Originally posted by long pig
Well, almost every ancient source call them white, including the OT and nT. Every single time an ancient hebrew's skin color is mentioned, he's called white, fair skinned or a ruddy complextion(Ruddy means to have such light skin you see blood through it. Only one race fits the bill). The hair color is usually red or gold. David had "fair ruddy skin with red hair" The nations around israel said they looked diff than their neighbors. Assyrian king, after taking hebrews captive, they lost their identity and were then known as assyrans. But everyone else called them white assyrians. Hell, when solomon courted sheba, she said "You are white and i am black". They were indeed white, which sucks. We black folk can't he nothin. I'm starting a new thread about hebrew lost tribes and their migration. Even Adam is said to be white.
Well first off, the word "white" get thrown around and is used too liberally (especially in a legal context). Arabs are considered "white" by the US Census and so were Hispanics until 2000. And neither group is "ruddy".
And are those reports reliable? Maybe they were tampered with after the fact by European scholars. A bunch of easily sunburnt "ruddy" people running around the Middle East just doesn't seem very plausible.
Originally posted by long pig
Oddly, cherokees have no native amer dna. They are european.
That's not odd at all. The Cherokees have been intermixed so much over the centuries that they've practically lost all their Native blood. That actually applies to many tribes. This is why throughout parts of the South and Midwest you'll find red-heads with freckles who claim to be "part Indian".