People don't even know what the hell it means to be
African. No shyt blacks of the African diaspora have a almost unique and distant culture from Africans from the continent. But hell no culture in Africa is monolithic which makes it hard to even define "African culture." But thats not what makes one "African" and its a eason why these types including people in the Hebrew Israelite circle be running from genetic field for their lives or just flat out try to deny it as WHITE MANS SCIENCE(lol!).
You got black ass Negros in this thread screaming, "Wez not African but Indian!" not even realizing that 8/10 they carry True NEGROID paternal E1b1a which links them to West/Central Africa or True Negroid maternal L2a which again links them to West/Central Africa. lol! You wanna bring up AAs being "mixed." That does not distinguish the links. Otherwise mixed Tuaregs or N.Sudanese(who are MORE mixed than AAs) wouldn't be African neither. But if we wanna go with the admixture route and not ancestry, from many genetic studies AAs are around 75-85% African(tho the majority of the AA population has not be sequenced and when it comes to individual testings I seen MANY AAs score in the 90% range), you have MANY repeat MANY Africans even in black ass WEST AFRICA who meet those percentages like the Fulani and many other Sahelian groups. So what the hell is "distant?" lol. You have MANY admixed groups all over Africa.
These are the same exact clowns who would be calling North Africans "Arab invaders" on Youtube when they begin to identify with their African heritage and not their Middle Eastern side. You have the same clowns on here trying to say
@A Tribe Called Quest ™ is NOT African because he is North Sudanese. Yeah I'm going all the way in....
You folks should just come clean and say yall have something against Africans because imo its understanding. I still have some unresolved negative feelings towards West Africans due to their role in the slave trade. But thats not what makes one "African" to me it is the ancestry.