I’m tired of fake historians assuming that every dark-skinned person in early America must have been African—and then forcing every tribe, document and family into that conclusion. I’m tired of Black Indigenous people being told that our existence requires African admixture. A Black Indian does not need an African ancestor to explain why that Indian is Black. I’m tired of people Africanizing the Gullah Geechee while ignoring their roots among Black Indigenous peoples of the c