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A man who can create armies out of merceneries, marches them thousands of miles to the foot of the Alps, nor pauses when he faces the forbidden dangers. In spite of the bitter cold, the chilling winds and the irresistible sweep of avalanches, his one cry was, "Beyond the Alps lay Italy!" Whether it was his lust for gain, the love of adventureor devotion to the magnetic African, the mercenary hordes of Africans, Libyans, Spaniards and Gauls suffered a thousand deaths and rallied on to a thousand more when they heard his great voice ring down the silent chasms, " Beyond the Alps lay Italy!"

The reward which comes to unalterable purpose came at last to these struggling soldiers of Hannibal and finally they stood upon the brink and gazed down into the valley of Po.

For fifteen years they and their leaders wandered at will, destroying army after army sent against them, and what if they did fail at last-did they not accomplish a feat unexampled by any army of the world? He was truly of the Lion's blood.

At the time when the United States was presented with a statue of Frederick the Great, the well known journalist, Ambrose Bierce, wrote with his accoustomed sarcasm and stinging truth, " The others are to be Alexander the Great, Ceasar and Napoleon, Hannibal, a greater soldier than any of them, is excluded-probably because of his African descent, though he may occupy a Jim Crow pedestal later." The only fear I have is that when the truth of history is known, the United States will Jim Crow the whole of ancient history, because it is nothing but a record of African achievement and glory.

It is a paradox that most mixed people of the world should claim itself a pure race and refrain from the miscegenation which was so universally practiced by its ancestors. I refer to the Jewish race. Of them Cheyne, the famous biblical scholar, says: "It was as little a nation of pure blood as any on earth, for it admitted persons of Aramean and Egyptian descent as well as Canaanitic, Hebrew and Arabic elements." To begin with, the Hebrew race and language are not paternally of Semetic origin.The original home of the people appears to have ben in regions round about Arabia, regions which have always been the strongholds of African races.

The Hebrews, themselves,claim that Abraham was their universal ancestor and came from Ur of the Chaldees, and this legend brings to our minds two things, firstly, that Chaldea was purely Cushite and secondly, that Abraham is also claimed an ancestor by a great many African tribes. The legend that Israel was in bondage under Egypt for five hundred years would presuppose that considerable mixture took place, but surely if it had not done so, it did so after the Israelites came to their promised land, Canaan.

Here was another nation almost purely African and among them the Hebrews made their home. On more than one occasion their chief God, Jahve, reprimanded them for associating too intimately with the black trash of the neighborhood.

Solomon, , whom records say was black, goes so far as to forsake the gods of Israel for the gods of Canaan and even built a temple to them. Moses and many other of the leading characters had black wives and what the greatest men did is but an index to what the others might have done.

In the third century, towards the close of the year 225, Dio Cassius, a Roman senator, is alluding to the Palestinian wars, says that besides the original Jews of Judea, " there are other men, who, although of a different race, have adopted the laws of the people."Further on he makes mention of the fact that a great proportion of the ancient Jews were the descendants of converted pagans, so it seems that their mixing proclivities were continued down to a very late period of their history.

In the third century, towards the close of the year 225, Dio Cassius, a Roman senator , is alluding to the Palestinian wars, says that besides the original Jews of Judea, " there are other men, who, although of a different race, have adopted the laws of the people."Further on he makes mention of the fact that a great proportion of the ancient Jews were the descendants of converted pagans, so it seems that their mixing proclivities were continued down to a very late period of their history.

The tribes of black Jews which are found in Pelestine, Persia, Australia, Malabar, fghanistan,Abyssinia, Arabia. and northern Africa, are all vexing questions and, what complicates the matter still more, these black jews insist that they are the original Jews and the others a bastard race. 

"And Ishmael, the son of Abraham by his hand-maiden Hagar, went into the far country of Yemen and there took unto himself a wife, and from them descended the pure Arabian race". This is the ancestry claimed by the southern Arabians for their race and whether it be true or only a legend, they have contended for this ancestry throughout the centuries and to this day.

From the north came another people calling themselves Arabians. They were lighter in complexion then those of the south, and they called themselves the real Arabians. The Yemenites, from whom Ishmael chose his bride, were a black race akin to the Ethiopians, and the Arabs of the South were likewise black, and between the northern and the southern Arabians there broke out a hatred which they carried to the furthest ends of the worlds.

Even after the conquest of Spain precautions had to be taken against civil war by providing that the southern arabs settle in different district from the northern. Early in their national history two great dynasties were representative of the House of Rabia and the House of Mudar. They were the Umattads or northern Arabians, and the Abbasids, or southern Arabians.

The Abbasids were the black Arabs and their symbol throughout their national existence was a black banner. In early Arabian history the seat of the Umayyad dynasty was at Damascus and for a long period they ruled the whole of the northern Arabia unmolested, while the Abbasid ruled the south.

Reference: The Children Of The Sun[George Wells Parker