"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "
God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home.
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9-11 was an inside job, get with the times...
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quote:Originally posted by Red, White, and Blue + Christian:
LOL a Western Apologist....Never thought I would see one on E.S.
Sorry bro you might not fit in here on E.S most residents here are Arab/Islamofacist Apologists, you won't fit in...best go back to Stormfront buddy.
Wait you have an Israeli flag(LMAO)...What are you a conservative Jew or something??
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I represented Black America which is mostly Christian the best that I could.
My relatives were soldiers who traveled the world and told me America was the best country in the world.
ISLAM = DEATH = DESTRUCTION = LIES
The Blacks and Jews go back a long way.
I stand up for Israel against Islam. I stand up for the real Black America against Islam, since I am African American.
I will go and this is my last day.
Yerushalayim is God's city and should not be divided.
I practice a combination of Judaism and Christianity. -------------------------------------------------- SALUTE TO YOU MY BROTHER!!!
Im in shock, I can't believe what I am reading here.
Although I HATE ISLAM!! and Stand Firmly Against it, I can't support Israel. Israel is the land of the REAL Jews. The people in "Israel" today are Kabbalists, Plus if they were the True Jews the Law (10 commandments) should be coming out of Jerusalem(Yerushaliam)...according to the Prophet Isaiah(may God, the Most High bless that brother)
Anyway, Glad to see a REAL Christian on here. Forgive me for my "Stormfront" remark. I stand with all my Brothers in Christ be they Asian, African or European(or "JEWISH")
Good Stuff man, and Death to Islam!!!
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Tribute to Christianity... Dome and Church of the Invalids
St. Martins in the Feilds
Gothic Interior
Ethiopian Church in Jerusalem
Rock Hewn Church
Church in Addis
You Forgot to Add this flag to the Wonders of Christianity
May the Most High Protect our Ethiopian Brothers from the Belly of the Beast(Islam)....
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Rabbi Capers Funnye celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year in New York City at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a mainstream Reform congregation, in the company of about 700 fellow Jews — many of them black. The organizers of the event had reached out to four of New York’s Black Jewish synagogues in the hope of promoting Jewish diversity, and they weren’t disappointed. African-American Jews, largely from Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, many of whom had never been in a predominantly white synagogue, made up about a quarter of the audience. Most of the visiting women wore traditional African garb; the men stood out because, though it was a secular occasion, most kept their heads covered. But even with your eyes closed you could tell who was who: the black Jews and the white Jews clapped to the music on different beats. Funnye, the chief rabbi of the Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, one of the largest black synagogues in America, was a featured speaker that night. The overflowing audience came out in a snowstorm to hear his thoughts about two men: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama. King is Funnye’s hero. Obama, whose inauguration was to take place the following day in Washington, is family — the man who married Funnye’s cousin Michelle.
A compact, serious-looking man in his late 50s, Funnye (pronounced fu-NAY) wore a dark business suit and a large gray knit skullcap. He sat expressionless, collecting his thoughts, as Joshua Nelson and his Kosher Gospel Band steamed through their sanctified rendition of the Hebrew hymn “Adon Olam.” Nelson, a black Jew, was raised in two Jewish worlds — a white Reform temple in New Jersey and a Black Jewish synagogue in Brooklyn — and he borrows from both. The first time the Rev. Al Sharpton heard a recording of Nelson’s “Adon Olam,” he said, “I can hear that’s Mahalia Jackson, but what language is she singing in?”
Mary Funnye, Capers’s wife, tapped her foot to the music and smiled with apparent equanimity, but her husband knew she was seething inside. “Mary has been a rabbi’s wife for a long time,” he told me a few weeks later. “She has an excellent synagogue poker face. But she really wanted to be in Washington that night” — for the early inauguration festivities — “not New York. And you can’t really blame her.”
The Funnyes were invited to Washington by the Obamas for a full calendar of inaugural events, including a dinner that evening held by the president-elect for his family and close advisers. Mary’s brother, Frank White Jr., a businessman who served as a prominent member of Obama’s national finance committee, was invited. So were three of Funnye’s sisters. It was going to be the family reunion of the year, the social event of the season and a crowning moment in American history. Mary had a formal gown ready. But here she was, singing “Adon Olam,” as she did virtually every Shabbat in Chicago.
Still, to be fair, this night was a historic moment for her husband too. For the first time in a rabbinical career stretching back to 1985, Funnye had been invited to speak at a white, mainstream synagogue in New York. Plenty of black Christian ministers, in a spirit of ecumenism and racial harmony, have addressed Jewish congregations in the city. But a black rabbi? Many American Jews regard the very concept as an oxymoron, or even, given the heterodoxies of much Black Jewish theology, some sort of heresy. Funnye has been trying for years to demonstrate that he and his fellow Black Jews belong in the Jewish mainstream. Mostly he has been ignored.
But it is hard to ignore a man with a cousin in the White House. Tonight was payback for all those years of stupid jokes (“Funnye, you don’t look Jewish”), insulting questions and long, wondering stares. Funnye was finally being given the stage at a high-profile Jewish event. “My Broadway debut,” he said, without evident irony, as he prepared to go on. “Been a long time getting here, but I’m ready.”
Capers C. Funnye Jr. was born in South Carolina in 1952 and raised on the South Side of Chicago. His paternal relatives are Gullahs from the barrier islands off Charleston, S.C. The Gullah community has retained many of its original African customs and much of its ancestral language. On his first visit to Nigeria, in 2001, Funnye was delighted to discover that variations of his family name are common in Africa. On his maternal side, he is a Robinson. His mother, Verdelle, was the sister of Fraser Robinson Jr. — Michelle Obama’s grandfather. That makes Funnye and Michelle Obama first cousins, once removed.
