And yall call us kushi, and the regular wm calls us nigg**. It seems we are despised by the whole world (interestingly, like yall supposed to be but are not). Your point is what?
The Hebrew word kushi (in the singular) or kushim (in the plural) often is derogatory in contemporary Israeli speech, even when not said with a sneer.... In the Bible, Kush is indeed the name of Ethiopia, the part of black Africa that biblical authors had the most knowledge of, and although
kushi no longer means an Ethiopian today, it can refer to black Africans or their descendants nonderogatorily, too.
Whether or not this is the case, however, depends not on the tone of voice it is uttered in, but on where the syllabic stress falls.
KU-shi or KU-shim, with the stress on the first syllable, is unfailingly pejorative.
Ku-SHI or
ku-SHIM, with the stress on the second syllable, is generally not.
The Forward’s Israel correspondent, Nathan Jeffay, has passed on to me a letter he received. Referring to Jeffay’s May 23 dispatch on Maccabi Tel Aviv’s winning Europe’s 2014 basketball championship cup, it states: “In your article, you mistakenly say that the Hebrew word kushim, when used by...
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Proof? Radhanite Jews were active all along the Silk Road, reaching all the way to North Africa, where they bought slaves from Berbers, long known to have a strong Jewish component.
I told you not to play with me, boy.