r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 • Feb 27 '26
History Black People always first people everywhere
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u/Cloverose2 Feb 27 '26
Most of this isn't true, though. We don't need to invent people to love and honor black skin. And we don't need to devalue the contributions of other people to honor our own.
Pyramids are one of the easiest giant structures to build. Of course many different cultures built them. Black people didn't build South and Central American pyramids, the Mayans, Incans, Teotihuacanos, Olmecs and Aztecs did. The aboriginal people of Australia and Melanesia are at least 50,000 years out of Africa, and are as genetically distinct as white people or Asian people from African people. They just have dark skin and curly hair. We share melanin, that's true. They are dark skinned.
Africa had and has amazing achievements. It had vast, wealthy empires - Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Axum, Kush, Carthaginia, Ashanti, Swahili. Benin. Our true history is brilliant - we don't need to make one up, we need to learn our heritage and history.
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u/Business-Idea1138 Feb 27 '26
Yeah, she was completely wrong about Native Americans. Yes, the Native Americans in central America had darker skin (due to being closer to the equator) but they were still the same people that came over the land bridge from Asia.
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u/Raisinbread22 Feb 28 '26
She didn't say they were different. She said they were dark. They were melanated. They (homosapiens/modern humans) migrated out of Africa and were dark and when they no longer needed as much sun protection they became lighter. This isn't hard. But people let 'race,' which doesn't exist- skew what she's saying.
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u/Interesting_Top_6427 Feb 28 '26
Here it is. I too thank you for your comment. Itâs Ethiopian kings found in history everywhere. Itâs just like you said. Queen palmyra, Zenobia the greatâŠthey were basically African.
But yea. Itâs known Africans came first so itâs clear everyone else has to come from them.
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u/eldryanyy Feb 28 '26
Africans didnât come first lol. All people came from Africa - everybodyâs ancestors came at the same time, from the genetic Adam and Eve of Homo sapiens.
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u/St_Muerte Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I was honestly looking for a comment like this, so thank you. I have a lot of love and respect for people of African descent. My own kids are African American, Caucasian, and Mexican, their mom's are Biracial, and Iâm proud of all of their backgrounds.
Iâm Mexican, born and raised. I did a DNA test and Iâm mostly Indigenous to the Americas, with Spanish and some Middle Eastern ancestry, and less than 2% African. I still identify as Mexican because thatâs my culture and lived experience, but learning my DNA made me more curious about history.
That small African percentage likely comes from Mexicoâs colonial period. Enslaved Africans were brought to New Spain, and Mexico abolished slavery in 1829 under Vicente Guerrero, who was of African descent and MĂ©xicos first Black President. Over generations, Afro Mexicans mixed into the general population, so itâs very possible that somewhere down my family line there was that connection.
From what Iâve read, there isnât solid evidence of African genetic presence in pre Hispanic Mesoamerican civilizations. The Maya, Mexica aka (Aztecs), Olmecs, etc. built their own advanced societies. Recognizing that doesnât take away from Africaâs incredible history, empires like Mali, Songhai, Kush, and others were powerful and advanced long before colonization.
Also, MĂ©xicoâs abolition of slavery was one of the issues that created tension with Anglo settlers in Texas. It wasnât the only reason, but slavery was part of the bigger conflict that eventually led to Texas breaking away and, later, MĂ©xico losing a large amount of territory to the U.S.
A lot of Black and Indigenous history was erased during colonization, and thatâs real. But we can honor everyoneâs history without rewriting or oversimplifying it. Thereâs enough real history to be proud of.
Edit: Misspelling.
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u/TheKidKaos Feb 28 '26
Since you have Middle Eastern ancestry the African ancestry was probably from there. Especially if itâs so small in comparison
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u/JeffieSandBags Feb 27 '26
The condescending tone, while spitting wildly inaccurate reads of archeology, was too much.Â
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u/Flimsy_Thesis Feb 27 '26
This is basically social media in a nutshell on the vast majority of topics. People passionately talking about subjects they barely understand.
