and, just, if you're curious....what is my take on these black history types that think everybody was black?

they're half right.

the initial egyptians were black, but the racial mixing started happening deep into pre-history, and by the time the historical records appear they were pretty mixed.

the sumerians, it is clear, were white. and, they weren't semites, either - they were probably more like modern day georgians or armenians.

the elamites probably looked like dark-skinned indians, and probably migrated into the middle east rather than out of it. the movement of trade seems to be in that direction, and they seem to have been seen by the broader mesopotamians as outsiders. so, they were probably dark-skinned, but not exactly african.

the various semitic language group seems to have had black origins, but most of the assyrians and babylonians and jews were probably white.

the persians and historical indians were white.

the "old europeans" of gimbutas, the danube civilizations, were probably mixed, and may have been initially black, like the egyptians.