they all have afro hair
slaves were described with various shades
it's more common that you think
africans
You photoshopped all this
Lightskin people AREN'T REALLY Black. {For the dummies...Im being sarcastic]
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You photoshopped all this
Let me post this again so it doesn't go ignored.
--Jacob Korieh. 2009. Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world: history, society and Atlantic. 2009
Nigerian Igbos today:
Who should we believe, salvers who actually SEEN these fair skinned Igbos or our resident low IQ Coli residents.
Our Coli residents who btw dont know anything about Africa.
--Jacob Korieh. 2009. Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world: history, society and Atlantic. 2009
-- Vincent Carretta. 2005. Equiano, the African: biography of a self-made man. p15
--Gloria Chuku (2013) The Igbo Intellectual Tradition. pp 48-49
Nigerian Igbos today:
Who should we believe, salvers who actually SEEN these fair skinned Igbos or our resident low IQ Coli residents.
Our Coli residents who btw dont know anything about Africa.
GoldTeef
Sarranid Bleu
I've seen narrowish noses on black people but never small lips or white hair texture, and a person can be black and have green or blue eyes.
yea let's ignore all of the dark skinned nikkas that are not lebron james get clowned all of the time
So let me guess, the igbos who were already quite fair skinned prior to European encounter were already mixed with Europeans?
GoldTeef
Sarranid Bleu
do you know what year the first photgraph was taken? also are there ANY photos of africans on slave ships?
Monte Cristo
Banned
at Poiter's meltdown in hereI have no issues with lightskinned people and am willing to accept them temporarily if they're down because we need all the people we can get.
I just dont consider them truly black. That's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. No amount of accusing me of being a CAC is going to change my mind.
READ THE QUOTES BY ACTUAL SLAVERS. The pics are just there for emphasis. According you those fair skinned Igbos who the Europeans slevers met were already mixed with European??? That doesn't make sense! And who gives a shyt about the Kongo Kingdom, we're talking about Igbos. There is NO historical texts of the Portuguese setting up shop in Igboland or Nigeria. If so then fetch me a link.
The quotes that I posted is about slavers encountering fair skinned Igbos who other Africans saw no different than Europeans. But more importantly these other Africans KNEW about this fair skinned Igbos before they knew Europeans. So how the heck could Igbos have been mixed with Europeans????
Here are them AGAIN:
"He disengaged himself from other life experiences and went back to a particular spot in his memory to capture the racial distinctions he was able to make. He saw no distinction in skin color between the red men in Igboland and the white men he met on the slave ship. "
--Jacob Korieh. 2009. Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world: history, society and Atlantic. 2009
" Oye-Eboe" may be a version of the Igbo word oyibo used in the nineteenth century to mean "white man," Equiano clearly uses it to refer to other Africans, perhaps the Aro slave traders. At this point in is life, he tells us, he had not yet seen or even heard of a European."
-- Vincent Carretta. 2005. Equiano, the African: biography of a self-made man. p15
"Badsen [GT Badsen, "Niger Ibos," Frank Cass and Co, London, 1938: 123-124],
in his early-twentieth century study of the physical appearance of the Igbo, had this to say:
'On the whole, the Ibos are of good physique and compare favorably with other African tribes..
Many Ibos are truly as black as the proverbial coal: others are almost as light-skinned as the
natives of Southern Europe, while a few are distinctly reddish. The folk who stand out obtrusively
are the albinos.'"
--Gloria Chuku (2013) The Igbo Intellectual Tradition. pp 48-49in his early-twentieth century study of the physical appearance of the Igbo, had this to say:
'On the whole, the Ibos are of good physique and compare favorably with other African tribes..
Many Ibos are truly as black as the proverbial coal: others are almost as light-skinned as the
natives of Southern Europe, while a few are distinctly reddish. The folk who stand out obtrusively
are the albinos.'"
I mean this shouldn't be surprising coming from your small mind, since you're the same one who made this dumbass thread.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-th...e-it-all-before-they-can-ever-prosper.401672/
filial_piety
Banned
We've already established that you hold no barometer for any percentage of what it means to be "black." So by your definition, anyone who "feels" black and identifies as "black, is "black." Even someone who is 1/8th black and 7/8ths white (clearly non-black majority ancestry).This is not a requirement for being "black" or even looking "black" because one can be 70% white and still look "black"
vanessa williams is 56% african......... (and looks black)
Vanessa Williams' Surprising DNA Test - Ancestry Blog
Looking "black" is subjective, being "black" in my case is simply scientific. What may "look black" to you may not look black to me. However by my standards there is no debate about it. It simply boils down to genetics. Lapitas, Melanisians, Fujians, Dravidians etc are "black" by your definition simply because they look the part and if they came to the US and claimed to share a cultural "bond" with other AA's--again percentage of African ancestry doesn't hold anything conclusive to you. By my standards, they aren't simply based on their genetic ancestry.
Again, it's just a matter of opinion that i'm more than happy to disagree with you on.
And Vanessa Williams is half African, the margin for error on DNA tests can be anywhere from 5-10%. Either way, she doesn't look "black" to me, she looks "mixed (because she is mixed). By my definition, she's mixed based on the science, by your definition she's "black" because science is irrelevant in your case.
I have no issues with lightskinned people and am willing to accept them temporarily if they're down because we need all the people we can get.
I just dont consider them truly black. That's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. No amount of accusing me of being a CAC is going to change my mind.
Yet not all fair skinned African descent people are a result of recent mixing.
Monte Cristo
Banned
Yes, I'm aware that lightskinned Africans just like darkskinned Europeans and East Asians exist but stop trying to act like that isnt the exception to the rule.
If you took a flight to Lagos, Accra or Dakar, the overwhelming majority of locals would be brownskinned or darkskinned.
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
GoldTeef
Sarranid Bleu
and because the majority of them are brown and darkskinned the light skinned ones aren't black or ""true negroes"" as your kind usually put it?