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The African Roots of the Celtish Clans # 2 –Black Celts, Black Britons – By – JamaniThus from a mixture of all kinds began,That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman:In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot.Whose gend’ring off-spring quickly learn’d to bow,And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough:From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came,With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame.In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran,Infus’d betwixt a Saxon and a Dane.While their rank daughters, to their parents just,Receiv’d all nations with promiscuous lust.This nauseous brood directly did containThe well-extracted blood of Englishmen.

Which medly canton’d in a heptarchy,A rhapsody of nations to supply,Among themselves maintain’d eternal wars,And still the ladies lov’d the conquerors.

The western Angles all the rest subdu’d;A bloody nation, barbarous and rude:Who by the tenure of the sword possest

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One part of Britain, and subdu’d the restAnd as great things denominate the small,The conqu’ring part gave title to the whole.The Scot, Pict, Britain, Roman, Dane, submit,And with the English-Saxon all unite:And these the mixture have so close pursu’d,The very name and memory’s subdu’d:No Roman now, no Britain does remain;Wales strove to separate, but strove in vain:The silent nations undistinguish’d fall,And Englishman’s the common name for all.Fate jumbled them together, God knows how;What e’er they were they’re true-born English now.

The wonder which remains is at our pride,To value that which all wise men deride.For Englishmen to boast of generation,Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction,In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.A banter made to be a test of fools,Which those that use it justly ridicules.A metaphor invented to expressA man a-kin to all the universe.

For as the Scots, as learned men ha’ said,Throughout the world their wand’ring seed ha’ spread;So open-handed England, ’tis believ’d,Has all the gleanings of the world receiv’d.

Some think of England ’twas our Saviour meant,The Gospel should to all the world be sent:Since, when the blessed sound did hither reach,They to all nations might be said to preach.

‘Tis well that virtue gives nobility,How shall we else the want of birth and blood supply?Since scarce one family is left alive,Which does not from some foreigner derive

‘As a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Protestant William Prince of Orange replaced theCatholic James II on the throne of England. Not everyone was happy with this turn of events as Williamwas a Dutchman; they objected to having a foreigner as king and extolled their own English parentageby way of comparison.

Defoe composed this satirical rejoinder as a gentle reminder to those English patriots of where their trueroots lay. Worthwhille repeating out loud whenever some damn fool British politician starts complainingabout the extent of immigration and how its turning the British into a mongrel race.’

…………African Roots of the Celtish Tribes: Black Celts, Black Britons

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Jamani

England, an Island populated nearly 50 million inhabitants, of which the majority, indeed the rulingmajority are white, caucasian and purportedly of purely european stock. The image presented of theEnglish, cradled in its notion of Englishness conjures up the image of blue eyes, blonde hair, typified bythe English rose, or the archetypal fair maiden of old, and the blue-eyed boy of more modernchronology. Images akin to modern Northern europe. However behind this Scandinavian / Greek-eskromanticism we have a population overwhelming consisting of a brown eyed, dark haired inhabitants.

My aim in writing this is to challenge this politically charged iconographic self-image and its use inculturing how this population ideologizes its racial origins.

The study of English history reveals waves of colonizers and immigrants whether this is though theRomans, Vikings, Germanic tribes, the Normans etc. All depicted as white, caucasian, and at least inmodern times able to be categorized as being of european stock. However, what seemingly does not findits way into print is an African presence. That is not until the 1500s with the beginning of the slave trade,where Africans are recorded as blackamoor pets, domestic servants, soldiers, and entertainers.

On a closer examination of the history of this Island we find vagueness, inconsistencies and variousomissions. History is supposed to be the linear story of facts, the facts of what has gone before.Therefore if we were to walk back and reside with at least some of the indigenous population of thisisland we find evidence of a people diametrically opposed to those who claim current ownership of thisland…,namely African people.

Over a period of at least 2000 years amongst the evidence are burial mounds, where the skeletal remainslying in a foetal position (in adoration to the womb of Mother Earth), and facing to the East run parallelwith the ancient African custom of veneration of the sun (rising in the East) and elevation of theimmortal soul. We have the discovery of numerous skulls where the sizes and shapes clearly denote anAfrican phenotype and origin, artefacts identical to those found on the African continent such as potteryand jewellery, as well as identical styles of weaving cloth which are found in no other place than specificlocalities in Africa. Also the legacy of place names denoting the original inhabitants, as well assimilarities in the phonetics of languages of non-Aryan origin.

Older text and folklore of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales often mention the arrival of Africans,and a distinct African presence, not solely as visitors, but as the original inhabitants.

