Or are we going to completely ignore the fact that theres black people who live (/lived) in India for hundreds of years now, because some people are openly afraid to tie blackness to their cultures?
Example: The Siddis (Afro-Indians) are a tribal population whose members live in coastal Karnataka, Gujarat, and in some parts of Andhra Pradesh. Historical records indicate that the Portuguese brought the Siddis to India from Africa about 300–500 years ago; however, there is little information about their more precise ancestral origins.
(Source: Indian Siddis: African Descendants with Indian Admixture Shah, Anish M. et al.The American Journal of Human Genetics , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , 154 – 161)
And can we not say the only way they got there was from slavery 😒