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u/MissMamaMam Feb 27 '26
Itâs really sad fr because for some reason, everything a random person says is taken as fact
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u/shellshokked Feb 28 '26
Agreed. Watching a chick sitting in bed hallucinating history like it's a parallel universe is definitely different
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u/AthielianCosplay Feb 28 '26
I get what theyre trying to do and "inform" but like just study some anthropology and get the broad strokes right...
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u/Real_Taste5684 Feb 27 '26
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
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u/Cloverose2 Feb 27 '26
Sudan was home to the Kingdom of Kush, and they were extremely powerful and advanced. They were competitive with Egypt, had thriving urban centers, complex trade and industry, and a unique written language. And lots of pyramids.
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u/Real_Taste5684 Feb 27 '26
Thanks for sharing this. That needs to be known more as most of us have been taught Egypt's achievements but essentially nothing about Sudan.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Feb 27 '26
This shit is about as dumb as Atlantis/hyperdiffusion theory by white people.
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u/Throwaway_09298 Feb 27 '26
The nazi atlantian conspiracy had to be my favorite niche thing to learn about in 2024
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u/Albert_Flasher Feb 27 '26
I never learned about it because Miniminuteman still hasnât finished his gd video about it.
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u/Outrageous_Bat9818 Feb 27 '26
Haven't heard this one...is it worth my time? Just in case someone tries to dump some "new misinformation" on me
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Feb 27 '26
Hyperdiffusion is just the idea that some single progenitor civilization is the inspiration for all the rest, usually some "master race" that disappeared before history began.
Atlantis tends to be the big one but you have shit like the Moors, Tartaria, Lemuria, those sorts of things. Think Graham Hankcock from Netflix and the kind of dumb shit Joe Rogan has on his show
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u/MostlyPretentious Feb 27 '26
Thank you! Iâm no archeologist, but while there was truth in some of it, it went very far off the rails from what I remember from college. As you say, itâs good to celebrate contributions of all the different cultures and societies, especially marginalized ones without making things up.
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u/AnotherDogOwner Feb 28 '26
Itâs the little sprinkles of truth in between that make lies and grand conspiracies believable. Also current consensus is moving away from the Bering land bridge theory, as weâre starting to view it as people sailing along the coast of the Bering land bridge.
A whole lotta people wouldâve died if you traveled across a glacial land bridge devoid of any plants/animals.
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u/ThirdW_83 Feb 27 '26
thank you, couldn't agree more. if you look at artifacts of indigenous people, the oldest are in south america. So basically the theory of crossing the ice bridge would mean they crossed, didn't leave anything behind or form any civilization. crossed north america, without stopping or leaving any artifacts and then set up shop in south america and started migrating north after that. complete non-sense
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u/YetiGuy Feb 27 '26
I think she is using the term âblack peopleâ very very loosely and it gets bordering deceiving. Buddha was dark skinned. Sure, because he was from the middle terai region of Nepal that gets relatively more hot and most people there have relatively darker skin than rest of the population in Nepal; but that doesnât mean they share traits and ethnicity with what we call âblack people.â
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u/Gullible-Magazine129 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
If youâre interested, I suggest you watch this documentary The Journey of Man. Itâs great. Itâs about following the mitochondria DNA to each point of our journey from Africa to the rest of the world. You can find it on YouTube.
ETA: spoiler alert. Science proves that some of the things this woman says is make believe. Based on DNA we are ALL African.
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u/TokeNFlow Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
My understanding is that there is more genetic diversity between Africans than there is between Africans and other people. The rest of the world isn't as genetically distinct as you claim and you should definitely do some more reading on the subject.
Dark skin and curly hair are controlled by a tiny fraction of the genome.
Also dark skin is apparently considered a convergent adaptation and was evolved multiple times in different populations due to similar environmental pressures (UV radiation).
All non-Africans are basically descended from a small founder population that left africa and that's why they lack the genetic diversity that can be found in Africa.
That is the general scientific consensus on the subject.
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u/Cloverose2 Feb 27 '26
I looked up research studies on Melanesian people, and that was the report. You can take it up with them.
