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How lazy can you be.
Our youths have suddenly become lazy mentally to the point that they can't relate with great revelation of this sort.

bluecircle470:
How i wish the way i am laughing here can automatically transcribe into comment ooo Lolllllll

What the Bible shows for sure is that the people in the middle East, living in Israel today are not the same as the Bible or Tanaka Jews. The biblical Jews were black, they're scattered all over Africa and the world and they remain black.

Point of correction: Cush doesn't always mean black. Cush/Nubia/Ham/Ethiopia are all the same. It could mean black or Ethiopia depending on context.

As regards "God said" that's a myth. Every God is a myth; including Jehovah. Almighty God never spoke to anybody face to face.

Anybody who want to pursue this topic more should Google "the lost history. Who stole black history?".

True or false I love reading articles like this (research on ancient history/ anthropology). He's definetly an intelligent man. Every point he gave he backed up with a bible scripture. The only thing that has no solid proof for me is the fact that the Ijebus came from the middle east.

bankylan:
Typical African who can't read and learn new things......there is much sense in what Reno wrote and I will be doing a study for fur clarification....God created Adam and Eve alone.....We all migrated from somewhere....Try to challenge the known....Read and study.....The world belongs to those who are not mentally lazy.

If you believe the bible is an accurate account of the origins of man, you can go with it. Personally, I think it's largely isreali propaganda.

This article has opened the eyes indeed. So many things are revealed that weren't know initially. It's a great piece and once again Mr Reno did an amazing job as always and being honest, impartial and truthful and always trying to say the truth no matter how bitter it may sound to others you are bold enough to utter. And those who trying to create something relevant to what the writer has exposed, nowhere did he say the Yorubas are Jews. In fact he said that they are not Jews. And Igbos should know that Yorubas are not like them that is trying to relate themselves with Jews while we all know that they're not jews, it is just a desperation and their so called agitation to actualize their fake dream that's why they are saying their ancestral are jews. History never lie! What he clearly said is that the Ijebus and Yorubas influenced the Jews. We shall all read to understand not to argue with writer or something relevant to what he is trying to say to create confuse.

Biglittlelois:
I couldnt finish reading cos this is one of the most nauseating write up ever, anyone can come up with this claiming there is a connection between Jerusalem and his country, anyone can do that,

I am Yoruba and for Reno to come up with this claiming Ijebu people are Isrealites, Jerusalem bla bla bla is disgusting, what is the essence of this claim? does he want the Yoruba tribe to be bashed, trashed and insulted? Of what use is these claim to the world today? this is very low of Reno Omokri.

you are not yoruba....

kmcutez:
I believe Reno. The black people were the original Israelites, not those silly imposters we have there today.

Oh boy, na to dey worship the Ijebu people so that our ways can be prosperous. Any Jebus in the house, I throway salute o.

I am a Hebrew. Lucasbalo aka Abbeybailey, you better surrender your wealth & last daughter unto me now before I invoke Yahweh & his 10,000 Angels

One Ijebu gal with fat yanch and sweet face has been sucking Reno's bura-- that's why he is yearning dust. That, and his refusal to do something about his addiction to Osogbo_kwale mixed weed has turned his brain to mush...no wonder he advised Jonathan into the valley of electoral defeat.

Culin:
True or false I love reading articles like this (research of ancient history/ anthropology). He's definetly an intelligent man. Every point he gave he backed up with a bible scripture. The only thing that has no solid proof for me is the fact that the Ijebus came from the middle east.

why will queen sheba be buried in ijebu....

They should come up with their bible to propagate their own version of xtianity - after all the catholiics, jehova's witnesses, the orthodox, ethiopians, Pentecostals etc all have separate bibles, not exactly the same but each claiming theirs is the word of God!

raindodger13:
Chai!

The dude you just quoted is a severe mental case.

immhotep:
Lzaa come and hear oh.
Afonjas are now Jews just like Nnamdi Kanu


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U mean they re afonja jews

FisifunKododada:
The dude you just quoted is a severe mental case.

Am I now?

Comparing black people to monkeys has a long, dark simian history
February 28, 2016 11.24pm EST
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Wulf D. Hund

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Department of Socioeconomics, University of Hamburg
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John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University

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The climax of popular simianisation was the hugely successful classic of Hollywood’s horror factory, King Kong. Shutterstock

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This article is a foundation essay. These are longer than usual and take a wider look at a key issue affecting society.

