Dobbs 4 Heisman
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You’re attempting to make a claim. It shouldn’t require any of us to read a book you’ve not read. Rather you should show us in the book what he says and where he says it.
I’m also not finding any legit source making the claim you are that Silculus described the Egyptians (whose own drawings do not depict themselves as black) as black.
Herodotus, The Histories, Book 2, chapter 104
www.perseus.tufts.edu
Here's what Herodutus had to say on the appearance of the Ancient Egyptians:
For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and what I say, I myself noted before I heard it from others. When it occurred to me, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; [2] the Egyptians said that they considered the Colchians part of Sesostris' army. I myself guessed it, partly because they are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed counts for nothing, since other peoples are, too; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision.
Here's Diodorus talking about how the Egyptians are descendants of the Nubians (aka Ethiopians):
They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. (2) For they maintain that, generally speaking, what is now Egypt was not land but sea when in the beginning the universe was being formed.
Here's Diodorus talking about how hieroglyphics are of Nubian (aka Ethiopian) origin:
We must now speak about the Ethiopian writing which is called hieroglyphic among the Egyptians, in order that we may omit nothing in our discussion of their ancient practices. Now it is found that the forms of their letters take the shape of animals of every kind, and of the members of the human body, and of implements and especially carpenters’ tools. For their writing does not express the intended concept by means of syllables joined one to another, but by means of the significance of the objects which have been copied and by its figurative meaning which has been impressed upon the memory by practice.
I won't insult you for your ignorance on this topic because European men from the 1800s have done a good job hiding this information but the idea that the Ancient Egyptians were black was a well accepted concept before the rise of white supremacy. Europeans couldn't claim to be superior to Africans if their own ancestors said black people taught them civilization. So as a result Ancient Egypt had to become non-black.
Google the "Hamitic Hypothesis". It'll show you how European academics in the 1800s took Ancient Egypt and made it non-black. Essentially they said that black skin and kinky hair don't make someone black. So they transformed the Ancient Egyptians as well as the peoples of modern day East Africa (like the Tutsi, Somalis, Ethiopians, and even the Masaai) into dark skin Caucasians. In fact to this day if you look up old books on racial classification you'll see East Africans being grouped with the Caucasian race. It's all part of the legacy of trying to explain away why the Ancient Greeks and Romans said the Ancient Egyptians were black.