The Genome Project answered that question of whether there is no such thing as race, whether there is one race or not.

The fact is there is the HomoSapien type that emerged while the other types became extinct.

Out of the African Homosapien. (The first forms of Homo Sapien emerged in East AND South Africa and were already in South Africa over 150,000 years, Omo and Kanjera (Ethiopia/Kenya) 150,000 years. There is the possibility that there were smooth-skinned, blackskinned, straight, short, medium to tall African people as the first humans on the planet. The examples today are the Kong-San, Pygmies, East African, Sahara African, Anu (similar to blackskinned, African-featured, wavy-haired Indo-Negroids, like Black/Negroid people of South and East India and Aboriginal-type people who originated in the Sahara and East Africa).

The first Black African homosapiens entered Europe through Spain and from India. Before perhaps 50,000 years ago, North America, Northern Europe, Northern Asia was covered with about 1 mile thick of ice.

Africans entered Europe from India and the Sahara after the ice melted. Africans with the 'M' gene (which originated in Congo/West Africa regions entered the Middle East, and Central Asia. From there they spread to northern Asia and parts of China. The 'M' gene mutated in Northern China/Siberia region. Another African gene from the Pygmies (Kong-San ethnic group of South Africa) called the Cde gene spread from South Africa, throughout Africa, to India, Pakistan, Southern China.

People ask, well why are whites with straight, aquiline noses and straight, wavy hair. Why are Asians with epicantus fold, yellowish to pinkinkish skin and straight hair. Blacks have none of these features.

The fact is, Black/Africans are a very varied group of people belonging to ONE RACE, THE BLACK NEGRO RACE, BUT HAVING THE SAME FEATURES FOUND IN ALL OTHER RACES, EXCEPT THE VERY LIGHT SKIN.

The Ancestors of East Indians originated in East Africa, these ancestors evolved in Africa during the 'wet' phase of the Shara when the climate was very, very hot and humid, but rain ws common. People in that type of envoronment develop straight to wavy hair and black skin, Negroid features.
That group migrated to India, SE Asia, all the way to Australia.

Another group of people in Africa developed yellowish-brown skin, short to medium height, "Mongoloid" faces (like Nelson Mandela and the South African cricket player). In fact, these features are common in parts of Africa, particularly in very cold and dry mountain regions like South Africa and the Sahara, parts of East Africa and parts of West Africa. There is really not much difference in facial appearance (except for the very kinky hair and darker complection) between some Kong-San, Some Africans and people of Mongoloid strain from parts of East Asia.

There is also not much difference in appearance between some East Africans and some people of Indo-Negroid type from South and East India. Pygmy ( or Kwa) people of Congo resemble Negritoes of South India's Andaman Islands, the Negrito Semang of Malaya or the Negrito Agta of the Philipines.

The Negroid type, medium to tall, robus, kinky/frizzly hair, meduim brown to blue-black complection, round to almond eyes and found in Africa, South Asia, Melanesia, Indian Ocean, South Pacific, Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Americas both ancient and modern, are the first people to migrate in boats to various parts of the world.

After the Ice melted, many of these groups of Black people migrated to the Northern Hemisphere. Kong-San changed to East Asian, Straight-haired Africans gradually lost skin color and became 'Cromagnon' Kongsan who lived in South East Asia mixed with a taller 'Cromgnon' type from Siberia to create the Northern Mongol people, while the Kongsan who lived in the South mixed with Negro Australoid to create the Malay People and Southern Chinese.

How is that determined. There are chromosomes that originated in Africans. One is called "alu 7" it is found in 95 percent of chromosomes in Africans, 75 percent in Europeans and 60 percent in Asians. There is another chromosome from Europe, (alu 1 - see 'Scientific American' magazine). Alu 1 is found in 25 percent in Europeans, 5 per cent in Africans and 40 percent in Asians. South Asians (who are referred to as Indo-Negroids) have about 90 percent African chromosomes. The Negritoes of Andaman Islands - just off the coast of South India are 100 percent African-origin chromosome.

WE ALL CAME FROM THE BLACK RACE, BUT RACE AS A CONSTRUCT IS REAL

So, all humans came from the Black African race (and so do albinos who are very pinkish in skin color). However, over 50,000 years of movement, people have changed to adapt to different environments. People have different features and characteristics. It is not inaccurate to say there are races, BECAUSE RACES EXIST. We are of the SAME HUMAN SPECIES THAT IS AFRICAN IN ORIGIN, but are different races, ethnicities and cultures as well as linguistic groups.

What we have to realize as Black people is that we are the PARENT RACE OF HUMANITY and we are also the most diverse in genes and features. Only a very small number of genetic types migrated from African about 50,000 years ago. At the same time, most of the genetic variations remained on the African continent, a very hot and dry or hot and humid region.

The various types that became 'races' were already present in Africa as different types of Black people with different types of features but they all had Black/dark skin and Negro facial features, just as they still do today.

It would be self-defeating and self-genocide to start thinking that as Black people, we are seen as of the same 'race' as other people. That old trick of blending and disappearing Blacks cannot be accepted. As Blacks, we must take measures to protect ourselves as God made us. We must appreciate being black/darkskinned and work to make sure our great-great-great grand children are also black/darkskinned and remember our names and our culture.

The racist trick to 'blend' blacks out of existence happened in Argentina, parts of India, SE Asia, Southern Europe, England, Western Europe, Latin America, Brazil, South Africa, the Arab world. Today, that trick is being tried again. It seems that everywhere you turn around, the 'interracial' marriage and sex scheme is being pushed on Blacks. The people pushing this racist agenda of 'lightening' are doing so to dilute and weaken Blacks, who in the US are still a very homogenous population (86 - 90 percent of African-Americans/Blacks are 'pure' Black/African and have no European or American Indian ancestors ( check "Mullato" at wikipedia). This was shocking to some because many Blacks thought they had 'American Indian' blood and ancestors. While it is true that they do have American Indian blood and ancestors, they failed to realize that in America, there were both 'red' (Mongoloid) American Indians who were sedentary and nomadic people -- AND THERE WERE BLACK/NEGROID 'INDIANS' (MANDINGA-SHI) from West Africa, Nubia-Cush and the Sahara who were of the Black African Negro race. Many of these ancient Blacks of the Americas became victims of slavery in the US, Central America, the Caribbean, South and Central America. These are the 'Descendents of Ham,' that the European Church instructed the explorers to 'Christianize' and who were the first Blacks enslaved. Many (as well as 'red' Indians) were carried to the Caribbean and to places like Calabar, Nigeria and to Europe.

History is important in searching our origins.

"A History of the African-Olmecs," pub. by http://community.webtv.net/nubianem