No he said ancient Egyptians were White . This is a highly contentious issue and , most likely , the modern population that most resembles the ancient Egyptians are the Copts look huwhite to me ? ? Spencer said ' they are white ' on multiple occasions . Rewatch the interview . He ' s saying that brown people with an average IQ in the high 80 s are white . The Copts are as brown as any other Egyptians Here ' s a bunch of random Copts arethecopts . That most of them look white is a weird misconception that some WNs have . Peddling this stuffthat there is some indigenous group of Egyptians who all look like Italiansmakes us look like idiots , the mirror image of Afrocentrists . A very small minority of Egyptians are whitepassing these Egyptians are overrepresented in the media because of Eurocentric beauty standards hah . But white passing Egyptians are relatively rare , and are almost all found in the far north of the country and have substantial Southern Euro admixture . Similarly , some Egyptians in the south are ' blackpassing . ' The vast majority would never pass as white or black . And they are Semites genetically . This is proven .