Nah, see, all the black elves and African-Numenorian folx and dark-skinned Hobbits were actually on the front lines of the battles at the end of the Second Age, and died heroically saving the inferior and cowardly huwite mails. The stories told of that time by Elrond were made up to make himself and the huwites look better, because he was jealous of how awesome the proud Hobbits, Men, and Elves of Black and Indigenous Color were.