Did You Know...

According to Drusilla Dunjee Houston's book Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, in chapter V, Prehistoric Egypt, The Land of Wonders it tells: The native name of Egypt was Khem, the black land. The name came not so much from the color of the soil as the hue of the inhabitants. 

                           Africa in 400 B.C.

Egypt was called the "Gift of the Nile," because Lower Egypt was formed out of soil brought down by the mighty river. Without the Nile, Egypt would be but a desert......The land through the ages has been raised by deposits left by each annual overflow....At the time of overflow Egypt is a vast sea with her cities on the tops, of continuous natural mounds.

Numerous canals traverse the country connecting the natural channels. Egypt was inhabited in ancient days by two races or two distinct divisions of one race. Ancient records all testify that the ruling class in those times was the Ethiopian. They founded the powerful priest caste. 

This priesthood included the judges, physicians, astrologers, architects--in a word they united within themselves all the highest culture and the most distinguished offices of the land. " (Biblical Literature)

The fact that Khem means "the black land" and that being because of the hue of the people of the land, I don't see some Black people's problem with calling themselves "Black." It is a very relevant and descriptive term in describing the Khemetian/African race. It is NOTHING new. Neither is it insulting. Black people listen to non-black peoples too damned much to our detriment.