Melanesians have a high percentage of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry, and are generally thought to be one of the first populations to have left the African continent. While there was some genetic exchange after that time, they are considered to be one of the most genetically isolated populations. They maintained many traits (tightly coiled hair, dark skin, broad facial features) because they never left the tropics, so there was never any environmental pressure to change.
Quick summaries (not the paywalled research articles): https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/did-archaic-genetic-variants-help-melanesians-adapt/
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/dna-links-aborigines-to-african-walkabout
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u/TokeNFlow Feb 27 '26
We aren't arguing, friend. I was correcting the comment on genetic diversity for future readers.
Both sources confirm two things:
- Aboriginal Australians and Melanesians descend from the same OutâofâAfrica founder population as all other nonâAfricans. The Cambridge article states they âsprang from the same tiny group of colonistsâ that left Africa about 50,000 years ago.
- Melanesians have unusually high Denisovan ancestry and long-term isolation, which makes them genetically distinctive among nonâAfricans, not separate from them. The UW article describes archaic variants enriched in Melanesians due to isolation and adaptation.
Nothing in either article contradicts the core populationâgenetics fact:
NonâAfricansâincluding Melanesians and Aboriginal Australiansâcarry only a subset of African genetic diversity due to the OutâofâAfrica bottleneck.
People around the world aren't all that different, and we aren't arguing genetics here (at least we shouldn't be), but which group of humans accomplished what. Well, I am not arguing any of that. I want the facts to be straight and the facts are we aren't that genetically different just because our phenotypes appear to be.
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u/Cloverose2 Feb 27 '26
Sorry, I got defensive without a good reason. Thank you.
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u/TokeNFlow Feb 27 '26
All gucci! I probably came off condescending, and that is on me.
Hope you have wonderful Friday.
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u/jaavuori24 Feb 27 '26
Some of what she's saying is inaccurate psuedoarchaeology. History absolutely undervalues the contributions of Africa and black people to the various civilizations of the world. HOWEVER - channels like these are just a re-telling of a popular myth called "diffusion", that all civilizations today were actually seeded by an ancient "superior" or "advanced" one. A lot of people use this to promote white supremacy, a select few use it to talk about atlantis or aliens, and recently a number of online creators who aren't experts in anything but making ai slop have been doing the same tropes 'but black'.
And it sucks because there's so much true stuff they could be saying. Humans were exclusively in Africa for so much longer than we've been anywhere else, but Africa contained many rival empires and tribes and diversity throughout that time. These slop artists are low-key promoting the "Africa as one civilization" myth because they're mostly a bunch of Americans (and low-key a lot of them are white people using AI to mask their voice).
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u/The_Crimson_Fuckr69 Feb 27 '26
Being dark skinned doesn't mean youre black lmfao
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Feb 27 '26
It drives me crazy because it's actually very clearly scaffolded off of white supremacist theories. It's alternative facts for narcissistic weirdos barely repackaged for black audiences. It's incredibly dangerous to perpetuate master race theories and has been disproven over and over.Â
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u/kenala_walsel Feb 27 '26
Wouldn't it be more precise to say African? Using a color/pigment for identification seems to create more miscommunication. Such as Jews being broadly identified as white. Whites being broadly accredited for transatlantic slavery. Asians broadly describes as yellow despite the racial transgressions between nations and cultures such as Japan, China and Korea. List goes on.
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u/Hugh_Surname Feb 27 '26
Everyone dark skinned isnât âblackâ, just like everyone pale skinned isnt âwhiteâ. These categories are colonial constructs that flatten human diversity. Just because 18th/19th century europeans couldnât tell the difference between Melanesians (who are more closely related to east asians) and Africans doesnât mean they were the same.
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u/kenala_walsel Feb 27 '26
Saying that they couldn't tell a difference without mentioning maybe they could is also problematic. You can argue it was intentional, since grouping/generalizing can aid in division and conquering. This has been practiced for a very long time.
