I see scgirl must have me blocked. Guess I hurt her to her widdle heart. Anyway, the show must go on.

Sir Godfrey Higgins informs us that "In all the Romish (Catholic) countries of Europe, France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black.

Actually woodsmamma... you kind of have a point. I suppose this thread was to DEBUNK redneck wisdom that promotes the ideologies of white supremacy from a so-called Christian standpoint.

Ah. The typical "I'm not white, though I look white and get all the white privileges, I'm going to say I'm Native American in an attempt to relate to you." LAWL!

Anyway, on to something real.

According to Christian dogma, Jesus is the Son of God. Since children are, as a rule, similar in complexion to their parents it is reasonable to assume that God also is black. This conclusion is both logical and scientific. "There is a strong reason the think," declares Joseph McCabe, "that man was at first very dark of skin, wooly haired and flat nosed." And since the bible tells us that man was created in God's image, then beyond all doubt God must be of dark complexion with unmistakably African features.

Throughout scripture Israel is described as physically looking like the sons of Ham (Khawm), in appearance. Ham (Khawm) in Hebrew means BLACK, HOT AND BURNT. Ham sons are the people of the African continent, the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites etc.

Psalm 78:51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham. (NIV)

The heroes & people of the Bible were primarily Black. Moses was an 'Egyptian' priest whose hand turned white under special circumstances. (Ex. 4:6,7) Simon is said to have been a Canaanite. (Mt. 10:4) Black Paul is mistaken for an "Egyptian" and declares he himself to be a "Jew." (Acts 21:37-39, 22: 2,3)[/quote

Dude, you are repeating the same old bullshit.
Show me where in all of the biblical writings that Moses is descrobed as black.
Moses had a black wife, nad she is described very plainly, but not moses himself.
Moses was chastized for having a black wife, II guess they were a little racist back then too.


Show me where it says that moses was black.

Finding information about how humans came into existence from the bible is like finding intelligent life in the Bible Belt. Its just a lost cause.

Black people are black because of evolutionary causes and the same reason why Caucasian people get tanned from the sun. Many generations of exposure to the sun increases melanin in the skin. This acts as a natural sunscreen and protects the skin. Eventually offspring are born with more melanin than the previous generation. So its not a f**king curse. That means the the Curse of Ham is pure bullshit as is much of the fairytales in the bible are.

Modern humans evolved in Africa approximately 150,000 years ago and were therefore dark skinned people. That means all the f**king redneck bigots have black ancestors.

Im not going to venture as guess but it is not impossible based on the locale. This is North Africa and not Nebraska, Jim. And also do we even know that Moses existed?

I normally don't use wiki but there is so much of it available that here is a quick one.

The Mediterranean race was one of the three sub-races into which the Caucasian race and the people of Europe were divided by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, following the publication of William Z. Ripley's book The Races of Europe (1899). The others were Nordic and Alpine.

The "Mediterranean race", with dark hair and eyes, aquiline nose, swarthy complexion, moderate-to-short stature, and moderate or long skull was said to be prevalent in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, parts of South Asia, parts of Eastern Europe, and certain portions of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.[1][2][3][4] It was characterized by moderate to short stature, long (dolichocephalic) or moderate (mesocephalic) skull, aquiline nose, dark hair, dark eyes and olive complexion.

Later in the 20th century the concept of a distinctive Mediterranean race was still considered useful by theorists such as Earnest Hooton in Up From the Ape (1931) and Carleton S. Coon in his revised edition of Ripley's Races of Europe (1939). These writers thought the Nordic race was the northern variety of Mediterraneans that lost pigmentation through natural selection due to the environment.

Hooton argued that even a skilled anthropologist would have a difficult time separating a Nordic from Mediterranean skeleton. He thought a destabilized blend of the two existed mostly in Britain that he labeled "Nordic-Mediterranean", with hazel eyes (rather than pure brown), dark hair color (mainly dark brown) and dolichocephalic skull.

According to Carleton Coon the "homeland and cradle" of the Mediterranean race is in North Africa and Southwest Asia, in the area from Morocco to Afghanistan. Coon argued that smaller Mediterraneans traveled by land from the Mediterranean basin north into Europe in the Mesolithic era. Taller Mediterraneans (Atlanto-Mediterraneans) were Neolithic seafarers who sailed in reed-type boats and colonized the Mediterranean basin from a Near Eastern origin. He argued that they also colonized Britain where their descendants may be seen today, characterized by dark brown hair, dark eyes and robust features. He stressed the central role of the Mediterraneans in his works, claiming "The Mediterraneans occupy the center of the stage; their areas of greatest concentration are precisely those where civilization is the oldest. This is to be expected, since it was they who produced it and it, in a sense, that produced them".

After the 1960s the concept of an exact Mediterranean race fell out of favor, though the distinctive features of Mediterranean populations continued to be recognized.

Was Moses black? Unlikely. Check the mep. There is a correlation between latitude and skin color. Just look up the latitude of Egypt and Israel.




Source:
http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/What_Controls_Variation_in_Human_Skin_Color>http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/What_Controls_Variation_in_Human_Skin_Color

There are currently 8 state recognized tribes in Virginia: Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Monacan Indian Nation, Nansemond, Pamunkey, Rappahannock, Upper Mattaponi. However, Virginia’s history and the presence of native people goes beyond these 8 state recognized groups. For many people there is a challenge to document the native history because some of the groups that were previously known to exist in state’s history are now blended in to the general population of the state. Some of these groups had already blended into the general population before the 20th century. However, this does not mean that researching the history cannot be done, in fact it can be done particularly because the records in Virginia are so extensive. There are population registers, Free Negro registers and manumission records that do not exist in other states, so the chance to document the family history is highly probable. There are records that document African Americans as well as Native Americans in Virginia from the colonial period to the 20th century.