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Blair is not igbo, he is Bantu from Cameroon check again your source

ogwumgbe:
Hi everyone, well I have listened to various contrasting views about this topic and would like to clear or doubts about Igbo root. In my opinion, igbos do not need proven history to be confirmed the descendants of Jacob. I would like someone to tell me any other ethnic group in Africa or the entire world that has ( eri) as suffix in their names or are you trying to make up its coincidence? Even Nri is in the Bible. Another son of Gad, his name is Arodi also has his descendants in Igbo land ( arochukwu, arondizuogu) There's also another son of Gad named Areli, presently, there's a town in Anambra State called Oraeri. Are trying to tell me that all these are coincidence? Which ethnic group will go through what igbos have gone through and still survive not to talk even surpassing the oppressors? Which? Tell me Mr envious historian. Which tribe is hated by the gentiles ( non Hebrews as igbos in entire Africa)? Let me put it simply whether you believe it or not, Igbo people are descendants of ancient Israel. The Israelis know this fact already OK. We don't even need their approval. You can never cheat or lie to nature. Where ever your feet shall touch, you shall possess, this covenant follows Igbo people wherever they go.

My brother let me answer your questions. I am not against igbos being hebrews but your claims are not right.

you asked

Which ethnic group will go through what igbos have gone through and still survive not to talk even surpassing the oppressors? Which? Tell me Mr envious historian. Which tribe is hated by the gentiles ( non Hebrews as igbos in entire Africa)?

[b]The greatest crime in modern human history is the transatlantic slave trade where millions of Africans mostly bantu peoples were taken into slavery. I say mostly bantus because of DNA tests, ancient historical names and the fact that their culture is the bedrock of contemporary secular music and dance routines(includes jazz, rhythm and blues, salsa, tango, bachata, pachanga, brazillian dance fight etc). Another crime is the Mussolini occupation of Ethiopia where he killed nearly 4million hebrews. According to Dr Ben Yochanan, "Mussolini met over 4million jews when he got to Ethiopia and when he left barely a hundred thousand remained". South African black tribes also suffered apartheid which is worse than what you claim the ibos have suffered. Provoking a civil war and losing the war is different from actual victimization. There's a difference between wanting to be hebrews and actually being hebrews. There's a difference between a jew and a hebrew. SOmetmes being a thing is not by making the most noise. for instance the european Jews presently in the holy land have no connections to the land and by dna have not a single hebrew blood in their veins yet they are in the land now. Now let me tell you about the bantu people, they are one of the only few groups of africans whose traditional beliefs all ascribe to one God. Hear me there are many bantu tribes but all profess to one God in their various languages. You have the Tivs in Central Nigeria(bantu migrants from the Congo) who have myths that are similar to bible stories. Infact they prayed to the God of Jacob and the God of Abraham( Aondo u Yorkov and Aondo u Abaver) for miracles and petitions before they ever met the british. They have the traditional circumcision, they have the legend of Moses crossing the red sea(the tale of ikyaren). Which is distorted because of oral traditions due to time. The only group of people in africa proven by dna to be hebrews are again the bantus(the lemba tribe of southern africa).

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ABout the ibos being jews, I dont have any thing against it but let me show you a link.
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Canaan/Canaan_religion.htm

If you hit that link you will see that the canaanites had so many gods like the ibos. The gods are in the same fashion with the ibo gods. The ibos are not monotheist. Some Canaanites remained on their land which became the land of Israel for a long time before many migrated into Africa. I think that may be why you have those Nri names and stuff cos it originally was your land. The Canaanites also married with the hebrews alot thats why you have the ibos as proto-bantu. Also, its not the amount of suffering you endure that makes you a hebrew. The fulanis also suffered slavery but they are the presidents and rulers of various west african countries today. One can easily argue that because the lord blessed the house of David but lets leave that for another day. Some yorubas were also taken into slavery. But the yorubas have too many similarities with the ancient egyptians and they need to be studied properly because their culture is very sophisticated.

The Israelis know this fact already OK. We don't even need their approval.

They dont know it as a fact. They accept it cos they too are imposters on the land. They are sons of Ashkenaz. 92% of them are not hebrews. They only converted to Judaism in the 7th century. Every true historian knows this. Some of the brilliant Ashkenazi jews even say it.

