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Message: [QUOTE="Sibahle, post: 16171, member: 2333"] In terms of Race no she is not, white people are not African by race - and this is going on for all races and ethnicities native to Africa blacks and their variations, Nilotics, Nubians, Bantu, Berber, Maghreb, Arabs (Afro Arabs), etc. Europeans exist in Africa simply by colonization and invasion, and so do the White Arabs. Now modernly, as a result of said colonization and invasion, as well as settlement (a small portion could have been peaceful settlers), white people, Asians, Indians, and Arabs are now part of Africa's people. Gemma is a result of said colonization and settling and hence is now considered African due to this, an African of outsider-descent of course but African nonetheless. It's like Africa's Indians, it is in the name, "Indians", meaning they are of Indian descent but now live in Africa. This is the same for Gemma and people like Gemma, they are European Africans. Some have removed the "European" out completely, but people still know white people are not an African phenomenon maybe when the human race first started. For example in the country where I am people still ask me "where r u from originally", in white countries black people are not seen as natives even if you are 7 generations deep (I'm not 7 generations deep btw), so I suppose I can understand people's feelings in questioning it. Gemma would be African by being born in the continent, not because of any real deep meaning full or bloodline type of thing, she is an African simply because she was born there and lives there, her citizenship (presumably) is that of an African country - Zimbabwe. So to answer your question, [B]yes, Gemma is "African". What we need to tackle[/B] is the reason why [I]Vazungu[/I] can say "I am African" if they are born in Africa but Africans cannot say "I am European" if they are born in Europe. "European" is limited to one race, but African has become a variation, why is Africa the one that always has to expand (I know we are nice and good people, and God clearly favors us lol, that's just my thinking, God loves us), but why can Europe not do the same. Especially when Black people have a much more extensive and deeper claim on Europe than Europeans have on Africa. For example, there were ACTUAL black people, like [B]black monarchies[/B] who ruled Europe, (the most talked about are places like Spain and Portugal)), particularly the moors. To the point where Spaniards even partake in a festival of [I][B]Black Face[/B][/I] to look like the original rulers. Like, make it make sense. [B]Benjamin Franklin[/B] even stated this himself in 1751, [I]“Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians, and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. “ [/I] There are other books that speak of Black rulers, however, due to a lot of whitewashing including what's being done in Egypt and what almost happened in Zimbabwe in regards to Rusvingo. White people are quick to denounce everything that shows Black people as intelligent, including Jesus' blackness. Like, even the Remba are Hebrews from Yemen, and still, people ignore black Jews like they don't exist. [/QUOTE]

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