Black Egyptians

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

don't be afraid to quote me: I'm not going to bite

well yeah it's strange: because it wasn't an argument: it was me getting puzzled about the way the thread was going: I find IMHO people were getting on with it; either way, I should have been more clear, and careful. especially since you put it that way.

It wasn't meant to be directed at you, your 'version' of the sentiment was simply the most recent and easily accessible. I know, also, that it was not an argument (and hence the single quotation ' ' marks).



I know what it was that you were getting at, and that's why I mentioned the links to more.... bizarre claims, which I believe are misplaced. I think that there has also been a misunderstanding of the term racist used here. I do not believe that it was aimed at more recent study, but rather that the original instigators of study were racist and of a decidedly racist culture and that such distortion as took place then has simply continued.

Confrontation and effrontery were not my aim, I assure you.