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Black people were the world’s first doctors.
In Dr. Theophile Obenga’s text, “Ancient Egypt & Black Africa,” it reads:
“The fact that in the Kemetan context philosophy, according to Obenga, was a vocation consisting of a knowledge of all the sciences: mathematics, physics, astronomy, medicine, etc., and that this did not appear in Greece until Thales in the seventh century and Pythagoras in the sixth, when these subjects were already rigidly taught on the Kemetan temples in deep antiquity” (Obenga, 1992, p. 20).
“In fact, Isocrates (436 – 338 BC), designated Egypt as the cradle of medicine for the well-being of the boys, and of philosophy for the well-being of the soul: ‘For the souls they [the Egyptian priests] revealed the practice of philosophy…which can, at the same time, set down rules and look for the nature of things’ (Isocrates, Busiris, XI, 22) (Obenga, 1992, p. 55).
In summary, his shirt harkens back to Black people’s history as medical doctors in ancient Kemet (Egypt).
Reference:
Obenga, T. (1992). Ancient Egypt & Black Africa: A student’s handbook for the study of ancient Egypt in philosophy, linguistics and gender relations. (A.S. Saakana & G. Pitchford, Eds.). (A. Sheikh, Trans.). Karnak House.
