The Biodiversity of Africa ~ Dr. Shomarka Keita ~ 2012 Seminar (a scientific view).
That’s true and it’s not wrong either, but you do realize that the vast majority of Black Americans don’t identify as such, some are even against it for different reasons.My family and many other Black families built this country centuries ago for free....We can call ourselves anything we want...
The first official Black immigrants came during the reconstruction era. It makes sense to say that FBA was in North America before the reconstruction era.
Where is this coming for, this evidence?
"Enslaved Africans came from or through major coastal regions that had been labeled by Europeans as the Grain Coast (consisting of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and parts of Liberia), Windward Coast (Ivory Coast and Liberia), Gold Coast (Ghana west of the Volta River), Bight of Benin (between the Volta and Benin Rivers), Bight of Biafra (east of the Benin River to Gabon), Central Africa (Gabon, Congo, and Angola), and the southern coast of Africa (from the cape of Good Hope to Cape Delgado, including the island of Madagascar)."
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Y chromosome lineages in men of west African descent - PubMed
The early African experience in the Americas is marked by the transatlantic slave trade from ∼1619 to 1850 and the rise of the plantation system. The origins of enslaved Africans were largely dependent on European preferences as well as the availability of potential laborers within Africa. Rice...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
“Thirteen of the 18 haplogroups previously observed in African populations were observed in the African American populations: L1a, L1b, L1c, L2a, L2b, L2c, L3b, L3d, L3, L3, L3, L3, and L3f”
Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the African American population - PMC
Genetic polymorphism along mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) defines population-specific signatures called mtDNA haplogroups. Estimation of mtDNA haplogroup distribution may be prone to errors, notably if the study sample is not drawn from a multicenter ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"The genetics of African North Americans are complex amalgamations of various West and Central African peoples with modest gene flow from specific European and Amerindian peoples. A comprehensive understanding of African North American biohistory is a prerequisite for accurate interpretations of the ancestral genetics of this population. Too often, genetic interpretations falter with ahistorical reconstructions. The recently reported overrepresentation of Nigerian lineages in African North Americans reflects pronounced limitations in the African genomic database, the artificiality of the colonial maps of Africa, the contributions of multiple African empires and kingdoms into the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and the overrepresentation of Yoruba peoples in the existing limited representation of West Africans in public genomic databases. This Matters Arising paper is in response to Micheletti et al. (2020), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics. See also the response by Micheletti et al. (2020), published in this issue."
So many Nigerians: why is Nigeria overrepresented as the ancestral genetic homeland of Legacy African North Americans? - PMC
The genetics of African North Americans are complex amalgamations of various West and Central African peoples with modest gene flow from specific European and Amerindian peoples. A comprehensive understanding of African North American biohistory is ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome - Nature Communications
The Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) aims to better understand population genetics of the African diaspora. Here, it uses deeply sequenced whole-genomes to describe the impact of admixture and potential disease burden of deleterious variants.www.nature.com
"Earlier studies showed that the prevalence of maxillary midline diastema was greater in African populations than among Caucasians or Asian [21]. Another research reported that a maxillary midline diastema (MMD) occurrence among African Americans is more".
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Retrospective Evaluation of the Prevalence of Diastema among an Adult Population
Discover the prevalence and location of diastema among orthodontic patients at UNLV School of Dental Medicine. Explore the impact of ethnicity and arch on diastema cases.www.scirp.org
"According to the study, having mainly African genetic ancestry can reduce a person's chances of finding a donor by up to 60%, and having African copies of HLA genes, which must be compatible with the donor's to make a transplant possible, can reduce them by 75%."
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According to Meyer, the team cannot yet answer the question regarding the degree to which admixture and the percentage of African ancestry hinder a match. "These two things are a little different. What we know is that on average people with African HLA genes tend to have more difficulty than people with European ancestry," he said. "It remains to be seen if there are combinations of European and African chromosomes that can also reduce the probability of a match.”