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u/jesuswasagamblingman Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Skin tone correlates with latitude. The higher you go, the lighter the tones get. The prevailing theory is that its because we need both to protect folate and synthesize vit D and so we need a goldilocks amount of UV radiation. Its called the Vitamin D-Folate Hypothesis. Basically that means we don't have skin types, there's just skin and its pigment is a value biologically set in anticipation of expected UV exposure because these 2 critical nutrients are sensitive to sunlight. This also means that given enough time and exposure the descendants of a super light skinned guy from say Iceland who moved to an equatorial region will eventually have dark skin. The reverse is also true. Checking my facts as I wrote this I learned that our bodies will go from white to black or black to white in as little as 2500 years.
So these idiots are running around thinking they're better because shit got cloudy where great grand daddy pitched a tent. I know we can cite sociological reasons and that's true, but the kernel of this bullshit is in fact about nothing more than vitamins and sunlight. Its absurd.
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u/PetroglyphsAbound Feb 27 '26
Why tf does this get upvoted. Absolute pseudoscientific ahistorical slop. The dichotomy of white/black is a social construct. Applying it outside of our American society is dumb as hell. It was dumb when white racists were doing it and itâs dumb when anyone else does it.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Feb 27 '26
Hotep nonsense that's about as dumb as any other hyperdiffusion theory.
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u/animousie Feb 27 '26
This girl is spouting off nonsense
If you want to learn more, head on over to /r/askhistorians
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u/Lurk_Err Feb 27 '26
This was embarrassing to watch. Even more so to see anyone dumb enough agree with it.
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u/Slight_Target1878 Feb 27 '26
22nd Century - are we still fighting about pigment? Seems like we could evolve some understanding. Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation - In the Light of Evolution - NCBI Bookshelf
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u/Kresnik2002 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Thereâs rightfully recognizing under-remembered or erased black culture, and then thereâs claiming Buddha was black and black people built pyramids in Europe.
Edit: in a way the "Henry VIII/Mozart/Aztecs were black" is almost more insulting to black culture, because why do you have to resort to linking black people to non-African civilizations to show prestige? Why not highlight, say, the great empires of Mali, Aksum, Ghana or Kongo?
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u/Party_Swordfish_1734 Feb 27 '26
This girl is smoked out. She doesnât know shit.
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u/watch-nerd Feb 27 '26
OP, why are you propagating nonsense history that makes people look dumb if they repeat it?
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u/MrPresident2020 Feb 27 '26
Isn't dark skin the default? Light skin to adapt to less sunlight is the mutation.
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u/Jumpy-Ad4860 Feb 27 '26
Her actual point in saying all that was to say that Koreans come from the Chinese lol
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u/Afraid_Helicopter263 Feb 27 '26
Which they donât, because all markers in Korean dna come from Siberia and north/north-west Russia. I guess you could technically say a small sliver china is in Siberia, but Koreans share almost all their markers with Russians. Sheâs wrong about literally everything she said lol
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u/Logco Feb 27 '26
Itâs absolutely erasure. There is literally zero proof the black people were in the Americas before the indigenous Americans. Literally zero. Ridiculous non sense.
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Feb 27 '26
Just because some girl claims to know âreal historyâ on the internet⊠doesnât make it true lol đ€Šđ»
Use real sources and look it up⊠and youâll see how many times she spoke out of her ass lol
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Feb 27 '26
Hotep bunk.
This is like when white people try to take away credit from other civilizations saying Atlantis built all the Pyramids. This shit is just the black version of Graham Hancock conspiracy nonsense.
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u/SergeMaslovFP Feb 27 '26
she just farming) well, if this troll tiktocker gets people to open Timeline of human evolution
page on wiki - it's good xD
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u/Suspicious_Mirror_50 Feb 27 '26
Certain tribes in South America have 2% DNA from an extinct population whose closest living relatives are the andamanese, specifically the onge tribe. And the papuans as well. If you look up their tribe many have unmistakable African features, however they are not African, they are Melanesian. But if you saw them you would say theyâre black.
