From Biqilan Network, with Dwayne Wong (Omowale) as the guest
Deconstructing the Hamitic curse
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Dwayne Wong (Omowale) appeared on Biqilan Network’s dual stream with Lumumba Speaks, hosted by Dr. Bakari K. Lumumba, to discuss the Hamitic curse and its meaning for African people. He traced the curse to a Genesis story in which it falls on Canaan, Ham’s son, with no mention of skin color, and said the earliest link between the curse and blackness appears in the Babylonian Talmud. He argued Arab and European societies used that story to justify enslaving Africans.
The conversation turned to the Hebrew Israelite movement, which Dwayne traced to enslaved Africans’ emotional identification with the Bible’s exiled Hebrews. He argued the movement hardened into a literal claim rooted in disconnection from African history and an anti-African view of the continent, and said treating Hebrew Israelite identity as African history displaces real African history. A caller challenged Dwayne’s reading of the Bible as mythology, and they disputed the Genesis creation accounts, the Exodus, and whether ancient Hebrews were African.
