# Why are there black people?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-black-people/42508>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 24, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-black-people/42508 "2000-11-24T05:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-black-people/42508/101 "2000-12-06T00:32:57Z")

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Yes! Orange does not exist except in the blight. It is simply reddish brown:)

(if you dont understand my name you wont understand that)

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**Author:** ![sarteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@sarteve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sarteve)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-black-people/42508/102 "2000-12-06T03:16:22Z")

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black people were the original inhabitants of earth…(through evolution) and white people came from mars.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-black-people/42508/103 "2000-12-06T09:17:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Exion \*  
> Response: False, plenty of North Africans and at least some Saharan Africans don’t have particularly kinky hair. [snipping the section where I point out a black Sudanese compatriot who nonetheless --and is not exceptional in this regard-- does not reflect classic negroid features. etc.]
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> > Since you are so fond, Mr C. of poinying out others inability to read the posts, It would please me if you did the same. I never argued a racial bond between N. Africans and Sub Saharan Africans, in fact if you HAD read my posts, you would see that I mention them as separate several times.

The irony of this is almost overwhelming. You have once again misread me. I have more than once indicated there is no clear line between North Africans (many but not all of whom are relatively pale: this is not new, paleolithic research reflects mixed populations going back 15000 years) and sub-Saharan Africans. In terms of genetic relatedness, they are indeed related --the point which you are missing-- and the continium continues through the Saharan populations, who I would suppose would be classified as black on sight by most Americans, yet reflect the non-classical negroid features I noted. Or rather some do and some do not.

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> The rightness or wrongness of that statement aside, please be a little more dilligent before jumping on your high horse, if at all possible, in the future.

I was diligent. You simply once more misunderstood the point.

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> As far as how it all Happened, what I mean is do they have any Idea, besides in general ideas of where it started, about how it came about?. NOT the actual genetic change, but where and when, and how?(Races aside). Like Africa to Europe to Asia then America etc.If you see what I mean.

I once more direct you to the substantive literature which I have already cited for you and which you _claimed_ to have read. Evidently not well if at all.

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