maybe you guys are misunderstanding me. i don't know. i never said that i don't know who the moors were. so let me explain what i'm talking about.
when i was 15 years old back in 2001, a movie called "black knight" came out, starring martin lawrence. i'm not sure when i first saw the movie, but whenever it was, this was the first time i heard the word "moor". there was one character who kept calling martin that and at one point, he said, "i'm starting to like this word 'moor' less and less." on the other hand, i'm pretty sure i'd heard of the country of congo, maybe under the name of zaire, before that.
in the several years since then i've learned about the moors and lots of other african cultures. before i had heard of the word "moor", the most i knew about them was that they were muslims and they got kicked out of spain, if i even knew that. i mean, i was 15.
also, as far as the "you eventually learn about the moors" is concerned, i learned about the kingdom of kush in a history class when i was 12 or 13, even before i learned about the moors.