And not that removed, really. “Our families were very close,” Funnye says. “All through my childhood, our families were in and out of each other’s houses, celebrating holidays together, that kind of thing.” As kids, Funnye and Michelle Obama weren’t peers (he was nearly 12 years older), but they connected in earnest years later, in 1992, at her wedding, and a friendship developed. The Obamas, like Funnye, were involved in community organizing in Chicago, and they saw one another often, socially and professionally. It didn’t surprise Funnye, he told me, that when he and Mary went to Washington to attend Obama’s inaugural ceremony after Funnye’s speech in New York, they were in the good seats, near Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. Family is family.
Funnye was not always Jewish. When he went off to college at Howard University in 1970, he was the conventionally Christian son of upwardly striving parents. But he was moved by the radicalized atmosphere of the day. Black nationalism, Afrocentrism and cultural separatism were in vogue, and Funnye came to see Christianity as an alien religion imposed on blacks by white slave masters. “I was never an atheist,” he told me. “I just wanted to find the right way to worship him.”
During a summer job in Chicago, some friends introduced Funnye to Rabbi Robert Devine, the spiritual leader of the House of Israel Congregation. Devine preached that Africans were the true descendants of the biblical Hebrews, and that Jesus, the Messiah, was a black man. The message appealed to Funnye. Devine baptized him in a public swimming pool, and Funnye entered the complicated world of black American Jewry.
Estimates of how many black Jews there are in the United States range widely. It all depends on who is doing the counting and what criteria are being used. There are Jews who happen to be black: kids adopted by white Jewish families, for example, or the offspring of mixed parents. (Orthodox Judaism recognizes as Jewish the offspring of only Jewish mothers; Reform, the largest American denomination, accepts patrilineal as well as matrilineal descent.) There are also African-Americans who have been converted to various forms of Judaism, as well as Jews of Ethiopian origin who immigrated to Israel and subsequently moved to America. Probably no more than 2 percent of the American Jewish community is made up of black Jews.
There have been African-Americans with blood ties to white Jews since at least the early 19th century. Among them was Julia Ann Isaacs, the daughter of a white Jewish man, David Isaacs, and a free black woman, Nancy Ann West. In 1832 Julia married Eston Hemings, the son of Sally Hemings and — more than likely — Thomas Jefferson. Another was Francis Cardozo, a freeborn black man of Jewish descent (and a distant relative of the Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo), who during Reconstruction served as secretary of state and treasurer of South Carolina. But in almost no such early cases did the offspring of black-Jewish unions identify themselves as Jewish.
Black Judaism as a self-conscious religious identity arrived in America in Lawrence, Kan., in 1896. A charismatic Baptist named William Saunders Crowdy established a black congregation called the Church of God and Saints of Christ, where he preached that Africans were the true descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Didn’t the Bible tell that Moses married a black-skinned woman? he asked. And that King Solomon bestowed on the queen of Sheba, an Ethiopian, “all her desire”?
One implication of Crowdy’s doctrine was that blacks were God’s chosen people. This might have been a hanging offense in Kansas at the time had white people been aware of it, which they mostly weren’t. The denomination practiced an eclectic, “roll your own” brand of religion that combined beliefs and practices of the Old and New Testaments. Crowdy’s tabernacles practiced male infant circumcision, observed Saturday as the Sabbath, celebrated Passover and other Jewish holidays — but venerated Jesus Christ.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Crowdy’s faith offered freed slaves and their offspring something that mainstream Christianity did not: a grand historical identity and a distinctively black mode of religious expression. This proved to be a potent mix. Since the formation of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, there have been more than 200 congregations in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Today the group still has more than 50 affiliated congregations. In addition, a great many other “messianic” Jewish houses of worship have flourished, including Rabbi Robert Devine’s congregation, where Funnye first came to regard himself as a Black Jew.
“When I joined Rabbi Devine’s shul, I felt less like I was converting to Judaism than reverting,” Funnye recalls. “Going back to something.”
For a few years after leaving Howard, as he worked a series of jobs in Chicago, Funnye found Devine’s conception of Judaism to be rewarding. But he eventually became uncomfortable with the hybrid nature of Devine’s theology. As his interest in Judaism deepened, Funnye was increasingly drawn to the more conventional teachings of a black, Brooklyn-based rabbi named Levi Ben Levy, the spiritual leader of the Hebrew Israelite movement. “He taught me that real Judaism isn’t mixed in with Christianity,” Funnye says. He studied with Levy for five years, long distance from Chicago; the curriculum included Biblical Hebrew, liturgy, standard rabbinic texts and Jewish history from the perspective of African originalism. In 1985, Levy ordained Funnye as a rabbi, although no mainstream denomination accepted the title or Levy’s right to confer it.
Very few white rabbis were even aware of the existence of the Hebrew Israelites. The movement was established in the early 20th century by Wentworth Matthew, a charismatic figure who arrived in Harlem at the end of World War I, claiming to be from Africa, although he was more likely born in St. Kitts. Matthew proclaimed himself a rabbi and founded a congregation in New York called the Commandment Keepers. He was influenced by the idea that blacks were the original Hebrews; but unlike William Saunders Crowdy, who lived in rural Kansas, Matthew modeled his congregation on the white Judaism he saw around him in New York. He called his a storefront a shul, introduced a standard Hebrew prayer book and weekly Sabbath Torah readings, discouraged excessive shows of emotion during worship, insisted on separate seating for women and men and instituted a modified version of kosher dietary laws. He also, and crucially, denied the divinity of Jesus and the truth of the New Testament.
As Matthew’s group grew, it became far more “orthodox” in its Jewish ritual and code of conduct than the average Reform temple. Still, Matthew held some highly unorthodox beliefs. Chief among them was the doctrine that many white Jews are descended not from the ancient Israelites but from the Khazars, a tribe of Turkic nomads who, according to legend, converted to Judaism in the eighth or ninth century. Mainstream scholars say there is no historical evidence for such a claim, but it remains an article of faith for many Black Jews. (The claim is also a staple of anti-Israel rhetoric, a fact that Funnye, who like most Black Jews supports Israel, says makes him uneasy.)
