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What part of OUR history that you know about, but are surprised other blacks don't?

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I am surprised that all the Black Christian Bible thumbers in this country have not discovered that the condition we are currently in was predetermined by our forefathers actions! And I am not talking Frederick Douglass or Marcus Garvey. Our history goes way way back and I am ashamed at how little we really know as Black people! :(
 
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Ceenote said:
Just one more added note about religion..

THE BLACK MADONNA

Isis was a Black African goddess of Nile Valley civilizations whose worshipeventually diffused to most of the ancient world. Isis was worshipped by the Nubians well over 300 years before the first Egyptian dynasty. The Egyptians thengave the Isis religion to Greece, Rome, and Western Asia. Gerald Massey says thatthe religious records of all the world’s religions including Hinduism, Buddhism,and Christianity are nothing more than copies of the religious records of the Black goddess Isis, her son Horus, and her husband Osiris. For example, Horus was thefirst child born from a virgin mother's Immaculate Conception, and he was said tohave walked on water just as Jesus later did. The Black goddess Isis is alsocredited with resurrecting Osiris after he was murdered.

The first "Black Madonna and Child" statutes and portraits were of Isis and Horus,and these were taken throughout the world by the Roman Empire. When other religions became more popular, these statues were not destroyed, but simply hadtheir names changed. In India, Isis and Horus became Maya and Buddha inBuddhism or Devaki and Krishna in Hinduism. The Chinese called Isis Kwa-yin,and the Japanese changed the name to Kwannon.
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Leonardo da Vinci painted two jesus and mary pictures.I thought i just add something.
 
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Jackie Robinson WAS NOT the first brother to play major league baseball. Moses Fleetwood Walker was.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Walker

Walker signed with the minor league team, the Toledo Blue Stockings of the Northwestern League in 1883. In 1884 Toledo joined the American Association, which was a Major League at that time in competition with the National League. Walker made his Major League debut on May 1 against the Louisville Eclipse.

In 1889, the American Association and the National League both unofficially banned African-American players, making the adoption of Jim Crow in baseball complete. Baseball would remain segregated until 1946 when Jackie Robinson "broke the color barrier" in professional baseball playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers' minor league affiliate in Montreal.

Walker was attacked by a group of white men in Syracuse, New York in April 1891. He stabbed and killed a man named Patrick Murray during the attack. The Sporting Life reported "Walker drew a knife and made a stroke at his assailant. The knife entered Murray's groin, inflicting a fatal wound. Murray's friends started after Walker with shouts of 'Kill him! Kill him!' He escaped but was captured by the police, and was locked up."

Walker was charged with second-degree murder and claimed self-defense. He was acquitted of all charges on June 3, 1891. Adding to the weight of the verdict, was that Walker was acquitted by an all white jury. The Cleveland Gazette reported "When the verdict was announced the court house was thronged with spectators, who received it with a tremendous roar of cheers... Walker is the hero of the hour."
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The notoriously racist Ty Cobb once refused to share a cabin with Ruth at a Georgia hunting lodge. "I've never bedded down with a n——-," said Cobb, according to a contemporary, the sportswriter Fred Lieb, "and I'm not going to start now." The same repellent epithet was spit at Ruth by opposing bench jockeys, who saw in the Babe's full lips, broad nose and swarthy complexion a visual basis for their vile insults.
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Man_Of_STeeL said:
1/3 of all cowboys were black... and there was a bad ass black marshal back then named bass reeves...

many of the stories from christianity .. includin' moses, the ten commandments, and jesus... come from ancient egypt ..

there are castles in africa ...

the man who invented the supersoaker was black...

the races ..black, white, hispanic, etc.. are relatively recent constructs...

christopher columbus's navigator was black..

black folks never jus rolled over and accepted bein' slaves... see Gullah Wars..

Mansa Musa...was an African king so rich...he caused the value of gold to depreciate in Egypt..because he spent so much gold during his pilgrimmage... it took 3 years for the price to recover..