In the history of European cultures, the comparison of humans to apes and monkeys was disparaging from its very beginning.

When Plato – by quoting Heraclitus – declared apes ugly in relation to humans and men apish in relation to gods, this was cold comfort for the apes. It transcendentally disconnected them from their human co-primates. The Fathers of the Church went one step further: Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Saint Isidore of Seville compared pagans to monkeys.

In the Middle Ages, Christian discourse recognised simians as devilish figures and representatives of lustful and sinful behaviour. As women were subject to an analogous defamation, things proceeded as one would expect. In the 11th century, Cardinal Peter Damian gave an account of a monkey that was the lover of a countess from Liguria. The jealous simian killed her husband and fathered her child.
Hotbed of monsters

Several centuries later in 1633, John Donne in his Metempsychosis even let one of Adam’s daughters be seduced by an ape in a sexual affair. She eagerly reciprocated and became helplessly hooked.

From then on, the sexist manifestation of simianisation was intimately intertwined with its racist dimension. Already Jean Bodin, doyen of the theory of sovereignty, had ascribed the sexual intercourse of animals and humans to Africa south of the Sahara. He characterised the region as a hotbed of monsters, arising from the sexual union of humans and animals.

The history of a narrative by Antonio de Torquemada shows how in this process Africans became demonised and the demons racialised. In the story’s first version (1570), a Portuguese woman was exiled to Africa where she was raped by an ape and had his babies.

A good century onwards the story had entered the realm of Europe’s great philosophical thought when John Locke in his 1689 essay Concerning Human Understanding, declared that “women have conceived by drills”. His intellectual contemporaries knew well that the stage for this transgressing love-and-rape-story was Africa because, according to the wisdom of the time, drills lived in Guinea.

In the following centuries, simianisation would enter into different sciences and humanities. Anthropology, archaeology, biology, ethnology, geology, medicine, philosophy, and, not least, theology were some of the fields.
King Kong’s reel racism

Literature, arts and everyday entertainment also seized on the issue. It popularised its repellent combination of sexist and racist representations. The climax was the hugely successful classic of Hollywood’s horror factory, King Kong.

At the time of King Kong’s production the public in the US was riveted by a rape trial. The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers accused of having raped two young white women. In 1935 a picture story by the Japanese artist Lin Shi Khan and the lithographer Toni Perez was published. ‘Scottsboro Alabama’ carried a foreword by Michael Gold, editor of the communist journal New Masses.

One of the 56 images showed the group of the accused young men beside a newspaper with the headline “Guilty Rape”. The rest of the picture was filled with a monstrous black simian figure baring its teeth and dragging off a helpless white girl.

The artists fully understood the interplay of racist ideology, reactionary reporting and southern injustice. They recognised that the white public had been thoroughly conditioned by the dehumanising violence of animal comparisons and simianised representations, as in the reel racism of King Kong.
Labelled with disease

Animalisation and even bacterialisation are widespread elements of racist dehumanisation. They are closely related to the labelling of others with the language of contamination and disease. Images that put men on a level with rats carrying epidemic plagues were part of the ideological escort of anti-Jewish and anti-Chinese racism.

Africa is labelled as a contagious continent incubating pestilences of all sorts in hot muggy jungles, spread by reckless and sexually unrestrained people. AIDS in particular is said to have its origin in the careless dealings of Africans with simians, which they eat or whose blood they use as an aphrodisiac.

This is just the latest chapter in a long and ugly line of stereotypes directed against different people like the Irish or Japanese, and Africans and African Americans in particular. To throw bananas in front of black sportspeople is a common racist provocation even today.
Why are blacks abused?

What explains this disastrous association of black people defamed as simian? A combination of factors might be the cause:

the prevalence of a variety of great apes in Africa, closest in size to humans. The Asian great ape population is more limited, while in the Americas one finds monkeys, but no apes;

the extent of the aesthetic “distance” between whites and blacks, their greater degree from a white perspective of physical “otherness” (deviant not merely in skin colour and hair texture but facial features) as compared to other “nonwhite” races;

the higher esteem generally accorded by Europeans to Asian as against African civilisations; and

above all the psychic impact of hundreds of years of racial slavery in modernity, which stamped ‘Negroes’ as permanent sub-persons, natural slaves, in global consciousness.

