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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the Jesus thing is saying he had "black" hair (as in the texture). But he kinda looked white. Therefore, racial ambiguity.[/quote]

Christ people.  Jesus was a Jew.  [/quote]

Well, he may have been a very dark jew. Racially more like an Ethiopian. Where do you think jews got their curly hair and broad features? For centuries they have been a nomadic tribe of merchants. Connect the dots.[/quote]

Merchants?  Um, could you give the support for that.[/quote]

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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