It should not matter to us Black Americans whether Africans were here before Columbus! This is why.
Black Americans are not African people. Black Americans are not the descendants of the Biblical Ham or Israelite people. Black Americans are not Arabian people to be Muslims.
Black Americans are a NEW race of people born out of the ashes of plantation slavery when the old White save masters bred themselves with their slaves over and over with each generation for 300 years until Pres. Lincoln outlawed plantation slavery in 1865.
I am not perfect, but I am never wrong! If any knucklehead think he or she has a shot at my perfect record of never being wrong you are welcome, but when it turn out to be that you are wrong your pay-up is to convert.
Likewise, I will convert to you all stupid way of analytically thinking and reasoning.