“Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” must have been tailored specifically for Kyrie Irving.
The movie at the center of the latest Irving scandal has everything the Nets star could want. There is a conspiracy theory that involves the plight of a people he cares about. Truths will be “exposed,” the film tells the viewer, about the real identity of the Israelites. There is plenty of conjecture, dot-connecting and pseudo linguistics and etymology, including several whole minutes devoted to where the word “España” originated.
It all leads to the theory that Black people are the original Israelites — and their pain, from slavery through their experience in the United States, may date back to a Biblical curse.
“For many Black people in America who are waking up,” intones the narrator of the movie, written and directed by Ronald Dalton Jr., “we now know that all of our struggles in America have been because of the curse of Israel.”



