There are things to get up in arms about, and there are things to let rest, kgod.
I love the info and am eating it up, but the issue of "Niger" being derogatory in the Bible is forcing <u>our </u> culture's all too common prejudices on something written 2K years ago.
Ever hear of Little John, or Fat Charles or Pretty Susan?
Black Simeon could(IMHO) just be referenced that way, or better yet, described that way simply because his contemporaries knew him as such. I don't know if it was necessarily a derogatory status to be darker skinned in the Roman world then. Many of Paul's contemporaries were slaves and it was economic status that put them there, not skin color.
My experience in this part of Alaska, we have three black people in our population of about 3K. Most of us are homesteaders and like to be mimimally interfered with by govt.and most of us are paler skin or Alaskan native - an oriental look, honestly. Two of the black people are kids adopted from Haiti, age 7 and 8. They have unique enough names we just know them as Bonnie and Josiah. The other black person is Mike. Now hang on here folks. We know him as Black Mike.
In conversations with others, no one sees it negative. It is just descriptive. Heck, I don't even know his last name!
Now with that said, I believe our present govt WANTS to have racism persist. As long as we can fight among ourselves, we can never "pay attention to the man behind the curtain."
(Wizard of Oz). I don't have to begin on all of the govt prgms that perpetuate economic dependence from our brothers and sisters who happened to go a different direction from Babel so long ago.
Back to Moorish and Morocan themes:
I read the treaty. Very cool! But at the end, it says, "This Treaty shall continue in full Force, with the help of God for Fifty Years"
How does this fit for today?
scott
PS: thanks for the links, kgod. I know its extra effort, but it is appreciated by more than me, I am sure.
