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Most times I'm not too too concerned with what others think. I mean, I don't want to offend people, but I usually stick with my own opinions. But today for some reason I had a pause.
Yes, I am black. Yes, I am Jewish. But what impact does this have in the blogosphere? Are there those who are waiting, just hoping for a valid reason to hate me -to use as a logical pretext for their hidden anti-semitism? Are there those who feel threatened at the things I believe in -or more precisely, the thing I don't believe in? Are there those who just can't believe that black and Jewish can dwell in the same body /space/ time/ whatever?
I never really explored this. Not sure why this thought came today. Hmmmmmm....
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I think that whenever we had seen Jewish people, they have always been white. Whenever films are shown, it is always white people. My grandmother told me that there are Ethopian jews, long before, we heard that they went to Israel. Some of them started to go since in the 1950s. Some African American Jews were converts, some were not. So when you see black Jewish people, it is a big shock for a lot of people to handle. There was a moslem young man from Ayodele's college who went to Israel and he saw a black Jewish man walking into the synagogue he was wearing his head covering and he said he nearly fainted, he thought Jesus Christ had come. A Jewish family from New York City, immigrated to Israel, the husband said to get away from 'blacks' and the big shock was his neighbours were....'Ethopian Jews'. All that way on plane to get away from blacks to have black neighbours in Israel. Some Jewish people probably wish the Ethopians weren't there, the same way Europeans which that I and many other black British were not born here either. But I think that we are great testimony, all what we have suffered we are still here. We are black and Jewish or Black and Christian (in my case) or black or whatever. We have been born for a time like this. We can get man of any colour to marry us. Again upsetting a lot of people. Eligible white males having black wives, again horror, weeping, gnashing of teeth, we are either accused of two things, taking decent men or settling for the wrong men, and as man said youtube, when black men become eligible, many black women would leave their non-black husbands to get black husbands. LOL Intermarriage between white man and black women is making such news. We black women are simply fantastic and we are born for the glory of God. We are fearfully and wonderfully made and those who don't like it, well they are complaining to God right now! God has a great sense of humour!
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