The country is in the midst of chaos and he thinks this is what's on the average locals mind.
Egyptians do have some mixture of Arab and subsaharan DNA, the latest study put outside mixture accounting for less than 10% mixture, with Coptics having the least mixture and of course Nubians have significant sub Saharan DNA.
Yes, they call themselves Arabs, but that's a cultural identity rather than hereditity.
It's almost impossible to know the race of the ancient Egyptians..of course the old mummies are hard to test because of their conditions.
In my personal opinion, I think the Egyptians you see now are the same as the ancients. Also, were talking about kingdoms that existed 6-7,000 years ago and lasted for 3,000+. Does everyone really think they can point at a few pictures and be an expert? I mean 3,000+ years of different dynasties, invasions, migration!
At the end of the day, if you want the ancient Egyptians to be black, you can be right because there we're times that Nubians ruled the country and you're bound to find evidence of black looking statues or African types on the walls of tombs. If you want then to be Caucasian, you're right too, because you can find evidence in how they generally distingushed themselves from Nubians and the Caucasian or at least non black selection of everyday ancients. Even though Afrocebtrists insist of calling the place Kemet, the word has nothing to do with people, only the color of the soil.
I just can't get over how long their history is and also, keep in mind that Egyptologist have only scratched the surface on ancient Egypt. They have basically built the story of ancient Egypt on literal scraps of information. At the most 30% of ancient Egypt has been discovered.
One question I've always wondered is, why don't actual Egyptians get to have any say about who they are or were? Why is it up to us westerners to define them with our antiquated definitions of race? There are prominant schools of Egyptology, right inside Egypt that are dedicated to their own history. I don't know why it's our fight to be honest. That guy is wasting his time basing his esteem that much on Ancient Egypt that he's made a fool of himself.