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The African Roots of the Celtish Clans # 2 –

Black Celts, Black Britons – By – Jamani
Thus 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 contain
The 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 rest

And 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 express
A 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 the
Catholic James II on the throne of England. Not everyone was happy with this turn of events as William
was a Dutchman; they objected to having a foreigner as king and extolled their own English parentage
by way of comparison.

Defoe composed this satirical rejoinder as a gentle reminder to those English patriots of where their true
roots lay. Worthwhille repeating out loud whenever some damn fool British politician starts complaining
about 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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by

Jamani

England, an Island populated nearly 50 million inhabitants, of which the majority, indeed the ruling
majority are white, caucasian and purportedly of purely european stock. The image presented of the
English, cradled in its notion of Englishness conjures up the image of blue eyes, blonde hair, typified by
the English rose, or the archetypal fair maiden of old, and the blue-eyed boy of more modern
chronology. Images akin to modern Northern europe. However behind this Scandinavian / Greek-esk
romanticism 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 in
culturing how this population ideologizes its racial origins.

The study of English history reveals waves of colonizers and immigrants whether this is though the
Romans, Vikings, Germanic tribes, the Normans etc. All depicted as white, caucasian, and at least in
modern times able to be categorized as being of european stock. However, what seemingly does not find
its 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 various
omissions. 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 this
island we find evidence of a people diametrically opposed to those who claim current ownership of this
land…,namely African people.

Over a period of at least 2000 years amongst the evidence are burial mounds, where the skeletal remains
lying in a foetal position (in adoration to the womb of Mother Earth), and facing to the East run parallel
with the ancient African custom of veneration of the sun (rising in the East) and elevation of the
immortal soul. We have the discovery of numerous skulls where the sizes and shapes clearly denote an
African phenotype and origin, artefacts identical to those found on the African continent such as pottery
and jewellery, as well as identical styles of weaving cloth which are found in no other place than specific
localities in Africa. Also the legacy of place names denoting the original inhabitants, as well as
similarities 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 long
skulled, its language belonged to the class called hamaitic and seems to have originally come from some
part 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 Celts
whose racial origin cannot, or has not been truthfully qualified (outside of the parameters that support a
caucasian supremacist myth) had Gods of a non-Aryan origin. Writings of Tacitus, the Roman historian
mention the dark complexion of the Silures or Black Celts, and maintained that a black aboriginal race
lived 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 original
African presence, there have been countless migrations from the African continent for the purpose of
conquest, 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 as
Ethiopian. Under the African Emperor Septimus Severis, along with a large contingent of Roman
soldiers including African soldiers and officials we have the Roman occupation of England. Those who
Severis 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 an
Egyptian princess) make their first appearance in history in conjunction with the Picts in 360AD when
they began a series of incursions into the Roman provinces of Britain. These two nations are invariably
linked in all records of the Roman conquest, with the chief Roman historian regarding them as akin in
blood. Though associated primarily to the North, and to the land mass later known as Scotland evidence
of 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 strike
a 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 the
Moors dominated Scotland as late as the times of the Saxons, and that as late as the 10th Cent, 3
provinces in Scotland were wholly black. The 700 year domination over the Iberian Peninsula and
Southern France by the Moors, their bringing and transmition of civilization to various parts of europe
undeniably resulted in Moorish influence and inhabitation in England, again place names and localities
are replete with Moorish names, legacies, and origin

Successive conquest by the Vikings, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans etc consistently thread through the
story of the English, and should need no further mention here, apart from omissions with regard to the
historical facts of their racial compositions. A quote by Author Gwyn Jones is that the Vikings were not
of one pure Nordic race. Within this we have black Norsemen mentioned in the sagas like Thorstein the
Black, and other Africans like Thorhall the hunter, a Viking who was the mentor and closest companion
of 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 imagination
to believe that some of the Viking conquerors of England were African. Among the Danes too is a noted
Black presence.

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

Amongst other races, Moorish mercenaries were accrued by the Normans to assist in the Norman
conquest, and as previously stated the 700 year Moorish domination on the Iberian peninsula and
Southern 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 various
other tribes over this period, we have the demise of the original Britons, and any other evidence of
indigenous peoples who were not of the proposed Aryan race. Subjugated and driven to extinction by
these eventual conquerors, or due to this influx we have intermixing of these races until this evidence is
eventually almost bred out. What we then have by the 13th cent is the eventual unification of this Island
under one banner, the merger of the peoples, and the creation of the English. Over the centuries this
creation is idealized and Aryanized into the notion of Englishness, and this notion is reinforced in the
history 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 once
again prevalent, notably through the Atlantic slave trade in order to justify the social, cultural and
economic 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 of
people who if not were here first, at least form part of the early presence here, and people who through
migration, warfare, and general movement across the land, along with the inevitable infusion of blood
and genealogy are part of its make-up. There are countless other facts documenting the African presence
on this Island, all throughout its history, however to discover them it appears that one has to look deeper
and search further, seriously narrowing the answer as to what threat or challenge to history does
inclusion 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 2
volumes)

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 are
noted for swarthiness – Curly hair? Not in any African sense. I am a Black Welsh – we are the
Aboriginal 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 their
mythical “white race” calling us tainted whites but thats as racist as the Afrocentric view and I
reject 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 there
are well learnt and educated historians on this subject matter .

June 24, 2010, 1:04 am Reply

2. Goronky says

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

November 15, 2009, 12:26 pm Reply

3. Liiban Haldha says

the somali people sworn there is the word called “Aus” [ caws] they believe that there was a king
in the somali country but what I believe is, befor the Islam Banu Aus jews people early arrived
somal and settled and the chief of that era was respected then they sworn by his name, that means
what 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 Reply

4. funkcity1000 says

http://www.youtube.com/user/funkcity1000

“Duff, a surname adopted from the Celtic, in which language

the word means black. Sibbald, in his History of Fife, says,
” that as Niger and Rufus were? names of families amongst
the Romans, from the colour and complexion of men, so it
seems Duff was, from the swarthy and black colour of those
of the tribe,” or clan of Macduff.”

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

July 11, 2010, 7:36 pm Reply

5. funkcity1000 says

http://www.youtube.com/user/funkcity1000

“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 not
know 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 Reply

6. funkcity1000 says

http://www.youtube.com/user/funkcity1000

“The primitive race of Scotland

was long-skulled,? short in stature, and probably very dark
in complexion”

- RENFREWSHIRE (1912) by FREDERICK MORT, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. Fellow of the Royal
Scottish Geographical Society
Late 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 acknowledge
what 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 last
200 years have been about erasing any proof of the contrary and reshape history [like
Africans didnt have a history!!!] and promoting the Eurocentric phenotype even with the
African queen Nefertiti!!! siting in Germany’s museum when in the same country we have a
Saint Maurice the African in full regalia, I think as European we seriously need to review
our perspective and accept we have been lied and mentally abused by the power to be.
Hotep.

July 21, 2010, 3:51 am Reply

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