African invaders
My nephew is 100% Sicilian and has blond hair and bule eyes, His father had dark skin and black hair.
This sounds like the whole "one drop" racist racial-purity BS with regards to Italian heritage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_ruleAll that means is that he took after his mother or there was a recessive gene in his past for fair complexion and blue eyes, and that he possibly has French or Norman heritage and not Italian, Iberian, or Greek heritage.
Why do some people insist Sicilians are part black or are black-African descent?
It seems to me like this this is quite a phenomena amongst Afrocentric and some Noridicist circles. Both insist a lot of "Sicilian"features such as curly hair, a darker pigmentation, and oddly once a more convex nose is solely attributable to Sub Saharan admixture. Whereas, genetics disprove this argument by showing that depending on which part of the Island one is from Sicilians are an amalgam of Phoenician, Italic, Iberian, Norman, and a significant amongst of Neolithic West Asian. And yet this racist myth that Sicilians are "black" or "African" is still perpetuated both among mainland Italians and an American myth created by the media and during slavery/segregationist times in the United States.
Stupidity, that's why.
Sicilians are mostly ancient Greek, genetically. Anything else (Phoenician, Norman, Iberian, and Moorish) is common more or less in one area or another in smaller amounts, and sub-saharan-African is almost nonexistent.
It's surprising to a lot of Americans but in Mexico there are a lot of people who have a light complexion, blue eyes, and blond hair. Also many Americans are surprised that people from Spain look nothing like people from Mexico and Latin American countries.
