Enlightened~Sista wrote:You've taken me straight to my childhood. We would sing this song while our music teacher Mr Brown would play the guitar.






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Enlightened~Sista wrote:You've taken me straight to my childhood. We would sing this song while our music teacher Mr Brown would play the guitar.
bareento wrote:Qora,
I thought u would rather sing Gimme Gimme Gimmee a man after midnight..![]()
Shirib I hope your trolling, unless your some ignorant dumb shit, you should know that African Americans during the civil rights largely led and organized by church reverends and leaders, used biblical stories, terminologies, and archetypes to highlight their plight and their struggles, against oppression. When they would sing about "marching to the freedom land", and "Go Down, Moses, When Israel was in Egypt’s land, Let my people go, Oppressed so hard they could not stand, Let my people go...", no one took themselves to be Isralites or Moses, but identified with their struggle and gained strength from their convictions.Shirib wrote:just wondering what Babylon and Zion have to do with Africa
Musa? Musa had nothing to do with Babylon, which was in Iraq, his exodus was from Egyptqoraxeey wrote:Shirib wrote:just wondering what Babylon and Zion have to do with Africa
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well the same story of Prophet Musa and his people ... was enslaved by the egyptians ( faraho)
Perfect_Order wrote:Union is this a chance for you to show off what little knowledge you have accumulated, then I will excuse it on behalf of youthful eager to impress. If not, then just know your comment was unnecessary, and beside the point. Qoraxeey as most of us are aware of where babylon was. When she said "well the same story of musa..." she is trying to highlight how african americans use to identify their struggles of oppression in biblical terms just like how they commonly used musa and his struggle. It is that similarity she was highlighting. .
Thuganomics wrote:Ma taasaad la timid maanta
qoraxeey wrote:
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.
When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land
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Viva africans people who survived slavery in the americas
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Saxib Islam is a branch from the Abrahamic Religion, which means they are actually sisters and at the same level in hierarchy as Judaism, while you can argue that christanity is a daughter of Judaism. Islam was not founded by Jews, nor does its scripture have within it in totality the jewish scripture.union wrote:PO, the purpose of my post was not to "show of"---though I am the foremost biblical expert of this forum---but to shed light on the Jewish background of this cultural reference which I feel had not been getting enough attention. A lot of the stories in the bible/quran have their roots in the stories of the Jewish people, yet both the daughter religions despise the mother monotheistic faith in the most vicious and vile way. Can you tell me why oh so knowledgeable PO?
GaajoUnit wrote:in primary school we used to sing, this litte light of mine am gonna let it shine, let it shine and he's got the whole world in his hands.
Islam was founded thousands of years after Judaism and barrows heavily from Jewish ideas and tradition. It could be considered "same level in hierarchy" if it had more original thought, but that isn't the case. It's funny that though it was founded and propagated by Jews, Christianity has deviated from its Jewish roots enough so that ultra religious Jews consider mosques acceptable as places for prayer but even setting foot inside a Christian church is forbidden.Perfect_Order wrote:Saxib Islam is a branch from the Abrahamic Religion, which means they are actually sisters and at the same level in hierarchy as Judaism, while you can argue that christanity is a daughter of Judaism. Islam was not founded by Jews, nor does its scripture have within it in totality the jewish scripture.union wrote:PO, the purpose of my post was not to "show of"---though I am the foremost biblical expert of this forum---but to shed light on the Jewish background of this cultural reference which I feel had not been getting enough attention. A lot of the stories in the bible/quran have their roots in the stories of the Jewish people, yet both the daughter religions despise the mother monotheistic faith in the most vicious and vile way. Can you tell me why oh so knowledgeable PO?