So what if she's not real dark-skinned---black folks, FYI,come in ALL colors, from Caucasian to charcoal-black, and I grew up around black folks that EXACT light brown color (there's a number of them within my own family, plus my significant other is that exact shade). Obviously some of you posters haven't been around black folks enough to know (living and growing up in mostly all-black communities until my mid-teens, I should know) how skin color shades vary widely amongst us as well as other people of color in general. So, yeah, Isis could have been black and STILL be that color. End of story. She obviously wasn't white,her myth wasn't even created by white folks--GET over it,y'all! We're arguing semantics here!
It also kills me how white people have always treated Egypt like it couldn't possibly be part of Africa, because of its great contributions to what we call modern civilization. If you look on the damn map, it's IN Africa, and no amount of claiming that its people weren't black or anything near is going to change that. To me it's like saying that New York isn't part of New York the state, despite the fact that it very much is---it's always sounded ridiculous amd more than racist to me,as if Egypt's great civilization could not have POSSIBLY been created by anybody resembling a black person. It's just so *beep* stupid to me--skin color dosen't have s*** to do with genius or advancing/creating a civilization. Honestly, sometimes I can't help thinking as I've delved into ancient history that people back in those times then seemed far less racist to some extent than they are now--seriously.
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