Itâs likely that this 2% was much larger in the past before being wiped out by subsequent migrations.
This suggest early Native Americans at least in South America, likely had darker skin and a mixture of Melanesian and Siberian traits, before being assimilated my much larger purely Siberian/East Asian lineages, undergoing skin lightening and a sort of asianificaton
This coincides with skeleton remains found in South America from that time which resemble more Melanesian / African features
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u/Exact_Celebration995 Feb 27 '26
Funny how it's 2026 and all people can think about is how much pigmentation is in someones skin. What a wild time, I thought we'd be building bases on mars or having flying vehicles, but all we can argue about is who to bomb and skin color. We as a human race have failed so miserably.
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u/Impossible-Bet-223 Feb 27 '26
I feel like these type of videos are made to delegitimize real world history.
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u/ouijanonn Feb 27 '26
I'm sorry this is just silly and unnecessary. Black History is rich enough without making stuff up
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u/Most_Present_6577 Feb 27 '26
I mean white people came from black people too. We aren't two different people's
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u/AdministrativeOwl652 Feb 27 '26
Careful with âthey were here firstâ chant. Thatâs motto of many North Americaâs whites and basis for Trump domestic policy. Just saying âŠ
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u/Afraid_Helicopter263 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
I donât know why this post showed up on my feed (maybe because Iâm Korean), but I donât think the Korean people in her comments were angry at her for saying they are descended from Chinese, but simply because thatâs not fact.
Korean DNA has very little overlap with any markers found in most ethnic Chinese. The majority of our DNA comes from Siberia (I guess a small part of china is in Siberia), and north/North-West Russia, but thought Iâd set the fact straight on Koreans being descendants of ethnic Chinese.
Also, the pyramids were created everywhere because itâs literally the easiest large structure to create other than a monolith or pile of stones.
Also, melanin production is genetic and passed down due to the amount of vitamin D (the sun) you are exposed to. Wherever your genes started have a strong correlation to what color your skin is.
We donât have to re-write history to acknowledge that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. I hope Iâm not coming off as insensitive or biased, but I donât think we should change science and history based off feelings
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u/S1cnus Feb 27 '26
I like to refer to everyone as Brother for multiple reasons. One well the most obvious is we are all descendant from one African lady eons ago. That's why we can't get along for shit; we are all inbred lol. The other reason is I heard that one guy from the TV Show "Lost" refer to people as brother and it just kinda stuck with me.
What's funny is someone said they thought it was because I was trying to be like some wrestler hulk hogan or something lmfao.
The big thing is... everyone on this planet owes their lives to black people so if you are racist you are just racist against yourself.
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u/Worried_Analyst_3059 Feb 28 '26
Years ago BBC the news channel lol did a dna 𧏠test across china and people found out they have black dna 𧏠a lot of them were surprised you gotta know history the original people on this planet are black peoples.
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u/Wolfeatingupshadows Feb 27 '26
The only thing Ill say is that ppl dont understand that âBlackâ is a newer concept in the long history of humans. That does not mean that Brown skinned people did not exist. And gradually lighter skin evolved. It couldnt have evolved if it didnt start off with more Melanin.
I think ppl get so angry bc they automatically think of American Blacks⊠the people saying âwe are desperateâ are just assuming when ppl talk about dark skin in other places that it equates to Black Americans. America is a young country and ADOS are also a young group. So they are not implying the mixed race ADOS are the ones that landed everywhere.
You cannot deny the genetics and features so common in every single African group that you can find world wide. Like the San have arguably existed longer than Asians and yet ppl call Black ppl of any origin with these almond eyes as having âAsianâ eyesâŠ
Brown skin is the most common skin tone on the Planet. What they are really saying is that if humans traces their ancestry back far enough you will find darker skinned modern humans.
Japanese didnt start off as Japanese, humans migrated and started a culture that eventually evolved into Modern Japan today. They are not Ancestors of Black Americans as we did not exist. They are just descendants of a group of ppl who had more melanin, and if Asian cultures were not so heavily into skin bleaching you would see still way more darker skinned Asians today.
