Not that I don't enjoy a good heartfelt Barend rant from time to time.
I am beginning to realize, just based upon this topic, that this can be a never ending debate.
You have ethnicity and place of origin,.which for the most part, seem to go hand-in-hand when referring to someone.,.most of the time it holds true, but not always, and not under every circumstance.
what you have to look at, is, quite essentially the initial core roots of humanity,.thats right.,..Adam & Eve.
Adam & Eve, who were the first to touch the new earth God had made. We know it was called the Garden of Eden, but many scholars still argue about where the present day Garden of Eden was.
It is believed that, at one point in history, all humans were of the same race, same language, etc. until the events that transpired at the Tower of Babel in biblical times.
God saw that the tower of babel was not good, and ceased its completion by altering everyone's language. Its believed that since God mixed around languages, that he simoultaneously had also created different tones of skin at that same instance...so if this was the case,..this was the birth of Black People, Orientals, Arabics, etc.
and since many people couldnt no longer communicate, its theorized that those few that could bond together,.did so,. and treked off in seperate ways. The Orientals headed east, the blacks headed into africa, etc.
as far as the debate whether Egyptians are black or not, you have to take into calculation the age of King Tuts mummy,.which is determined to be 3,300 yrs old. This was before Jesus Christ came into the world, and being that this is the case, most of the world remained largely unhabited.
While there is no substantial evidence indicating what race Jesus, Moses, or other biblical characters were. From the Bible, we do get accounts of certain geographical areas that many events took place in,.such as Egypt, Israel, Jordan,etc. It is my belief that many of the people who reside in these places today, look much like there ancestors did in biblical times...not exactly like the way they looked,..but for the most part.
I believe the historical counterparts had indeed darker skin, and were much stronger,.due to them having to consistently exert heavy demands on the bodies due to required heavy labor,.lifting large stones, buildling what needed to be built..hunting or fishing for food..,.and just the general heat from the desert sun.
but this is not to state that egyptians were negro, nor do i believe that they were arabic either. but some sort of unknown peoples that no longer exist in our time.
This post has been edited by mireaux7: 01 October 2007 - 02:17 PM