“Why are their noses cut off?” While visiting the Great Sphinx of Giza during his Africa tour, iShowSpeed was told by his guide that a man named Sa’ima al-Dahar destroyed the Sphinx’s nose to prove the statue “was just stone… not a god.” It’s an explanation that’s been repeated for years —but one that many people now question.
Speed then gave a live tour of the Grand Egyptian Museum, and asked his guide why the Pharaoh has no nose. The museum guide explained that it the nose is the weakest part of the statue, so it is likely due to the erosion factor.
Many have theorised why but a popular belief is because Europeans didn’t want it to be known that these were African. The nose was a giveaway.
In a resurfaced viral clip, Katt Williams points out that many ancient Egyptian statues with thick lips and wide noses had their features destroyed, suggesting it wasn’t random damage, but a way to manipulate identity and history.
“Black people have lost their identity, but our oppressors have not lost our identity. That is why they chop those noses off of the Pharaoh and the Sphinx in Egypt in the first place is because without this nose we can tell you this is whoever it is.”
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