The Black Man

Time changes all things" is a saying so old and so true as to admit of no argument. It is exemplified in so many different ways as to require no comment, and yet when we hear the phrase used thoughtlessly, every day, it is but natural to wonder if the one who uses it realizes what he is saying, or rather, if he knows what those few common place words mean, when used to form that sentence. It is a foregone conclusion that he does not. He never stopped long enough to examine even a little of the abundance of indisputable proof that the saying "Time changes all things" applies to things and conditions, seldom if ever present, to this narrow mind, and far away and beyond even this low prejudiced influence. When we hear or read the sayings of some of our "misnamed" great men, in reality, we are fully justified in making the charge of falsifying and concealing such facts as they are not really ignorant of. One of these conspicuous public characters delights in making the assertion that the Hamite Ethiopian or Negro never amounted to anything, or possessed anything, never occupied an eminence, save to which the Semitic or Anglo-Saxon had dragged or driven him up to. If ignorance alone was responsible for this glaring falsehood, a great deal of sympathy would go out to those who make the statement as well as those who believe it to be true because of ignorance. Much of the wisdom is self praise for successfully concealing, or at least surrounding historical facts with such theory as to place the descendants of Shem upon an eminence which is justly his according to the blessings of Noah and makes him appear much larger than what he really is. Some knowledge of the origin of mankind exists, and it is this knowledge that causes the falsifying of much as possible the true historical records, especially of the black man. It cannot be said that the learned historical writers, the great Divines, Theological students and lecturers of today lack in knowledge of the history of Ham, the son of Noah, and his descendants, such as Nimrod, the founder of the great ancient city of Babylon, and also Menes the first King of Egypt and the founder of the great ancient city of Memphis. Ridpath says that the traditions of antiquity points to Memphis and Babylon as the fountains of human wisdom. If those above-named are ignorant of the history of the last-named, they are doing the world a great injustice in assuming the position of teacher and leader. If they are familiar with the history of the races and the deeds of men, they will no doubt have for them and their kind good and sufficient reasons for making false and misleading statements as to some historical records, and totally forgetting others. An early Queen of Egypt was a descendant of the Ethiopian or Moor race. This is conceded by some of the modern writers; some of them going so far as to say that her skin was very black, and a few of them acknowledge that it was this black queen who placed the first fleet of war ships on the river Nile. They have no doubt traced this woman back to where they are satisfied that she was descended in a direct lineal line from Zipporah, the black and Ethiopian wife of Moses. We read very little of these two women, because modern writers seek to obscure them, and Many of your Pastor, Preacher, Teachers never preach or lecture on that part of the Bible in which they are mentioned. Simply because if they do, they must give credit to black race. In this Biblical history it could begin even with Hannibal, the Carthagenian General, and record the accomplishments of black men without the intervening of any long periods of time, down to the time of Alexander Dumas, Toussant L'Overture, and Alexander Sergievitch Pouskin, Russo-African poet. The borders of this Republic and beginning with Crispus Octikus, or Alexander Hamilton-record the accomplishments of these same black descendants of Ham, down to this day.