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Matthew didn’t express animosity toward white Jews. On the contrary, he saw and appreciated them as temporary placeholders, people who kept the faith of Israel going while the Black Jews were lost in bondage. He sought to make common cause with and be included in the wider Jewish community: twice he applied for membership to the mainstream New York Board of Rabbis, but he was turned down. The Orthodox rabbis were flabbergasted that any gentile, black or white, would have the chutzpah to declare himself to be a Jew, let alone a rabbi. Some of the more liberal rabbis were intrigued by the Hebrew Israelites but were not willing to fully embrace them as fellow Jews.
For Matthew and his followers, the disappointment was acute. “Rabbi Matthew concluded that black Jews would never be fully accepted by white Jews, and certainly not if they insisted on maintaining a black identity and independent congregations,” Sholomo Ben Levy, the rabbi of the Black Jewish Beth Elohim Hebrew Congregation in Queens, wrote in an article published by the Hebrew Israelites. “Since his death in 1973, there has been virtually no dialog [sic] between white and black Jews in America.”
It has become the mission of Capers Funnye to start that dialogue. “I believe in building bridges,” he told me as we sat in his office at the Beth Shalom synagogue in Chicago, a week and a half after his Martin Luther King Day speech in New York. “That’s why speaking at the synagogue was so important to me.”
“Has Mary forgiven you?” I asked.
Funnye nodded. “We drove down to D.C. and made one of the balls the next day,” he said. “And she got to snap a picture of Denzel Washington, so everything is more or less cool.”
At the King Day celebration in New York, the musician Joshua Nelson proved a hard act to follow; Funnye came across as stiff and cautious, expressing measured thoughts about Jewish solidarity, the brotherhood of man and the need for peace in the Holy Land. But here in his study, surrounded by books and family pictures, he seemed far more at ease. The Sabbath was only an hour away, and people kept busting into the room — kids who wanted to show off their grades; an assistant rabbi who wanted a word about the youth group; ladies of the Nashe Or (“Women of Light”) Sisterhood who wanted to know what time exactly the communal meal should be served.
Funnye handled it all in good spirits. He is not only the chief rabbi of the congregation, which, in various permutations, has been around 90 years; he is also its C.E.O., spiritual leader, head social director, senior teacher and unofficial cantor. Beth Shalom, which he joined as an assistant rabbi in 1985, has about 200 members, making it the largest of the six American synagogues affiliated with the International Israelite Board of Rabbis (the organization that serves the Hebrew Israelites), and Funnye is the Israelites’ only full-time rabbi. A majority of his congregation are converts to Judaism, although a large number are second- or third-generation Black Jews. (People often confuse Funnye’s congregation with that of Ben Ammi Carter, a fellow black Chicagoan, who established a community of followers in Israel in 1969. Funnye, who says there is no similarity between their theologies, is at pains to differentiate the two.)
Early in his rabbinical career, Funnye says, he realized that his Jewish credentials were too limited and exotic for the kind of outreach efforts that he wanted to do. So he enrolled at the mainstream Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Judaic Studies. And in 1985 he underwent a second conversion, this one certified by a Conservative rabbinical court. Before he took this step, he consulted with his earlier mentor, Rabbi Levy; Funnye feared insulting other Black Jews. “I didn’t want anyone to interpret my conversion as meaning I thought they weren’t Jewish enough,” he told me. But he received Levy’s blessing. “I explained that if I was going to do the kind of outreach I wanted, European Jews had to feel that I was their brother,” Funnye said. “But I’m still a Black Israelite. A halakhic conversion” — one in accordance with traditional Jewish law — “wasn’t going to take away any of my blackness.”
After his second conversion, Funnye taught Hebrew and Jewish subjects at Chicago-area congregations and worked for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, a group dedicated to fighting poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in the city. He sent his four children to Jewish day schools, quietly built his congregation and got to know the leaders of the white Jewish community. In 1997, he did what his mentors had all failed to do (and no Hebrew Israelite rabbi has since done): he became a member of the local Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Michael Balinsky, the executive vice president of the Chicago Board, says Funnye makes a conscientious effort “to play an active role in the mainstream Jewish community without losing his Black Hebrew tradition. He’s taken a leadership role for the Jewish community on civil rights issues and outreach to Hispanics and Muslims.”
In January, Beth Shalom organized a community celebration with members of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a social-justice organization in Chicago headed by a Palestinian-American activist named Rami Nashashibi. Funnye has also worked to improve Chicago’s historically strained relations between its black and Jewish communities. In conversations with white Jews, he has defended the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom he admires, and he encourages dialogue with Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam, whom he counts as a friend.
“I don’t agree with everything the man says or thinks,” Funnye said of Farrakhan. “I’m a Jew, after all. But you need to talk. Right now I’m trying to put together a group of Chicago rabbis for a meeting with Minister Farrakhan.”
“How’s it going?” I asked.
“Two so far,” he said. “But I’m still working on it.”
Before sundown that night, Funnye joined about 60 congregants in the social hall for Friday-night blessings and a fried-fish-and-spaghetti dinner. In 2004, Beth Shalom bought its current building, on South Kedzie Avenue, on Chicago’s South Side, from a rapidly declining congregation of Lithuanian Jews. It has a tan brick exterior and a layout common to American synagogues circa 1955; it is a virtual twin of the temple in Michigan that I attended growing up.
The money for the building came mostly from tithes and contributions, and raising it was a stretch. “The members here are working people, teachers, city workers, mostly middle class,” Funnye said. “We don’t have any billionaire philanthropists, like the Bronfmans or the Crowns. The only rich black Jew I ever heard about was Sammy Davis Jr., and he’s dead. Besides, he was Reform.”
After the dinner, Funnye chanted the grace and then reassembled his flock in a large classroom for evening prayers and a Torah lesson. The week’s portion happened to be the story of the Exodus, and Funnye used it to illustrate the virtue of interdependence. “Think about it,” he said. “God told Moses to talk to Pharaoh, but Moses stuttered, right? I mean he stuh-stuh-stuh-stuttered. That’s what they called it back then. Nowadays he’d get called a rapper.” This got a laugh. A woman sitting nearby said, “Teach the Torah, rabbi.”
