God and the N-word

A-M. M. Abdel-Rahman mrahman at kacst.edu.sa
Sat May 16 23:28:50 PDT 1998


At 01:21 PM 5/16/98 -0400, you wrote:

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



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