Not to side track too much, but that has been a huge problem for the black community at large, for a very long time. In most cases, academia refuse to associate black people (of African descent) with any notable historical achievement, that was prior to white intervention (also see: slavery). For instance, Hannibal of Carthage, is a well known general. He defeated the Romans, with less than half as many troops, and was noted for his strategic brilliance. He hailed from North Africa, and many people in academia are insistent that he could not have been "black." They even have a derogatory sounding term, for darker Africans. They call them sub-saharan (refering to a supposed tone darkness, where whites lived in north africa and blacks lived below the sahara). The term itself seems to imply "sub-standard," The pyramids, from the ancient Egyptians, are typically claimed to have come from a race that was closer to white people, than black people. It is often a source of debate, about black presence in the royal heirarchy. At best, i'v seen most sources claim that black pharoes were present, but only in the latter dynasties, after Egypt had built the pyramids. Even though there are various sources of early white expiditions, in which they returned to note that they saw "negroes," most academic sources claim that these people were mistaken, and merely labeled all dark skin people, as black. It's quite an uphill battle, for anybody to believe that black people can do much of anything, historically or currently. That's why I spend most of my time, being the antithesis of that image.