Funnye went on: “Moses stuttered so bad until he had to bring in his brother Aaron, who was a Cohen, a priest, to talk for him. And you know no priest is going to stutter, right?”
This got another laugh, and Funnye closed in on his moral — the importance of people from different backgrounds sharing the benefits of their respective upbringings. “I mean, hey, you grew up in the suburbs, maybe you can help me with something,” he said. “Or if you came up on 59th Street — some of y’all know what I’m talking about — so I know some things that you just don’t know. We can help each other.”
The congregation applauded and called out in agreement. This wasn’t the button-down Funnye who spoke at Stephen Wise in New York; here he was a signifying South Side Chicago rabbi.
A few years ago, before Beth Shalom bought its new synagogue, its members would meet in a small building on a blighted street in Chicago. A Latino gang worked one corner of the block, and a black gang worked the other. “Soon as we got there, somebody marked up the building with graffiti,” Funnye told me. “I went to both gangs and told them: ‘This is a synagogue, with elders and children. I don’t care what business you do during the week, but from Friday sundown until Saturday sundown you need to be respectful.’ I let them know that I am a man of peace but I’m not a pacifist and I had men in the congregation, so if we had a problem we’d deal with it ourselves, not call in the police until later.”
I was surprised to hear that the speech worked. “And the gangs fell into line, just like that?”
Funnye chuckled. “Well, I also had a word with some brothers I met doing prison counseling, and they may have intervened. I put out word when we moved here too. I don’t get in people’s business, but I won’t allow anyone to disrespect our synagogue.”
Because of Funnye’s connection to the Obamas, his community work has occasionally been a source of political interest. Between 1997 and 2002, Funnye served as the executive director of Blue Gargoyle, a nonprofit social-services agency that offers, among other things, adult-literacy and alternative-education programs. Blue Gargoyle was in Barack Obama’s district when he was an Illinois state senator, and during Funnye’s tenure, Obama earmarked a total of $75,000 for the organization. The issue of the earmarks and the family connection was raised by some of Obama’s opponents during the 2008 presidential campaign, but it didn’t gain traction; evidently the disbursements were aboveboard.
Funnye also worked with Michelle Obama in her capacity as executive director for community affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals, where she focused on health issues affecting young people. Funnye told me that the only money Blue Gargoyle received from the university was a $5,000 grant for a tutoring program, and that the money did not come through Michelle Obama’s office at the hospital.
At the start of the 2008 presidential primary season, Funnye contributed a few hundred dollars to the Obama campaign but didn’t publicly endorse Obama, and he avoided mentioning the family connection. “I was afraid it might do him harm in the Orthodox community,” he told me. “I believe they were the ones putting out stories about Barack being a secret Muslim and so on. They could have made me out to be a friend of Farrakhan’s or a cult leader or who knows what.”
Obama apparently wasn’t worried by the association. During the Democratic primaries, as he came under repeated attack for being insufficiently pro-Israel, Obama reached out to Funnye, by way of Mary’s brother Frank White, the Obama fund-raiser. White told me that Obama encouraged him to “tell Capers to get the word out that I’ve got a rabbi in my family.” Funnye acknowledges getting the message. Before long, The Forward, the Jewish weekly, ran an article on Obama’s rabbi, and the news spread like low-fat cream cheese from Boca Raton to Brooklyn.
Funnye’s association with Obama probably didn’t reassure fervent Zionists — the rabbi is considerably to the left of Obama on Middle East policy — but it didn’t seem to hurt either. The connection to Obama certainly didn’t hurt Funnye. “I got no blowback from the Orthodox at all,” he said. “In fact, I started getting phone calls from a couple Hasidic rabbis in Israel who want to get together.”
There is no black Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. When they congregate on the Sabbath, the Hebrew Israelites come from all areas of the city, and they tend to spend the entire day in shul. The lyrics to the songs they sing are the same as the ones heard in any traditional synagogue, but the music is different. Hebrew prayers are sung in unison in something resembling call and response. A gospel-like band accompanies the choir’s weekly performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” During the Torah procession the congregation sings, “We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion.”
On one of the days I was there, in early February, I was the only white Jew in the shul, and an old guy in front of me kept turning around and showing me the right page. There’s a nudnik like him in every shul I’ve ever been to.
I forgave him, though, during the Torah service, when a young man faltered over the blessings and looked mortified. “Not your fault, young man,” the nudnik said. “The fire of the Torah burns so hot to where sometimes it just confuses your mind.”
At the end of services, I met a young woman named Tamar, who said her children are the only black Jews enrolled at the Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School. “Things have been a little tricky for them at school since Obama won,” she told me.
“Why?” I asked. “Aren’t most of the parents at the Day School Democrats?”
“Yes. They voted for Obama, and their kids are glad he won. But they don’t love Obama the way my children do. They aren’t thrilled in the same way.”
“So?”
“My kids are wondering, If their classmates and teachers figure out how personal this is for them, will they be considered more black and less Jewish?”
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When I told Funnye the story he chuckled but said he wasn’t surprised. Being a black Jew in America can be a trying experience, even when white Jews are well intentioned. One morning I went with Funnye to a suburban Conservative congregation, where he was to deliver another Martin Luther King speech. We sat at the head table. I ate bagels and lox while Funnye chatted with a convert to Judaism. At the end of the meal the host rabbi stood and began chanting the blessing after food.
When he saw that Funnye wasn’t singing along, the rabbi pointed to the appropriate words. He didn’t realize that Funnye wasn’t praying because he was still eating. Another nudnik.
On Inauguration Day, Capers and Mary Funnye drove down from New York and made it to Washington in time for a quick shower. Then they boarded a bus for Obama-family relatives that drove them from venue to venue throughout the day. Over lunch at the Old Executive Office building, Funnye recounted, he bonded with Obama’s Kenyan grandmother and aunt and exchanged business cards with the president’s Kenyan half-brother. “I get to Africa from time to time,” Funnye said.
