Pamong the generally accepted ideas that the Afrocentric community invokes to bring discredit on the Semites allegedly Leucoderms (white skin), figure a deposition of the scholar Cheikh Anta Diop in two of his major books.
Indeed, Cheikh Anta Diop, speaking of the destruction of the Kushite empire of the Adites in the Arabian Peninsula, accuses a Semitic tribe, allegedly white and barbarian called Jectanides. This position is based on part of the work of the French Assyriologist and archaeologist François Lenormant (January 17, 1837 - December 9, 1883):