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Why do my friends keep saying Black are the real Jews?

Hi so I live in Florida and I have a lot of black and hispanic friends but I am ethnically Jewish and I practice it, they do not even practice the torah or talmud, but they theres 2-3 of them that I know from school and they keep saying that I am not actually Jewish and my family isn’t either even though if we aren’t, we still practice being a Jew, so I don’t understand, and then they went on about in a call on facetime how black people are actually the real jews and some groups of asians like indians and thats why they have the most populous regions and biggest populations,

they were talking about asians went to south america and the Jewish lineage is truly there basically they were referring me to the black hebrew israelites so i can ask but I never did because it didnt sound true and they have no connection to the levant so I asked them about the levant and they said that israel is not the true levant and that the middle east is not the actual fertile crescent, they keep telling me about it every day and I told them it isn’t true but theres nothing I can say to convince them, I think I am going to end up stop talking to them or just the two that keep bringing it up when we are in calls, There are no way there are black Jews correct? Besides only some populations along the nile river which has kept and followed the holy books, but sub saharan africa did not have much Jewish lineage? It just is so stupid, but the weirder parts are about Asia and south America and I asked for like proof and they are providing it except theres no way to prove any of those people are true Israelites or Gods chosen people, even if they are the most populous..

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