Just a short(ish) history blog …. Some stupid git on the radio was waffling on again about how before the Arabs invaded, Egyptians were all black, and that Septimus Severus the Roman Emperor was black.
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| Brit TV Presenter Michael Portillo and Berber Moroccan Chef In Fez |
When they use the term 'Black' in this context, they are not referring to the Berbers (the original inhabitants of much of North Africa outside of Egypt), or even the Arabs (who only arrived in the 7th and 8th centuries AD), but of sub Saharan Negro Africans, and that's where it becomes a load of rubbish.
