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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
So to get this topic back on course.
I've already answered the topic but to be more detailed, I'm still not picky on black versus African American or even African diasporic if we're going beyond "race."
On a different note that relates more directly to what macallan, DSTRen and I were typing about in the last few pages (and to what folks said before that):
Instead of just focusing on the terms (black versus African American, etc.), people should examine what being of a particular group implies or entails.
These are the negatives of the title "black" because they have been used to caricature and minimize a culture and contribution of a group of people.
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I think it does matter in the grand scheme of things what people of African descent in the USA define themselves as. I think alot of the social problems facing our people today comes from this perpetual identity crisis... we can still feel the affects of slavery today, in our everyday lives, because we can not define who WE are!
You can't have a future with out a past...and so much of OUR history is unknown to us, so where do we go from here?