Suffice it to say that, ever since I heard of John Azumah Adembillah’s work a few years ago, the two slave trades — trans-Sahara and trans-Atlantic — are linked in my mind. I know tribalists like you want to believe that a pale skin confers automatic, unredeeemable and inextricable depravity, but all you need to do to blow THAT to Kingdon Come is acquaint yourself with the history of other cultures. I have.
Jews are not ‘white’. Nazis and their fellow-travelers said so. Jews are Semites. Related to that, here’s a question for you and don’t come back till you can answer it: why do the Jews returned to Israel from elsewhere in the Middle East (now an Israeli majority) mostly vote Likud and further right? These are people who lived in the Arab/Muslim world and, presumably, know Arabs better than the rest of us. But they vote for those who are for strong ‘anti-Arab’ measures. Why is that, do you think?
And what do UGGS have to do with the stupid and unjust Iraqi war anyway?