These debates are getting tiring. That said, I still feel the need to make a few corrections.
It is actually a silly example. In Western culture, you are still considered black aka African if you have a one drop of Melanin. Europeans generally equates to being white. A black person can gain European citizenship but he can never be ethnically European.
Arab, on the other hand, is not a race or skin tone, rather it is an amalgamation of various people who are related via genealogical myths, language, culture and so forth.
Indigenous black Arabs do exist all over the Arabian peninsula and can be found till this day in the remote regions of Yemen. (Note: I am denying dark skin Arabs face don’t face discrimination). Things become problematic when folks try to apply Eurocentric understandings and constructs to other parts of the world.
When you come to the African peninsula, you have mixed-raced groups
like the Northern Sudanese and the Mauritanians who are Arab via marriage , meaning the patrilineal lineage. You can add the Barawani groups to that mix.
some Somalis do claim Arab descent.....I personally don’t believe their myths. My issue is that it is made into such a big deal by these Afrocentric fanatics, the same people who literally worship Habesha who claim descent from King Solomon and Jews.They also claim the civilisation of Egypt when their ancestors came from Western and Southern Africa. These are the same people who claim civilisations as far away as Elam and Sumeria.
I don’t think you can compare a Somali claiming Arab descent to a black American claiming to be a European. Somali and Arab history goes back thousands of years and we have a history of them settling in our land, of trade,of military assistance, of religion, etc. You can’t compare that to the relationship between blacks and Europeans which was mainly based on exploitation and rape.