So instead of using the word "black" or
>>"Negro," they went back to the Hebrew word for blacks--Kushim, which
>>they transliterated as Kushites--a previously unknown and unidentifiable
>>tribe for Anglophones and so easily despised.
>
Kush was the name given during the Pharonic times to the Kingdom of Nubia - the land to the south of Egypt which constitutes the northern part of the present day Sudan.
Mahmoud