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antiquity (now reclassified as some
“caucasoid” “semitics”) and their
Kushitic African roots.
This article is therefore another blow
against the citadel of falsehood erected
by the western intelligentsia used to
discourage, dis-empower dissipate and
diffuse the energy of the Black nation.
Again one notes and deplores the
unrelenting effort by non-continental
peoples to appropriate the history and
the achievements of brilliant Black
African luminaries as their own.

Much confusion attends the
word “Arabs”, because it
has not always been used
with rigorous consistency.
Moreover, in the wake of the global
dominance of the Arab culture and
Islamic political power in the between
7AD and 14 AD, the number of Arabs
increased exponentially by the addition
of many non-Arab Arabized people,
because acculturation and assimilation
were deliberately fostered by state
policy.
Today, the word Arabs does not strictly
imply or designate any known racial
category of people. It is an ethnic
identification that has several aspect
including linguistics, politics and
genealogy. Its meaning is nuanced
depending on the particular context.

As an ethnic identity, an Arab is
someone who considers himself to be an
Arab regardless of racial or ethnic
origin. This definition encompasses

many Africans, Indians, Indonesians and
Chinese who describe themselves as
Arabs.
Usually the first language of persons
who claim to be Arab is Arabic. There
are over 200 million people worldwide
whose first language is Arabic. Again
these peoples spread over a large
portion of the globe spanning from
central Africa to central Asia.
More than 70% of the so-called Arabs in
the world live physically in Africa.