Darfur: It’s Not Arabs VS Africans

There is a slight confusion and misunderstanding. The Darfur tragedy isn’t really racial. I think the only reason the Janjaweed were labeled “Arab” is because they were backed up by Khartoum government officials who have Arab blood.

The Janjaweed are essentially the same race as those being murdered. They are both situated in the western part of Sudan. It’s not Arabs VS Africans. That’s a misconception.

Sudanese people of the north consider themselves to be Afro-Arabs. I think that’s just stupid since we in the north are not really Afro or even Arab racially. Many northern Sudanese folks hate it when being labeled as racially Arab. Culturally we do have a lot in common with the Arabs but racially we don’t. There are some northerners who are as white as Jessica Simpson and even have blonde hair (most of them are coptic). They are very fair because they have more of the Arab, Greek, Armenian or Turkish blood. As for the “Afro” part, it’s not really Afro. It is Nubian.

So a more accurate racial definition of northerners is that we are Nubian-something. That something could be Arab, Greek, Armenian, Turkish or even Roman depending on which part of the north a northerner is from. Sudan is a huge country. As for the western Sudanese they are sub-Saharan Africans who have “Arab looking” features but little or no Arab blood. The southerners consist of African tribes such as Dinka, Neur etc. The south is all the way down and since Sudan is so huge it was too far for any Arab, Greek, Armenian, Turkish etc. to reach and therefore the southerners have sort of remained “pure”. Only the British were able to reach them and that’s why the majority of them are now Christian.

Easterners are more or less like the northerners.

Therefore my dear readers, the Darfur genocide is not really racial. The perpetrators and the victims are racially the same. This freaking disaster is happening for political reasons. Those westerners were largely ignored for years. They had no proper health care or schools. When they saw that the southerners got what they wanted i.e. money, politics & power, they got “inspired” and started an uprising against the government. That’s when the government armed the other loyal westerners in the same region aka Janjaweed.

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