Racially ambiguous?
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Anonymous
| My daughter is an exotic green eyed, blonde-haired, light skinned beauty. Black people can see right away that she's black (mixed withed white), but white people are clueless. People have asked her if she's Russian, Israeli, Brazilian, and Dutch - essentailly white. However, she doesn't quite look white to me or black, so I would say that she's a good example of someone who is racially ambiguous. |
Anonymous
You have got to be kidding. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/germany.html The emerging Jewish merchant class created a vast international network that traversed the Ashkenazi world. Jews would meet at regional fairs to learn about the fates of other communities, to network, and, of course, to trade. The economic and social connections that the Jews formed throughout the continent made them much more valuable than non-Jewish merchants, whose influence seldom reached beyond their immediate surroundings http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/main_ar.htm When the first rabbi settled in Arkansas in the 1870s, state law required that a minister be Christian in order to officiate at a wedding. After a lobbying effort by Arkansas Jews, the state legislature amended the law to include rabbis. As this example shows, Arkansas Jews have been very involved in civic affairs in their state. They have served as mayors of Little Rock, Dumas, Helena, El Dorado, Holly Grove, West Memphis, and Pine Bluff. Jonas Levy was elected to the Little Rock city council in 1857, and served as mayor throughout the Civil War. Several Jews were elected to local office and the state legislature. Charles Jacobson, a close ally of populist Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, served two terms in the state senate. Samuel Levine represented Pine Bluff in the Arkansas House of Representatives and Senate for twenty years; he even once ran for lieutenant governor. This high degree of political involvement was not unique to Arkansas, as Jews across the South won election to political office in areas where they were a tiny minority. Their prominent role in the southern merchant class usually served as their entree to local politics. The Merchant of Venice-Shylock, ok bad example... http://www.jewishgenealogy.com.ar/jews/jews_russia_29.html HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA AND POLAND FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER I UNTIL THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER III by S.M. Dubnow A Project Gutenberg EBook 3. THE EXTENSION OF THE RIGHT OF RESIDENCE After some wavering, the Government decided to adopt the method of "picking" the best. The intention of the authorities was to apply the gradual relaxation of Jewish rightlessness not to groups of restrictions, but to groups of persons. The Government entered upon the scheme of abolishing or alleviating certain restrictions not for the whole Jewish population but merely for a few "useful" sections within it. Three such sections were marked off from the rest: merchants of the first guild, university graduates, and incorporated artisans. The resuscitated "Committee for the Amelioration of the Jews" [1] displayed an intense activity during that period (1856-1863). For fully two years (1857-1859) the question of granting the right of permanent residence in the interior governments to merchants of the first guild occupied the attention of that Committee and of the Council of State. The Committee had originally proposed to restrict this privilege by imposing a series of exceedingly onerous conditions. Thus, the merchants intending to settle in the Russian interior were to be required to have belonged to the first guild within the Pale for ten years previously, and they were to be allowed to leave the Pale only after securing in each case a permit from the Ministers of the Interior and of Finance. But the Council of State found that, circumscribed in this manner, the privilege would benefit only a negligible fraction of the Jewish merchant class--there were altogether one hundred and eight Jewish first-guild merchants within the Pale--and, therefore, considered it necessary to reduce the requirements for settling in the interior. Jews have always been one the most nomadic people in history. And yes, Virginia, they are and were mainly of the merchant class. |
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9:32, everything you are saying about the 19th century and Ashkenazi merchants in Russia works fine for me, no quarrel there. But you started out by saying that Jews were nomads for centuries and acquired Ethopian blood. That's what I questioned. Ethiopian Jews are Jews. Yemeni Jews are Jews. They didn't "acquire" African blood and Jews were not "merchant nomads" for centuries. You are mixing apples and oranges.
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Anonymous
If you don't know that Jews have been nomadic merchants for centuries then you really are quite ignorant of jewish history. I really don't have the time or the inclination to google it for you. Do you imagine there is something negative about this? Do really believe that Judaism in Ethiopia and elsewhere spontaneously generated? There is DNA evidence binding all ancient jews together as close ancestors. Yes Ethiopian Jews, southern mediterranean (all sephardim, really) and Ashkenazi are very closely related genetically.Those genetics include black african blood. And they were merchants. How do you supposed that happened? Alien spacecraft? History shows that they travelled, they traded goods and spread their seed throughout the diaspora. http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=791 The History of Ethiopian Jews After the rise of Christianity in Ethiopia in the fourth century, the Jews who refused to convert were persecuted and withdrew to the mountainous Gondar region where they made their homes for more than 2000 years. In the tenth century, they rose against the Axum dynasty led by Queen Judith who overthrew the "negus" (king) and sought to eradicate Christianity throughout the country. She is not forgotten to this day. Later, with the establishment of a new royal dynasty, the Jews of Ethiopia enjoyed great influence for some 350 years often acting as the balance of power between the Muslims and Christian forces. http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=791 The return to power of the ancient Axum dynasty in 1270, marked the beginning of 400 years of war and bloodshed which ended in the 17th century with the final end of Jewish independence. After the final battle when the Jewish forces were finally defeated "Falasha men and women fought to the death from the steep heights of their fortress...they threw themselves over the precipice or cut each other's throats rather than be taken prisoner. (Christian Ethiopian Chronicles) The Jews now faced years of suffering, their lands were confiscated, and for a period were forbidden the practice of their religion. The wars, the bloodshed and the glory were over, but persecution in various forms continued. |
Anonymous
It's not about owning it or not owning it. It's about telling the truth. I negated your assertion that the diversity of black hair types is all due to white male slaveowners raping black female slaves. While the native African hairtype is kinky coily/kinky curly, if you'd like to claim that there is only one specific hair type (say 4c) indigenous to that group, as Whitney Houston said, show me the receipts. Africans weren't phenotypically monolithic before they began reproducing with other "races." |
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| I'm not OP ^^I never asserted that it was all because of white slave owners. I think you confused my answering for being the first poster. |
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Anonymous
| Are the Kardashians and Snooki from Jersey Shore included in the racially ambiguous catergory? |