Sure there were Black People in Arabia. We were the first EVERYWHERE on the planet. No doubt about that. And we are the ones that came up with the culture and religion that was there in Arabia PRIOR to islam. Just like we were the ones that came up with the culture and religion in Canaan PRIOR to judaism and just like we were the ones that came up with the culture and religion in Kemet PRIOR to christianity.
WE BY OURSELVES didn't come up with those 3 pseudo-religions, however. Those 3 b*stardizations were born AFTER mass invasions of our countries by foreign peoples e.g. the Habiru/ Apiru and other peoples from the aryan invasions into Canaan prior to judaism, the greeks and more importantly the romans into Kemet prior to christianity and christianized Axum and later Persia into Arabia prior to islam. I kid you not. Check the record. In each case you will find African People practicing their own traditional religions for thousands of years and
ONLY IMMEDIATELY AFTER some major invasion where power changes hands do you see a religion pop up that is inherently hostile to the religion that had always been practiced in the region in question. How long had the Black People in Arabia been there practicing their traditional religion? But then we have Aksum, which became christianized around 333 a.d. They've always had contact with Arabia, often times setting up strongholds there for brief periods of time. Then in the 6th century, they occupied Arabia for almost 100 years until they were chased out by the invading persians. That's TWO major invasions, the most important being the one that lasted longer and where the power structure of the invading force was CHRISTIAN. All of a sudden, in the 7th century, tadaaaaaaaa, islam is born.
This is what they always do. African religions have certain commonalities, one of the main ones being that they are NOT based on evangelism or proselytism. Why? Because the traditional African understanding is that everybody has their own personal access to the spirit or NOT. Simple as that. We practice ancestral religions and you can't change your ancestors.
From the book "La Grande Geste Du Mali, Volume 1: Des Origines a la Fondation de L'Empire, Karthala-Arsan, Paris, 2000 (second edition) we have the following from the griot Wa Kamissoko:
"When Islam overcame the traditional religion, each clan was ordered to select an ancestor from among the personalities mentioned in the "four books that came down from heaven, " that is to say, the four books God revealed to the prophets. That is how Djon Bilali, or Bilal, bondsman to the prophet Mahomet, came to be the ancestor of the Manding. But in fact, as everyone knows, the ancestors of the Keitas and the Konates lived a long time in Wagadou before migrating to Mali, where their descendants have lived for over 2, 700 years. (Vol. 1, p.26)."
Select an ancestor? The only time BULLshyt like that ^^^ is done is when we're dealing with one of these conversion based religions. And white folk have been trying to do the same thing with African religions on the West Coast, most notably the Yoruba religion. Whenever they come into things, they try to make it universal somehow so that they get accepted into it. This is how they infiltrate and become our rulers. So when they(white folk) come in, they start talking about how Eshu is the devil, Obatala is a white man and Oshun & Yemaya are homosexual and are the matron saints of lesbians. Since ancient times, white people's main thing has been finding ways to make THEM and their PERVERTED CULTURES a part of "the divine whole" or a part of nature. So in making Eshu the devil, evil has become sanctioned now as a part of divinity rather than what we have traditionally put forth that it comes from individuals' choices rather than by divine design. Obatala has always been known as the Lord of the White (Oosala). The color associated with him is white. There are colors associated with all Orisas, Arusi, Vodu, Nommo, Nkisi, Abosom, Neteru etc. And there are spiritual/ metaphysical reasons for it, but they went with RACE
and said Obatala was an actual WHITE MAN aka caucasian. Now, this is BULLshyt according to the traditional religion that's there, but for various reasons having to do with us being a conquered people some African priests have gone along with this bullshyt. Brings more white folk with money into it too. I doubt I'll have to explain the homosexual thing, but as we can see this is the last great barrier that they're trying to break through with us.
You can take it all the way back to the greek invasion of Kemet and find this kind of thing going down. Some of us wouldn't accept them as our rulers so they had to "marry" into the power structure. Often times what we're dealing with as it concerns the Ptolemies or greek rule in Kemet in general are mulattoes i.e. Barrack Obamas. Most of us still said fukk that and went back further into Africa. Soter I creates Serapis which is a fusion of Ausar and Apis with HIS appearance. He then closes down all other temples to other Neteru and makes it so that only Serapis in HIS IMAGE is to be worshiped. This is all jedi-mind trick bullshyt meant to make being conquered(and thus acceptance of whites and their ways) palatable to us so that we put up less and less resistance.
... spent a lot of time there a few years ago.
. people believe swahili was an arab culture exclusively when it was more so an primarily african culture with arab infleunces
