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Old 07-16-2010, 07:37 PM
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Re: Were The Israelites Black?

Seekerman, I think you are purposely trying to stir controversy with your unbelievably ignorant and racist statements.

I don't think you really think like this, so why post as if you do?
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Seekerman, I think you are purposely trying to stir controversy with your unbelievably ignorant and racist statements.

I don't think you really think like this, so why post as if you do?
I think he does think this way ... and his statements reflect unbridled racism.

Disgusted that this thread is still up ....
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Please try to stick with the point. The point was that the Israelites could not have been Black because the Black African culture was little more than primitive savages at the time of the Old Testament. The Israelites on the other hand were advanced culturally, spiritually and economically as were many other cultures of the time. But not the equatorial African Black culture.
The "point" is a moving target with you, Bro. The point might have have been that the ancient Israelites were not "black Africans" because genetic studies have shown them to be related to other peoples.

The point also might have been that there is actually little cultural similarity (with one important exception) between the various cultures of Equatorial Africa and the ancient Israelites.

For you, the point might also have been graciously made as: "Oh! Gee, well I obviously don't know much 'bout history except what I read on David Duke's web site..."

Instead, the "point" has become your unnecessary disparagement of an entire continent of human beings.

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Again, there is NOTHING of significance in contribution to civilization that originated in equatorial Africa. Nothing. ONLY after those equatorial African cultures were exposed to more advanced cultures did they advance and offer a semblance of contribution to society.

Study your history.
The same can be said of every single civilization that has ever existed. None of them (none of "us") amounted to much when left on our own. It was only through trade, interaction, intermarriage and even warfare with other cultures that "modern" civilizations arose.

Being cut off geographically from other cultures left the "Equatorial Africans" (and the "Indians of North & South America and the Caribbean, the inhabitants of the Andaman Islands and Nicobar, the Australian Aborigines, the Maori of New Zealand, the peoples of Polynesia, the pre-Malay inhabitants of the Philippines, Arctic Eskimos, the Ainu of Sakhalin and Kamchatka... and on, and on...) "out of the loop" when it came to technical developments.

The medieval Europeans knew of Algebra because the ancients Greeks had written about it - but they just couldn't figure out how it was done. Were they "backward" and lacking in anything to "contribute" to society at large just because they could NOT do the things that you and I learned when we were in Junior High? No. They had just arrogantly hung on to a relic of the past - Latin numerals - that inhibited their own development.

During the Crusades the Europeans learned of "Arabic" numerals (which the Arabs had learned from the Indians of South Asia) and soon, an Italian fellow named Fibonacci taught all of Europe important concepts such as "zero" and the value of a "place holder" in fractions and viola! Algebra! Hey! There ya go!

Equatorial Africans had no reason to march across a continent and to lay siege to an empire. Because of this, they lost out on a lot of other fun things as well.

Meanwhile, Europeans reaped the benefits of "discovering" the East. We got silk, gun powder, the number zero, chicken pox, cow pox (which confers immunity to small pox) and the plague (which has no real benefit that I can discern). "We" also learned the "Damascus" method of making steel which was the finest in the world until the modern blast furnace was developed.

Our masons studied Eastern architecture and came back to Europe and built some of the most beautiful buildings in the world based upon what they had learned.

It was this thirst for the knowledge of "the East" that propelled Vasco de Gama around Africa and ultimately, Columbus toward the "New World."

Civilizations "advance" when they are in contact and even at war with one another. This is a truism of history. When "eddies" of human culture develop and remain isolated, they do tend to "stagnate."

The truth is, we human beings generally do just enough to get by. It's when we are faced with extinction or some other peril that we "hit the books" and begin to make strides again. That moral applies to everyone on the planet, and with an equal share of the "blame;" if it is blame. All of the geographically isolated cultures that I mentioned paid a price for being in one of these "cultural eddies." However, every culture on the planet has experienced something similar at some point.

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I think he does think this way ... and his statements reflect unbridled racism.

Disgusted that this thread is still up ....
Well if he has any children, I hope they grow up to be happy, well-adjusted, healthy, Holy Spirit filled and married to happy, well-adjusted, healthy, Holy Spirit filled, legally naturalized "Equatorial Africans" who can help him to see the error of his thinking.
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Re: Were The Israelites Black?

I don't know what difference it would make.What would it matter what color the Hebraic people were ?
Anyways if my understanding is correct Semetic people groups in biblical times were of a dark pigmentation.
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I don't know what difference it would make.What would it matter what color the Hebraic people were ?
Anyways if my understanding is correct Semetic people groups in biblical times were of a dark pigmentation.
They may not have been Don Cheadle black, but they weren't Jim Carey white either.
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Not they weren't white like me.But that's quite alright by me.
Black Supremacy or White Supremacy that's all error and stupidity.
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Not they weren't white like me.But that's quite alright by me.
Black Supremacy or White Supremacy that's all error and stupidity.
We agree.
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We're all members of the fallen Adamic race in need of the grace of God,and the blood of Jesus Christ.You know recently I told a Jewish person,that unless one is washed in the blood of Jesus Christ you'll be lost,no matter if one feels they are a natural descendant of Abraham outside of the grace of God there is no salvation and remission of sins.
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Re: Were The Israelites Black?

I see that folks want to ignore history and facts concerning other cultures.

I'm not racist and I'm far from being 'white'. I'm just not politically correct it seems and that always brings out those who cannot handle truth plainly presented. Cultures are different. Some are more advanced than others. Been that way for thousands of years now and will continue to be that way.

Israelites were not Black Africans. That's swill from a racist system...if you're interested in identifying racism. Doubt you'll call the 'black israelites' racist though.
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