- published: 08 Dec 2013
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African people refers to natives or inhabitants of Africa and to people of African descent.
Many etymological hypotheses that have been postulated for the ancient name "Africa":
The African continent is home to many different ethnic and racial groups, with wide-ranging phenotypical traits, both indigenous and foreign to the continent. Many of these populations have diverse origins, with differing cultural, linguistic and social traits and mores. Distinctions within Africa's geography, such as the varying climates across the continent, have also served to nurture diverse lifestyles among its various populations. The continent's inhabitants live amid deserts and jungles, as well as in modern cities across the continent.
Perhaps it is a function of the number of excavations actually performed in given areas, but it is at least suggestive that the five very earliest out of the twelve of earliest archaeological discoveries of Homo sapiens sapiens have been in Africa and the adjacent Arabian peninsula.
The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context. Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of "whiteness" and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for "blackness" in a particular setting.
As a biological phenotype being "black" is often associated with the very dark skin colors of some people who are classified as "black". But, particularly in the United States, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being "African-American". As a result, in the United States the term "black people" is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification.
No matter what it is your going through
We will always be here for you
No matter how far away
When the skys are grey
I won't hesitate to pray
Nothing out there compares to you
So much beauty shouting through
The place I go to get my [? ] you
I can't wait to be with you
Feel your warm embrace
I know some times we as people
Make you feel disgrace
What we need to do right now
Is come together as one
Together you and I can make a change
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I see the way they paint you in the news
If only they could walk in my shoes
Now we all singing the blues
That's why I'm doing everything that I can do
To show the world my love for you
It will never change
No matter what they say about you
In the heart I know
I can't wait to be with you
Feel your warm embrace
I know some times as people
Make you feel disgrace
What we need to do right now
Is come together as one
It's time for you and I to make a change
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We need to treat each other better then we are
Cause when it comes down to it we are all that we got
Forget our diffenrences let's focus on what's similar
Until the day I die I'm going for my (?)
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