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Some people in Africa might be descendents of the people from whom all currently living people all over the world descended from some fifty thousand years ago.
Then again they could've immigrated to Africa from somewhere else sixty thousand years ago.
Countries and borders are a construct 🤷♂️
Definitionally, that has to be true. If X are the descendants of everyone, some of "everyone" are in Africa, therefore "all people in Africa are descendants of the people all living people are descended from."
In fact that would mean "~~Some~~ All people ~~in Africa~~ ~~might be~~ are descendents of the people from whom all currently living people all over the world descended from some fifty thousand years ago.
Right but the people there now may be the descendants of the Bantu migrations, which displaced the indigenous people there before. (Not sure where exactly the "original" people are from so I'm just saying this hypothetically.)
Oh yeah, for sure (and we're really simplifying "Africa" dude it's so fucking big but..) it's all migration all the way down. That's honestly my entire point.
Honestly I'm pretty sure that before agrarian societies invented agriculture "humans" (which btw how exactly are we defining this) were nomadic by necessity, I'm not entirely sure anyone "knows" our origin localities by race or what exactly should be the "go back" defining line especially if we all spread from Africa as our current theories support.
In fact, actually that's a good fucking point! If we all came from Africa at the end of the day, do I have to, as a white...I guess...African?... Have to repatriate to Africa like Sizzla Kalonji (love him even if he hates me) advocates for "Africans" to do? as since I'm one of "everyone" I would qualify despite the color of my skin? Wouldn't then, if everyone is descended from Africans (and afaik that actually is the current scientific consensus), everyone on the entire earth "need" to repatriate back to Africa?
It just makes no sense to me when broken down, IMO let everyone move where they want and they're from where they were born even if they're ethnically "X" and we're all actually technically African.