Black Hebrew Israelites : Our job as Israelites

I wonder why people luv 2 call themselves everything BUT Afrikan, when that's without-a-doubt what we are. I don't know what Our Creator's plan is 4 us or who we believed in before the Afrikan Maafa. I don't believe in Jesus & I don't call Our Creator "God", all I refer to Our Creator as is that, Our Creator. I'm no muslim, no christian, no nothing, I'm just lost in the whirlwind with the knowledge that our religion was destroyed during slavery. I'm more comfortable not knowing rather than jumping on someone else's bandwagon.

I call myself an Israelite and not Afrikan because it differentiates me from the other group of people that are Afrikan. You have Ham and Shem, both who are from the Afrikan continent, but we are not the same. It is like having Italians and Germans that both come from Europe, they are both Europeans, but they use Italian and German to differentiate between the two. Also, the name Israel was given to us by God, so I feel priveleged to use it.
 
The word Africa comes to us from the Berber language from the word "afir" meaning cave-dweller.

I prefer the word Nubian myself ...

I agree that the term "africa" comes from proto-european folk, however we aren't clear on its etymology, For instance:

The origin of Afer may either come from:

-the Phoenician `afar, dust;
-the Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area;
-the Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold;
-or the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny.

I'm cool with nubian or afrikan. Afrikan, for me speaks to a place of origin; nubian speaks to a region, arbitrarily, in afrika where the oldest humans, to date, has originated (down around that blue/white nile region). So long as we know what WE MEAN when we use these terms to identify who we are, its all good.

But about "nubia", there are reasons to suggest that this term isn't exactly indigenous either:

The name "Nubia" did not exist before the Middle Ages.
The term seems originally to have come from the tribal name "Nuba" or "Noba",
which first appears in historical texts in the second century BC.

Ta-Seti: was the ancient Egyptian name of Nubia as recorded in the earliest Egyptian inscriptions, starting about 3200 BC. It meant "Land of the Bow," emphasizing what is known from later history: that the Nubians were skilled archers and feared soldiers.

Kush: was the name of an early kingdom in northern Sudan and first appears in Egyptian texts about 2000 BC. The Egyptians, who were afraid of the growing power of Kush, habitually tied the name to an adjective meaning "vile" or "bad." The earliest capital of Kush was apparently located at the site of modern Kerma, Sudan, about 420 miles (700 km) upstream (south) from Aswan. Originally designating only Upper Nubia (i.e. northern Sudan), the term "Kush/Cush" (also "Kas, Kos") was eventually more freely interpreted to mean all of Nubia south of Aswan. This name was used not only by the Nubians themselves, but also by the Egyptians and the rest of the ancient world (prior to the Greeks). "Kush" or "Cush" is the name of Nubia used in the Old Testament. It was also the native name of the later ancient Nubian kingdom, which was centered first at Napata and then at Mero‘.

Aithiopia/Ethiopia: was the Greek name for Nubia. Since the people in Nubia were much darker skinned than the Egyptians, the Greeks called them Aithiopes ("Burnt-Faced Ones"), and their land, they called Aithiopia ("Land of the Burnt Faces"). In modern spelling this has become Ethiopia. The Greeks and Romans used this name primarily to refer to what is now northern Sudan and the Upper (southern) Nile Basin rather than the land of modern Ethiopia, which until recently was called "Abyssinia." In the New Testament, which was written in Greek, Nubia is called "Aithiopia" or "Ethiopia."

Nubia: was the medieval name for the land of Kush/Aithiopia, which from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries AD was occupied first by three and then by two competing Christian kingdoms. These kingdoms were Alwa, centered at Soba on the Blue Nile (just upstream of modern Khartoum), Makuria, centered at Old Dongola between the Third and Fourth Cataracts, and Nobatia ("Land of the Nuba"), encompassing Lower Nubia. Ultimately, Nobatia was absorbed by Makuria.

Sudan: is the name of the modern country that now includes Upper (southern) Nubia. The name comes from the Arabic Bilad es-Sudan or "Land of the Blacks." Prior to the early twentieth century, all of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Nile tributaries to the sources of the Niger, was called al-Sudan (the Sudan"= "the Blacks"). It was a term used by the Arabs very much as the Greeks and Romans had used the term "Aithiopia"; its translation was virtually the same. In 1956, on achieving independence from Egypt and Great Britain, the vast territory formerly called "the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" (as opposed to "the French Soudan" in the west) became the "Republic of the Sudan" or today simply "Sudan". The name is now applied only to the country that bears its name. Books over fifty years old, however, often apply the name "Sudan/Soudan" to various parts of central and West Africa on the southern edge of the Sahara. These lands should not be confused with Nubia or modern Sudan.

http://www.nubianet.org/about/about_people1.html
(Some copy and past, because it's more convenient at this time
then going into my library for much of the info I endorse and is
reasonably consistent with what I've researched)

These may be eurasian words, but who said we have to use eurasian standards in regard to how we identify with the motherland and our relation to it? "Definition belongs to the definer not the defined" That same can be said about identity.

Shall we take primacy over them or not?
 
I call myself an Israelite and not Afrikan because it differentiates me from the other group of people that are Afrikan. You have Ham and Shem, both who are from the Afrikan continent, but we are not the same. It is like having Italians and Germans that both come from Europe, they are both Europeans, but they use Italian and German to differentiate between the two. Also, the name Israel was given to us by God, so I feel priveleged to use it.

Awesome!

I so agree about the broad term 'Afrikan' [African]. There are many distinct peoples of Africa, however, I still embrace the term, but for truth, you are so right about 'Israel'.
 
US Israelite are different from the Africans that is why they sold us to the Arabs and the Edomites. The thing the so called white man aka edomite tried to put us all into one group people, but we are not the same, and the fact that African never come here to claim any sort of ancestry with us is proof enough. Our history was beaten out of us for reason, to hide our identity and the fact that With our King Jesus Christ will be once again the rulers of this earth.
 
US Israelite are different from the Africans that is why they sold us to the Arabs and the Edomites. The thing the so called white man aka edomite tried to put us all into one group people, but we are not the same, and the fact that African never come here to claim any sort of ancestry with us is proof enough. Our history was beaten out of us for reason, to hide our identity and the fact that With our King Jesus Christ will be once again the rulers of this earth.
I believe that our job is to teach all the sons of Adam the truth.
 

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