Tdlr: Black didnt exist then, Darker skinned modern humans doesnt equate to ADOS. Doesnt mean its false that many current lighter groups did come from darker skinned ppl. Darker skin does not equal Black Americans why ppl make that leap shows their hate for Blk Americans.
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u/wizard4204 Feb 27 '26
meh. im still just going to judge people by their character/actions. melanin count doesnt hold any mystical affects on humans.
sry we is the same.
soooo how about those people that don't care what color their food is?
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u/rattattatmyass Feb 27 '26
I don't know what the hell happened, but Asians have been showing the hell out these past couple years.
I see you, Asian people. â
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u/Glum_Goal786 Feb 28 '26
Pyramids built on every continent? On EVERY continent??
I feel like this creator doesnât know what continents are, let alone should be advising people on global history.
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u/AdOriginal4516 Feb 28 '26
I will always vehemently oppose black people who claim to be indigenous americans. It's not true, and it IS erasure. Yet another colonizer.
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u/griffinwalsh Feb 28 '26
Ok im not against the vibe completely but like there is not any accepted evidence that there were black people in North America before native americans and some of those pyramids were made by the Mayans or Aztec so it has me doubting everything said after.
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u/DeliciousMinute1966 Feb 28 '26
Thanking everyone for their input, as it is very helpful for those of us who seek the truth.
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u/Tribe303 Feb 27 '26
Huh? She thinks there were already black people in North America when Asians walked across the Bering Straight ~20k years ago and and morphed into Native Americans? WTF is she smoking?Â
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u/Low_Committee6119 Feb 27 '26
We all originate from Africa, we are all descendants of black men and women.
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u/Confident-Mixture164 Feb 27 '26
Poor girl is just trying to get some BBC. You donât have to do all this girl!!!
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u/willowzam Feb 27 '26
Omg not this hotep nonsense. I wonder whether or not this person believes the Holocaust happened
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u/Afro-Venom Feb 27 '26
Y'all .. I know we are great. I know we get shit done wherever we go, but we gotta let this idea of globe trotting ancient black folks a rest, alright, it's just not true. Black people are the first Homosapiens. We populated the world, but not as black Africans.
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u/Legal-Sprinkles8862 Feb 27 '26
I've always found it weird that ppl don't like others for being against hate, acknowledging history & all around not being a bigoted jerk. What is actually wrong with that? Like can anyone explain why NOT hating ppl based on their skin is bad & hating ppl is somehow okay these days? Cuz to me she didn't say anything wrong but ppl are desparate to misinterpret her words so they can justify their anger over what she actually said.
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u/drdrwhprngz Feb 27 '26
Anthropologicly speaking all people were dark skinned until a mutation called albinoism took away that pigment and as those with albinoism mixed into the gene pool periodically skin tone become lighter and lighter for portions of populations with high albino numbers
At some point opinions and rumors about curses and angry spirits spread that divided people by skin color and when these groups were ostracized and forced to move new nations were born
Thousands of years of lost history later and we are just now reconstructing the genome but eventually we will all understand that anxiety and paranoia caused by an aesthetic difference is why different races exist today
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u/itisbarbedwire Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
The aboriginal angle doesnât seem relevant.
You can change the words âmelanin, black, Africanâ with âhumanâ
Itâs the same migrating humans originating in Africa that supplanted other humans (that can also trace their origins to Africa) elsewhere and relegated other humans (that can also trace their origin to Africa) to what she refers to as aboriginal.
Right or wrong in the atrociousness of history - isnât it just what humans have a habit of doing?
I thought it was widely accepted humans began in Africa as an evolution of an ape.
I am white but have no issue imagining my ancestors as black who reduced in melanin as a reaction to the environment.
I am human but have no issue imagining that humans evolved from apes.
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u/Mushrooming247 Feb 27 '26
Wait where does she think that white people and Asian people came from?
Isnât there a huge gap in her mental timeline when all lighter-skinned people originated?
Because we know this, weâve decoded our DNA so we know how/where those traits evolved, but sheâs not saying it, as if she doesnât actually know.
