'Hebrews to Negroes' Is Here. My Biblical Map of The Levant Is Research-Ready
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Anne here. The good news is that the book — made into a film — ‘Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America’ did arrive to me sooner than promised by Amazon. Certainly, NBA Nets star Kyrie Irving, with backup from Kanye West, did put the book in overdrive.
For me, I want the book, because Anne is not interested in research with no footnotes — or an ability to pause and Google a statement just made, against other research resources. This is how I read most books.
Kanye’s statement that he has never read a book is ironic. Ye compared reading books to eating brussel sprouts, while owning a school Donda Academy. Kanye’s school is now closed due to his antisemitism and the rebuke and resignations by Jews involved with Donda Academy’s curriculum development.
AOC Is Filled With Ancient History
AOC — which is also me Anne — does not come to this conversation with no knowledge base about humanity’s migration out of Africa. I am better schooled on this topic than 95% of the American population. In deciding to buy the book ‘Hebrews to Negroes’, the one fueling all the antisemitic controversy, I wanted to choose a thoughtful book about Jewish history as well.
I searched for academic analysis on the success of Jewish people, as it relates to their enduring commitment to the best education possible for their children. My bias is one of being in total awe of Jewish people’s commitment to education. As I child, I wanted to be at my best friend’s house, where the dinner table conversation was so different from my own house. They discussed ideas, and I was thrilled.
Ronald Dalton Jr. argues that Jewish people as we know them are fake Jews, and the real Hebrews are African.
This second book ‘The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History 70-1492’ takes a fresh look at Jewish success through the lens of education and is focused on Jewish success through this lens. It does not reject other theories such as the Jewish sabbath being on Saturday or the willingness of Jews to lend money with interest as a form of business. But education is center stage in my new book about Jewish history, writing with a fresh lens on Jewish success.
Into the Levant We Go
Yesterday morning I accidentally found this stickon wallpaper, looking for a historical map of the Levant. It’s here that the rise of Western civilization goes into overdrive, with three major trade routes intersecting in what this map calls ‘The Biblical World’ 2000 to 1600 BC.
The details of the routes are not important for our first impression. What is important is to see the complexity of the map and also the route east out of the Libyan Desert [lower, left-hand corner]. It seems doubtful that any new discoveries will shatter the well-documented analysis that humans evolved first in Africa and eventually walked out [or rafted on waters long gone] of North Africa and into the now-desert lands of Saudi Arabia and towards The Levant.
Note that I am assuming that Mr. Dalton focuses on the rise of Judaism in the Levant. This may not be true at all. He speaks of invaders coming into Africa, so he may have a “noble savage” argument going on that Africans had an uncorrupted, benevolent, peaceful and loving continent of goodness, until it was corrupted by white people and Arabs.
To be fair to Mr. Dalton, I’m not clear what he believes, but I intend to find out.
The map below — not ancient and in fact a very early UN map — will help you gain perspective from a map of North Africa.
Given all the strife, the fake research, the countless arguments about the Bible and the Israelites, and the rise of Judaism itself — arguments suddenly front and center in America today — what I did yesterday morning was to pause over the ancient map I found in Google images and collect my thoughts around what I already knew.
The First Global Meeting Place
Human traders, herders, probably the first capitalists — although capitalism is associated with a modern period between the 16th and 18th centuries — they all arrived in The Levant. And they came from north, south, east and west. There was no one group of people who captured everyone else and launched monotheism in the form of Judaism, the first of three Abrahamic religions. Judaism was followed by Christianity and later Islam.
The Levant was rich with existing human populations in the form of tribes, many at war and strife with each other. Enter outsiders from every direction into The Levant, with shared interests in the form of trading. The area became a human stew of community-based beliefs and practices, superstitions and reverance for goddesses and the newer gods, shared commercial interests that resulted in power struggles for influence and protection.
In a very real sense, The Levant represents the reality of our own world in 2022, a human stew of outside influences, beliefs and intersections. An unfortunate belief arose out of this interaction and the rise of monotheism, in my opinion — and it’s the concept of God’s chosen people.
If you believe that some male God sits up there in the sky and runs the whole show [which I do not], he created one hell of a mess making so many varieties of people all over this earth, and them told one group that they were the best. And they would be the boss of everybody else.
In today’s world, we would fire that God and bring back the goddesses, who were much more organic creatures. That’s not possible, so we’re stuck with a testosterone-driven drive for religious dominance and strict discipline on how we live. We’re told is the natural order is dictated by one supreme being — male in the view of Kanye West and Ronald Dalton Jr.
Kanye West and Mr. Dalton would have us believe that the argument that Africans are the real Jews and everyone else an imposter is just another event in the enduring fight for dominance over the truth that governs humanity.
It’s a sad story, frankly — this idea that one group of people is top dog. It’s killed so many millions people on the face of this earth.
America’s Four Gods
Anyone who is a longtime reader of Anne of Carversville knows that the book ‘America’s Four Gods’ [2010] is deeply embedded in how I see American politics and culture. It’s the most influential book I’ve read in the last 12 years. And I believe that its teachings and massive online research study in which I participated, along with about 250,000 other people — including friends I enlisted — helps us to understand so much of the never-ending futility involved in the worship of God and getting along without violence towards each other. That violence has been used historically to subjugate people on every continent and women in particular.
Neither Kanye West or Mr. Ronald Dalton Jr. is concerned about misogyny or the second-class status of women worldwide. From everything I’ve gathered, both believe in the natural order of male dominance.
Kanye makes everything so simplistic — which is the view that supports the authoritarian God #1. And my instincts tell me that Mr. Dalton also believes in God #1. To be fair, I only read the first page but did form an impression.
Just as you imagine the teaming intersection of human attitudes, all the isms driven by culture and beliefs that accompanied people coming into The Levant, along with the conflict and power struggles that arose in the region, America’s concept of what we mean when we say that we believe in God is hugely different among all Americans. And this is before we drill down into individual religions that thrive in our immigrant rich nation. ‘America’s Four Gods’ is a study of believers, but we have vastly differing views of God.
The majority of Black Americans do NOT support God #1 — Kanye’s God. In their vision of God, white people and all slavers will have to atone before God on Judgment Day.
God the Father
You might be surprised to know that half of American men do not believe that God has a gender. Are you shocked? Well then, the sand shifts beneath your feet when you learn that 98% of American women believe God is male. I am not one of them, and I believe in God #4, along with the guys.
To be continued, as I delve into all my new reading in an effort to understand what proven and documented facts underscore the argument of the Hebrew Israelites that they are the real Jewish people, and all my friends are fake Jews. It should be an interesting ride, so buckle up. ~ Anne
