Agree with M.N. The arab invasion of the north in the 600s also caused an upheval of people, nations shifted prior to that other invasions of the middle east saw africans there move into the continent to escape enslavement and genocide.

The argument is flawed.... by its logic Turkish people are more "asian" than any other group because they're a mixture of every invading force that's conqured the region and as semites aren't a race per se. The opposite is true of course, those who haven't been mixed are of a "pure stock" and have stronger genes than those who have.... then again, if you look at our culture (past the fact that we as diasporans have lost or don't tend to celebrate the aspect) the idea of ancestrial veneration as an understanding of genetics and DNA long before it was discovered in modern times, mixed and diasporan africans celebrating their heritage then have a wider pool from which to draw from.

AGenerally say that their more direct link holds sway though.