We find the earliest races to inhabit the Isle were short, swarthy (black), dark haired, dark eyed, and longskulled, its language belonged to the class called hamaitic and seems to have originally come from somepart of either Eastern, Northern, or Central Africaâ€, a quote typically omitted from the history books.

Indeed the notion abounds that English history begins with the arrival of the Celts. However the Celtswhose racial origin cannot, or has not been truthfully qualified (outside of the parameters that support acaucasian supremacist myth) had Gods of a non-Aryan origin. Writings of Tacitus, the Roman historianmention the dark complexion of the Silures or Black Celts, and maintained that a black aboriginal racelived side by side with a white one in the British Isle in Pre-Roman times.

To give volume to the consensus of silence stemming from the modern written word, since the originalAfrican presence, there have been countless migrations from the African continent for the purpose ofconquest, as explorers and colonists.

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Pliny the Roman historian who first saw the Britons in the 2nd Cent AD described their complexion asEthiopian. Under the African Emperor Septimus Severis, along with a large contingent of Romansoldiers including African soldiers and officials we have the Roman occupation of England. Those whoSeveris fought were known as the Maeatae (Marsh dwellers), they were Caledonni, nick-named Picti,known as Moors, or black men. The early Scots too, (whose name it is claimed is derived from Scotia anEgyptian princess) make their first appearance in history in conjunction with the Picts in 360AD whenthey began a series of incursions into the Roman provinces of Britain. These two nations are invariablylinked in all records of the Roman conquest, with the chief Roman historian regarding them as akin inblood. Though associated primarily to the North, and to the land mass later known as Scotland evidenceof their presence is amongst other places to be found in Norfolk and Cornwall

I don’t suggest that solely Africans populated this Island, but contend that as part of the original,indigenous population, and from this point onwards, then undoubtedly we were here. I write this to strikea balance, to include what has been excluded, to permit what has been omitted.

This too is supported by David Mac Ritchie in Ancient and Modern Britons, when he states that theMoors dominated Scotland as late as the times of the Saxons, and that as late as the 10th Cent, 3provinces in Scotland were wholly black. The 700 year domination over the Iberian Peninsula andSouthern France by the Moors, their bringing and transmition of civilization to various parts of europeundeniably resulted in Moorish influence and inhabitation in England, again place names and localitiesare replete with Moorish names, legacies, and origin

Successive conquest by the Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans etc consistently thread through thestory of the English, and should need no further mention here, apart from omissions with regard to thehistorical facts of their racial compositions. A quote by Author Gwyn Jones is that the Vikings were notof one pure Nordic race. Within this we have black Norsemen mentioned in the sagas like Thorstein theBlack, and other Africans like Thorhall the hunter, a Viking who was the mentor and closest companionof Eric the Red, a seafarer who chartered uncharted territory. Described as a large man, strong, black,and like a giant. Based on this and beyond a racist ideology, is it beyond every stretch of the imaginationto believe that some of the Viking conquerors of England were African. Among the Danes too is a notedBlack presence.

Geoffrey of Monmouth described in detailed the invasion of Britain by the Saxons and the involvementof Africans in the struggle between the British and the Anglo-Saxons. With a Saxon stronghold on theEast of the Island, the ruler of Britain Keredic was unable to quash a Saxon revolt, and the Saxonsaccording to Monmouth sent for Gormund the African, the then ruler of Ireland. Faced with Gormundand the 160’000 African fleet that Gormund led into Britain, Keredic was forced to seek refuge, andsubsequently forced to flee.

Amongst other races, Moorish mercenaries were accrued by the Normans to assist in the Normanconquest, and as previously stated the 700 year Moorish domination on the Iberian peninsula andSouthern France should at least permit the possibility of African genealogy within the Normans.

Therefore from the 6th cent to the 12th cent with the arrival of the Germanics, Normans and variousother tribes over this period, we have the demise of the original Britons, and any other evidence ofindigenous peoples who were not of the proposed Aryan race. Subjugated and driven to extinction bythese eventual conquerors, or due to this influx we have intermixing of these races until this evidence iseventually almost bred out. What we then have by the 13th cent is the eventual unification of this Islandunder one banner, the merger of the peoples, and the creation of the English. Over the centuries thiscreation is idealized and Aryanized into the notion of Englishness, and this notion is reinforced in thehistory books and into the minds of the people and as an idealized self-image.

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An image used as a political tool from the 16th cent onwards. A time when the African presence is onceagain prevalent, notably through the Atlantic slave trade in order to justify the social, cultural andeconomic exploitation of a people to uphold a notion of racial superiority.

