To me a lot of what they're saying does make sense when I put it all together. If I just go by mainstream learning yeah but, when you take into account the bible's version of history, and history written in mainstream books, they do have a valid argument.
I remember watching a show that came on in the middle of the night on the discovery channel, and they were tracking the true hebrews, which meant they had to listen to all the things that were being teached. This meant listening to some blacks you claimed they were the descendents of the jews. When the host asked the white guy in israel this he laughed and claimed it's not possible BUT, when the host took a trip to south africa to hear the people's claim he noticed they did have the same type of ways of doing things as the "jews" in israel. They then did a DNA test and sure enough the south africans had the same genes as some of the whites who claimed to be the true jews. It was a shocker to everyone else accept the black jews. The white guy was acting like funny, and didn't want to believe it. I say that to say, since africans did take slaves of people who weren't part of their group, and it is known the israelites left egypt some of them could have been captured and sent of to other lands. Then as time went on sent to the americas. This is why we are called the lost tribe of israel.
Anyone who has ever studied the bible and history knows there were Jews in Africa and black jews due to intermixing.
History and the bible prove it.
Biblical characters were marrying Africans (Cushytes, Egyptian), Solomon even had offspring with many. Those children migrated into the Fertile Crescent and later into Africa. Their descendants became progressively darker as they married the local population. Hence Beta Israel and the Lemba.
Alexandria, Morroco and Carthage had huge Jew communities.
The issues comes in trying to pin ONE RACE as the "true hebrews"
Even in biblical times, they were pretty much a mixed people, comprised of many shades and colors.
People forget that Turkey, Greece, Rome, Spain and Portugal also had huge communities in antiquity.
When some claim the slaves sent to this country are the "true jews" they fail to realize several things.
1. The prophecy of Deuteronomy 28:68 was fullfilled during the Judeo-Roman wars. Hebrew historian Josephus wrote about the siege of Jerusalem in Wars of the Jews, Book 6, Chapter 9, Section 2.
http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/war-6.htm
So this Fronto slew all those that had been seditious and robbers, who were impeached one by another; but of the young men he chose out the tallest and most beautiful, and reserved them for the triumph; and as for the rest of the multitude that were above seventeen years old, he put them into bonds, and sent them to the Egyptian mines
2. Deuteronomy 28:64 was fullfilled after the Northern Kingdom was exilled from Babylon and The
Southern Kingdom(Judea) was dispersed permanently after the 3 Judeo-roman wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-Roman_wars
http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/war-6.htm
Titus also sent a great number into the provinces, as a present to them, that they might be destroyed upon their theatres, by the sword and by the wild beasts; but those that were under seventeen years of age were sold for slaves.
This became a gradual diaspora as they were persicuated and expelled from every place they went
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/expelled.htm
3. Jews migrated into West Africa from other places, particularly from the north and Iberian Peninsula, and brought that influence in there. Creating communities, converting some of the local population etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_of_Bilad_el-Sudan
As the historian Leo Africanus wrote in 1526:
"In Garura there were some very rich Jews. The intervention of the preacher (Muhammid al-Maghili) of Tlemcen set up the pillage of their goods, and most of them have been killed by the population. This event took place during the same year when the Jews had been expelled from Spain and Sicily by the Catholic King."
Leo Africanus further wrote:
"The king (Askia) is a declared enemy of the Jews. He will not allow any to live in the city. If he hears it said that a Berber merchant frequents them or does business with them, he confiscates his goods."
Now could there have been slaves sent to this country who intermixed with those other jews? Sure. But most of those slaves were the local tribesmen and women of the region.
4. Many of those same Jews also got involved in the slave trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_and_the_slave_trade
At the same time, the monarchies of Spain and Portugal expelled all of their Jewish subjects. As a result, Jews began participating in all sorts of trade on the Atlantic, including the slave trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_of_Bilad_el-Sudan#Cape_Verde
Manuel I in 1496, decided to exile thousands of Jews to São Tomé, Príncipe, and Cape Verde. The numbers expelled at this time were so great that the term "Portuguese" almost implied those of Jewish origin. Those who were not expelled were converted by force or executed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Cape_Verde
Jews were allowed to engage in trade, including the slave trade, as long as they did not compete with the Portuguese trading monopolies.
This is why we have to deal with facts, not speculation.
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