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  1. I will defer to your assessment, @Pioneer1 according to our DNA we traveled as tribes and like every other animal on the planet - we followed the water... I also agree with Cynique - WHEN did we become two or maybe more distinct groups of blacks? Also, how and why did we change physically. Also language, as @Cyniquepointed out, played a large part in our movement; as it does today. The antiquity of the Tuareg Women indicates they were a matrilineal tribe ( it may indicate some were the original Hebrews.) The men followed the women. Anthropologist report women and men lived separately - even after marriage. Surprisingly,  Today, some reports indicate their lifestyle hasn't changed. Also the Berbers were nomads then and today so if some converted to Islam it would make sense how it would spread. If I had a chance to go "home"...it would be fascinating to research these questions. Especially in the libraries in Addis Ababa (Aside: The Ethiopians and Egyptians are still at it lol) What is so sad as it is empowering is that we are having these conversations and doing the best to piece our origin story together. It seems that the " fire-stick-inventing-conquerors" know our origin and history - yet co-opted and white-washed for themselves even though they know it originated with the first group of modern humans . Or did it? Maybe this has been one long extraterrestrial battle for superiority that we brought to Earth like in the marvel comics ....
  2. Good for you! I can't help but see below the surface, of the deception, fickleness, and stupidity the people think they are concealing. I associate with white folk only when necessary and infrequent as possible in person.
  3. I should mention also, even scientific facts give us interworkings of the world, information about ourselves and others won't help most people change who they really are.
  4. Pioneer1: You have your entire life to be stupid. Why not take the rest of today off?
  5. Mel I forgot to tell you that you're absolutely right, it's best to travel and see things for YOURSELF instead of simply taking people's words for it or reading it in a book. That way you get the entire experience and use all of your senses in determining the facts. That point you made is one of the reasons I separate KNOWLEDGE from mere BELIEF and put statistics and data in the "belief" catagory until I've had a chance to verify them. Perhaps you're right that "Moor" was a generic name that White Europeans gave ALL Blacks they came in contact with whether it was the Blacks who were native to their lands in the past or the Blacks who came from North Africa later......and the North Africans just accepted that name for themselves. Despite the actual name, I think we can both agree that there were 2 separate groups of Black people that we're talking about. 1.The "native" Blacks who occupied the British Isles and much of northern Europe before the Tuetonic tribes out of central Asia invaded their lands and drove them underground. 2. And the African Blacks (along with the Arabs and Berbers) who came later on under the banner of Islam to conquer the contemporary White civilization that was (and still is) established there at the time.
  6. Chevdove lol! Man are you upset! Lol....why do you think we call him "Krazy Alexander" !!!! Trust me, it's not going to get any better with him than it is now.....lol.   When the Pharisees drilled Jesus and asked him who would be the wife of Abraham, Jesus responded and revealed this very aspect of the pre-Adamah world, in that 'angels' were INTERSEXED BEINGS. What do you think of the belief that the "pre-adamic" world was actually the world before Caucasians existed? There are theories that the Pre-Adamites were actually people of color.  
  7. Verrrrry interesting. It seems like language is just as influential in exploring evolution as appearance is. We encapsulate syllables and sounds into words and use them to refer to conditions. You might all be talking about the same thing but just using difference utterances or written symbols to express this. Words, words, words... (I put the words "good" and "evil" in quotations marks in previous post because they are just vibrations that refer to 2 different forces; the same goes for "strong" and "weak". Humans are the ones who subjectively decide that using "strength" to acquire "power" over "weakness", is "evil". In the over-all scheme of things, however, this is just a natural process.) The color black is non-white, non-white can be a spectrum of colors. Color aside, humans are mammals and all have 2 arms, 2 legs, walk upright, have opposing thumbs and forefingers which allowed them to pick up objects and fashion them into tools - and the rest was history. They also have tongues and vocal chords and use them to communicate. They have brains that give rise to intellect and ideas, instincts that encompass needs and desires. Curiosity also seems to be a dominate trait. Who are we? What are we? Where did we come from? We are unique entities who are made up of the exact same elements as stars. In the final analysis, i am me.

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