Large scale chattel slavery required reducing people to objects. Precisely because of that it also required the most thorough and systematic kind of dehumanisation in the theorisation of that reality.
The origin of species

Long before post-Darwinian “scientific racism” begins to develop, then, one can find blacks being depicted as closer to apes on the Great Chain of Being. Take mid-19th century America in circles in which polygenesis (separate origins for the races) was taken seriously. Leading scientists of the day Josiah C. Nott and George R. Gliddon, in their 1854 Types of Mankind, documented what they saw as objective racial hierarchies with illustrations comparing blacks to chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

As Stephen Jay Gould comments, the book was not a fringe document, but the leading American text on racial differences.
Darwin did not discredit scientific racism with ‘On the Origin of Species’ – he just refined it. Shutterstock

Darwin’s revolutionary 1859 work, On the Origin of Species, did not discredit scientific racism but only its polygenetic variants. Social Darwinism, triumphantly monogenetic, would become the new racial orthodoxy. Global white domination was being taken as proof of the evolutionary superiority of the white race.

If it now had to be conceded that we were all related to the apes, it could nonetheless be insisted that blacks’ consanguinity was much closer – perhaps a straightforward identity.
Tarzan = white skin

Popular culture played a crucial role in disseminating these beliefs. The average American layperson would be unlikely to have been reading scientific journals. But they were certainly reading H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon’s Mines and She) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan). They were going weekly to the movies, including the genre of “jungle movies”. They were following daily comic strips like The Phantom – Africa’s white supercop, the Ghost-who-walks.

Africa and Africans occupied a special place in the white imaginary, marked by the most shameless misrepresentations. Burroughs would become one of the bestselling authors of the 20th century. Not just in his numerous books, but in the movies made of them and the various cartoon strip and comic spin-offs, of his most famous creation, Tarzan of the Apes.

Tarzan would embed in the Western mind the indelible image of a white man ruling a black continent. “Tar-zan” = “white skin” in Ape, the impressively polyglot Burroughs informs us. It is a world in which the black humans are bestial, simian, while the actual apes are near-human.

Burroughs’s work was unprecedented in the degree of its success, but not at all unusual for the period. Rather, it consolidated a Manichean iconography pervasive throughout the colonial Western world in the first half of the 20th century and lingering still today. In this conflict between light and dark, white European persons rule simian black under-persons.
Lumumba’s announcement

The Belgian cartoonist Hergé’s Tintin series, for example, includes the infamous Tintin au Congo book, which likewise depicts Africans as inferior apelike creatures.

Unsurprisingly, “macaques” (monkeys) was one of the racist terms used by whites in the Belgian Congo for blacks, as was “macacos” in Portuguese Africa. In his 1960 Independence Day speech, Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba blasted the oppressive legacy of Belgian colonialism (to the astonishment and outrage of the Belgian king and his coterie, who had expected grateful deference from the natives). He is reputed to have concluded:

Nous ne sommes plus vos macaques! (We are no longer your monkeys)

The story seems to be apocryphal – no documentation has been found for it – but its widespread circulation testifies to the decolonial aspiration of millions of Africans. Alas, within less than a year, Lumumba would be dead, assassinated with the connivance of Western agencies, and the country turned over to neocolonial rule.
Racist cross-class alliances

The use of simianisation as a racist slur against black people is not yet over, as shown by the furor in South Africa sparked by Penny Sparrow, a white woman, complaining about black New Year’s revelers:

From now [on] I shall address the blacks of South Africa as monkeys as I see the cute little wild monkeys do the same, pick and drop litter.

Sparrow’s public outburst indicates the deep entrenchment of racial prejudices and stereotypes.
America’s First Couple, Barack and Michelle Obama, have been on the receiving end of simianisation. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

This does not stop at class boundaries. The internet has overflowed with ape comparisons ever since Barack and Michelle Obama moved into the White House. Even a social-liberal newspaper, like the Belgian De Morgen, has deemed it kind of funny to simianise the First Couple.

Cross-class alliances against declassed others are a hallmark of racism.

Theodore W. Allen once defined it as “the social death of racial oppression”, that is:

… the reduction of all members of the oppressed group to one undifferentiated social status, beneath that of any member of the oppressor group.

