGATIONS,
SUBSTANTIATE THEM.How did this tasty tale originate?
The trail leads straight back to the US and one of those damned anthropologists.
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200310/200310_mysteries_4.htmlMichael Rockefeller gets off a boat, three miles out to sea, from Dutch New Guinea. The waters are known to be infested with crocodiles and sharks. He is never seen again.
Conclusion:
The natives ate him.
Boiled him up and just chomped on that bad boy.
Let that be a lesson to you.
If you go swimming in shark and crocodile infested waters, the people of Dutch New Guinea will eat you too. With hot sauce. And napkins.
Just like they ate Mick Leahy and Mick Dwyer way back in 1930.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6472817/Through the years I have searched diligently for the origins of that damn cauldron into which WHOLE human beings are plunged. Alive.
It has always seemed strange to me, because just about everyone on the planet chops their meat up, or at least removes parts such as the gall bladder, before commencing with the culinary part of their festivities.
The closest I have come to accessing ANY record, concerning the boiling of WHOLE human beings, is from the Crusades.
Apparently Christian Crusaders from Europe would often die. Their comrades did not wish to abandon the body nor did they wish to bury it in a foreign land. So they would boil the corpse until the meat dropped off the bones.
Naturally, the Crusaders would force the locals to mind the pot while all this was going on, and being the polite fellows they were, the Crusaders were wont to speculate as to what the locals would do with the cooked missionary flesh that was left behind. Hence the origin of the widespread, and long-lived notion, that everyone outside Europe is a heathen and also a cannibal.
The Crusaders would take the clean skull and place it in a small casket and they would put the other crossed thigh bones on top of the other smaller bones within the same small casket. This box would then be taken back to Europe for Christian burial in hallowed ground.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist4_prog3a.shtmlThe skull and crossbones is an important symbol of the Christian faith. It is seen on the warships, aircraft and submarines of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Oh, pardon me, I almost forgot Poland.
And speaking of Poland, the second, metal Papal casket is engraved with the insignia of the skull and crossbones.
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?p=559966#post559966http://www.ctv.ca/generic/WebSpecials/pope/funeral.html The skull and crossbones represented the missing head and limbs of Osiris and the constellation Orion. The Egyptian AFRICANS also used multiple coffins, and the outermost sarcophagus (flesh-eating stone) was usually engraved with heraldic symbols.
And so,
we come once again to the point where I ask if any here can justify the accusation that has been leveled against the good people of the continent of Africa.
Nobody?
Good.
Then shut up about the cannibals already, Hilary Andersson.
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