Osomir
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Yes they were Black. I'll take the descriptions of the people that actually laid eyes on them instead of the white logic you are employing.egyptians werent black at the time either. Youd be an abid to them.Youre stupid if you dont know Egyptians came from Ethiopia (Punt). They even said it themselves. Either way it had nothing to do with "post colonial" white people. Stop trying to deflect from your white logic error. African civilization goes way further back than whites will admit to themselves. They cant take it for some reason.No I didnt miss it. Ethiopia for example was a civilization long before "post colonial". You sound like an idiot not knowing this stuff.I believe you missed the "post colonial" part of his post. There is none from the ancients. Which is sad. It would be nice to know what they did know. They may have had beer. There is an archeological dig where brewing evidence exists from around 19,000 years ago. That would make it the earliest known.
Aksum is post Egypt, and owed its existence to the trade between Egypt and the goldfields of Sudan. You sound like an idiot not knowing that.
I was on my phone last night so I couldn't adequately respond. "the people who actually laid eyes on them" I've laid eyes on them too, they still exist and they describe themselves and their culture quite differently than you are attempting to. Moor was literally a term that the Spanish used to apply to all Muslims. So Indonesians were considered moors, Philippine Muslims were moors, north Africans were moors etc. So the term "Moor" doesn't denote a specific group of peoples, and most peoples who carried the identifier 'moor' weren't of relative Sub-Saharan African descent. They were primarily in north Africa composed of three groups: Arabs, Berbers, and black African slave levies that Muslims utilized through the transatlantic slave trade. To the "moors" blacks were slaves - not Chattel slaves like we practiced here in the States, but certainly of a much lower standing than non-black populations such as the Arabs and Berbers - who have stronger genetic links to Mediterranean populations.
The same goes for Somalis. They are genetically connected more to Mediterranean populations than they are to Black Africa, and that is also absolutely the way they see themselves racially and culturally as well. They often refer specifically to a Somali race (to Somalia may just be a country, but it is MUCH more to them). Outside of their own identifiers they also identify closely with Arabs, which is why Somalia is a member of the Arab League. southern Somalia also happens to be somewhat racist against blacks in general, and black Africans are often treated with discrimination or referred to as slaves.
When one speaks of Black Africa one generally is speaking of sub-Saharan Africa, not northern Arab Africa.