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Black Egyptian Discusses Hate She Receives From Egyptians Over Her Skin Color


It's a short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3kne7_vDU

BTW, the Egyptian government forced Black Egyptians from their land where they lived for thousands of years to build a dam and then attempted to sell more of their land to investors.

"The community was displaced in the 1960s, after the Aswan High Dam was built to create Lake Nasser, flooding much of the Nubians’ ancestral homeland and submerging thousands of years of their history."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/13/egypt-nubians-fight-for-ancestral-land-earmarked-for-mega-project

The government relocated some 135,000 Nubians living in 44 villages in residential units overlooking Lake Nasser. They were displaced to arid lands unsuitable for agriculture.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2019/07/egypt-nubians-payment-compensation-displaced-high-dam-loss.html#ixzz80bKZ2j1l

History and art:
"Nubians also lived in Egypt as respected members of society, and Nubian archers at times served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army. Egypt conquered all of Nubia during the New Kingdom. The tables were turned in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (ca. 773–664 B.C.) when Kushite kings conquered all of Egypt:
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/egyptian-art/temple-of-dendur-50/nubia

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Don't they know that's not how you are supposed to treat royalty?

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