The propounded ideology of English history is a falsification of history, one that negates the swaths ofpeople who if not were here first, at least form part of the early presence here, and people who throughmigration, warfare, and general movement across the land, along with the inevitable infusion of bloodand genealogy are part of its make-up. There are countless other facts documenting the African presenceon this Island, all throughout its history, however to discover them it appears that one has to look deeperand search further, seriously narrowing the answer as to what threat or challenge to history doesinclusion and serious discussion on this information pose.

http://www.ligali.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=307

David Mac Ritchie – ‘Ancient and Modern Britons’ (vol 1+2)

Ahmed Ali, Ibrahim Ali – ‘The Black Celts, An Ancient African Civilization in Ireland and Britain’

Ivan Van Sertima – ‘African Presence in Early europe’

J.A.Rogers – ‘Nature Knows No Colour Line’

Gerald Massey – ‘Ancient Egypt Light of the World’ (depending on the reprint this might come in 2volumes)

Albert Churchward – ‘Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man’

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1. cranyonrye says

Racist nonsense the people of the Celtic Isles are also known as the Silures (Basques), yes we arenoted for swarthiness – Curly hair? Not in any African sense. I am a Black Welsh – we are theAboriginal Europeans – not Africans and its racist to suggest otherwise. We are ancient people

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related to the Sami people, the Kets and Native Americans. The Huns try to write us into theirmythical “white race” calling us tainted whites but thats as racist as the Afrocentric view and Ireject both – we are aboriginals and we exist in time today, not just in history books.

August 10, 2009, 8:59 am Reply Juan fernando di rossi says

a foolish and bigoted response trying always to deny what is factual ,please remember thereare well learnt and educated historians on this subject matter .

June 24, 2010, 1:04 am Reply2. Goronky says

Interesting, but the majority of the British decended from nomads who trecked from North Africaaccross the continental shelf to what is now an island long before the Romans came. The Romansbrought Africans to Britain but never in any significant numbers. They were darkish skin and hadbrown eyes ect but did not look anything like todays modern Africans. The bloodline is stronger inWales and Ireland. An example would be a person with the features of the Manchester United andWales footballer Ryan Giggs.

November 15, 2009, 12:26 pm Reply3. Liiban Haldha says

the somali people sworn there is the word called “Aus” [ caws] they believe that there was a kingin the somali country but what I believe is, befor the Islam Banu Aus jews people early arrivedsomal and settled and the chief of that era was respected then they sworn by his name, that meanswhat they saying is true, they add at last statements of their sworn, { walaahi, bilaahi, talaahi,tiniiqi, tin Aus}, but today modern people cut off the the last two words, tiniiq, tin Caws[Aus]

June 24, 2010, 1:28 am Reply4. funkcity1000 says

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“Duff, a surname adopted from the Celtic, in which languagethe word means black. Sibbald, in his History of Fife, says,” that as Niger and Rufus were? names of families amongstthe Romans, from the colour and complexion of men, so itseems Duff was, from the swarthy and black colour of thoseof the tribe,” or clan of Macduff.”

-The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history ofthe people of Scotland (1877) by William Anderson

July 11, 2010, 7:36 pm Reply5. funkcity1000 says

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“It is said that the first people in Ireland were the Formatians. They were a dark, stunted race,utterly savage, using rough, unwrought stone implements. So far as can be learned, they did notknow the? use of fire. It is said they came from Africa on ships.”

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-Riddles of prehistoric times (1911) by? James H. Anderson

July 11, 2010, 7:39 pm Reply6. funkcity1000 says

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“The primitive race of Scotlandwas long-skulled,? short in stature, and probably very darkin complexion”

- RENFREWSHIRE (1912) by FREDERICK MORT, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. Fellow of the RoyalScottish Geographical SocietyLate Lecturer in Geology, Glasgow University

July 11, 2010, 7:42 pm Reply Spoof says

a good fact is European always have recorded their deal, now we refuse to acknowledgewhat we printed in the past: ie the poputation of Whales, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall,Britany [france] Galicia [spain] were of Western African origin, the other fact in that the last200 years have been about erasing any proof of the contrary and reshape history [likeAfricans didnt have a history!!!] and promoting the Eurocentric phenotype even with theAfrican queen Nefertiti!!! siting in Germany’s museum when in the same country we have aSaint Maurice the African in full regalia, I think as European we seriously need to reviewour perspective and accept we have been lied and mentally abused by the power to be.Hotep.

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