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why it is OK for BLACKs to be called GREEKs
For those who think "Black Greek" is an oxymoron...here is some interesting facts F.Y.I..............
Within volume 1 of "The Alpha Spirit," Brother Tony Brown addresses this issue.
".... I also remember one recurring criticism: "Why are Black people like you calling yourselves Greeks?" It was years before I had the factual answer to that challenge.
Greece, I learned from a more thorough study of history, was a culturally diverse pluralistic society of various ethnic and racial groups- much like the United States of today. However, the citizens were mostly dark-skinned black and brown people.
Many Greeks were called Carians, Achaeans, Cadmeans, Leleges and Garamantes. All of these tribes were members of the Pelasgian nation. They were also all Black.
The Pelasgians came to what is now known as Greece from the Saharan region of Africa, Egypt and old Palestine. The Garamantes were the first to colonize ancient Greece. They arrived around the 4th millennium B.C. Originally, they were from the Western Sahara.
The Aryan-Greek period, when the Kurgan tribesman became rulers of the Aegean, of White rule did not begin until 600 B.C. As you can see, Black people ruled Greece until that time.
Greek mythology is replete with Black history, as we have come to identify certain events. The Amazons, for examples, were symbols of Black matriarchal societies on the Black (note the term) Sea.
George G.M. James, in "Stolen Legacy," gives proof that Greek philosophy came from ancient Egyptian wisdom. As a matter of fact, Socrates was persecuted by the Aryans (Whites) for his teachings. Which leads me to suspect that he was one of us, a Pelasgian.
Homer, author of "Illiad" and "Odyssey" was a Carian. Euclid, another great Greek, was also Black. Of course, "His-Story" books present all great Greeks as White."
Thus, the question "Why Black Fraternities and Sororities call themselves Greek ", is a moot question. We are NOT borrowing an aspect of another culture and adapting it as our own since the Pelasgians, the original Greeks, are a part of our culture.
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