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heaven above
October 12th, 2004, 05:17 PM
Just have a look at the nonsense that the UK National Archives are now pushing out, about our multi-racial history !

What a load of rubbish :mad:

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The Multicultural Roman Empire
Our knowledge of Black people present in Britain in early times is scanty. However, studies by scholars, archaeologists and historians have pieced together evidence about the lives of Black Romans.

One historian, Anthony Birley, in his work The African Emperor: Septimius Severus, explains that between AD 193 and 211 the Roman empire embraced a multicultural mix of peoples from Syria, Germany, Britain, Spain and Africa. Eight African men had positions of command in the northern Roman legions, and others held high rank as equestrian officers.


Map of Ancient Roman Empire in AD 211
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One of these Africans was Emperor Septimius Severus (AD 145-211). He arrived in Britain in AD 203 and when he died in AD 211 he was cremated in York (Eboracum), the capital of Roman Britain.

A Black Emperor - Septimius Severus (AD 145-211)
Septimius Severus was the first Roman emperor not born and raised in Italy. His father's family originally came from Libya (Leptis Magna) and his mother's family were Etruscans (Italian). His grandfather, a knight of the Roman empire, owned land near Rome, but Septimius grew up in North Africa with his father.

Septimius married Julia Domna, a Syrian, daughter of a high priest. The name Domna is derived from the archaic Arabic word dumayna, meaning 'black'. Septimius and Julia had two sons, Caracalla, the elder, born in AD 188, and Geta.

Because Septimius's ancestors were Roman citizens, he was entitled to be educated in Rome. He briefly practised as a lawyer, became a Roman senator, and from the age of 24 took part in campaigns in Spain, Syria, Gaul, Sicily and Athens. He spent much time extending Rome's borders eastwards across the Tigris in Mesopotamia and the Balkans. His education and experience won him strong support within the empire. He was described by contemporaries such as the famous physician Galen and the historians Herodian and Cassius Dio as 'a man of such energy...wise and successful...that he left no battle except as victor'.


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/early_times/romans.htm

COTW
October 12th, 2004, 05:22 PM
Maybe it's just me but I don't think he looks Black at all.

http://www.romancoins.info/p-septimius-severus-muc.JPG

STORMSOLDAAT
October 12th, 2004, 05:26 PM
Maybe it's just me but I don't think he looks Black at all.

http://www.romancoins.info/p-septimius-severus-muc.JPG

No that's no coon! This is just more liberal multi-racial rubbish to make the coon ape feel like it's human and has acheived something in world history! :D

White Dragon
October 12th, 2004, 05:35 PM
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/images/early_times/k104335_severus_sm.jpg

http://www.roman-emperors.org/sepsev.gif

This was the actual picture they postered....does not look like a groid to me.

Adolf Hitler
October 12th, 2004, 06:14 PM
What the hell?! There were no prominent nigger generals, politicians, or scholars during the entire history of the Romany Empire. The few that did manage to see the civilized Roman world usually worked as slaves and gladiatorial combatants (nothing like seeing a dead nigger on the arena floor). I have seen some accounts of black gladiators, but Romans viewed them as poor quality since they could not wield swords and shields effectively and didn’t know how to work in groups. They were considered fodder.

I’m a double major in History and Computer Science, nothing makes me angrier that niggers taking credit for non-nigger cultural and civilization achievements like the great pyramids of Egypt.

Adolf Hitler
October 12th, 2004, 06:47 PM
Yeah it’s bullshit. “Black history” professors are complete idiots. Last year I took a course specializing on writing research papers that refute claims of bogus historians. For my research paper I completely destroyed the arguments of a black professor in Virginia who wrote a school text book essentially claiming that without blacks America would not exist as a modern nation. Of course he cried racism and got his way with the publisher. I take great joy in disproving afro-centric revisionist history as a vain attempt to make up lack of culture.

whitemann
September 28th, 2010, 06:07 PM
He sure does not look black but on the other hand i know some black people who are mixed and do not look black, the so called "coons" do not have anything to be ashamed of though, if he is not black, they have others that are more likely to be black, one soundly defeated the descendants of the mighty cracker roman army at Adowa in the form of Menelik II, they could also identify with the kings (Shabaka among others) of the 25th dynasty in Egypt, (The Ethiopian conquest) and Shaka in South Africa, they may also want to look at the leaders of the Mali civilization and the Ashanti of West Africa. I do not believe they need a "Nigger Roman Emperor" to feel good.

of all the civilizations to want to identify with, a set of people who did not even have a proper system to count, Europe eventually had to resort to the Arabic system, a much superior method that the Italian Fibonacci observed in North Africa and took back to Europe, I think those silly black professors should try to find a black general in Alexander's army instead, or maybe a black barbarian, you know, one of those who cleaned up the romans after they rot form the inside with their violence and declined. :)

AND "Adolf Hitler" I will agree with what you are saying in part but you are equally as dumb as the black professor if you think blacks do not have a culture, maybe he was right to cry racism. (Haha look at your name) and he may very well have a point as one needs to look at how much slave labour was needed in the past, even thoug that may not have been what he meant, this is true for many great civilizations.

Imhotep
October 28th, 2011, 12:47 AM
Yeah it’s bullshit. “Black history” professors are complete idiots. Last year I took a course specializing on writing research papers that refute claims of bogus historians. For my research paper I completely destroyed the arguments of a black professor in Virginia who wrote a school text book essentially claiming that without blacks America would not exist as a modern nation. Of course he cried racism and got his way with the publisher. I take great joy in disproving afro-centric revisionist history as a vain attempt to make up lack of culture. Wow, I have to admit that I am quite mesmerized by the level of conversation and ignorance in this forum. Before you begin to talk about disproving afro-centric revisionist history you should first try to prove your own history, not the limited edition you seem to be relying your knowledge-based upon or the version Hollywood played in movies (for it seems to be your only historical database). Well last time I checked, entertainment's goal is quite the opposite of education. You see, you cannot study the history of any country or any nations for that matter without studying that of nations that preceded the given nation or country or else the word History by definition would loose any rationale. So instead of responding to your ignorant, idiotic expressions of thoughts and giving a harsh response to your Xenophobia I will treat your ignorance as a disease which needs to be cured with knowledge. Hence, if you are up to it, let's throw a challenge, a challenge in which you come up with all your so-called "historical" knowledge (please no movies, I'm quite busy and would like this conversation to start with the bare educated minimum) about what you think you know and I'll give you a proper lecture, with events, dates, museums, artefacts, data centres, locations and scientific evidence in order that you may learn for "Ignorance is a sin", and quite frankly I am not angered at your limited knowledge if knowledge at all for it is the result of some of your 'forth-fathers' who thought so little about your future, just as how they thought very little today about the fact that bankers are ripping that which your ancestors tried to build. So, in the event you'd like to consider my offer, let me know so we can get to it. I don't mind feeding a mind which lacks knowledge with true knowledge for it is the duty of any civilized entity to ensure ignorants become knowledgeable just as it is the duty of any wealthy individual to ensure the poor and needy are taken care of (though unfortunately these responsibilities are being neglected). I will assume my responsibilities to teach you if you will assume your privilege to learn.

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Dr. Michael Yao