Considered Black

Submitted by Lee (United States), Oct 25, 2008 at 09:11

My husband is Jordanian, and in a lot of our conversations he has made comments that they are considered black. They are like African Americans because of slavery. African Americans are mixed, some a little more and some a little less. That is the reason for the different tone of skin colors in the same family.

In his country some of their people are dark as the African Americans, and some are olive color.

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