true...Go to india and tell them they are black. See what they tell you.
If you are not from an african ancestor 5,000 to recent, you are not black.
@GetInTheTruck
lol, I work with a bunch of Indian people. Only a few women................NONE come close to looking anything like meghan rath
When I first saw the show....... I did not think her name was Meghan Kumar. I bet you don't know any Indian chicks that and talk like her.
I remember thinking like most people.... It's a mixed black chick .
Of course because we live in the West we think that most black resemblance = some black mix.
Southern Eastern Asians share the roots with black Asians and come from their black ancestors.
I'm not saying modern say Indians are black. I'm saying the aboriginals of the land were black and african and have been up that way until modern history. To say otherwise is like saying that Black Americans don't have African roots.
After research he was black. These were ancient kushytes who came to India and south east Asia to teach
Should be in the root
Weekly thread
"Did you know [ insert person from history ] was black?"
"Did you know [ insert random race ] were are the original blacks?"
always follows the same path, we argue over the definition of what 'black' is. Rational set argue the case with the conspiracy Hoteps who claim victory after posting obscure youtube links, random jpegs, and denouncing any proof against them as 'cac science'.
ok HomotepShut up
The caste system wasn't always based on skin complexion....that came later in its history. it began based on family legacy. there were dark skinned people in the upper castes.He was an upper-caste Indian.
Actually, one of the things I learned in college (while Art History was my major ) was that the Indian race is a result of nomadic African peoples who migrated far northeast and intermingled with Mongoloid peoples (China/Tibet/Mongolia) and settled in the Indian subcontinent. My professor was a middle-aged Chinese woman, so she had no axe to grind either way.
Siddhartha Gautama could have easily been a dark-skinned Indian man:
Not that it matters either way.