Perhaps the problem here is dealing with simple descriptors, but that is the price to pay when you break humanity up into three categories. Since you probably will not argue modern day peoples, I will not mention it, but my statement was about ancient peoples(Egyptians, Carthaginians, Babylonians, ect).
They were not "black"(or "white") in the modern sense. They have about as much genetic similarity to west coast Africans(of which AA's are descendant) as they do with Frenchmen.
Okay this is where the problem began for most people and that's when it comes to speaking about Africa, Mediterranean and the so-called Middle East. Egypt is in Africa and it is not Mediterranean. Egypt is in Africa and it is not in the Middle East. Egypt is in Africa making the ancient inhabitants of Egypt - Africans like our forefathers and mothers. Again, African American see all of Africa as one country based on ancient records and its comparable to the way most white European see America as one country and thus as they were proud African and loved all of Africa so do we.
Problem number 2: I do not follow the Noah and 3 son description at all because it is not based on scientific evidence and it has no relevance in the academia of archaeology, anthropology, linguistic or genetic studies.
Problem number 3: Genetic analysis on ancient Egyptian mummy were done in so to link family ties and not so-called race (a fictitious term). So there can't be genetic information which suggest that ancient Egyptians are not genetically close to anyone. What we have learned up to this point is that the ancient Egyptians were Linguistically, Archeaologically, historically, geographically and anthropologically African. Through hings like craniometrics, skeletal-metrics, and even melanin level tests of skin so the Egyptians to be African and not Mediterranean or Middle Eastern in the modern sense.
Problem number 4: There is a lot of fictitious genetic information running around out there which suggest that Tutankhamen dna was RIb which is supposed to be European though its origins is found in Cameroon aka West Africa - those studies are fictitious and are promoted by racist websites such as ..... ..... no need to give name and promote them. The information is not scientific and is thus based on Euronutism.
Problem number 5: As far as your example African American and the Frenchman doesn't have any relevance to this discussion because America is our place of birth but Africa is our ancestry unlike the French who has no ties to Mediterranean or Africa so Egyptians are more related to us based on your example.
Now - what scientific evidence do you have which suggest that African Americans are not related to the ancient Egyptians? I know that we aren't genetically close to a lot of the modern Egyptians and that due to all of the invasion of the Arabs, Europeans and many others since the time of Khemenu exodus out of ancient Km.t but how do you know without doubt that we are not related to the ancient inhabitants of Ta Meri?
Peace
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