Samurais and ninjas were actually black
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There are some cool things across Africa to pull from such as Mali, Dahomey, Zulus, and Aksum. But, you can't talk about them without mentioning slavery or genocide and African peoples were always good boys who dindu nuffin, so those all have to be ignored.
Except, most black Americans weren't from those groups; they were the ones conquered by those groups. That's how their ancestors ended up enslaved in the first place.
And even when you are descended from a valiant warrior culture, the glory of that loses it's edge when said group was still living in tribal villages while the rest of the world was seeing great civilizations rise and fall.
Eh I doubt there was any significant genetic distance between the Dahmoey and their neighbors. Slaves were the descendants of the losers of that week. Shit didn't last that long in sub-Saharan Africa.. well doesn't.
They did try to rewrite Dahomey, no one liked it.