{"id":8358,"date":"2001-03-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2021-07-05T02:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T02:40:42","slug":"lte-afrocentric-vs-eurocentric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2001\/03\/28\/lte-afrocentric-vs-eurocentric\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Afrocentric vs. Eurocentric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:00:40 -0800<br>From: &#8220;George Winkel&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030707200420\/mailto:gwinkel@ivic.net\">gwinkel@ivic.net<\/a><br>Subject: Letter to the editor Afrocentric vs. Eurocentric<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vigorous debate board is buzzing at the little Eurocentric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030707200420\/http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/racial_myths\/\">&#8220;Racial Myths&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;site. The burning issue seems to be the racial makeup of Egyptians (the folks on the Saharan &#8220;front line&#8221;?)? Were the pyramids built by &#8220;one-drop&#8221; &#8220;blacks&#8221; (i.e., &#8220;mixed,&#8221; Mulatto?); or is an antique&nbsp;<em>&#8220;one-drop white&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;rule&#8221; applicable throughout Blumenbach Near Eastern and Mediterranean civilization, making Mulatto Moors and other North Africans, as well as all &#8220;mixed&#8221; classical Greeks and Romans into &#8220;just check white&#8221; Caucasians? Tough questions all, requiring people with way too much time on their hands to burn midnight oil researching &#8220;primary sources.&#8221; How to prove up the &#8220;race&#8221; of ancients who had no such paradigm, and only rarely described people by color in their medieval and classical writings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The debate board&#8217;s URL is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030707200420\/http:\/\/members3.boardhost.com\/racial_myths\/\">http:\/\/members3.boardhost .com\/racial_myths\/&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:00:40 -0800From: &#8220;George Winkel&#8221;&nbsp;gwinkel@ivic.netSubject: Letter to the editor Afrocentric vs. Eurocentric A vigorous debate board is buzzing at the little Eurocentric&nbsp;&#8220;Racial Myths&#8221;&nbsp;site. The burning issue seems to be the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2aO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}