Cameo
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Post by Cameo on Jan 17, 2007 16:04:22 GMT -5
www.blacknews.com/pr/kemetworld101.htmlYoungstown, OH (BlackNews.com) - The hottest new Black on-line society...KemetWorld.com debuts with an extraordinary concept that allows seamless transformation into a phenomenal world! KemetWorld.com has its own currency and conversion system that allows members to build and amass properties and fortunes from anywhere on the planet. No matter who you are and whatever your dreams, goals, or aspirations are, KemetWorld.com offers an opportunity to fulfill them. Once people become members of KemetWorld.com, user-to-user interaction and state of the art technologies ensure they have a friendly and engaging experience. Members of KemetWorld.com enjoy live on-line events, entertainment, instant messaging, games, e-mail, chat, cultural forums, their own home school association, and their own radio station. At www.WYWFM.com you can listen, have your own show, and even be a DJ. They can also enjoy the new global TV station designed to highlight the good news and positive contributions of Black People. At www.KemetWorldTV.com you can even create your own television program. Active members are rewarded with metros and US dollars (which can be used for shopping at KemetWorld’s own mall, http://www.UjamaMall.com) and special promotions are used outworld (off-line). Members can also build stock portfolios and participate in e-commerce. KemetWorld.com provides job search and classifieds from around the world that allow you to get involved inworld (on-line) and outworld (off-line). Members can open businesses, have yard sales, even go to their job day to day – all in KemetWorld.com. We are creating a Black Community that is self-sufficient, and has super sustainability; a Black community that will create wealth for itself to be passed on to future generations. KemetWorld.com will seamlessly bridge the socio-geographic gap and connect Blacks around the world, so that a world community and economic powerbase can be reestablished. With a population of over 39 million and buying power of over $750 billion collectively, in the US alone, KemetWorld is the place where these ideals can transpire. I gots to check this out, see if its fraud or real.
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Post by praetorian on Jan 17, 2007 21:06:06 GMT -5
Lol at kemet.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jan 17, 2007 23:38:55 GMT -5
Silly blacks and their Egyptian fascinations.
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Post by Clemo on Jan 18, 2007 6:32:53 GMT -5
has its own currency and conversion system that allows members to build and amass properties and fortunes from anywhere on the planet. Reeks of fraud. I wouldn't give them any money or exchange money for their "Metro".
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Post by Cameo on Jan 18, 2007 7:47:37 GMT -5
I don't like the site nor its products. It keeps asking for my personal information, which is strange, why can't people just browse before deciding what they want? And no Míke, its just a name, no one is fantasizing about Egypt.
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Post by menk on Jan 20, 2007 18:59:53 GMT -5
seems like a cool idea, but something smells fishy.
And yes, it is a silly egyptophilic name. Why not Edo or something truly connected to west africans, who are the AA population? The fixation/claims among certain black americans on egypt is laughable. Hell, it's just as silly among euros.
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Post by Cameo on Jan 21, 2007 0:20:38 GMT -5
seems like a cool idea, but something smells fishy. And yes, it is a silly egyptophilic name. Why not Edo or something truly connected to west africans, who are the AA population? The fixation/claims among certain black americans on egypt is laughable. Hell, it's just as silly among euros. It would be just as dumb using your logic for us to have something like Edo, just because its West Afrian don't mean we can automatically claim it.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jan 21, 2007 1:32:13 GMT -5
But even if it were dumb, it would make infinitely more sense. Face it, Bertrand, blacks relate to Egypt because they are either insecure in or simply lack knowledge of West African civilizations. These people crave something big with which to identify, something instantly recognizable on the same level as Greece and Rome in Europe, or Assyria and Babylonia in the Near East. And as far as Africa goes, it doesn't get much bigger than Egypt. If you don't think this kind of motivation is the driving force behind all the websites on Egypt made by racialistic Aframs, then I think you're either naive... or simply in denial. And that's not just a river in Egypt, my friend.
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Post by menk on Jan 21, 2007 2:13:10 GMT -5
Why would it be dumb to claim Edo? Benin was at the heart of the slave area. A new-world black has a far greater chance of being related to someone from there Or mali? Timbuktu? Why play with this silliness
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Post by Cameo on Jan 21, 2007 3:06:54 GMT -5
The point is that I'm African-American and my roots are here in America, I don't have to pick and choose some place in West Africa to find my roots. After being in this country for well over 300 years don't you think we have enough of our own identity roots? I basically don't like people telling me to stick to or claim some part of Africa, but at the same time tells me to stay out of a another part, thats the problem with Africa now.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jan 21, 2007 8:41:19 GMT -5
What's the meaning of the last part of that sentence?
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Post by menk on Jan 21, 2007 9:35:20 GMT -5
heck, claim stockholm while your at it if you want, if youre going to totally miss my point.
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Post by Cameo on Jan 21, 2007 11:47:10 GMT -5
But even if it were dumb, it would make infinitely more sense. It makes no sense to claim anything out of having prid and self esteem. Again, why this thing where Afro-Americans must somehow focus on West Africa only and ignore the rest of the continent? I see no reason for anyone to limit nor delimit themselves to one part of the continent. Egypt wasn't even the greatest of African civilizations, but thats beside the point, Afro-Americans are craving nothing, its nothing wrong with being interested in Egypt, why should Afro-Americans not want to be interested in it? There is nothing wrong with Afro-American anthropologists and historians putting Egyptian history in an African context. That isn't the same as "claiming" Egypt. No one is telling white Americans to stick to any particular part of Europe so why use a different standard for Afro-Americans and tell us "where our place is"?
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Post by Cameo on Jan 21, 2007 12:13:22 GMT -5
I don't know why people are posting pics of West African looking pharoahs and calling it silly bécause if people had any real knowledge about the physical anthropology of ancient Egypt thy woul know that such people were present in ancient Egypt and I'm not talking about slaves either:
"The Badarian crania have a modal metric phenotype that is clearly “southern”; most classify into the Kerma (Nubian), Gaboon, and Kenyan groups."
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 83:35-48 (1990)
And even on the genetic side there is some affinity:
"The M2 lineage is mainly found primarily in ‘‘eastern,’’ ‘‘sub-Saharan,’’ and sub-equatorial African groups, those with the highest frequency of the ‘‘Broad’’ trend physiognomy, but found also in notable frequencies in Nubia and Upper Egypt, as indicated by the RFLP TaqI 49a, f variant IV (see Lucotte and Mercier, 2003; Al-Zahery et al. 2003 for equivalences of markers), which is affiliated with it. The distribution of these markers in other parts of Africa has usually been explained by the ‘‘Bantu migrations,’’ but their presence in the Nile Valley in non-Bantu speakers cannot be explained in this way. Their existence is better explained by their being present in populations of the early Holocene Sahara, who in part went on to people the Nile Valley in the mid-Holocene, according to Hassan (1988); this occurred long before the ‘‘Bantu migrations,’’ which also do not explain the high frequency of M2 in Senegal, since there are no Bantu speakers there either."
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY 16:679–689 (2004)
Historically no one can make claims, but biologically there is nothing that separates peoples of the African continent from one another, so telling people where and who they should claim is ludricrous.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jan 21, 2007 17:55:52 GMT -5
lol... you're defending Budweiser's Pharaoh now?
I don't doubt there were broad Negroes in Egypt, especially early Egypt. I don't know about the early Badarians, but one look at the frescoes could tell you what the dominant phenotype in Egypt was throughout most of its history. Elongated, bronze-skinned, and fine-featured. More like Wadaad than yourself.
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