Kunta Kinte has white relatives.
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Everybody is related if you go back far enough.
Australian aborigines are not related to any of the ethnic groups of Europe.
If you're a Bible literalist, all humans are descended from Adam and Eve. If you're an evolutionist, all humans are descended from Y-Adam and mt-Eve.
There were other humans unrelated to Adam, according to Genesis 4:16. Cain was exiled to a land east of Eden, where he found a wife and had children. This implies the existence of other peoples even from a literalist perspective.
As for the evolutionary perspective, the degree of relation is key; it’s hardly appropriate to consider two species the same simply because they shared a common ancestor at some point prior. If that were the case, nearly anything with a spine could be considered a human relative.
The distinction between “related in a evolutionary sense” and “related in a genetic/ancestral sense” is somewhat muddy, but in terms of connotation I believe your original comment to be largely pedantic.