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 Little Known Facts* (about Blacks)

 The Grimaldi, a Negro race, lived in Europe as late as 12,000 ago. Two complete Grimaldi skeletons are in the Museum of Monaco, near Monte Carlo. Abundant traces of their culture have been unearthed in Southern and Central Europe.

The Negro was the first artist. The oldest drawings and carvings yet discovered were executed by the Negro peoples over 15,000 years ago in Southern France, Northern Spain, Palestine, South Africa and India. The drawings are on rocks, the carvings on bones, basalt and ivory.

Cheops, a Negro, built the Great Pyramid, one of the Seven wonders of the Ancient World. It is 451 feet high, has 2,500,000 bricks of granite, each two and a half tons, covers 13 acres, took 100,000 men thirty years to build and was completed in 3730 B.C.

Negroes lived in America thousands of years before Columbus. (Book and film: “They Came Before Columbus”)

Central American monuments show numerous carvings of them as gods. When Columbus came to the New World,

Negroes had been crossing from Africa to South America a distance of 1600 miles. The first white men to reach the

American mainland, tell of seeing Negroes. Columbus who visited South America said that he heard of them there.

 Beethoven, the world's greatest musician, was without a doubt a mulatto. He was called "The Black Spaniard”. His teacher, the immortal Joseph Haydin, who wrote the music for the former Austrian National Anthem, was colored too.

 Ernest Matzeliger, a Dutch West Indian Negro living in Lynn, Mass., invented the first machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the uppers. This invention, which was eleven years in the making, revolutionized the industry and gave shoe supremacy to the United States.  It made several millionaires, one of whom left $4,000,000 to Howard University. Overwork and privation hastened Matzeliger to his grave in 1889 at the age of 37. He left a few shares of stock to a white church, which later saved it from being sold for debt.

 The Mohammedans believe that Moses was a black man. Their Bible, The Koran, says so. God told Moses to put his hand into his bosom. The Koran says that it came out white. The commentators declare that Moses hand could not have been white before, and that the miracle Jehovah intended was making the black skin white, and then turning it black again. The Septaugint, or Greek Bible, agrees with the Koran.

 The characters of the Bible are largely Negroes. The Jews were slaves of the Egyptians for nearly 430 years. Only seventy Jews went to Egypt with Jacob. The Bible says that 600,000 men left with Moses, which according to Haushoffer, meant a total of 3,154,000 with women.  For this large number to have left mixing with the Egyptians, who were black, must have taken place on a vast scale. About 12,000,000 Negroes were brought to the New World. Imagine how much of their original color and culture the latter would take with them should they return to Africa, and you realize how much of the original Jew remained in those seventy Jews after four centuries. Tacitus, Roman historian of 90 A.D., says that the Romans of his day popularly believed that the Jews, which then abounded in Europe, came from Ethiopia, the land of the Blacks. The present white color of the European and American Jew, is very likely due to the same cause, as the fair skin and straight hair of large numbers of Negroes. The Bible classes the Ethiopian and the Jew together, "Are ye not as the children of Ethiopia unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord." Chaldea, the land in which the Jews originated, was also a Negro land, hence Abraham might also have been black.

 The Falashas, or Negro Jews of Ethiopia, led by Queen Judith, put the line of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba off the throne of Ethiopia in 937 A.D., and they ruled for forty years. The Falashas assert that they are the original Jews. They call themselves “The Beta-Israel", or "The Chosen People."

 Imhotep of ancient Egypt, was the real Father of Medicine. He lived about 2300 B.C. Greece and Rome received their knowledge of medicine from him. In Rome he was worshiped as the Prince Peace in the form of a black man. His Ethiopian portraits show him a Negro. Imhotep was also a Prime Minister to King Zoser as well as the foremost architect of his time. The saying, "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die," has been traced to him. Hippocrates, the so-called "Father of Medicine" lived 2,000 years after Imhotep.

