The pre-Columbian presence of African people in the western hemisphere is largely ignored. Mesoamerica, South America, the Pacific islands & Australia all had large populations of African descendant people & that’s never talked about. This post in no way suggests that the Native American Indians or native islanders as we know them didn’t also populate these places, nor is this post saying that black Americans today are the direct descendants of these African people because we aren’t. Our direct ancestors are west Africans who were first introduced to the Americas during slavery. All I’m doing is providing the proper context to history & bringing light to the facts that have been ignored, forgotten, or deliberately hidden. The American continent & many of the pacific islands were populated by Mongaloid (Asian) people who came to the Americas via the Bering strait (A land bridge that used to connect Siberia & Alaska) & began moving downward further into the continent. Over several thousand years they evolved into the American Indians as we know them today. But the Americas, Australia & many pacific islands were also populated by Africans who began migrating out of Africa in waves as far back as 100,000 years ago & the proof of that is the remains of 12,000 year old Luzia found in brazil, whom I’ve covered previously. Many of the people found in these places upon European arrival were depicted by Europeans as people with kinky hair, black skin tone & cultural similarities to their African ancestors from the continent. The reason these truths aren’t common knowledge is because literal white washing of the people buried much of the history of these places. This post is not saying all people in any of these places are automatically black just because of the early black presence in those areas, it’s saying the history of blacks in these areas need to be told.
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Prince Rad Tochukwu
Black Extremist
Prince Rad Tochukwu
This is a great piece
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