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Moses was born in Africa where he lived until he was 40 years old. Ebed-melech, favored by God, saved the life the prophet Jeremiah. He was African (Jeremiah 38:7-13; 39:15-18), many present at Pentecost were African (Acts 2:7-11) The man whom Philip preached to in his chariot was Ethiopian (Acts 8:26-38)

"[Noah] drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren . . . And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." - Genesis 9:21-27, Authorized Version.

In 1838 Theodore Weld, an antislavery crusader wrote in a popular tract, that the "prophecy of Noah [quoted above] is the vade mecum [constant companion] of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it." - The Bible Against Slavery, page 66

Notice, though, that Canaan, not Ham was cursed. His descendants settled in Palestine. (Genesis 10:15-19) They were subjugated by the Israel, the descendants of Shem, and later the Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. They were not black skinned. Ham, and very likely Put, settled in Africa, and were the descendants of the black people. So if the Bible doesn't support the idea that the black people are cursed where does it come from?

Even possibly before the time of Christ Jewish rabbis taught the story of how the black people originated, as The Encyclopedia Judaica claims: "Ham's descendant (Cush) Is black skinned as a punishment for Ham's having had sexual intercourse in the ark." Which was wrong.

1,500 years ago Ambrosiaster said: "Due to folly Ham, who foolishly ridiculed the nakedness of his father, was declared a slave." Which was wrong. John F. Maxwell, in his book Slavery and the Catholic Church, wrote: "This disastrous example of fundamentalist exegesis [explanation] continued to be used for 1,400 years and led to the widely held view that African Negroes were cursed by God." According to Maxwell, this view by the Catholic Church "apparently survived until 1873 when Pope Pius IX attached an indulgence to a prayer for the 'wretched Ethiopians in Central Africa that almighty God may at length remove the curse of Cham [Ham] from their hearts.'"

Slavery advocate John Fletcher of Louisiana taught that the sin that brought the curse of Noah was racial intermarriage. That Cain was "smitten" with black skin for killing Abel and Ham married into the race of Cain. Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth College taught that Noah's curse upon Canaan was attributed in part to Ham's "forbidden intermarriage with the previously wicked and accursed race of Cain." Which was wrong.

In 1700 Judge Samuel Sewall of Boston pointed out: "For Canaan is the person cursed three times over, without the mentioning of Cham [Ham]. . . . Whereas the Blackmores [Black race] are not descended of Canaan, but of Cush." In 1762 John Woolman published a treatise which rightfully condemned the white man's ignorance and attempts to justify slavery and the attack on the black man's natural rights by writing it: "is a supposition too gross to be admitted into the mind of any person who sincerely desires to be governed by solid principles."

The idea that African blacks were inferior to whites was a justification of slavery by professed Christians. Charles de Second, the French jurist and political philosopher of Montesquieu, explained it thus: "It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians."

Since the economy of the southern cotton planters was based upon Negro slavery, American historian Clement Wood wrote: "The South searched the Scriptures for Biblical endorsement of the practice. . . . Constantly the South argued that slavery was sanctioned and in fact commanded by the Bible, and was a divinely-appointed institution especially beneficial to the Negroes." - A Complete History of the United States, pp. 217, 337. In 1902 the Bible House of St. Louis published "The Negro a Beast" or "In the Image of God" which included a chapter entitled "Convincing Biblical and Scientific Evidence that the Negro is Not of the Human Family."

In the 1830's philosophers in the United States as well as the leading American physical anthropologist, Josiah C. Nott, tried to provide biological support of the black person as a beast. That various races evolved separately and blacks were more closely related to apes was a popular scientific principal. The Encyclopedia Britannica: "The negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids." - Vol. 19, 1911, p. 344.

Even recently Professor Carleton S. Coon, a former president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists believes that the five races of men, in isolation from one another, "evolved independently into Homo sapiens not once but five times." A television broadcast claimed that Coon "presents evidence, and takes the position, that the Negro race is 200,000 years behind the White race on the ladder of evolution."

Gerald R. Leslie, in The Sociology of Social Problems, Third Edition, by Paul B. Horton and Leslie: "The 'all men are created equal' dictum did not apply to Negroes, since they were 'property,' not men. Theories of a biblical Hamitic curse, of uncompleted or separate evolutions, of geographic determinism, and of intelligence test evidences were successively employed to justify treatment of Negroes as inferiors. As long as such notions were believed - and most people did believe them - there was no inconsistency in professing democratic ideals while practicing discrimination."

In spite of the ignorant white man's obvious need to believe the black person inferior, and to beat him down, to think of him as an beast, The World Book Encyclopedia comments: "Highly developed Negro kingdoms existed in various parts of Africa hundreds of years ago. . . . Some of the Negro kings and their nobles lived in great wealth and splendor. Their capitals sometimes became centers of culture and trade. Between 1200 and 1600, a Negro-Arabic university flourished at Timbuktu in West Africa and became famous throughout Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East." - Vol. 14, 1973, pp. 106, 107.

The Encyclopedia Americana on the impact of slavery on African culture: "It disorganized Negro culture and industry, stopped the development of art, overthrew governments and was the cause of that modern stagnation of culture which has marked the Dark Continent since 1600." - Vol. 20, 1927, p. 47.

The Encyclopedia Americana says: "Slaves could not own property, possess firearms, engage in commerce, leave the plantation without permission from their owners, testify in court except against other Negroes, make contracts, learn to read and write, or hold meetings without the presence of white persons. . . . the murder or rape of a slave or of a free Negro by a white person was not regarded as a serious offense." - Vol. 20, 1959, p. 67.

Prior to 1947 blacks were not allowed in U.S. major league baseball. It didn't take long for them, once allowed, to excel. Pretty much the same with basketball. Music, science, anything.

My question to you, David Ben Ariel, is why you would be inclined to propagate the ignorance? For attention? Knowing that we are all brothers, no matter the color of our skin, any more than the color of our eyes or hair. And knowing that one who proclaims love for God and doesn't have love for his brother is a liar, you continue in hate and ignorance.

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If we're all brethren why are Blacks brutally raping, torturing and murdering Whites?

Well, that is a pretty stupid question in light of the OP, and the fact that whites are raping, torturing and murdering whites as well. We are people. That is what we do.

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What justification did Black African tribes have for enslaving each other and for selling their Black brethren to others?

The same as any other?

DBA wrote:

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Who said we're not all equal when it comes to our ultimate spiritual potential to become born again into the Kingdom-Family of God?

Is that a trick question? Who are we? The human race?

DBA wrote:

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Why are you comparing apples to oranges?

Apples to oranges is more like comparing people of dark skin with apes. This is more like grapes with different skin color.

DBA wrote:

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Are you a PC cultist or what?

No.

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Are you in denial of our God-given differences?

No. I embrace them.