>Jews r essentialy Black whether they like it or not<P>Yet you still refer to Jews as "they" and claim that you are not entirelly comfortable with Jews who identify with the American Black struggle.<P>You are "Black" and I am a "Jew." The paramiters of our cultural existance have been largely defined by the Eurocentric/American society in which we live. My point is; why should we accept the definitions that have been handed to us by a society founded on genocide and built on slavery?<BR>The more people I meet, the more I read, the more history I study, the more I realize that Black and Jewish culture not only share the exact same roots, but were the origin of civilization as well as monotheistic theology.<P>On a slightly differant note, not all original Hebrew roots are removed from Judaism. I lived in Israel about a year and half ago, and met a sizable number of "Black Jews", many of whom were soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force and dedicated Zionists.<P>I'm pretty sure that we are on the same page. You are 100% right in saying that the term "Black Jew" is unnecesary.<P>Peace,<BR>Che<P>"i do not wish<BR>to lose my mind<BR>only to find my heart"- saul williams<P>"The connotations wearing my nerves thin/<BR>could it be semantics generating the mess we're in?/<BR>I understand that language breeds sterotype/<BR>but what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite?/<BR>Don't call me white."- Fat Mike