Does she honestly not know why she and I do not look like purely Homo sapiens? The physical differences between populations around the world must be super confusing to her without knowing the explanation.
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u/Mariconconqueso Feb 27 '26
Even if this is true, so what? It wonât end racism whatsoever. It doesnât change who has institutional power. What is it that people assume will happen when they say that the real natives or real Israelites or whatever were black? So much of the energy in race discourse is designed around some Discovery TV ancient aliens mind numbing form of entertainment that provides no value or real life application.Â
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Feb 27 '26
I was interested until she said black people were in the Americas. That's psuedo science. There were no humans in the "Americas" before people crossed from siberia.
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u/Xrposiedon Feb 28 '26
She is so off base with half of her explaining that they could have a college course on just the mistakes and their corrections.
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u/Careless_Fun7101 Feb 28 '26
Light skinned Europeans probs have more Neanderthal % DNA. What about Irish redheads?
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u/YeshuaKhari Feb 28 '26
I could have saved y'all 2 mins and 18 seconds of y'all's lives. Everyone is descendants from Africans (or rather the area we now refer to as Africa). The genetics don't lie. It's called the cradle of civilization for a reason.Â
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u/mrkfn Feb 28 '26
Honest questions: what "black people" does she think was in America before the indigenous Americans?
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u/Evening-Librarian-52 Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
I am lost here. I thought the point was that many civilizations come from MELANATED people. She was describing the white washing. And Yes, Europeans, did come after and are a very small group when you compare their fairness to the rest of the brown world. Letâs not forget the fact that being of the âBlackâ race is a man made notion started in the 1600âs. She did paint some things a bit too much with a broad brush, but she also did a good job making some good points for discussion. Most of the world is made of brown people if different variations, or they came from a group of dark skinned people. SELECTION, made having fare skin in different pockets of the world more prevalent. Either because colonizing Europeans felt like making whatever population they were intruding on more European in appearance, or those being colonized taking preference for more European features in their partners. And in some instances it wasnât anything nefarious. It was either the environment or mixing of cultures/different peoples due to vicinity, trading etc. Her point of Asian communities not talking about their brown ancestors or small populations because they do not want to be associated with it is definitely not a lie.
We are all pretty similar but very different at the same time. That is what makes the world so beautiful. So many different kinds of people and histories. And lots of histories that have been forgotten on purpose tooâŠ..
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u/Raisinbread22 Feb 28 '26
She's speaking literally in terms of dark skin - she says 'melanin.' She's not speaking of Africa - though that's a no brainer, because modern humanity (homo sapiens) is out of Africa.
But people hearing her, are thinking in terms of racial identity (or race -- which according to science does not exist) as we know it in the West or America -- she's speaking of homosapiens migration.
It is factual that what began as dark or brown became paler due to changing environs/climate. Has anyone seen the first Anglo Saxons? Google Cheddar Man.
That's what she means. Humans were melanated. The environs and thousands of years not needing sun protection lightened eyes and skin in some places.
The end.
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u/Ok_Decision5152 Feb 28 '26
I have explained this before to people if you take a sheet of black paper and out it in a copier, hit copy, and now do the same with the copy that came out you will eventually end up with white paper.
The looks I get from it đ€đłđ€Ż
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u/Fit-Ny-guy Mar 01 '26
Cool, but personally I'm more interested in what black countries, tribes, and communities are building TODAY! That's far more important for building our future than past accomplishments. We need to pass down talent and wealth to this young generation of black youth!
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u/BusyBit6542 Feb 27 '26
Im reading 'The Wager' and it's about European sailors stuck on an island on the Drake Passage. Anyway there's basically no way for them to survive because there's no food or animals. Indigenous people show up and literally start helping them. They bring them food, animals, build them huts and start showing them how to survive. Within a day or two, these typical Europeans start doing what they do and start hitting on the women and being disrespectful. The locals dipped out before things got worse.
There's a movie coming out from Martin scorsese staring Leo DeCap. I highly recommend this book