That was an understatement. Funnye heads the Pan-African Jewish Alliance, a group established to help Africans join and feel more included in the mainstream Jewish community. For its founders — Gary Tobin, the head of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco, and his wife, Diane — the motivation is in part demographic. Discovering or creating millions of Jewish Africans (as well as opening the community in the United States to African converts and to African-Americans with Jewish roots) would, the Tobins say, greatly strengthen what they see as a stagnant population.
Funnye’s motive is more spiritual. As a Hebrew Israelite rabbi he maintains that many Africans were originally Jewish. Some, like the Lemba of South Africa, claim direct descent from the Jews of the Bible. There is considerable resistance to this notion, but many leading scholars take it seriously. “I have no problem believing that the Lemba of South Africa are descended from Jews,” says Jonathan Schorsch, an assistant professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University. “Jews are ethnically and biologically mixed. It just makes sense that this mixing took place in Africa as well as other places.”
Funnye’s closest connection is to the Ibos, a tribe in Nigeria, some of whose members describe themselves as Jews. Beth Shalom has a sister synagogue there, and Funnye travels back and forth. For all practical purposes, he is the chief rabbi of Nigeria, and he has plans to reunite the Ibos eventually with the worldwide Jewish people through formal conversion.
Before he gets to Africa, though, Funnye has other commitments. A French organization recently flew him to Paris for a Martin Luther King event. He now finds himself flooded with invitations to speak at big Jewish congregations in California, Florida and Long Island. Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, is planning a meeting for Funnye with his colleagues. I asked Potasnik if the organization would be willing to reconsider membership for the Hebrew Israelite rabbis. “We’d entertain an application,” he said. “I’d love to see the test case.”
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the head of the Reform Movement, is, like Potasnik, ready to consider new possibilities. “The fact that men and women sit separately in the Israelite congregations might be a problem for us on gender-equality grounds,” he told me. “But race would certainly be no problem for us.”
A few years ago, Funnye considered applying for membership to the Union for Reform Judaism. He shelved the idea when his congregants objected on the grounds that the white congregation was not observant enough. “Some of their rabbis perform intermarriages,” Funnye explains, “so some of our people were uncomfortable. But sometimes I think it would be good to be part of a larger movement. Maybe we’ll revisit the subject.”
Funnye hasn’t built all his bridges yet, let alone crossed them, but the progress he has seen — both as a black Jew and as a black American — has mellowed him. “You know, as a young man I was angry about the way we were laughed at and ignored,” he said. “I sometimes went down to the kosher meat market here in Chicago, put my face right up in the face of one of the Orthodox rabbis and yelled, ‘I ain’t never seen no white Jews before!’ I was so hurt I became obtuse and bitter. But I don’t feel that way anymore.” He paused. “There’s no need to shout. People are ready for a dialogue, to talk and to listen.”
We've all heard about Michelle Obama's Jewish cousin, Rabbi Caspers Funnye.
Now it turns out the Jewish people have an even closer link to the First Couple. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is Barack Obama's halachically Jewish half-brother, son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife, a Jewish kindergarten teacher named Ruth Nidesand. (There was also another son, David, who was killed in a motorbike accident.) He has written a "loosely autobiographical" novel about his father's abuse of his mother:
Ndesandjo said his memories of his father were so bitter that he stopped using the name Obama and adopted the last name of his stepfather, a man Ruth Nidesand married after divorcing Barack Obama Sr. But then, Mark Ndesandjo said, he watched the televised scenes of joy in Chicago's Grant Park the night a man with that hated last name was elected president of the United States.
"There was this remarkable movement from fear towards hope," Ndesandjo said. "I was so proud of my brother Barack."
The election "peeled away some of that hardness," he said. "I became proud of being an Obama." He added Obama back to his name and found the drive to complete the book.
...which probably would not have sold quite as many copies had it not had the name "Obama" on its front cover. Call me cynical, but....
Either way, the Obamas are slowly inching towards a minyan. The first black president, with both Muslim and Jewish first-degree relatives - that really is something.
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We've all heard about Michelle Obama's Jewish cousin, Rabbi Caspers Funnye.
Now it turns out the Jewish people have an even closer link to the First Couple. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is Barack Obama's halachically Jewish half-brother, son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife, a Jewish kindergarten teacher named Ruth Nidesand. (There was also another son, David, who was killed in a motorbike accident.) He has written a "loosely autobiographical" novel about his father's abuse of his mother:
Ndesandjo said his memories of his father were so bitter that he stopped using the name Obama and adopted the last name of his stepfather, a man Ruth Nidesand married after divorcing Barack Obama Sr. But then, Mark Ndesandjo said, he watched the televised scenes of joy in Chicago's Grant Park the night a man with that hated last name was elected president of the United States.
"There was this remarkable movement from fear towards hope," Ndesandjo said. "I was so proud of my brother Barack."
The election "peeled away some of that hardness," he said. "I became proud of being an Obama." He added Obama back to his name and found the drive to complete the book.
...which probably would not have sold quite as many copies had it not had the name "Obama" on its front cover. Call me cynical, but....
Either way, the Obamas are slowly inching towards a minyan. The first black president, with both Muslim and Jewish first-degree relatives - that really is something.
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My ancesty goes to SC where the antebellum population had the highest number of Jews, These were Portuguese Jews who were not to practice Kabbalism. Not supposed too.....
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quote:Originally posted by Red, White, and Blue + Christian: His grandfather is Jewish too.
My ancesty goes to SC where the antebellum population had the highest number of Jews, These were Portuguese Jews who were not to practice Kabbalism. Not supposed too.....
I have no problem with "white" Jewish people. There are White Jewish Christians and Anti-Zionist Jews. I believe the Jewish people of today represent the Edomites who were converted and took power in Judea under Herod. The Jewish people fit the descripton and it would make sense that they have the ancient practices.
