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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#4 (**permalink**))

I have a hard time believing anyone claiming to be African-centered who has endorsed any Abrahamic religion, or even Hinduism. The Hebrews were not an African or "Black" people. They were White Supremacist Indo-European/Semitic nomads who looked down on African people. I tend to agree that most of the wisdom precepts in the Bible have their origin in Africa, particularly Nubia, Ethiopia, and Egypt, but that has little to do with their distortion and devoidance of African essence once being culturized by Semitic/Indo-European peoples.

If the Hebrews were an African or "Black" people, then here are a few examples of things that would have never been written by them:

Here is what the Babylonian Talmud (supposed written about 700 BCE) says which is the origin of the Hamitic curse:

"Because you have abused me in the darkness of the night, your children shall be born black and ugly; because you have twisted your head to cause me embarrassment, they shall have kinky hair and red eyes; because your lips jested at my exposure, theirs shall swell; and because you neglected my nakedness, they shall go naked with their shamefully elongated male members exposed for all to see."

The second example here we must realize that the Latin term "Niger" was the derogatory word by Romans to denote African people. Here we have a man, amongst Jews/Hebrews who is singled out for being "black". If the Hebrews were of African descent then there would be no need to single only Simeon out for being so.

In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. ~Acts 13:1

Then next example we have the Hebrew writer/prophet, Jeremiah, speaking on the peculiarity of an African's dark skin. If Jeremiah, or any of his Hebrew brethren, were in fact Africans or even slightly swarthy in complexion, then this statement would not have been made. The dark skin of the African (Ethiopian), which isn't always very dark, was so peculiar to the Hebrews, it was compared to the spots of the leopard.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do goodWho are accustomed to doing evil. ~ Jeremiah 13:23

My last example is of the writer/prophet Isaiah speaking of enslaving all the known great African/Black nations of that time. Why not the same sentiment for the "white" nations of Persia/Assyria, Hitti, Greece, and so forth?

Thus says the LORD,"The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature,Will come over to you and will be yours;They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you;They will make supplication to you:'Surely, God is with you, and there is none else,No other God.'" ~Isaiah 45:14