Comedian Kevin Hart's appearance in Egypt canceled because he said ancient Egyptians were Black...
From The Middle East Eye
US comedian Kevin Hart's debut show in Egypt has been cancelled, following an outpouring of anger in the country over his past comments in support of Afrocentrism.
The American comedian was set to perform in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday. The company said it was working with the Ticketsmarche team to refund customers “in the shortest possible time”.
Hart faced a flood of criticism in the Arab world’s most populous country for promoting Afrocentrism.
The movement seeks to promote the role Black people played in history and the creation of western civilisation. Hart’s critics, however, accused him of distorting history and robbing Arabs of their claim to the country’s ancient past saying he claimed that Black Africans were once the kings of Egypt.
”We must teach our children the true history of Black Africans when they were kings in Egypt and not just the era of slavery that is cemented by education in America. Do you remember the time when we were kings?” he allegedly stated, though its unclear where the remarks originated.
A hashtag calling for Hart’s show to be cancelled or boycotted became one of the top trending topics on social media in Egypt in December.
One Twitter user said Afrocentrists "want to steal and attribute Egypt's civilization to Africans and tell modern Egyptians that we are occupying Egypt from them. We must all participate in the campaign to cancel Kevin's concert.”
Many Egyptians also criticised Hart’s financial backing of an Afrocentric animation series by the company Black Sands Entertainment, which some have accused of "Blackwashing" ancient Egyptian history.
Modern Egypt was at various points in history part of the Greek and Roman empires and was later ruled by the Islamic caliphates.
15 comments:
There is historical proof of Black African Kings in Egypt. It has already been confirmed. No debate. Kevin deserves an apology.
The descendants of the conquerors always have their panties in a bunch. The proof is all up and through the pyramids. The melanin dosage test done on mummies should have shut them up years ago.
Race wasn't even a construct then. So being "Black" or having "Black features" didn't matter, saying that to say, we were indeed everywhere. We did not exclusively live and thrive in southern Africa. Last time I checked Egypt is in Africa.
If you repeat this fact they can’t laugh at you said: Back when Joseph went to Egypt, Egypt was ruled by Africans. The true Egyptians come from HAM (The Dark Races) who is the son of Noah. Ham is also the father of the Cushites the Canaanites have Ethiopians. Joseph brought his father and 11 brothers to Egypt because of the famine that was upon the land. A total of 70 people. These 70 people were the Israelites. Jacob was the father. By the time the last brother of Joseph died there were over 600,000 people from the 70 that initially came. During that time Esau was not on the scene nor were they Ishmaelites (Arabs). Moses descended from 70 people. You should know the rest……. Kevin is in FACT correct descendants of HAM did rule Egypt. The Israelites went into slavery and were kicked out of Egypt. The same people that went into slavery then are the same people that were into slavery in Syria, Babylon, Europe, and America. I’m jus sayin.
The Egyptian paintings show black people. How do they explain that. They don't have to steal African history. All people originate from Africa, including Arabs with their swarthy skin color. What do they think they're white? People are so confused and ignorant today it's astonishing.
Where’s Kyrie when you need him?
Why they tryna act like King Tutankhamun, Queen Sheba and them wasn't black....and watch Kevin scary azz back down to keep a check coming
Cleopatra was Greek.
I don’t like Kevin Hart but he’s right. They were black and trying to claim otherwise shows what they think of black people. Black people have built this planet and everyone wants to belittle them
Everyone wants to erase the contribution that black peoplee have made to this world
Don't think he's funny but he's right. Egypt is in AFRICA...duh
@9:55 read their Bible, followed along and got the TRUTH. Well done! It is what we ALL need to do as a people. It is laid out in the Bible. Now Egyptians don't want to be black. I done heard it all now. LOL. If they really don't know their history, they've been duped too and want to cling to the race that is in power - white. They need to learn their true history just as much as we need to learn ours. So much of our history has been hidden and intentionally made convoluted to confuse us so we can't find the truth. But the history and knowledge is there if you diligently search for it. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6 KJV
I think he said that on his black history show he has on Netflix. A good watch with the kids.
Anyway I use to collect and sign off on free/reduced lunch forms, and you would be surprised at the number of Arabs that check off they’re white. It didn’t matter if they were from Canada, Egypt, Saudi Arabia etc, they would check off white…and have the same brown complexion as me, or darker skin than mine. Now I’m not saying they had to check off black, but white?! With all that melanin?! I was shocked.
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt was a Black/ Nubian Dynasty.
4:16 PM
Erase and will not give any credit to our historical contributions.
We are not the race that went around the world that killed, enslaved, raped, lied and conquered other countries and stole everything from them.
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