Smokey Robinson Resents Being Called African American

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They don't look like any West or Central African group, so it makes sense that "Black" would be more appealing to them.

A dark-skinned Gullah or Geechee could probably find folks across the water that look EXACTLY like them. Not hating, totally understand why a thoroughly mixed Black American wouldn't identify as African.

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A physician and a geneticist operate in two completely distinct and seperate fields of practice.

This is like saying a cop knows a firefighter's job because they're both 1st responders. Infact, it's an even bigger reach.

Cop a DNA ancestry science book to help you understand the fundamentals of ancestry DNA (I recommend "molecular photofitting") and then analyze the methodology used by Dalton and contrast it with the methodology of the brothers who run the Genesis 49ers and The Hebrew of Israel channel and get back to me.
No, you can't compare his knowledge in that area to a cop knowing a firefighters background. You was way off on that analogy. Anyway, I never said he had 18 years of DNA research, but obviously he had many years of it, and he would challenge anybody to a debate, including you, on what he teaches, since you know more than him. So do do you agree with him or not, as far as most African-Americans having E1B1A DNA, and Africans having E1B1B DNA. That's the only thing I quoted from him. It sounded like you agreed. If so, you need to leave it at that.
 

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What y’all don’t realize is a lot of older black folks have the same opinion as Smokey
Yep. I know plenty of older people including my grandmother who is around Smokey Robinson's age prefer to call themselves negro, black, or even afro-american over african-american.
 

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YET I AINT NEVER
HEARD OTHER ENSLAVED nikkaS
CALL THEMSELVES
AN AFRICAN JAMAICAN,
AFRICAN HAITIAN, AFRICAN BELIZEAN
AFRICAN ETC.



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they didn't have to when they were mostly living in Black nations. If America was a majority Black country this would have never been a thing same as the places you listed...

struggle logic
 

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they didn't have to when they were mostly living in Black nations. If America was a majority Black country this would have never been a thing same as the places you listed...

struggle logic
NAH GOOFY

THEY NEED TO CLAIM
THEIR AFRICAN ROOTS.

THEY ARENT FROM
THOSE PLACES

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So do do you agree with him or not, as far as most African-Americans having E1B1A DNA, and Africans having E1B1B DNA.

This sounds absurd like you can paint all Africans and Aframs with one haplogroupic lens.

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Smokey should visit some time. I’m sure he’d be surprised by some of the overlap in little things, like the way we shake hands. They got that same “pop” and similar flare. No, we’re not the same. But anybody that’s observed can tell we’re distant relatives.
 
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