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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:22:50 GMT -5
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:26:47 GMT -5
She is lighter in color but notice the similar facial structure. Short forehead height with wide cheek bones.  |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:37:34 GMT -5
This a Algerian berber. Similar facial structure.  |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:40:08 GMT -5
Amazigh. Not an Ottoman Turk. Note facial structure  |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:44:50 GMT -5
Southern Algeria. The little Amazigh looks like a San  |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:54:34 GMT -5
Darker and same facial structure. Southern Libya. Ladies center and left in the photo  |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 15, 2014 5:57:44 GMT -5
Libyan Tureg Berber. Similar facial structure.  |
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Post by azrur on Mar 15, 2014 8:24:54 GMT -5
well yeah because turks never even had control of kabylia and the turks that were there are still living there today speaking turk in algiers and all i guess it is better than vandals and romans give you credit for that then you still leave time for your moors to be black but i ask why did the turks choose to leave their nice little port cities and start speaking berber in the mountains  some more libyan tuareg by the way all the people you put that arent blacks are still the same color or not that darker than most berbers kabyles included unless you want to say gingers are a accurate representation go ahead |
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 15, 2014 10:12:44 GMT -5
I think this picture right here speaks to the trut of African reality as versus the Eurocentric notion of what Africa is. A Eurocentric would view would come in, divide these women according to skin tones and facial structures. Far right and far left would be clustered together. Front center would stand alone and back center would be classified as "intermediary". The fact is despite the variance in appearances, these people are all of the same ethnic group. They are blood relatives. This is exactly the same reality that we see in the Afro American communities in USA , the Caribbean and Latin America. We see it in our families every day, yet when we think of North Africa, for some reason, the brain switch turns off and we start following the Eurocentric idea of who is and who isn't a real African and what a "real African is supposed to look like. Why? This notion of what a real African looks like was created by Europeans who were proponents of the Eugenics movement. Their idea that there were superior and inferior races, them being the superior of course. They wanted to believe that they were the highest evolved people on the planet and so had to prove that they were as distant from the savage African as possible. Therefore, when they saw Africans who had similar facial structures to them, similar nose shapes, lip shapes, and skin colors close to theirs, this was unacceptable. The "True Negro", was the physical type as different from the European as possible. All other Africans were the result of mixing, or were whites who migrated to Africa. This is where this garbage came from and unfortunately, for some reason, far too many of us are eating it up like it was an all you can eat buffet! Africans are a physically diverse people. Diasporan Africans are a physically diverse people. North Africans do have non African admixture, they just do, okay! Diasporan Africans also have non African admixture and if it weren't for the fact that laws preventing intermarriage were passed in the US, there would be an even higher percentage of mixture. We wouldn't look as West African as we do today, but would that mean we were no longer people of the African diaspora? NO! Afro Mexicans:    If we have no problem embracing these people as part of the African family with pride, why is it that so many of us have such a big problem accepting North Africans as part of the African family?  This girl is Mexican. She has Native American and African ancestry. We can get all excited about her being part of the African family. But put her in a kaftan and put a head scarf on her and you're going to have people calling her a Vandal, or an Arab invader, or a Turk, or a European slave child. Why? North Africans look the way they do for a variety of reasons,just as we look the way we do for a variety of reasons. Why can't we just accept each other as is and call it a day? We are all part of the extended African family and the reality of this family does not conform to the expectations of the European colonialist view of how the world works! |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 16, 2014 21:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by truthteacher2007 on Mar 16, 2014 21:56:55 GMT -5
Wish there were subtitles. I've only heard allusions made to this, but never saw a full expose on the magnitude of what really happened. |
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 18, 2014 20:35:14 GMT -5
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 18, 2014 20:39:23 GMT -5
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Post by djoser-xyyman on Mar 18, 2014 20:41:30 GMT -5
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