Some Afrocentrists claim that Africans reached Mexico long before Columbus. The evidence? Some Olmec statues show people with large lips.
the Afrocentrists are FOS-the Native tribes of the Americas were taking captives for slaves-and dinner-just like people all over the world did then-it appears that war has always meant killing, slavery rape and pillage, etc-humans were not peaceful.
Decades of archaeological digs have shown that the Olmecs lived in coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico-but they only got there around 1500 BC-they were latecomers to an area where there were already people-so they were probably from S America-not right off the canoes from Africa.
They probably did have African DNA as well as Asian and Australasian DNA and maybe Polynesian DNA, because the mummies and other remains found all over the coastal areas of S America from as early as 15-20,000 years have DNA that is all of those mixed-race and ethnicity apparently were not issues then.
The Olmecs probably got out of Dodge because of the colder, drier weather that happened a few centuries ago, or because of one of the many volcanic eruptions that ruined their crops, water supply, etc...
With all the archaeological and historical evidence we have now, the question should not be who discovered America, but who DIDN’T. Let Columbus have his place of honor in history-he is the one that really got Europe and America together, for good or ill...