What did the Ancient Greeks think about the black African?

Question

For the people of Colchis are evidently Egyptian, and this I perceived for myself before I heard it from others. So when I had come to consider the matter I asked them both; and the Colchians had remembrance of the Egyptians more than the Egyptians of the Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of Sesostris. That this was so I conjectured myself not only because they are dark-skinned and have curly hair (this of itself amounts to nothing, for there are other races which are so), but also still more because the Colchians, Egyptians, and Ethiopians alone of all the races of men have practised circumcision from the first. The Phenicians and the Syrians who dwell in Palestine confess themselves that they have learnt it from the Egyptians...These are the only races of men who practise circumcision, and these evidently practise it in the same manner as the Egyptians... "

(Herodotus, The Histories, Book 2: 104)

Answer 1

maybe they thought , you are who you are,

be yourself and say what you feel, because those that matter won't mind, and those that do mind , won't matter (-;

Answer 2

they thought that they were people just like anybody else.