Animalisation remains a malicious and effective instrument of such a form of desocialisation and dehumanisation. Simianisation is a version of this strategy, which historically manifested a lethal combination of sexism and racism.

Wow..lovely article... I salute you RENO, Africans are lost. Our brain and soul has been enslave by white people. I could remember Israel's PM (Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu) said "black race has no contribution to development of humanity." ...Africans should wake up, we have been brain washed. Our culture and religion are true, is all Muslims going to hell fire or all Christians to hell fire as Muslims and Christians claims? Na lie....only one God we serve.

Obdk:
U mean they re afonja jews

Yes oh.
Now they can safely continue the obsession with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB Jews

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I must say,, reno is truly intelligent. As from today, i will read all his posts carefully

Culin:
True or false I love reading articles like this (research of ancient history/ anthropology). He's definetly an intelligent man. Every point he gave he backed up with a bible scripture. The only thing that has no solid proof for me is the fact that the Ijebus came from the middle east.

I am doing my doctorate in solid state physics. How is your study going?

anku90:
This article has opened the eyes indeed. So many things are revealed that weren't know initially. It's a great piece and once again Mr Reno did an amazing job as always and being honest, impartial and truthful and always trying to say the truth no matter how bitter it may sound to others you are bold enough to utter. And those who trying to create something relevant to what the writer has exposed, nowhere did he say the Yorubas are Jews. In fact he said that they are not Jews. And Igbos should know that Yorubas are not like them that is trying to relate themselves with Jews while we all know that they're not jews, it is just a desperation and their so called agitation to actualize their fake dream that's why they are saying their ancestral are jews. History never lie! What he clearly said is that the Ijebus and Yorubas influenced the Jews. We shall all read to understand not to argue with writer or something relevant to what he is trying to say to create confuse.

This is the ONLY guy (apart from me of course) that read and understood at least the first part of the write-up. Kudos! There is still hope for Nigeria after all.

Africa must wake up. they have given us their (deity)religion and called ours demons. the bible and Koran was turned upside down to favour their supremacy. we have been made to celebrate people like king David. I must tell my kids the little truth that I know. they keep making sure none of African country will enjoy peace, so we will fight and have less time to search or find the truth

"The Fulani were notorious for raiding tribes of the lower Niger. They called the Igbo Yar’Miri, which is a derogatory name that they still call them in the North (Nyamiri). The Yorubas they called Yar’Iba. I know the meaning of that word and it is so derogatory that I will not reveal it here. "

Some people are seeing the light and the truth is gradually coming out... the Europeans were not the slave raiders. The slave raiders had armies. Have you ever wondered why the Nigerian Army is older than the country Nigeria? Who were the Nigerian Army before it's formation? (or rather transformation) in 1863?

http://thenationonlineng.net/nigerian-army-at-150/
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/army-celebrates-150-years-of-existence.html

Meanwhile, according to the Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson (1906), yar'iba, lit. fowl of Yoruba, common duck.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6zgOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=Yar%E2%80%99Iba&source=bl&ots=Zc0y13-ng1&sig=XC8ffw4JstrJliLsvUpBrfnW128&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9us702u3dAhWHD8AKHeCRAXUQ6AEwBXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=Yar%E2%80%99Iba&f=false


Nyamiri is a corruption of the Igbo word for ‘give me water’ (nye m miri).

Reno! Reno!! Reno!!! How many time do i called you? Pls who do you like this? E no go better for dat pesin.

Is it frustration would I called this or what? To what relevant is this epistle now to the Yoruba or the world Pls?

Reno return home I think lot need to be cast on you to determine the extend of damage that has be done to you. Sorry ehn.....the kind thunder wey go fire the pesin wey do you like this still loading.

biafranation:
If funny and hypocritical how Afonjas are now claiming Jews, and Igbos are not interfering. But let it be Igbo article by Reno, and watch afonjas invade to attack. Go to all social media page even on youtube on Igbo origin, you will see Afonjas there, and you ask yourself, what are these people doing in Igbo pages? The funny thing is Igbos don't go to their pages. LOL

Mynd44

KingSango:
In May, 2010 the Neanderthal Project was concluded which sought to find did man evolve from Ape? Well, yes and no.