Don't confuse me with Black Hebrews, I don't think that White people as a whole are Edomites, they are Japhetic. However I do believe that African Americans, Indians, and others that were conquered do fit the curses that would befall Israel in the last days.
I have studied the European claims to Israel and the African claims, my conclusion is they both have good points. I think there are remnants of Israel all over the world and in all colors. However I do uphold the fact that there is niether Jew or Gentile under Christ. The main reason to uphold the Jews is becuase according to Revelation 12,000 Men from Each of the Tribes will be sealed. These men have to be bloodline Christian Hebrews. Remember in Torah where the Hebrews were instucted that if a Gentile came and fllowed the Laws and customs of the Jews the most high would look at them as if they were Jew.
Remember that Ethiopian Orthodox is the few Churches left that still have a blend of Judaism and Christianity, hence the closest to the Church Christ created.
Again I don't think all Jews are bad, just the Zionists that control the monetary system. Alot of people want to make it seem like the Jews are the only ones involved in the NWO, but the illuminati has people of all Colors and Nationalities.
Anyway here are some really informed Black Christian Jews on Youtube that are not Racists or Radicals and are Fair when it comes to the Scriptures..
4And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
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You know this mindless super patriotic stuff makes me nauseous..how many of you super patriots been under arms?(I have) how many served with Muslims American citizens under arms watching your back?(I have)..Muslims died at the world trade center too you know?..The war in Iraq was brought about because of a lie for oil and construction rights by Haliburton..yes military personnel put their lives on the line on the line and should be honored and remembered for their sacrifice but never forget that the Golf wars was about oil..as we flag wave we must not loose sight of the fact that a great lie was perpetrated and hold those folks who sent us there to account.
More on the Soldier Kareem R. Khan By THE NEW YORK TIMES
On “Meet the Press” today, Colin L. Powell concluded his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama by referring to the death of a Muslim soldier, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan of Manahawkin, N.J., who was killed in Iraq on Aug. 6, 2007, and whose remains were buried in Arlington. Kareem Rashad Sultan KhanKareem Rashad Sultan Khan
He and three other soldiers, including a corporal from Washington Heights, were killed in Baquba after a bomb detonated while they were checking abandoned houses for explosives. They served in the Stryker Brigade combat team of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, based in Ft. Lewis, Washington.
Mr. Khan graduated from Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin in 2005, and enlisted in the Army a few months later, spurred by his memories of the 9/11 terror attacks. “His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him,” his father, Feroze Khan, told the Gannett News Service in a story printed shortly after his death. “He looked at it that he’s American and he has a job to do.”
Mr. Powell mentioned Mr. Khan’s death to underscore why he was deeply troubled by Republican personal attacks on Mr. Obama, especially false intimations that he was Muslim.
Mr. Obama is a lifelong Christian, not a Muslim, he said. But, he added, “The really right answer is, what if he is?”
“Is there something wrong with being Muslim in this country? No, that’s not America,” he said.
Mr. Khan’s death came to his attention, Mr. Powell said, when he saw a photo essay in a magazine about the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. One picture showed a mother pressing her head against the gravestone of her fallen son in Arlington cemetery. It was the grave of 20-year-old Mr. Khan, engraved with his name, his military awards, and the Muslim symbol of the crescent and star.
“He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could go serve his country, and he gave his life,” Mr. Powell said. “Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourselves in this way.”
Mr. Powell said that he had heard senior members of the Republican Party “drop this suggestion that he [Obama] is a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists.”
“Now, John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that within the party we have these kinds of expressions.”
Mr. Khan had served in Iraq for just over a year, arriving in July 2006. He had sent home pictures to his family of him playing soccer with Iraqi children and hugging a smiling young Iraqi boy in Baghdad, according to his obituary in the Newark Star-Ledger.
He loved rooting for the Dallas Cowboys with his father, and challenging his 12-year old stepsister, Aliya, to video games. He last saw his family during a two-week visit in September 2006. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/more-on-the-soldier-kareem-r-khan/ Maybe most of you were still creeping around on the floor when Timothy Mc Veigh "SUPER PATRIOT " and CHRISTIAN!!. blow-up the Alfred Murrah building in Oklahoma Ugly isn't it?? My point is none of this is pretty wether done by Christians Jews Muslims Buddhist or just plain crazy nor does it get better when done by preditor drones on a wedding and called collateral damage.Posts: 6546 | From: japan | Registered: Feb 2009
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What does this have to do with anything??? And who is being Superpatriot, other than the OP all people are doing is saying support the Troops, I personally don't support the war.
I mean whats your point, We all know that we have freedom of religion which by the way is forbidden under Sharia, so of course we have Muslims in the Army...
I was wondering how long it would be before the Arab-Apologist crew came in.
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I make apologies on the behalf of no one but look at your own post super patroit!! the belly of the beast (Islam?)..
Arabs=Islam
A country of Religious Tolerance During the first twenty years of its independence, Senegal, although composed essentially of Muslims who form 95% of its population, was ruled by a Christian president, Leopold Sédar Senghor. This illustrates that Senegal is a modern country, open to the world and marked by its populations' profound religious tolerance. Muslims and Christians live together in peace and harmony. This harmonious coexistence is one of the characteristic features of the Senegalese society The difference is they are not a country full of religious bigots and fundamentalist as else where and including the good ol U.S OF A if certain section or faction get their way they will act not one wit different than those being accused. saying this Super Patriot did you and the others even bother to send a random care package to any servicemen or women or visit a V.A hospital?..be-aware..of fundamentalist self-righteous pricks everywhere that's my point... I just felt a great disservice to guys like Nasser,Annan,the brothers Hakeem and Hisham and others whom I served with. Posts: 6546 | From: japan | Registered: Feb 2009
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It's disturbing to see African American personnel in the imperial U.S. military. These same black soldiers would kill and slaughter their cousins in Africa without blinking an eye if their white cohorts and superiors instructed them to do so. It's cognizant of the Buffalo soldiers when Black men were being used as pawns in the extermination of Native Americans for the benefit of whites.
