It is also important to note that Ham, the father of Mizraim was the source of many of the most important nations of the post flood world. The first nation-builder after the Flood was Nimrod, the son of Cush, the grandson of Ham. The first significant nations Babylon, Accad, Erech, Calneh, Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen were established by this son of black Cush Genesis 10.12. This fact is not consistent with the idea that God cursed Ham in Genesis 9. Not only does the bible not say that Ham was cursed, but the fact that the initial great kingdoms of the world, including that of Egypt [Mizraim], the son of Ham, originated from a black individual militates against such a conclusion. It is the suppression of this information that contributes to the longevity of the myth of a Hamitic curse.

Historians and anthropologists refute the black origin of the post flood nations by making the Hamites into a new fictitious race who are the source of all black achievement in ancient times, yet are not of the black race. Of course, this requires calling jet black people whites, and whitening others who today would be subject to all the social and economic limitations of blackness in the USA. It is of this fictitious race, not the biblical Hamites, to which the quotation from Dr. Diop below refers.

“What we cannot understand however, is how it has been possible to make a white race of Kemit: Hamite, black, ebony, etc. (even in Egyptian). Obviously, according to the needs of the cause, Ham is cursed, blackened, and made into the ancestor of the Negroes. This is what happens whenever one refers to contemporary social relations.

On the other hand, he is whitened whenever one seeks the origin of civilization, because there he is inhabiting the first civilized country in the world. So, the idea of Eastern and Western Hamites [a group of Caucasians originally from northern Africa] is conceived—nothing more than a convenient invention to deprive Blacks of the moral advantage of Egyptian civilization and of other African civilizations, as we shall see. Figure 2 enables us to perceive the biased nature of these theories.

It is impossible to link the notion of Hamite, as we labor to understand it in official textbooks, with the slightest historical, geographical, linguistic, or ethnic reality. No specialist is able to pinpoint the birthplace of the Hamites (scientifically speaking), the language they spoke, the migratory route they followed, the countries they settled, or the form of civilization they may have left. On the contrary, all the experts agree that this term has no serious content, and yet not one of them fails to use it as a kind of master-key to explain the slightest evidence of civilization in Black Africa.”193

The following is further testimony regarding the race of the son of the biblical Ham.

“The Egyptians were of Nigritian origin; like modern Nigritians, the only orientals [Orientals: a word used by historians to confuse the issue regarding the blackness of people in Africa and Asia-rw] respectful of women. There was no harem system of seclusion; the wife was "lady of the house." Their kindness to Israel, even during the latter's bondservice, was probably the reason for their being admitted into the congregation in the third generation [Deut. 23:3-8]. An Arab or Semitic element of race and language is added to the Nigritian in forming the Egyptian people and their tongue. The language of the later dynasties appears in the demotic or enchorial writing, the connecting link between the ancient language and the present Coptic or Christian Egyptian”194.  

“The Egyptians considered themselves and the Negroes, the red and the black races, as of one stock, children of the god Horus; and the Shemites and Europeans, the yellow and the white, as of another stock, children of the goddess Pesht”195.

“Lepsius reaches the formal, major conclusion that the perfect Egyptian is Negritian. In other words, his bone structure is Negritic and that is why anthropologists say little about the osteology of the Egyptian.196”

Mizraim, father of the Egyptians, was the brother of Cush. Cush is universally recognized as the father of the Ethiopians. In fact Cush is often translated Ethiopia in the bible. Cush is the father of Nimrod, the father of modern nations. Mizraim was the uncle of Nimrod. Mizraim was a member of a black family, a family that functioned as a unit throughout the Old Testament.

¹⁹³ The African Origins of Civilization , Myth or Reality, Cheikh Anta Diop, Trans. by Mercer Cook, Lawrence Hill Books 1974 pg 9

¹⁹⁴ From Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1998 by Biblesoft article: Egypt

¹⁹⁵ ibid

¹⁹⁶ ibid page 64

¹⁹⁷ Thebes, the ancestral home of the Egyptians, located in Upper (Southern) Egypt-rw