1. Caucasians and Asians were found to have 3-4% Neanderthal DNA.

2. Africans in Diaspora were found to have 1% Neanderthal DNA.

3. Africans of Sub Sahara Africa were found to be 100% true man.





The Neanderthal is a hominid, that is a primate, monkey, that looks almost human because it has 90% similar DNA coding as man yet is not man. Neanderthals are said to be somewhere around 100,000 to 200,000 years old.

The Date of true man is undetermined as they keep digging and finding civilization after civilization buried under the Earth. All of them are Africans.

The mixture of man with neanderthal is said to have occurred only recently about 6000 years ago so all hybrid races are about that old.

Ancient Egyptians were Africans.

Ancient Babylonians were Africans.

Ancient Persians were Africans.

Ancient Greeks were Africans, the remote ancient Greeks not the modern.

Ancient Olmecs were Africans.

Ancient Indians were Africans.

Ancient Chinese of the Neolithic period were Africans.

Ancient Japanese including Samurai were Africans.

All the Pacific Islanders including Hawaii were Africans.

Any civilization older than couple thousand years were Africans.

The Earth was populated by true man, the African for untold millions of years.

This is not myth...this is scientific data based upon DNA which was not available in the last century. This millennium belongs to Africa.

https://www.nairaland.com/4748542/africans-sub-sahara-africa-100


If you were born here and are of African lineage you may be 100% true man and your blood traces back to God Himself.

List of Sub-Saharan African Countries
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Réunion
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

wow this is deep

Awoo88:
Not all Israelite are black. In t
Fact, only one tribe had any traces of blackness. Stop spreading ignorance

Awon white Jew.
Don't let me invoke the Gods of the Jebu on you ooo!!

Mortiple:
It just dawn on me that Reno Omokri is a jester who shouldn't be taken serious.

What is the correlation between Salem (which means PEACE) and Isale?

Nimrod has suddenly become Lamurudu!

This claim is a subtle insult to the Ijebus because the Jebusites were Canaanites, who were conquered and sent packing by the Hebrews.

I thought Reno is a Pastor?

Well I know Reno, he is up to something.

but truth be told, queen of sheba tomb is in ijebu ode.... that atleast must count for something....

jumpandpas:
This man was the governor of Lagos state for 8 good years.


Can anyone tell us what he achieved?

Go look up on Google for his achievements...

kmcutez:
Awon white Jew.
Don't let me invoke the Gods of the Jebu on you ooo!!

Afonja jew spotted

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I don't know if all he said adds up, but surely one thing I know is that the Ijebu people are so blessed even amongst the Yoruba tribe. Ijebu people are shrewd and very intelligent business people.

djon78:
This is very deep!!

One thing I learnt from this article is that no be today Fulani begin reign Supreme. It is already in their DNA. Many of our people sold into transatlantic slavery was done by them. They were the main dealers with the Europeans. Very important lessons.

I disagree with your assertion, Fulani when late comers in terms of rulership of kingdom and empires. One of the reason why they appear powerful today was there establish kingdom or empires was still in full force when the European arrived. If the Europeans have delay their coming by 50 years or less, their is very high tendencies that the kingdom might collapse from within due to pressure mounted against it from the majority tribes particularly the Hausa they dethroned, mind you there ascension to the throne has religious coloration, while the Hausas mostly the commoners discovered the deception to which the Fulani scholars has made to instigate them against there ruler(Hausa) they revolt immediately. Infact the sultan and emirs needed to compromise on certain position in order to ussage the Hausas revolutionary leaders, other wise it would have been a different story entirely.

For Major slave traders they are no march to Yoruba war Lords. Most slaves sold to the Europeans actually came from the inter-tribal wars among the Yoruba within a period of 100 or so, don't forget Benin kingdom also play a critical roles in slave trade.

Biglittlelois:
I couldnt finish reading cos this is one of the most nauseating write up ever, anyone can come up with this claiming there is a connection between Jerusalem and his country, anyone can do that,

I am Yoruba and for Reno to come up with this claiming Ijebu people are Isrealites, Jerusalem bla bla bla is disgusting, what is the essence of this claim? does he want the Yoruba tribe to be bashed, trashed and insulted? Of what use is these claim to the world today? this is very low of Reno Omokri.

you can't finish reading it, because the article is not for people like you. Have you ever sit somewhere and think or imagine how 2 people ADAM and EVE multiplied and there descendants spread around the world?

yawn,