Elijah Shabazz - The Fulani Origins Of The Redbone 1 & 2
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CEITEDMOFO
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Part 2
I agree with some of the stuff he said but some are way off. Is he confusing Fulanis with Berbers?
CEITEDMOFO
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Could be.
CEITEDMOFO
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You could pm him I think he is on Facebook.
Big D Bangston
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Who are the Berbers and were they black?
The Odum of Ala Igbo
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Berbers are a tribe of people living in North Africa. They've lived there for thousands of years (before the Arab conquest)
Some Berbers are Black. Some Berbers are pale-skinned.
Siwa Berbers in Egypt
Berber woman from Morocco
One thing I'm not so sure on is the Redbone thing.
I've never known anyone personally who referred to themself as a Redbone outside of being a moniker for lightskin. So the Redbone = Red Igbo connection that Ive read about has always made more sense to me being that it's more of a describer compared to being a full blown separate group of people.
Now Ive read about groups being labeled as Redbones as if they were a seperate tribe, but just like Blackfoot(in the South) for example, everything I've researched so far points to it being another term for Lightskin/ambiguous/mixed/etc that fell under the moniker of "Indian" for the sake of social or economic advantage within the racial structure of the South.
I've never known anyone personally who referred to themself as a Redbone outside of being a moniker for lightskin. So the Redbone = Red Igbo connection that Ive read about has always made more sense to me being that it's more of a describer compared to being a full blown separate group of people.
Now Ive read about groups being labeled as Redbones as if they were a seperate tribe, but just like Blackfoot(in the South) for example, everything I've researched so far points to it being another term for Lightskin/ambiguous/mixed/etc that fell under the moniker of "Indian" for the sake of social or economic advantage within the racial structure of the South.
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