Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

====The origins of racial difference====

In York's various writings he offered competing etiologies for human racial diversity.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=15}} During the AAC period of the movement's development, York claimed that there were three races of humanity: the Nubians or Cushites (black Africans), the Amorites (white Europeans, West and South Asians), and the Edomites (East Asians).{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=39}} Of these, the Nubians were presented as the original race, descended directly from [[Adam and Eve]].{{sfn|Barrett|2001|p=254}} At that point York also claimed that Native Americans were not a distinct race but the product of ancient interbreeding between Cushites and Edomites.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=39}} He sometimes used the term "Canaanite" synonymously with "Amorite" but in other instances used "Canaanite" for what he regarded as a "sub-tribe" of white Amorites who had raped Nubian women and thus produced offspring with darker skin but straight hair; these, he identified as the peoples of West and South Asia.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}}

York provided a different account of racial difference in his 1996 work ''Extraterrestrials Among Us''.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=16}} Here he claimed that black people are the descendants of extraterrestrials from the planet Rizq, a group he called the "Annunaqi Eloheem". He maintained that these extraterrestrials had to flee Rizq after it was threatened by rays from its three suns, Utu, Apsu, and Shamash.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=157}} He described this species as being green-skinned, "beautiful angelic beings", but that as these extraterrestrials entered the Earth's atmosphere, the magnesium in their [[melanin]] was replaced by iron, changing the colour of their skin to dark brown.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=16}} He further maintained that they settled in ancient Egypt and established ancient Egyptian civilisation.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=157}} White people, York claimed, instead descend from lizard-like "reptoids" while those he deemed racially [[Mongoloid]] came from the Terros.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=16}} 

York claimed that genetic tampering by extraterrestrials had resulted in humanity losing many its innate capacities, such as [[telepathy]] and [[clairvoyance]].{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=158}}
He maintained that various extraterrestrial species reside on Earth, concealed underground, but that they sometimes breed with humans.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=159}} One such species that he claimed lived underground were the Deros, an obese species whose half-human offspring are similarly obese.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=159}} Another of the subterranean species were the Teros; York claimed that when they bred with humans, the resulting offspring had [[Down syndrome]].{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=159}} In his text ''Is God an Extraterrestrial?'', York claimed that a new race was emerging, the Neutranoids, who lacked clear racial traits and were the puppets of forces wishing to undermine Earth's racial diversity.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=16–17}}