It holds no weight. The native inhabitants of North Afica, from Morocco to Egypt are, and have always been, Berbers. Berbers have been in North Africa for 1000s of years, and there was no point in human history that North Africa was ever occupied by "Zanj".

North Africans have always had more contact with Europe and the Middle East than with Sub Saharan Africa.

At one point, the Vandals, ethnical Germans, lived in North Africa. Though not for long, they only lived there for like 150 years before being defeated by the Byzantine.

Not proven or anything but I personally think Tariq ibn Ziyad might've been a Vandal. Like the picture shows, he looks really German. But like his name proves, he was born after the Vandals dissapeared, atleast as a culture, so I really think he was a descendant of the Vandals. I guess not.

Romans, Phoenicians, Byzantine Greeks etc have at one point or another lived in North Africa. But Sub Saharan Africans? Never.

With people like the Romans and Vandals, there have literally been more white people in North Africa than black people.

Here you can see Ramesses II defeating the Nubians. Note how the Nubians are obviously darker than Ramessess and his army of actual ancient Egyptians. Also, due to the quality, the Egyptians actually look darker in that picture vs how that tablet looks in real life.

Here you can see an Egyptian killing a Nubian. Again, note that the Egyptian is shown as overtly lighter than the Nubian, who is black.

In the Ancient Egyptian 'Book of Gates', we see a repressentation of ancient Egyptians and those they had contact with.

Here you can see them. The black ones repressent Nubians, the white ones in the top right repressent Greeks (afaik) and the other's are ancient Egyptians. Again, they heavily emphasized the difference.

Hope this helps a bit.

Want better proof?

During the Greek/Hellenic period of ancient Egypt, there were actually portraits of ancient Egyptians made.

They're called the 'Fayyum mummy portraits'.

Female, male and another male.

They're obviously not much different from modern Egyptians and if anyone ever claims ancient Egyptians as being black, chinese, russian or whatever - just show them those Fayyum mummy portraits. They proof that ancient Egyptians weren't black.

Furthermore, those same Nubians did rule one dynasty of ancient Egypt.

For 80 years.... while ancient Egypt has more than 3000 years of history.

And virtually no Nubian tribe ever moved into Egypt. Not during those 80 years and not afterwards. And neither before.

Hell, the Greeks ruled Egypt for longer. Yet no one is claiming ancinet Egyptians as Greeks.

I mean, Cleopatra was actually part of the Greek dynasty, yet she is claimed as black aswel.

And you're from the US I presume? If so, were these Africans or African-Americans?

I ask because the whole "ancient Egyptians were black" thing is more heavily followed by African-Americans than actual Africans, and my point is that African Americans originally come from West Africa, where they were defeated by other west Africans and subsequently sold as slaves.

So if they were African-Americans then they are the last group to claim North Africa or ancient Egypt, the distance between west Africa and Egypt is more than the entire length of Europe. They can't even claim Nubians, who actually were black because of the distance.

It would be like an Italian claiming the Vikings because they're both white.

Don't take them seriously - they're a joke.

Edit: Also, Ramessess II had red hair. His mummy has small strains of hair still intact and after DNA testing it was proven that his hair was red when he was alive.

Red hair is virtually non-existent in black populations.

Edit 2: Okay maybe not "from Morocco to Egypt" but there are Berbers in Egypt though. My point was to illustrate that Berbers were always native to North Africa and that ancient Egyptians simply weren't black. And yes, I do realise that some Berber tribes are darker, espescially the ones in Mali, Mauretania etc etc but those are most commonly from, like I said, Mali, Mauretania etc etc. I'm talking about the Berber tribes that aren't black. Those are just as ancient as the darker ones.