World War Three...coming soon.

[Sam Slater]

Hey c.j. I 'paragraphed' your posting if thats ok? I just found it hard on my eyes and some people might give up reading it. An interesting story though, and it's nice to know a little more about a fellow forumite!

Here goes:

Got your popcorn ready? Here goes. My father, when I was a child, was in an organization at that time. (Now they call them "gangs". If you study the gangs of Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s you'll see the difference). This particular organization's insigna was the six-point star or the jewish star. It seems to me that the inteligent dudes got more on the religious side of The Gangster Disciples (Of The B'nai Zakin Order I think) and the rest went on to either do good things for the community or do bad things and go to jail.

The good thing about my father though is he didn't join to commit crime and he studied the religion thus becoming hebrew. How I became hebrew was even more simple. My father was living in a gang territory and I really didn't like coming around his house. He told me to just tell them that I'm hebrew and they wouldn't mess with me. Mind you I didn't know any of the hand shakes they do or nothing but they never picked with me anyway. This was 1991 and I was 25 years old I believe. At that time also I had already read books on the the black hebrew israelites of africa (the history of) so I knew about that stuff already so becoming a black hebrew israelite (or I just say "hebrew" or "israelite") was no problem.

I also studied a bit but more on the history of black people in and of the bible than the bible itself. When I was a mid to late teenager I had the pleasure (or nightmare) of living with him so he exposed or tried to convert me to judaism at that time. I wasn't ready then. we had fights (not actual) about it and it was the first time I ever heard of not eating the swine. I even celebrated the jewish holidays with him. It was a learning process I really never gotten used to.

Well since 1992 I stopped eating pork or beef and I just started back eating beef in 2002 (sparingly) and the only days I celebrate is New Years Eve or my or anybody elses birthday. I do eat on Thanksgiving, Christmas and any other holiday that has to deal with food but it's only to get together with family or friends. I tend to read on my own and I don't go to any synagogues as all black hebrews aren't the same. I do know of a few places I could go but choose not to. I listen to the good things any religion espouse and sift through to the truth.

I've had dreads at one time and been mistaken as a rasta. (which to my opinion is close to being an israelite). I read the Final Call (the black muslim newspaper of the nation of islam) and I'll listen to a baptist (which I grew up as) preacher if he's saying something good. That's my story. Hoped you enjoyed it.

[c.j.jaxxon]

Oh thanx a hell of a lot! !laugh! !laugh! !laugh! I guess I never realize how much I have to say. I gotta start spacing though! !grin! !grin! !grin!