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I know you heard of Jada Pinkett Smith's Cleopatra movie or documentary that is coming out soon. I know people debate about if she is black or not, but I really don't care. I just notice this thing, I don't have a name for it. They usually say "<insert historical figure here> is black" or "<insert religious group> are black."
I want to speak about the motivation and ideas behind it, the reason why they does this thing. Before I can tell you the motivation, I have to give the backstory.

So the backstory to motivation is pretty much rooted in slavery. We came here as a slave and throughout the generation, African Americans didn't know their culture back in Africa. A white person could tell you which country their ancestors were from and who they were related to. Another part of the backstory was "blue eye jesus." The pale skin model who they have represented Jesus.

When it was discovered that Jesus wasn't the model, some black came up with the conclusion that white people lied and pretty much hid the truth. With that being said, the idea was born from this question, "what else did they hid from us?"

So they did some "research" some are true, I believe the black samurai was true? (Feel free to correct me). Some stuff I questioned, like William Shakespeare being black. The most infamous ones besides Jesus was the backstory to the "We wuz Kangz" meme. That the jews today are fake and the real Israelite were black. Specifically, they were from a tribe called Igbo in Nigeria.

So what I notice about the people who spread and believe this are the same people like my best friend... they don't have shit going on for themselves. He is white and he cling on to his Greek heritage. No offense to him he is good and loyal friend. Just being honest.
TL;DR
They don't know shit about Africa or they don't find the actual history enriching so they do mental gymnastics of other cultures and historical figures and tie it to themselves to get some false sense of superiority. This shit is lame.