{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "one point of comparison that I have never seen commented on is the analogy between Black Israelites / NoI / Hoteps and the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/696443485433249792/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>one point of comparison that I have never seen commented on is the analogy between Black Israelites / NoI / Hoteps and the medieval thing where every newly-christianized Germanic people who had been uncivilized in Roman times decided that they were descended from Trojans. both arising out of a alienation & embarrassment arising from traumatic integration into a civilized culture (much more traumatic in the African-Americans' case ofc) and trying to find a respectable place in the civilized culture's mythistory. </p><p>I think American Blacks should say that they're descended from Memnon & one of Priam's daughters. this will bring about Trojan unity and an end to ethnic strife.</p></div>\n<p>well, now others won&rsquo;t experience that same lack.</p>"}