Today in the U.S. we celebrate Martin Luther King Day to honor a man who advocated for Civil Rights through non-violent action. He compelled America to move closer to honoring its founding ideas.

On the oppositive side the coin, we have the Black Hebrew Israelites who embrace a bizarre ideology that extremely racist and anti-semitic. I heard about this group for the first time yesterday and found an informative report on the SLPC website. This group bares watching, especially with the current social trends in the U.S.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-h...-more-militant

RACIST BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES BECOMING MORE MILITANT

Around the country, thousands of men and women have joined black supremacist groups on the extremist fringe of the Hebrew Israelite movement, a black nationalist theology that dates back to the 19th century. Its doctrine asserts that African Americans are God's true chosen people because they, not the people known to the world today as Jews, are the real descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible. Although most Hebrew Israelites are neither explicitly racist nor anti-Semitic and do not advocate violence, there is a rising extremist sector within the Hebrew Israelite movement whose adherents believe that Jews are devilish impostors and who openly condemn whites as evil personified, deserving only death or slavery.
The notorious white supremacist leader Tom Metzger once remarked of extremist Hebrew Israelites, "They're the black counterparts of us." The belief system of extremist Hebrew Israelites is basically the reversed-color mirror image of the Christian Identity theology embraced by many white supremacists . . . .
Extremist Hebrew Israelites have a long, strange list of enemies. At the top of the list are white people, who they preach are descended from a race of red, hairy beings, known as Edomites, who were spawned by Esau, the twin brother of Jacob (later known as Israel) in the Old Testament. Equally hated are "fraudulent" Jews, "the synagogue of Satan." They're closely followed in no particular order by Asians, promiscuous black women, abortionists, continental Africans (who, according to the extremist Israelites, sold the lost tribes of Israel, who were black, to European slave traders), and gay people, who according to extremist Israelites should all be put to death.
The fact that it's a quasi-religious movement potentially makes this movement dangerous. Any time an extremist thinks their behavior is endoresed by God, there are no limits to what they may do.