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"Teeth from exhumed skeletons of crew members Christopher Columbus left on the island of Hispaniola more than 500 years ago reveal the presence of at least one African in the New World as a contemporary of the explorer, it was announced... I would bet money this person was an African, Price says of one of the three individuals whose teeth were subjected to analysis."

Interesting. Thank you for the link, Conq.

But of course it was blacks who really discovered America. Also, ancient Egyptians were black and portrayed themselves as Caucasians for lulz, black soldiers played a fundamental role in American war efforts during WW 2, blacks discovered all the cool shit like peanut butter and Beethoven had a black grandfather.

and don't forget...

Maybe it was just the corpse of a Sicilian.

Here's an interesting theory. Columbus brought people of African descent to the new world because it was a spanish expedition and the Moors, who ruled spain for centuries, were from northern Africa. What do you think?

Does this mean blacks will join indian protests for Columbus Day? Will I get to see Rev. Al and Tonto on the cover of the NY Daily News?

I don't know if the racial make-up of northern africa is the same today as it was in 711 AD when the Moors first came to spain, but I think the people you think of as north africans today are of arabian descent.

Some (maybe most, I didn't ask 'em) are somewhat Arabic, I think. In Belgium and Holland however, there are large communities of Berber people, who are pretty white.
And Moors are not black, as is the popular belief. (I just read that on Wiki; if you have a more serious source, please inform.)

The source I read said of the Moors: "It has no ethnographic meaning but can be used to refer to all Muslims, Berber or Arab, who conquered the Iberian Peninsula". I know that the Nubians controlled the Egyptian Empire for the longest time and they are black. Besides it was the muslims who started the whole african slave trade it wouldn't surprise me to see some of them show up in spain long before Columbus sailed.

We're not getting anywhere like this.
Can we agree that it was most probably some lowlife, who wanted to catch a free ride and took the wrong ship for it?

Maybe he wanted to move to the land of food stamps, Spring Thomas, KFC and gangsta rap but did not realize he was a couple of centuries early.