![]() Breasted’s beliefs in white supremacist notions about Afrika and Black people would not allow him to go on record to say that before the invasions of the Assyrians (676 B.C.E), the Persians (525 B.C.E.) the Greeks( 332 B.C.E.), the Romans (30 B.C.E.) and the Arabs (646 A.D.) in history, Kemet was an indigenous all Black civilization. Kemet started these advancements thousands of years before Europe, Mesopotamia, Western Asia (the Middle East), China, Greece, Rome, Judaism, Christianity, and Al-Islam. Kemet is the first to have originated the belief in the judgment of a soul, the belief in spirituality, and the resurrection story. Kemet also was the first civilization to lead the world in architecture, the invention of paper, the invention of a 365-day calendar, the belief in the afterlife, and the belief in a soul. Breasted has documented that Kemet (Egypt) led the world in science, mathematics, agriculture, government, law, theology, philosophy, ethics, a written language, monotheism (the idea of the aseity of God), and medicine. He shows that Kemet (Egypt) is the author of the world’s civilizations and western religions (i.e. Breasted acknowledges that Kemet (Egypt) is the world’s first major civilization. His work on the history of Kemet (Egypt) is great and credible. The school of Egyptology at the University of Chicago is presently one of the world’s most premier programs on the study and science of Kemetic (Egyptian) history, religion, and culture in today’s world. Breasted helped to establish the school of Egyptology at his institution. He became the first American Professor to hold that position in the United States of America. He ascended to the permanent Chair of Egyptology and Oriental History at the university. Breasted was promoted to full professorship. In 1901, he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Kemet (Egypt). Dr, Breasted chose the University of Berlin in Germany.Īfter completing his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in Illinois. Breasted then finished his Master of Arts degree at Yale University. He completed his undergraduate studies at North Central College. Breasted was America’s premier Egyptologist. ![]() It is also a case study of his contribution to the exacerbation of white supremacist Ideologies. Breasted’s book is important to study but only for its recording of history. ![]() This influenced my mission to expose the intellectualization of white supremacy as a justification for Black oppression. However, the book unapologetically supports white supremacy. The name Kemet is the Afrikan word for “the land of the Blacks.” This book contains well-written documentation of the majesty, which existed within the earliest civilizations of the planet earth, starting with Kemet (Egypt). The very first edition was published in 1916 and then revised throughout the 20th century. One of the books sitting on the shelf of my library is Ancient Times by Egyptologist James Henry Breasted. I have been building my personal library since 1989 after becoming Afrikan-centered in my Black consciousness in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In my house, I have a great and massive library. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben Jochannan (pictured). This revolutionary scholar’s name was Dr. But a courageous Black Egyptologist scholar led a movement in the twentieth century to seize Kemet from the hands of white supremacy and Arab hegemony in the world. Not only have racist white intellectuals argued that Kemet was a non-Black civilization, they took Kemet geographically out of the continent of Afrika. Unfortunately, over the centuries, white supremacist “scholars” have distorted the history of Kemet. ![]() I understand that I will now become a part of an exclusive list of activist intellectuals fighting to rescue, reclaim, and restore Kemet to Afrikan people. (I will use the words Afrikan and Black interchangeably for people of Afrikan descent.)Īs I embark on my very first educational tour of Kemet (Egypt), I am overwhelmed with emotions. Leonard Jeffries (legendary Africana Studies Professor) ![]() Ben gave Kemet and Nile Valley Civilizations back to us” ![]()
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