These are the words of the first egyptian prime minister Gamal Abdel Nasser to the contemporary Jews " you (the Jews) will never be able to live here in peace, because you left here black but came back white. We cannot accept you!"

Fulaman198:


Igbos thinking they are Jews is just one of the most ridiculous things I have heard. I just try not to laugh whenever I see someone type something naive like that.

Ibn Khaldun, who lived in the 13th century, a respected authority on Berber history testified about the Black Jews of Western Sudan with whom he personally interacted. The famous muslim geographer al-Idrisi, born in Ceuta, Spain in the 12th century, wrote extensively about Jewish Negroes in the Western Sudan. Black Jews were fully integrated and achieved pre-eminence in many West African kingdoms. For instance Jews were believed to have settled in great West African empires such as Songhai, Mali, Ghana and Kanem-Bornu empires. According to numerous accounts of contemporary visitors to the region several rulers, and administrators of the Songhai empire were of Jewish origins until Askia Muhammad came to power in 1492 and decreed that all Jews either convert to Islam or leave the region. See Ismael Diadie Haidara, “Les Juifs a` Timbouctou”, Recueil de sources relatives au commerce juif a Timbouctou au XIXe siecle, Editions Donniya, Bamako, 1999.



--Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World, wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)
--Sir Richard Francis Burton, a 19th century English explorer, writer and linguist in 1883 wrote to Gerald Massey, "You are quite right about the "AFRICAN" origin of the Egyptians. I have 100 human skulls to prove it."
Scientist, R. T. Prittchett, states in his book The Natural History of Man, "In their complex and many of the complexions and in physical peculiarities the Egyptians were an "AFRICAN" race (p 124-125).

--The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century B.C.E., saw the Egyptians face to face and described them as black-skinned with woolly hair.

--Anthropologist, Count Constatin de Volney (1727-1820),spoke about the race of the Egyptians that produced the Pharaohs. He later paid tribute to Herodotus' discovery when he said:

The ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood mixed for several centuries with that of the Romans and Greeks, must have lost the intensity of it's original color, while retaining none the less the imprint of it's original mold. We can even state as a general principle that the face (referring to The Sphinx) is a kind of monument able, in many cases, to attest to or shed light on historical evidence on the origins of the people."
-A Roman historian named Tacitus who lived about C.E. 90 said, "Many assert that the Hebrews are an RACE OF ETHIOPIAN ORIGINS." (Book V, Chap. 2)

Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees (Gen. 11, 31) Godfrey Higgins, a careful and reliable English antiquary says, “The Chaldees were originally Negroes.” (Anacalypsis, Vol. II, p. 364. New York, 1927)


--The Koran reads: “And he (Moses) drew forth his hand out of his bosom and behold it appeared white unto the spectators.” (Chap. Vii, p. 128) “And put thy right hand under thy left arm; it shall come forth white.” (Sale: Al Koran, p. 257. 1784.)

Sale adds: “There is a tradition that Moses was a very swarthy man.” (p. 128)

Sir T.W. Arnold says, “According to Mohammedan tradition, Moses was a black man.” (The Preaching of Islam, p. 106. Westminster, 1896.)


--They all had Abyssinian features according to Charles L. Brace 1862 p. 185 the races of the Old World. "They were as dark as the black Jews of Abyssinia..." (ibid.)

The Jews of Arabia were the same and in particular the Kohanim of Khaibar are described as "people whose color is closer to black than any other" color by Ludovico Bartema an Italian of the 16th century.

In a Midrash: "The black people will come out of Egypt, Kush will stretch its hands to God"

Church Father Theodore of Mopsuestia says above the Shulamite bride in the 'Song of Songs': "She was black like all the Egyptians and Ethiopians."

Church Father Origen Adamantius says of the Egyptians: "They are the discolored (black) posterity of Ham"


--What serves to confirm the ethnic reality depicted
by Judah's Assyrian conquerers is the discovery of
an ossuary at Lachish dated to the time of the
conquest. It is the largest sample of Israelite
remains and comes from a city that was populated
the previous 500 years by Israelites. 695 crania of
all ages and both genders were uncovered.

