It's really sad how little people understand race, nationality, and ethnicity here. Black is a race, the broadest grouping of people-outside of species. Black people can live in any country (read: they can have any nationality). Certain countries have Indigenous Black populations like all of west, central, east, and southern Africa (North Africa also has a significant indigenous Black presence but N. Africa isn't homogeneously native Black), or Australia. Australian aborigines are Black (that is why Gateway, Edin Fesi, Shard, Bishop, and Aaliyah Bishop are Black). M is of half Afro- Monégasque (Afro is used to denote when something is the Black version of something, e.g. Afro-Latino) and half Algerian. The transatlantic slave trade brought many Black people to the Caribbean, the United States, and most of all, South America (they also eventually arrived at places like Canada and Europe). Countries like Brazil have huge Black populations; in fact, Brazil has the largest Black population on Earth outside of Africa. Characters like Sunspot are Afro-Brazilian (in fact, his origin story is about the anti-Black racism he faced). Places like Puerto Rico have also received a lot of Black people. There was actually a study that said that nearly every Puerto Rican has some African ancestry (this doesn't necessarily make them Black), but a fair amount of Puerto Ricans are actually Afro-Puertoriqueño and thus, Black. Cecilia Reyes is an example of this.
A list of different Black characters (so not all mutants; they also won'tbe exclusively from Marvel) and what they are:
Storm: half African American (paternal side; this means descendant of United States slavery), half Kenyan (maternal side)
Sunspot: Afro-Brazilian
Jet: Jamaican
Cecilia Reyes: Afro-Puerto Rican
John Stewart: African American
Batwing I: Congolese (from the Democratic Republic of Congo)
Dr. Voodoo: Haitian
Oya: Nigerian
Bishop: Australian Aborigine
Black Panther: Wakandan (Wakanda is fictional)
Vixen: Zambesian (Zambesi is fictional)
Static: African American
Blink: Chinese-Jamaican (she is mixed with Chinese and Afro-Jamaican)
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