MYTH: Egyptians were white This is the longest myth ever in existence, which is pedaled as true scholarship and truth. Yet it is an outright myth, deliberately created from 1830 onwards, to explain away Egyptian civilization. During the 1800′s there was all kinds of pseudo-sciences floating around about the genetical and inherent inferiority of peoples [...]
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Scatterlings of Africa
Approximately 70,000 years ago, a small fragile group of humans in Africa embarked on a fantastic voyage. They left their mother continent and began a migration to every corner of the planet. As far as we know, they had no map, no compass, and no plan – just perhaps, a deep inner conviction that their [...]
The Bushmen
The origins of the Bushmen, also called the San, go so far back that they are lost in the mists of time. There have been a great many theories put forward about the beginnings of these mysterious little men whose remarkable way of life has gone on virtually unchanged for since the Stone Age. These [...]
How 99.9% of any one person’s DNA is exactly the same as any other person regardless of ethnicity or race
In the early twentieth century many scientists held the view that biologically distinct races existed. The races corresponded to the major continental regions of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. These races were distinguished from each other based on a few visible traits such as skin color and hair texture. Black people were largely defined [...]
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Remembering ‘Stephen Bantu Biko’ 12-09-1977
He died today. Yet He lives. A son of Africa died many tears ago, today who used his mind and words as a weapon a man of his people till the end He lived speaking his freedom for all He died a free man. He lived. . His mind and words was his weapon silenced [...]
Brown Skin by India Arie
Brown Skin Brown skin, you know I love your brown skin I cant tell where yours begins, I cant tell where mine ends Brown skin, up against my brown skin Need some every now and then:oh hey: Where are your people from? Maybe Mississippi or an Island Apparently your skin has been kissed by the [...]
Brown Skin by Richie Spice
Brown Skin Oh na na na nah Na na na na na na naah Stu dup du dup du duu ohhh Aye na na na na na na naaa Ah dup du dup du duuu Du du dup du du duuu aye Chorus Aye-brown skin Girl i wanna wrap you wanna lock you in my [...]
Race Ebonics – Different names, the same people!
All around the world, proud individuals of mixed ancestry, heritage, religion and heritage define and identify themselves that are particular to their country and culture. Some of the words are offensive but they do not in any way reflect the ideas, aims and principles of the Beyond Identity family. We are people because of other [...]
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Facebook Coloured groups exploding, why?
One sometimes wonder whether the whole Coloured identity thing, is simply a relic of the past, especially from the old South Africa, (read: apartheid… Population Registration act) past. What does the young people, the ‘bornfrees’ born after 1990 or who got their ‘verstand’ after the FW De Klerk-era, think of their identity. If Facebook is [...]
Identity against racism
Racism, doctrine, belief, or assumption that inherited biological differences cause some human subpopulations to be fundamentally different from, or superior to, others. In this sense, racism originated in the mid-19th century, although evidence of racial discrimination can be detected in much earlier historical periods. (Microsoft Encarta ® 2006.) By the beginning of the 20th century [...]