Looks like a cult, tbh.
King Atehene, 36, who was previously an opera singer under the name Kofi Offeh, leads the group, which consists of his wife, Queen Nandi, and their handmaiden Asnat. They claim they are a lost tribe of Hebrews, with their King descended from David the Messiah, and say their ancestors were cast out when Elizabeth I deported native black Jacobites.
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Dang, I’ve seen people with these beliefs but I can’t remember what they call themselves. An American(?) black crypto-jewish religious conspiracy group. They set up on sidewalks and yell at everyone.
Yes! Thank you. They seemed like an angry bunch when I encountered them.
Yes! Thank you. They seemed like an angry bunch when I encountered them.
Britain with no irony: “You can’t come to a land and act like its yours! We were living here first!”
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People living in public woods is okay because colonialism, thanks Lemmy
“The tribe”, “the group” – aka three people.
Also, for the record, I’d like to point out that the Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid.
Sorry, was trying to avoid the daily fail and this seemed to have the funniest title. It does seem like a weird mini sex cult.
They seem like a UK offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
If they want to live in tents in the forest instead of yelling at people walking by on the street, I suppose that’s an improvement.
Living on nuts and berries is probably safer than eating Scottish food.
I’m skeptical. If these people truly are of a tribe attempting to reclaim stolen land, I support them. But the cynic in me wonders if they’re cosplaying and looking for a con.
They’re African. There were never any Africans living in Scotland before the slave trade.
Well, to be pedantic, we’re all African immigrants, just many generations removed. But, yeah.
If it lets them get back to nature and pursue enlightenment, does the story they use to get there really matter?
Yes, if they’re lying to perpetuate fraud.
Isn’t that every religion?
I read the whole article and I still don’t know if it is real. I hate this timeline.
That was certainly… a read. I don’t know enough about Jacobites, anyone have any context on that?
To simplify, it was a political group of Catholic conservatives, which fought the Protestant kings and queens. They were not especially black.
They were not especially black.
lol
There’s a group of people who are (rightly) concerned that black folks have been omitted from history, and have overcorrected to claiming that basically all important historical figures ever were black. Another comment in this thread mentioned the Black Israelites, but there’s also the Nation of Islam (nothing Yakub made could be good of course).
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