And who ruled Spain and Portugal for hundreds of years? Who ruled Sicily
and Calabria for 200 years and Greece and the Balkans for 500? Asian and North African Muslims. You don’t think they left their DNA? As for being called black, do some reading in Italian immigration to US. Black was one of the lesser insults directed at us.
Greeks, even if they have some African admixture in them, are a European people. No one in the USA have ever considered Greeks "black people" like MLK's tribe. Ditto for Italians. (Maybe there is some obscure insults from the 1920s or something where Italians were called "black" but it still remains no one ever thought they were part of what Roots was about.
Italy is obviously European, at the center of Europe's history and culture. |
You can't say that about even the Ashkenazi Jews. They were always a foreign group from the middle east. (Yes, light skinned for the most part.) One of my best friends had his DNA tested. His family was from Poland, he always assumed he had some large portion of Polish or Russian DNA as a result. But his profile came back as 100% Ashkenazi Jewish, in other words his ancestors had been obedient to the rules of the tribe to only marry within the tribe for the hundreds of years that they had lived in those lands.