George Reisner's Black Pharaohs

In the reading on Black Pharaohs there is a lot of back and fourth discussion on the race of leaders who ruled over Egypt. Stated in the text by Prussian archaeologist Richard Lepsius that the Kushites people “belonged to the Caucasian race.”Egyptologist George Reisner also concluded that rulers were light-skinned and “ruled over the primitive Africans.” For many decades these theories of rulers and their ethnics had questioned historians, and which makes the statement that “the ancient world was devoid of racism” more controversial. Conferring my opinion on if I agree of disagree with the statement of racism being devoid in the ancient world is a hard question to comment on because of how arguable it is. I feel as if it is tough to declare if racism really existed that many centuries ago. Answering the question makes me think of racism in modern society which I believe does not compare to the theory of racism in the ancient world. Therefore trying to answer the question without being basis is tricky but I disagree that racism was devoid in the ancient world because I believe that all humans grow to be biased in one way or another.
I see racism arising in history when slavery emerged into the United States of America and spread throughout which started the Civil War. Although I don’t believe this is when racism first began in history I do believe it has the biggest impact on racism today. A quite from Harriet Tubman states “I freed thousands of slaves and I could have freed a thousand more slaves if only they knew they were slaves” I expect this war brought the foundation of the term racism into society. Tubman’s quote is one of hundreds of quotes of how racism is felt all over by