Forth had this popularity. The first thing is, i dont think it was that popular. These guys were always a small fringe. The mainstream of Egyptian Society was not like that. But it did have popularity in some quarters obviously. I think it was because of the structural contradictions of a post Colonial Society like egypt which, you know, from the 70s from the late 70s the Egyptian Government was seen by a lot of egyptians as more or less collaborating with israel in keeping the palestinians down and then the religious authorities, they didnt really do anything about that. Of course, a lot of them were appointed by the government. They would have been fired if they had spoken out. Its kind of like in any society when something is going on that the young people feel is just wrong, then you get protests and sometimes even violence. You know, vietnam war period in the United States, a lot of young people decided that that war was wrong and then, you know, you got that and so forth. I think
They talk about them going back to africa. But you have top understand these people, most of them, they were americans. They have been here for three, four, five generations. So it wasnt like they were just going home. They were going back to the continent that their ancestors originally inhabited. It was quite the risk. And so they took their culture, what they knew here there. Some of them took the bad aspects, too. The slavery, but that was all they had ever known. And they built houses like this one because after all, theyre the ones who built this house. There were a lot of, basically, greek revival houses that the freed slaves built in mississippi and africa and across the river was louisiana and liberia which was settled by freed slaves from louisiana. There was a georgia, there was a virginia, a kentucky, and maryland county. And all of those people came from those states in the u. S. Explore the history and literary life of jackson this weekend saturday at noon eastern on cspa
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