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Delvo wrote:

Agrippina wrote:So who is to say that 'black' Americans are 'west Africans."

History has known all along that slave traders of the relevant era pretty much always used Atlantic ports and collected victims from relatively near the ports. I don't know how there could be any doubt about that (or is it just more of that feigned doubt again?) since the alternative would mean pointlessly crossing or circumnavigating a whole continent that they had no reason to bother with, but anyway, genetic tests in the modern population have confirmed the results, that the descendants of slaves in countries such as the USA and Jamaica predominantly have western-African genes, not eastern-African ones, just as white people getting tested in recent times have shown the distinct general genetic trends in Irish immigrants, Germans ones, Greek ones, and so on. The mixing you're talking about is among various western tribes, not between eastern and western ones.

But even regardless of the east/west distinction, it would still be conspicuous that all 10 of the top 10 male sprinters and 8 of the top 10 women were black... just as it's conspicuous how successful Amerindians are (for their limited present population size) in long-distance races even if you don't know whether they came from the tropical mountain regions, and it's conspicuous how much white people dominate in weightlifting even if you don't know whether they're eastern or western.