"The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest or

objective, nor unruffled; he is ignorant, cowardly, and neurotic." – Dr Cheik Anta

Diop

“The white man’s propaganda has made him master of the world, and all those who have come in

contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves.” – Marcus Garvey

“In order to change the African consciousness, we must change the information that is in the African

mind”. – Na’im Akbar

“Slavery of the mind is far more destructive than that of the body.” – Edward Wilmot Blyden

“Once the African mind is liberated, there is no shackle which can keep the African enslaved.” – J.S.

Jehewty

The obelisk, called TEJEN in the sacred language of the ancient Egyptians, was a term which was synonymous with "protection" or "defense."  The needle of stone had the function of perforating the clouds and dispersing negative forces that always threaten to accumulate, in the form of visible storms  or invisible ones, and was placed over the temple as a symbol of a petrified ray.  The word "Obelisk" comes from the Greek obeliskos, meaning a prong for roasting.  It is a stone that is frequently monolithic, of a quadrangular base, placed upright and ending with a  pointed top. It was placed in the center of large open spaces in the temples of the solar god RA.   They arose, by the time of the predynastic period cults, to a great sacred stone which was raised in the Temple of Heliopolis, the "City of the Sun."  As with the pyramids, this monument had a primitive  relation with the solar cult. As a general rule, obelisks were erected in pairs and served to magically protect the temple. The obelisk is composed of two parts:the body and the pyramidon.  The body is a long block of a conic trunk section and the pyramidon symbolizes the rays of the sun.  The top is the point of a pyramid formation which crowns the monolith and rested on a base.  It was plated in gold, a metal which the Egyptians affirmed was the "flesh of the gods."  

The obelisks originated from the granite quarries of Aswan.  In this place an unextracted obelisk still remains within the layer of rock.  To 1.200 tons., it would have been the tallest, 41,70 meters, but was abandoned for the workman due to the appearance of fissures in the stone.  It may have been the match for the Lateranense obelisk, a possible reason why there is only one in Karnak.

Generally, obelisks have inscriptions on all four sides and also parts of  the pyramidon are sometimes carved with bas-relief.  These monumente symbolize the stability and the creative force held by the solar god RA.  The Egyptians believed that the solar rays brought a great vivifying power even into the grave which would have an effect on the subsequent resurrection of the deceased.

There are about 30 Obelisks at present around the world including in New York, Paris and London. The Washington Monument in D. C is not an Obelisk but a look alike.

Western historians, in most cases, have rested the foundation of what is called

"Western Civilization" on the false assumptions, or claim, that the ancient

Egyptians were white people. To do this they had to ignore great masterpieces on

Egyptian history written by other white historians who did not support this point

of view, such as Gerald Massey's great classic, Ancient Egypt, The Light of the

World, (1907) and his other works, A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural

Genesis. Other neglected works by white writers are Politics, Intercourse, and

Trade of the Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, by A.H.L. Heeren (1833),

and Ruins of Empires, by Count Volney (1787).

Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) when he says, "By the almost unanimous testimony

of ancient historians, they [the Egyptians] belong to an African race which first

settled in Ethiopia on the Middle Nile: following the course of the river they

gradually reached the sea."

The Hippodrome was initially built by the Romans, but it was Constantine who established the area – with a crowd capacity of over 100,000 – as the public center of his city.  There are three important monuments left in the Hippodrome.  TheObelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose was brought by Constantine from Egypt during his general plunder of portable monuments of the ancient world.  The Serpentine Column, three intertwined snakes, stood originally in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.  The Column of Constantine was erected here in 940 A.D.