 The oldest and most noted statue in the world bears the face of a Negro. It is the Sphinx of Gizeh, which was worshiped as Horus, or Harmachis, the Sun-God of light and life. It was erected about 5,000 B.C.

 The devil which is now depicted as black, was once portrayed white. When the black man dominated the planet he painted the forces of evil, white. When the whites came into power, they shifted the colors. But as late as 1500 the Ethiopians still depicted their Gods and heroes black and their devils and villains white. Father Fernandez, a Catholic missionary, who worked amongst them at this time, says, “They paint Christ, the blessed Virgin, and other saints in black form; and devils and wicked men, white. Thus Christ and his apostles are, black and Judas, white, while Michael is black, and the devil, white.

 The Bible really originates in Ancient Egypt, where the population, according to Herodotus and Aristot1e, was black. Here the Jews received almost all of their early culture. Prof. Breasted, leading Egyptologist, says, “The ripe social and moral development of mankind in the Nile Valley which is 3000 years older than that of the Hebrews, contributed essentially to the formation of Hebrew literature. Our moral heritage therefore derives from a wider human past, enormously older than the Hebrews, and it has come to us rather than through the Hebrews than from them.

 Psalms that read like those of the Bible were written by a Pharaoh, Amenophis IV, better known as Akhenaton, the Heretic King, 1300 B.C., or more than 400 years before David was born. Akhenaton, who was the father of Tut-Ankh-Amen, was extremely Negro in type. He was called "the most remarkable of the Pharaohs.”

 There were three African Popes of Rome: Victor (189-199 A.D.); Melchiades (311-312); and St. Gelasius (496 A.D.). It was Melchiades who led Christianity to final triumph against the Roman Empire.

 On November 15, 218 B.C., Hannibal, a full-blooded Negro, marching through conquered territory in Spain and

France, performed the astounding feat of crossing the Alps. With only 26,000 of his original force of 82,000 men

remaining, he defeated Rome, the mightiest military power of that age, who had a million men, in every battle for

the next fifteen years. Hannibal is the father of military strategy. His tactics are still taught in the leading military

academies of the United States, England, France, Germany, and other lands.

 The first slaves held in the United States were not black, but white. They were Europeans, mostly British, who died like flies on the slave ships across. On one voyage 1,100 perished out of 1,500. At another time 250 out of 400. In Virginia, white servitude was for a limited period, but was sometimes extended for life. In the West Indies, particularly in the case of the Irish, it was for life. White people were sold in the United States up to 1826, fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, was a runaway, and was advertised for in the newspapers.

 The most ancient names for so-called black people are Nehesu, or Nubian; Ethiopian, and Moor from ancient Egypt, and Negro or Nigrita from West Africa. All the above are Native African words. “Negro" is probably the oldest as the Negritos are the oldest known branch of the human race. "Negro" comes from the River Niger. “Niger" found its way into Latin and since the people from that region were dark-skinned, Niger, nigra, nigrum came to mean black. Negro, Negrito, Nigrita, means "the people of the great river." Black and colored, like white, are, on the other hand, European words. Ethiopian and Moor were popularly used to describe the so-called blacks unti11500. Shakespeare uses "Negro" only once and uses it synonymously with Moor. Africa comes from the ancient Egyptian "Af-rui-ka," or, Kafrica, the land of the Kaffir.

 Haywood Shepherd, a free Negro, was the first person killed by John Brown's party of white and Negro raiders at Harper's Ferry in their efforts to free the slaves in 1859. Shepherd, while running off to arouse the white people, was shot dead in his tracks.

 The blacks, like the whites, have been struggling for thousands of years to change their hair from its natural form. Negroes arranged their hair with hot irons in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago.

 An American Negro has twenty chances to a white American's one of reaching a hundred years and over.

 *Excerpted from "100 Amazing Facts About The Negro With Complete Proof" by J.A. Rogers, (New York: Helga M. Rogers, 1957,pp.4-15.) (by permission from Helga M. Rogers)

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