Thank you Megan L., I appreciate your help.

It may be the verse from the book of Daniel that Alice Walker and others based the belief on that Jesus had hair like lamb's wool.

Not being a Biblical scholar, I can't speak further about the origin of this belief. But I can say that it is definitely part of African American folk culture as witnessed by Guest, Guy who thinks' African American student who fifteen years ago wrote a poorly prepared paper on the subject. it's too bad that student was so poorly prepared and then blamed her teacher and racism...I don't condone that. But I'd love to read a paper on this subject that wasn't poorly prepared-or one that didn't exaggerate to make its points.

In hindsight, if I hadn't been so eager to jump into this discussion because of my memories of introducing this topic to my church as a youth, I probably would have chosen an Internet source that wasn't absolutist in its assertions that all founders of religions were Black.

Certainly all founders of religions weren't Black. Yet the exaggerations of this particular article that I quoted above can't negate ALL the points that its makes.

However, in my opinion, it would be outside the scope of this particular thread to debate or discuss those points.

Ms. Azizi
[who lives & learns and is not afraid to admit a mistake]