"Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, its three volumes first published in 1987, 1991, and 2006 respectively, is a controversial scholarly work by Martin Bernal. He discusses ancient Greece in a new light. Bernal's thesis discusses the perception of ancient Greece in relation to Greece's African and Asiatic neighbors, especially the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians who, he believes, colonized ancient Greece.
Bernal proposes that a change in the Western perception of Greece took place from the 18th century onward and that this change fostered a subsequent denial by Western academia of any significant African and Phoenician influence on ancient Greek civilization."
You stupid racists don't understand that Ancient Greece is literally a black people's creation. We created the western world, but you try to hide it. Educate yourselves, mongoloids.
Why do blacks act like they were EVER relevant before 1965
Carter Thompson
The guy who wrote this was literally a Jewish guy who majored in Chinese studies so he could be close to were communism was going next. In 1972 Bernal moved to Cornell University in New York, United States. There he became a full professor in 1988. He taught there for the rest of his career, retiring in 2001.
Initially he taught Government Studies at Cornell, and continued his research on modern Chinese history. Under the impact of the Vietnam War[7] he had also developed an interest in Vietnamese history and culture, and learned the Vietnamese language.
From about 1975, however, Bernal underwent a radical shift in his interests. In his own words:
The scattered Jewish components of my ancestry would have given nightmares to assessors trying to apply the Nuremberg Laws, and although pleased to have these fractions, I had not previously given much thought to them or to Jewish culture. It was at this stage that I became intrigued—in a Romantic way—in this part of my 'roots'. I started looking into ancient Jewish history and— being on the periphery myself—into the relationship between the Israelites and the surrounding peoples, particularly the Canaanites and the Phoenicians. I had always known that the latter spoke Semitic languages, but it came as quite a shock to learn that Hebrew and Phoenician were mutually intelligible and that serious linguists treated both as a dialect of a single Canaanite language.
Mason Walker
Because we were, but arabs are too retarded to read books, so you couldn't know.
Niggers literally will think that ancient greek statues look like them. Just fucking wait a little more years after they will have completely hijacked the ancient egyptians.
Elijah Martinez
Well, assuming Socrates was black, he would have been closer to Nubian or Ethiopian than Bantu or Yoruba.
Not all black Africans are the same thing, duh. That's just like saying Persians and Russians are the same because they're both "Aryan".
Levi Parker
You need to remember that you are not an ancient greek, nor an european. You are an african.
Nolan Collins
Here is the guys dad Although a devout Catholic in his childhood, Bernal became a socialist in Cambridge as a result of a long night arguing with a friend. He also became an atheist.[29] According to one reviewer, "This conversion, as complete as St. Paul’s on the road to Damascus, goes some way to account for, but not excuse, Bernal's blind allegiance for the rest of his life, to the Soviet Union."[30][31] He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1923.[32] His membership evidently lapsed when he returned to Cambridge in 1927 and was not renewed until 1933,[33] and he may have lost his card again shortly after this.[32]
Bernal became a prominent intellectual in political life, particularly in the 1930s. He attended the famous 1931 meeting on the history of science, where he met the Soviets Nikolai Bukharin, and Boris Hessen who gave an influential Marxist account of the work of Isaac Newton. This meeting fundamentally changed his world-view and he maintained sympathy for the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. In 1939, Bernal published The Social Function of Science, probably the earliest text on the sociology of science.
After the second world war, although Bernal had been involved in evaluating the effects of atomic attacks against the Soviet Union,[33] he supported the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace organised in communist Poland in 1948. Afterwards, he wrote a letter to the New Statesman warning that the US was preparing "a war for complete world domination".[34] Consequently, when Bernal was invited to a world peace conference in New York in February 1949, his visa was refused. But he was allowed into France in April for the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, with Frédéric Joliot-Curie as president and Bernal as vice-president. The following year the organisation changed its name to the World Peace Council.
Cooper Miller
>Well, assuming Socrates was black,
Nice bait nigger. Don't you have a welfare check to collect?
Blake Perry
>implying
Daniel Perez
>Egyptians and Phoenicians who, he believes, colonized ancient Greece.
>using the picture of someone that his parents came here in 1923 from anatolia
Ian Fisher
WE WUZ KANGS N SHIEET
Aiden James
On 20 September 1949, after his return from giving a speech strongly critical of western countries at a peace conference in Moscow, the Evening Star newspaper of Ipswich published an interview with Bernal in which he endorsed Soviet agriculture, the "proletarian science" of Trofim Lysenko.[21] The Lysenko affair had erupted in August 1948 when Stalin authorised Lysenko's theory of plant genetics as official Soviet orthodoxy, and refused any deviation. Bernal and the whole British scientific left were damaged by his support for Lysenko's theory, even after many scientists abandoned their sympathy for the Soviet Union.
