AA hair texture? Hmm, I’m assuming he’s referring to Africans (probably Western Coast) that immigrated here. They are a totally different breed.
As for Black Americans it’s plenty from high yella red to darkest ebony that have smooth and none coarse hair. Between the mixing between the Slaves from the trans Atlantic trade and Anglos Saxons, Spaniards, and Native Americans is what most Black Americans come from.
He looks like his lineage is more East African and Middle Eastern. But you never know. Anyone know if he converted and then changed his name?
The author of that tweet is Bengali and knew very little about African Americans. When people came into the comments and corrected him about certain things such as looks and hair, he basically apologized and stopped talking.
Here's an article about Jabbar's history
Bourbon Street terror attack suspect had family ties to Louisiana
The man who authorities say
killed 14 people in a New Year's Day early-morning attack on Bourbon Street has family ties to several Acadiana communities, including Lafayette, St. Martinville and Ville Platte.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of the Houston area, sped a rented pickup truck down Bourbon Street, running down people still celebrating the New Year around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to law enforcement. Police shot and killed him. The FBI said an
Islamic State flag flew from the back of the white pickup truck and that he posted videos to social media pledging his support for ISIS.
Jabbar was born in October 1982 in Harris County, Texas, which is the Houston area, according to Texas birth records.
His father, Abdal Rahim Jabbar, was born in Beaumont, Texas. He was originally named Masterson Young but changed his name when he converted to the Islam religion.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar's mother, Herma Everette, also was born in Jefferson County, Texas, which is the Beaumont area.
Those a generation before them, though, were part of a migration of residents, many of them Black, Creole and Cajun, who moved across the Texas border to the Beaumont area for work.
Public records show Shamsud-Din Jabbar's paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., was born in Louisiana, possibly in St. Landry Parish. U.S. Census records have him residing in the town of Evangeline in Acadia Parish in 1940.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar's paternal grandmother was born Iola Bertrand in the Evangeline Parish community of Ville Platte. The couple moved to Beaumont after they married. That is where they raised their children.
Friends of Jabbar said in interviews that they grew up together in Beaumont, where he excelled in school.
A 1988 obituary for Calvin Young Jr., the brother of Abdal Rahim Jabbar, says he was a native of Lafayette and lists his stepmother being from Plaisance in rural St. Landry Parish. He also had a brother living in Kinder, a town in Allen Parish, and a daughter residing in Ville Platte.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar's mother's family also has ties to Acadiana.
Herma Everette's mother, Mae Lena Malveaux, was born in Louisiana. Census records show her residing as a child and then as a young woman with her parents in St. Martinville in 1940 and 1950.
She married Herman George Everette in Jefferson County, Texas. It appears her husband was a native of Texas.