D. L. Risdon in BIOMETRIKA 1939 31:99-166 reports
the Lachish cranial series has its closest resemblance
to the 4th dynasty series from Deshasheh and Medum
in Lower Egypt and the 18th dynasty samples from Thebes
and Abydos in Upper Egypt. Cranial samples from other
Palestinian sites (Gezer, Megiddo) agree with the Lachish
cranium. Thus we have a clear African "racial" continuum
in the Hebrews and Egyptians.


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From Arabia we have these descriptions from early Western explorers:

“The inhabitants of this part of Arabia nearly all belong to the race of Himyar. Their complexion is almost as black as the Abyssinians,”-- Baron von Maltzan, 'Geography of Southern Arabia' (1872)

“ [the Hamida are] small chocolate colored beings, stunted and thin… with mops of bushy hair… straggling beards , vicious eyes, frowning brows … armed with scabbards slung over the shoulder and Janbiyyah daggers…” a people “of the great Hejazi tribe that has kept his blood pure for the last 13 centuries…”-- Sir Richard Burton (1879)

“The people of Dhufar are of the Qahtan tribe, the sons of Joktan mentioned in Genesis: they are of Hamitic or African rather than Arab types…”--Arnold Wilson, The Geographical Journal (1927)

“the most prosperous tribe of all the Hamitic group, possessing innumerable camels, herds of cattle and the richest frankincense country. They resemble the Bisharin tribe of the Nubian desert. Men of big bone , they have long faces long narrow jaws, noses of a refined shape long curly hair and brown skin.”--Richmond Palmer (1929)

“Mahra is the Arab name for the Bedouin tribes who are different in appearance to other Arabs, having almost beardless faces, fuzzy hair and dark pigmentation – such as the Qarra, Mahra and Harasis… Also on “…the Qarra, Mahra and Harasis with parts of other tribes. The language is derived from the language of the Sabaeans, Minaeans and Himyarites. The Mahra with other Southern Arabian peoples seem aligned to the Hamitic race of north-east Africa… The Mahra are believed to be descended from the Habasha, who colonized Ethiopia in the first millennium BC”-- David Phillips, Peoples on the Move (2001)

“European observers have made much of their physical resemblance to Somalis and Ethiopians, but there is no historical evidence of any connections.”-- E. Peterson, 'Oman’s Diverse Society: Southern Oman'

And scholars have long noted:

“Mr. Baldwin draws a marked distinction between the modern Mahomedan Semitic population of Arabia and their great Cushite, Hamite, or Ethiopian predecessors. The former, he says, ‘are comparatively modern in Arabia,’ they have ‘appropriated the reputation of the old race,’ and have unduly occupied the chief attention of modern scholars.”-- Charles Hardwick (1872)

“Among ‘these Negroid features which may be counted normal in Arabs are the full,rather everted lips, shortness and width of nose, certain blanks in the bearded areas of the face between the lower lip and chin and on the cheeks; large, luscious,gazelle-like eyes, a dark brown complexion, and a tendency for the hair to grow in ringlets. Often the features of the more Negroid Arabs are derivatives of Dravidian India rather than inheritances of Hamitic Africa. Although the Arab of today is sharply differentiated from the Negro of Africa, yet there must have been a time when both were represented by a single ancestral stock; in no other way can the prevalence of certain Negroid features be accounted for in the natives of Arabia.”-- Henry Field, Anthropology Memoirs Volume 4 (1902)

“The Cushites. the first inhabitants of Arabia, arc known in the national traditions by the name of Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad, the grandson of Ham.”-- F. Lenormant (1922)

“There is a considerable mass of evidence to show that there was a very close resemblance between the proto-Egyptians and the Arabs before either became intermingled with Armenoid racial elements.”-- Elliot Smith, he Ancient Egyptians and the Origins of Civilization (1923)

“In Arabia the first inhabitants were probably a dark-skinned, shortish population intermediate, between the African Hamites and the Dravidians of India and forming a single African Asiatic belt with these.”-- Handbook of the Territories which form the Theater of Operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited and its Associated Companies

Its as simple as this. The bantus have always been monotheistic while the igbos/yorubas have lots of gods.

macof:
^^^ More bullshiit from madmen

Then tell us what you know. show us sanity.

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