Under pressure from the burgeoning Cold War, the president of British Royal Society had resigned from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in November 1948.[35] In November 1949, the British Association for the Advancement of Science removed Bernal from membership of its council.[36] Membership in UK radical science groups quickly declined. Unlike some of his socialist colleagues, Bernal persisted in defending the Soviet position on Lysenko. He publicly refused to accept the gaping fissures that the dispute revealed between the study of natural science and dialectical materialism.[37]
In November 1950, Pablo Picasso, a fellow communist, en route to a Soviet-sponsored[38] World Peace Congress in Sheffield created a mural in Bernal's flat at the top of No. 22 Torrington Square.[39] In 2007 this became part of the Wellcome Trust's collection[40][41] Bernal had two children (Mike, b.1926 and Egan, b.1930)[2] with his wife Agnes Eileen Sprague (referred to as Eileen),[43] who was a secretary. He married Sprague on 21 June 1922, the day after having been awarded his BA degree. Bernal was 21, Sprague 23. Sprague was described as an active socialist and their marriage as 'open' which they both lived up to 'with great gusto'.[44]
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Henry Stewart
>denying a simple fact
Tyler Mitchell
lol looks like a jojo character
Caleb Myers
His mother. Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE (22 April 1904 – 2 January 2005)[1] was a radical modern British artist and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist. She was also for a time the partner of Professor John Desmond Bernal, the eminent scientist and political activist. She was known as "Mrs Bernal" for most of her life, but they were never married.[2] In the 1980 Birthday Honours she was awarded an OBE for services to the Pier Arts Centre Trust, Stromness. She was referred to as Margaret Emilia Gardiner Bernal on the list.
With Bernal, who was a Communist, she was part of the 1930s and 40s group campaigning "For Intellectual Liberty". Gardiner was however not pressed to join the party.[1] She spent a winter with Bernal in Moscow but had reservations about Joseph Stalin. In the 1960s she organised full-page advertisements in The Times signed by well-known people opposed to the Vietnam War. She was also a supporter of CND.
In the 1970 general election Ben Whitaker, Labour MP for Hampstead, lost his seat as a result of a far-left candidate standing whom Gardiner had financed.[1][nb 1]
Camden Baker
Anyone who supported the soviet union is either a sociopath, someone who was paid for it or very very stupid.
Lucas Ross
Nope.
Ancient Greeks were just influenced by Egyptians with whom they traded and exchanged mercenaries.
Egyptians even founded a city in egypt for greeks
Levi Perry
Then why does every single piece of DNA analysis of ancient Cretans and Mycenaeans show they're closely related to modern insular Western Europeans?
Like everything else of the remotest amount of worth in the world, Crete was an ancient BRITISH civilisation. Convex-mouthed bluegums like yourself want to take credit for it but will get btfo every time
Colton Martinez
haplogroup e has a huge amount of subclades, that being said, it originated in the near east and not in africa but it did have back to africa migrations just like R did, quit pretending you know shit
William Davis
DAS RITE
Gabriel Wright
I refuse to read this nonsense but I'm guessing that the jew who wrote this traced the possible origin of Athena to Tannit and Neith of North Africa. Which is quite plausible. Neith is the Egyptian version and Tannit is the "Libyan" version and both are thought to have an origin in the now-dried up Tritonis Sea in Tunisia which is also by Carthage which was founded by Phoenicians who some also say introduce Tannit.
Anyways the jew author is being completely dishonest because North Africans were not black. The Sub-Saharan black nigger Africans couldn't cross the Sahara and the only blacks of the ancient world were located in the mixed Horn of Africa as well as legends of black nigger pygmies.
North Africans even today in that area, especially in he Atlas Mountains, range from brown to white. And they may have browned up with the Arab conquests later on or the nigger enrichment of today. But the unmolested groups in the Atlas Mountains have pale white skin, light hair and light eyes. They also have a rate DNA haplotype mutation that's only found in Scandinavians. Go figure.
Africa = Black is ridiculous and absurd nigger-tied "logic"
Thomas Hughes
>the Evening Star newspaper literal satanist newspaper
Tyler Foster
Mr. Bernal was asked in 1993 if his thesis in “Black Athena” was “anti-European.” He replied: “My enemy is not Europe, it’s purity — the idea that purity ever exists, or that if it does exist, that it is somehow more culturally creative than mixture. I believe that the civilization of Greece is so attractive precisely because of those mixtures.”
Regardless of anything else, I had no idea that Phoenician and Canaanite Hebrew were basically the same thing. Really puts a whole new twist on my idea of history.
>Jews are just the backwater post apocalyptic cousins of the vastly more important Phoenician civilization. >The destruction of Carthage was the original Shoah >Western civilization is founded upon the foundation laid by what was essentially a victorious Nazi regime
Cameron Ramirez
Btw, Ötzi The Iceman mummy wuz black n'sheeit according to Afrocentrism.