Ethiopia was one country europe never conquered ... thanks to Haile Selassie ...

archaeologist still have no idea how the pyramids in egypt were built...

Alexander Dumas..author of The Count of Montecristo and Three Musketeers... was black...

country music.. and rock 'n roll.. were both invented by black folks...and most of the original instruments from country music..like the banjo...are african instruments..or descendants of african instruments..

there have been 3 black/african popes...
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Great stuff, especially the first one. With all those John Wayne and Randolph Scott flicks, you would never think there was one Black Cowboy!
fwillia said:
The first person to officially own a slave in Virginia was black.
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Not surprising, but still real.:cool:
godofwine said:
Damned if that ain't the truth. God is all you need.

Jesus? Did he even exist? There is no one alive now that was alive then that can prove it to me or anyone else. Not even the man sitting next to the man sitting next to the man sitting next to the GOTDAMNED man was alive when he supposedly lived, AND with history full of lies, half truths, 1/3 truths, & POV askew bull I question EVERYTHING.

God I can accept. There has to be a higher power, I have seen some amazing things, been through some crazy things that prove to me that a higher power of sorts IS out there. Outside of that I have my doubts and my questions of why this All Powerful being lets bad things happen to good people and babies/children, but that is another story.

The fact that some book written by man (man put pen to paper and wrote the bible, no one with sense can question that) holds the answers to everything is an amazing story. The bible is as close to a true story as a "Based on a True Story" you get from Hollywood, and you know all of those are half bullshit to make it more interesting. To have people thinking that they cannot speak to God, they need a go-between in the form of a preacher, bishop, priest. That they need to give 10% of their money to The Church, not just a good cause or a needy person, but The Church.

I could go on and on. If Jesus is real I will find out when I die...or, I will die and nothing will happen but me just being dead. I say you don't need a bible. YOu take the 10 commandments and follow that and you are a good person. How can people so believe a story that was FINALLY written down maybe 100 years after the so-called events. Remember playing the pass-down game in school where something is said on one side of the room and when it gets to the other side it is completely different. That is in a classroom during a 5 minute stretch...10, 100 years or even one and that story is full of half truths and fill-ins.
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...boom goes the dynamite.
DarkMeat said:
I use to be pissed when I saw a "Black Lawn Jockey" until I learned the History.

Each One Teach One....


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At 3am on December 26, 1776 George Washington's colonial army in Pennsylvania crossed the Delaware river and attacked the British at Trenton, New Jersey. Legend has it Washington's groomsman, a 12-year-old slave boy named Jocko Graves, stayed on the Pennsylvania shore taking care of Washington's horses, holding up a lantern to mark the location. In 1776, a "groomsman" referred to "a man or boy in charge of feeding, conditioning, and stabling of horses.

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But legend tells of one more casualty... Jocko, who was found frozen to death on the Pennsylvania shore while still holding the lantern when Washington returned at noon on December 26, 1776. Legend has it that upon Washington's return to his Mount Vernon, Virginia home, he was so inspired by Jocko's heroism, he commissioned a cast iron statue of Jocko holding a lantern and called it the "Faithful Groomsman". The "welcome/coming home" theme of these statues started here, and with an ironic double meaning: "coming home" being also used as a metaphor for "dying and going to heaven" from Christian theology. The last name "Graves" associated with the statue also offers a cryptic allusion to a cemetary grave- was the original statue a grave marker for Jocko? Taking into account that very few slaves had last names in colonial America, the grave marker explanation seems plausible.




They were also used in the underground railroad to help guide slaves to freedom. The arm would point in the direction of Freedom with a green ribbon or a red ribbon representing danger.

http://www.lawnjock.com/lawn_jockey_history.html
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/little-known-black-history-fact-mr-jocko-graves/blog-42510/
http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/underground-railroad-jockey-statues.htm
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/july08/
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Interesting......
 
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Re: What part of OUR history that you know about, but are surprised other blacks don'

The ancient Egyptians where black

The first university in the world was in Africa. The University of Timbuktu.

The first castles were built in Africa. Ethiopia to be specific.
 

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