Example: Whites use Buffalo soldiers to help annihilate Indians. Buffalo soldiers kill Indians for whites then return to a FIXED systemic second class citizenship. Indians lose. Blacks lose. Whites win and maintain comfortable hierarchy.
Today it's not much different. Black men and women in the military fighting for the interest of white multi-national corporations to rape the resources of Black and Brown countries. These same corporations then move their holdings offshore to prevent paying taxes so they can live the good life of prosperity and unearned dividends while the Black soldier returns to the dismal conditions which prompted him to join the military in the first place. Amerikkka...you gotta love it, right?
The advancement Blacks achieved in this country is purely a result of our own merit. This system was not designed to benefit AAs in any way shape or form. If Blacks can somehow acquire some meaningful progress in a system which was originally designed for white privilege and supremacy, AAs are suppose to be thankful? We are suppose to love this country unconditionally? Negative! The social and economic advancement of AAs is purely circumstantial so why should AA's feel beholden to the red, white, and blue?
Black people owe Amerikkka NOTHING. Yet Amerikkka owes Blacks (and has failed to deliver) an unprecedented amount of moral, social, and financial gratitude. Amerikkka has much prosperity because it plunders so much from others.
RWBC, Just because you believe Amerikkka is a good place to live doesn't mean it's perfect or can do no wrong. It also doesn't mean it deserves unconditional love. And unless you're wearing blinders, you must recognize many of the atrocities committed by Amerikkka throughout the rest of the world.
Tell me, RWBC, when you were sitting there waving your little "God Bless America" flag on Memorial Day, are you also celebrating the death and destruction caused by some of its foreign policies? Does your unconditional love fest for Amerikkka make you happy/proud of its genocidal and enslavement beginnings? America is "great", you know, because of people and other countries it has used for it's betterment. Your African ancestors were used as property in order for Amerikkka to become so wealthy.
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: I make apologies on the behalf of no one but look at your own post super patroit!! the belly of the beast (Islam?)..
Arabs=Islam
A country of Religious Tolerance During the first twenty years of its independence, Senegal, although composed essentially of Muslims who form 95% of its population, was ruled by a Christian president, Leopold Sédar Senghor. This illustrates that Senegal is a modern country, open to the world and marked by its populations' profound religious tolerance. Muslims and Christians live together in peace and harmony. This harmonious coexistence is one of the characteristic features of the Senegalese society The difference is they are not a country full of religious bigots and fundamentalist as else where and including the good ol U.S OF A if certain section or faction get their way they will act not one wit different than those being accused. saying this Super Patriot did you and the others even bother to send a random care package to any servicemen or women or visit a V.A hospital?..be-aware..of fundamentalist self-righteous pricks everywhere that's my point... I just felt a great disservice to guys like Nasser,Annan,the brothers Hakeem and Hisham and others whom I served with.
Uhhh yeah I gave a care package to one of my best Friends in the Army. So me Saluting the Troops=Super Patriot...FINE..lol I don't give a damn what you call me. I back up what I said..SALUTE TO THE TROOPS and may the Most High protect them. When I say Salute I mean all the Troops no matter their religion.
You can probably count the tolerant Islamic nations on one hand.
And before you go calling it a Christian Attack, the creator was a Muslim who was attacked by fellow Muslims for standing up to Radicals who want to declare Sharia law in non Muslim lands.
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The entire Muslim world is at present unable to contend with one small Jewish nation
Edit: How does posting flags make someone an apologist. He is obviously very proud of his country but thats not necessarily a bad thing
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quote: How does posting flags make someone an apologist. He is obviously very proud of his country but thats not necessarily a bad thing
Posting flags is fine..dumping on Muslims or anyone else at the same time is not having a BBQ on memorial day is fine not taking a plate to your local VA hospital or center and talking to some of the wounded or vets is not it rings hollow.. see R.W.B.+ C post. ISLAM = DEATH = DESTRUCTION = LIES I stand up for Israel against Islam. I stand up for the real Black America against Islam, since I am African American. That's the kind of mindless patriotism I am talking about. Any country or individuals at anytime can fall prey to fundamentalism because all of these religions has the seeds buried deep within a true patriot would ask questions of his or her government vote realize that the "idea" of America is one of inclusion and guard against singling out people base on their "RACE" CREED RELIGION and defend those principle or ideas with life if necessary.
BTW Jeri..sending care packages is good on you.. you don't know what a moral booster that is really!!
Guard against fundamentalism of all kind including your own!! see what that does to nations of the so-called Middle East.Posts: 6546 | From: japan | Registered: Feb 2009
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quote:Originally posted by markellion: The entire Muslim world is at present unable to contend with one small Jewish nation
Edit: How does posting flags make someone an apologist. He is obviously very proud of his country but thats not necessarily a bad thing
LOL, that little bastard nation has the backing of the world's two super powers, America and Russia. Plus they obtain a wealth of reparations from Germany and hundreds of billions of free dollars of welfare from the world.
Personally, any black man championing Israel is a fool. This includes fathers and grand-fathers who at least had the excuse that in the past, information revealing the Jew's true activities wasn't as accessible as today and incorrect assumptions were made. Also, having traveled all around the world in the military and in a professional capacity, I have known many lands that are superior to the United States for blacks. Therefore, the old myth; AMERICA IS THE BEST NATION OF EARTH, is just that, a deceiving myth with no basis in reality or truth.
If you don't know anything about Jews other than the nonsense your parents fed you, then I strongly suggest you download Henry Ford's book and get acquainted with the real Jew. I doubt your parents have read this book or any other which really tells the Jew's story.
