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[QUOTE]Originally posted by neo*geo: [QB] Truth be told, there was another land called Cush located in modern day Iraq but the Nubians are referred to as Cushites on several occasions in the bible. Phut could have been modern day Libya or it could have been the area around modern day Somalia referred to by the ancient Egyptians as Punt. I agree with S. Mohammed. There just isn't enough evidence to support the idea that the original Canaanites were negroid. However, many nomadic tribes have inhabited Canaan at one point or another so the people there have always been ethnically diverse. As far as Semitic and Hamitic peoples go, we need to let go of these racist classifictions. Probably the reason that racists have associated Ham from the bible with black people is because of the Jewish version of the bible which gives more description of Ham's appearance. According to the Jewish books, God cursed Ham and his children by giving him a 'deformed' appearance. His lips became fuller and his nose wider. In the past, racists have ran with the Ham story and used it to justify enslaving blacks. I take anything from the bible with a grain of salt. It has been wrong before and we must remember that it was written centuries after Genesis, and Exodus were to have taken place. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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