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Study explains why people of African descent are less likely to find bone marrow donors
A paper by a multidisciplinary team of scientists affiliated with various Brazilian institutions, including the University of São Paulo (USP) and the National Cancer Institute (INCA), shows that people of African descent are less likely to find a donor in the National Register of Voluntary Bone...www.news-medical.net
"The study found that white blood cell counts may be low due to a rs2814778-CC variant in the promoter of the atypical chemokine receptor 1-coding gene ACKR1. While this variant is relatively uncommon in individuals of European ancestry, it appears to be found in more than 60 percent of African Americans and is found at especially high frequency in some populations from sub-Saharan Africa.”
Genotyping May Help Avoid Unnecessary Bone Marrow Biopsies in African Americans
A significant subset of African Americans may be genetically predisposed to low white blood cell counts, suggesting this feature alone may not warrant bone marrow biopsies.www.genomeweb.com

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How China went from celebrating ethnic diversity to suppressing it | Thomas S Mullaney
The brutal clampdown in Xinjiang represents an about-face from the communist party’s original approach to cultural differences, says professor of Chinese history Thomas S Mullaneywww.theguardian.com
In what context do I need to read / interpret this?
W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Human Rights
Du Bois' sociological thought reveals an overlooked tension in the pursuit of human rights, a tension between universal human rights for all people, in general, and a race-specific human rights agenda for blacks, in particular. Du Bois recognizes both universal human rights for all individuals...scholarlycommons.law.case.edu
Your questing the fact that Black people were here before slavery, and were the 1st inhabitants of North America
I understand what you posted since I have a degree in Biology and use to work as a Molecular Biologist,
It's pretty well known that there were Black people in North America (pre columbian America) before slavery, the 1st inhabitants of North America were Black people. That is basic evolutionary science. White people were not here first, nor the Red-Skinned Mongoloid Indians, the earliest know inhibitors of were Black skinned aboriginal people called the Folsom tribe.
The first discover of the Folsom people was made by a Black Cowboy name of George McJunkin:
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, wrote a book called "They came before Columbus," which outlines how Black people were here before slavery (pre-columbian America)
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Historians Say First Americans Were Black Indians of African Descent - Chattanooga News Chronicle
Dr. David Imhotep, a respected historian and the first person in the world to hold a Ph.D in Ancient African Ancestry, argues that all humans originated from the continent of Africa and this includes Americans. Most books about American history begin with Cowboys and Indians, but that’s not the...www.chattnewschronicle.com
FBA's were here before the creation of the United States of America, we are the reason why America came to be. FBAs are the foundation to America, and without us there would not be the USA.
Are FBAs saying we do not have African genetics, no we are not saying that. Technically all living humans share a common ancestor in Africa, meaning everyone has African genetics lol. FBAs are saying we had an ethnogenesis in which we are saying we are our own ethnic group, which involves the formation of new identities ie. including cultural, linguistic, and historical elements. Just like how Jamacians, Belizians, and etc., had their own ethnogenesis, FBAs had our own.
Do you know what SOY Keita talked about in that video? Because it wasn’t about China.The same context you quoted me with that video.
Do you know what SOY Keita talked about in that video? Because it wasn’t about China.
My family and many other Black families built this country centuries ago for free....We can call ourselves anything we want...
You are weird breh, bringing up something that had nothing to do with my post. It must apply to you, look how triggered and rattled you are in this thread
You hate the fact that black americans are starting to recognize and delineate their identity lmaooonly a weirdo would have an issue with this.
Me: Some people use tariq/fba has a trojan horse for their hate towards black americans
You: Is that your excuse for agreeing with the hate tariq is spewing?
Notice how your response doesn’t even make any logical sense to my point, its completely unrelated. Critical thinking and logic are very important attributes a black man of any background must have.
That hate and jealousy towards black americans has your brain fried lil bro. Lets go outside and touch some grass, run a few miles and socialize today. Its Sunday. Appreciate the black american greatness being displayed in this film.![]()

That sounds dumb as fukk and has no meaning.I think this is a good point, which is why I prefer terms like "Generational Black American" or "Generational African-American" instead. It centers our specific lineage and history, and grounds it in historical justice and material redress. Plus it's not tied to a con man
You didn’t watch it, or didn’t comprehend what he said.Diversity