Black Rage: Afrocentrism or Childish Insecurity?

A picture of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II based on his mummified remains (left). The inset eyes and thin lips betray this man had European features and was certainly not a sub-Saharan man. Yet that is what Afrocenstrists claim, and they are legion.

Black people are suffering a deep insecurity about their true origins. Since their known history began with slavery (both by Arabs and Europeans), and since their facial features are so very different from the rest of humanity, they have developed a deep sense of shame, a festering inferiority complex that shall inevitably find expression in the form of war and genocide. The Black Rage is upon us.

Before I continue, it’s important to do away with the American label “black”. There are black-skinned people all over the world who aren’t even African. There are the black-skinned Aboriginal Australians, there are black-skinned people in Southern India, and so on, and so forth. But the “black people” commonly referred to within the U.S. American context are the Negroïd peoples of West and Central Africa, of Sub-Saharan Africa, and generally of the Bantu-speaking language family, the ancestors of the African Americans.