Its not complex at all. Just call yourself African American and ditch that nasty color label. Black is not a racial family, an ethnic group or a super-ethnic group, its a social political construct.. Political blackness is thus not an identity.
Europeans have done a good job of imposing on you guys notions of identity based not on geography or ethnicity, but relative color.
An identity is generally geographical and ties the people to their native environment or their core doctrine. For Indians it is their land, for Chinese it is their land, for Jews it is their faith.
The key argument I hear is ''The cop pulling a gun on you'' which somehow makes you ''Black'' they think it makes sense.
But i find it odd that the definition of who you are , rest on the hands of people who supposedly resent you and oppress you.. That's the opposite of being Self determined. Tells me ''Black'' is just a slave name and all it is the opposite of ''White'' nothing more.
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Care to explain?
