Why are sri lanka people not considered black

[Alpha Blondy]

Polanyi;813866 wrote:

If you are nin madow on pay as you electric key and the electricity turns off, you can't see you wife or your kids, damn.

This is a good litmus test for testing if you're black.

[uchi]

^ you can't see white people either relax.

 

Somali's are not black, just like Indians are not.

[Raamsade]

If by black you mean people with recent native African ancestory, then they're not black. They're descendants of some of the earliest Out of Africa humans as attested to by their DNA and they don't speak African language. We, Somalis, are black/African because we're more than 95% African by DNA and 100% African by language.

 

The Andamanese people (the people at the center of the recent "Human Safari" scandal) are even more interesting because if you were to see them walking down the street in your city, you'd think they're African/black based on phenotype (appearance). But by DNA and language, they're Asian. We're only having this discussion thanks to a lot of people still clinging to 18th century Eurocentric race model that divides humans into 3 races dismissing any "race" that doesn't fit this model nicely as "mixed/hybrid." There are no such thing as hybrid/mixed race since such notion presumes the existence of pure races, no such thing exists. Once you ditch the 3 race model and the very concept of race, which is scientifically meaningless, your confusions and questions will dissipate.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Is there a 'certified' African DNA?

 

Sheeko cusub tan ii ahaa. There is no such thing as 'African' language either.

[Raamsade]

Yes, Haplogroup E is definately African. Any non-African carrying Haplogroup E has recent African ancestory. Almost all black Africans are E including Somalis. Then there is the Bushmen of the Kalahari and related groups (groups that speak click languages like the Hadza) who are A or B I think which they share with some Southern Sudanese groups like the Dinka/Neur. It is important to note that DNA doesn't "prove" race rather demonstrate recent ancestory. For example, two villages in the same country will differ genetically by virtue of each village marrying people within their own village. But it would be preposterous to suggest these two villages are two different races due to genetic dissimilarities. Genetic difference doesn't denote racial difference only ancestory.