Now, concerning our topic on "performative solidarity." I was in Egypt several years ago, and yes, the folks were generally kind, but institutionally, the racism zeitgeist was alive and well. I was outside the Karnak Temple Complex, shooting video footage, while a tour guide pointed out to 15 or so tourists, a wall depiction of an Egyptian pharaoh smiting a Nubian. He went on to underscore how the Egyptians and Nubians were mortal enemies, and made sure to iterate that the Egyptians were different from the Nubians (it was a stone carving, so the tourists were ostensibly none the wiser; of course many of them knew the truth, anyway). He said that well-targeted within my earshot. And of course, the Black Egyptians in Aswan are today called "Nubians" as part of the surreptitious worldwide mitigation campaign against Blacks.
Meanwhile, let's keep it real, GM and Maestro, TheOne has been keen to ensure the fallacious narrative of Blacks only being brought into the Arab lands as slaves rather than being the actual progenitors of Sumer/Mesopotamia is well explicated.
And of course, we've provided instances where Palestinians, like other Arabs, have been a part of the "culture" that mitigates Black life in the region.
Let me be clear, though. Israel should not be engaged in the ethnic cleansing that's going on there. Meanwhile, Palestine and the Arab world-at-large would be in a stronger position, at this point, if they embraced their Black heritage.
I got the image below of the Arabs (corn row braids) in battle with the Assyrians from a high school textbook today. But the framing surrounding the picture makes students assume they're white people.