The problem with black Baptists is they blindly follow faggots like TD Jakes and read very little real books other then crap like; The Down-low Brother, or other reading where thinking isn't required. Their minds have been conditioned to be as uncomplicated and corrupt as a Tyler Perry script. Times have changed and it's time to throw the unworthy shackles of Christianity off our shoulders. For once you begin to really understand the Jew, one will soon realize that the biggest benefactor of 9/11 was Israel. The biggest financial gains due to 9/11 were made by New York and Israeli Jews who bet against Airline stocks days before the event. That Mr. Silverman received a check for $7B from his insurance company for the demise of the Twin Towers, and that he had increased the policy a week before the event. That Israelis are notorious for dressing as Arabs and committing terrorists acts killing their allies and placing the blame of their enemies. That the Federal Reserve is Jewish controlled and no black man has ever sat on this board in it's existence. That Bank Redlining, Predatory lending practices, and the ARM loan are all Jewish devices created to leach wealth blacks have obtained over the last 60 years. And finally, that Jews are no friends of black people, and are our number 1 adversary. Free your mind and your black ass will follow.
quote:Originally posted by markellion: The entire Muslim world is at present unable to contend with one small Jewish nation
Edit: How does posting flags make someone an apologist. He is obviously very proud of his country but thats not necessarily a bad thing
LOL, that little bastard nation has the backing of the world's two super powers, America and Russia. Plus they obtain a wealth of reparations from Germany and hundreds of billions of free dollars of welfare from the world.
Personally, any black man championing Israel is a fool. This includes fathers and grand-fathers who at least had the excuse that in the past, information revealing the Jew's true activities wasn't as accessible as today and incorrect assumptions were made. Also, having traveled all around the world in the military and in a professional capacity, I have known many lands that are superior to the United States for blacks. Therefore, the old myth; AMERICA IS THE BEST NATION OF EARTH, is just that, a deceiving myth with no basis in reality or truth.
If you don't know anything about Jews other than the nonsense your parents fed you, then I strongly suggest you download Henry Ford's book and get acquainted with the real Jew. I doubt your parents have read this book or any other which really tells the Jew's story.
The problem with black Baptists is they blindly follow faggots like TD Jakes and read very little real books other then crap like; The Down-low Brother, or other reading where thinking isn't required. Their minds have been conditioned to be as uncomplicated and corrupt as a Tyler Perry script. Times have changed and it's time to throw the unworthy shackles of Christianity off our shoulders. For once you begin to really understand the Jew, one will soon realize that the biggest benefactor of 9/11 was Israel. The biggest financial gains due to 9/11 were made by New York and Israeli Jews who bet against Airline stocks days before the event. That Mr. Silverman received a check for $7B from his insurance company for the demise of the Twin Towers, and that he had increased the policy a week before the event. That Israelis are notorious for dressing as Arabs and committing terrorists acts killing their allies and placing the blame of their enemies. That the Federal Reserve is Jewish controlled and no black man has ever sat on this board in it's existence. That Bank Redlining, Predatory lending practices, and the ARM loan are all Jewish devices created to leach wealth blacks have obtained over the last 60 years. And finally, that Jews are no friends of black people, and are our number 1 adversary. Free your mind and your black ass will follow.
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For Christ-sakes!! now we gonna swtich from bashing Muslims to bashing Jews?? what's wrong with you people!! fundamentalist Islamist bombed Nairobi and Tanzania leading leading up to the 911..the people above had not a thing to do with that. even if the conspiracy theory was true!! that's only true for those who plotted and execute it.lay the sins of those who committed those god awful acts at their own feet not someone elses.
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quote:Originally posted by markellion: The entire Muslim world is at present unable to contend with one small Jewish nation
Edit: How does posting flags make someone an apologist. He is obviously very proud of his country but thats not necessarily a bad thing
LOL, that little bastard nation has the backing of the world's two super powers, America and Russia. Plus they obtain a wealth of reparations from Germany and hundreds of billions of free dollars of welfare from the world.
Personally, any black man championing Israel is a fool. This includes fathers and grand-fathers who at least had the excuse that in the past, information revealing the Jew's true activities wasn't as accessible as today and incorrect assumptions were made. Also, having traveled all around the world in the military and in a professional capacity, I have known many lands that are superior to the United States for blacks. Therefore, the old myth; AMERICA IS THE BEST NATION OF EARTH, is just that, a deceiving myth with no basis in reality or truth.
If you don't know anything about Jews other than the nonsense your parents fed you, then I strongly suggest you download Henry Ford's book and get acquainted with the real Jew. I doubt your parents have read this book or any other which really tells the Jew's story.
The problem with black Baptists is they blindly follow faggots like TD Jakes and read very little real books other then crap like; The Down-low Brother, or other reading where thinking isn't required. Their minds have been conditioned to be as uncomplicated and corrupt as a Tyler Perry script. Times have changed and it's time to throw the unworthy shackles of Christianity off our shoulders. For once you begin to really understand the Jew, one will soon realize that the biggest benefactor of 9/11 was Israel. The biggest financial gains due to 9/11 were made by New York and Israeli Jews who bet against Airline stocks days before the event. That Mr. Silverman received a check for $7B from his insurance company for the demise of the Twin Towers, and that he had increased the policy a week before the event. That Israelis are notorious for dressing as Arabs and committing terrorists acts killing their allies and placing the blame of their enemies. That the Federal Reserve is Jewish controlled and no black man has ever sat on this board in it's existence. That Bank Redlining, Predatory lending practices, and the ARM loan are all Jewish devices created to leach wealth blacks have obtained over the last 60 years. And finally, that Jews are no friends of black people, and are our number 1 adversary. Free your mind and your black ass will follow.
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Look at this HOMOSEXUAL!!
LOL, in an interview Jakes said if Jesus was here today, he would be be wearing tailor-made Italian suits, Flying around in his corporate jet, making deals with Wall street. Sounds like Jakes has never actually READ the Bible, only reciting it to his unread congregations. Then Jakes took a few million dollars from George Bush in exchange for his congregation's votes, doubling the Republican black vote count.
What a flaming FAG!
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LOL, If Jesus was alive today T.D Jakes would get together with Joel Osteen and the other Pulpit Pimps to put hims to death. Jesus came for the Poor of the Earth.
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I was referring to the first few posts when Jari said 9/11 was an inside job and then that most people on the forum are Muslim apologists.
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