graduated high school in 1960...many of us know that Egypt(Kemet) borrowed many things from Nubia, but alot dont..u just didnt learn that in school in certain places.And yes its so simple as to grab a map and see for yourself that Egypt is part of africa.But someone on here earlier thought Isreal was part of Africa, so its just show u that alot of people was sleep during geography class..they just dropped the ball on this song thats all..cuz its still a good song

yeah i still groove to it and the scrunch my nose for 5 seconds then go back to

Desiree...you started a thread regarding your own paranoia?

How narcissistic are you anyway?

peace

Harlepolis said:

Okay, here's another hint. the lyric is um...contains an error in geography. Okay I pretty much gave it away right there.

Harlepolis said:

Yep I'm sorry but that bothered me because...hello...Egypt IS in Africa. Did this dude ever look at a map or globe? Okay even though Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff wrote it, they still should know better. Imagine how many people grew up thinking the same from listening to this song. I can jam with it up till that point.

DesireeNevermind said:

You have to take into consideration the time that this song was written. At that time,(mid 70's) they were consider too different places. The writers of the song did not wanna rock the boat.

well u know "the man" went to great lengths to SEPARATE Egypt FROM Africa (Liz Taylor as Cleopatra, white Egyptians and Charlon Heston in The 10 Commandments, etc.) lest African Americans feel some connection to the brilliant people who built the pyramids. Harder to continue to oppress and keep enslaved a people with such a rich legacy, u must keep them thinking they are soulless monkeys, who you rescued from the jungles.

but about the song, i don't think it was THAT deep. if it was ignorance on the O'Jays part or the writers, shame on them, but the ignorance was/is quite pervasive. But other songs that have shouted out locales have also vacillated between states, cities, countries.

DesireeNevermind said:

it's very deep..if u fill out government questionaires and they ask for race..you'll see white as european or africa north of the sahara and african american as people from below the sahara..(your black ass live in Algeria, u can say you're white) That's the good ole USofA for u..so back then it might not have been just a missed class in geography.its what folk really thought...many people still think egypt is part of the middle east

SavonOsco said:

Pitiful. I mean you can go to the library and read books on Egypt and see that it's part of AFrica. Many books with pics show the countrymen/natives and they are very black. And let's not forget its next to the fucking Sudan where people there are and have pretty much always been very very black. Sudan used to be Nubia and Egypt supposedly got her shit from Nubia.

graduated high school in 1960...many of us know that Egypt(Kemet) borrowed many things from Nubia, but alot dont..u just didnt learn that in school in certain places.And yes its so simple as to grab a map and see for yourself that Egypt is part of africa.But someone on here earlier thought Isreal was part of Africa, so its just show u that alot of people was sleep during geography class..they just dropped the ball on this song thats all..cuz its still a good song

SavonOsco said:

Egypt is a part of the Middle East, that happens to be in Africa. Middle East is a geopolitical construct, continents are not, except Europe.

SavonOsco said:

Are we going to go on about what people should know and don't?
That's a pretty long list . . .
If you can read, don't blame anyone else for what you know or don't know.
Don't blame school, parents, society, etc.
If you can read, you can educate yourself. Do so. . .