I'm sure most black folks of my generation blanched at first hearing the 'A-A' term. It used to be a widely known fact that blacks in this country are far from racially pure. Most of us are mixed with European and Native American of varying degrees.
If anything, we're a New World people, very distinct from Africans. Lord knows, we've lost all cultural memory and connection to Africa since our ancestors first came here. Nothing more than a romantic notion remains.
For myself, my paternal DNA line goes straight back to the Borders of Scotland. What am I supposed to do about that? Ignore it in favor of some untraceable branch of my lineage that originated in Africa? Why? Because I've got brown skin?
Nuts.
So there's a chance we're cousins.
Do you recall some of the Scottish names?
Just by the math of genealogy, a huge number of blacks and whites are related in the USA.
It would be a real hoot to do the genealogies of Black Panthers, Black Muslims, Skinheads and Klansmen, to see how many are related to one another.