Sorry sorors, sisterfriends and fellow "board" participants, this message is a long one, so just skip it if you don't care.
Some of you have asked if there is research in the terminology. Well, here it is...
The book entitled "Melinin, the chemisty of this compound" . You will find it in a Afrocentric bookstore. The book is paperback and is yellow.
A must read is WEB DuBois, "Souls of Black Folk". Research the philosophical arguments between him and Booker T. Washington... Also Carter G. Woodson's "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Research the history of Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa movement in the 1920's.
Get any book from author John Henrik Clarke. He is called the father of an African Centered perspective. Ivan Van Sertima, another author who as researched the Afrikan heritage of the ancient queens in Afrika. He has written several books. The book entitled "The Isis Papers" by Dr. (my Alzheimer's is kickin' in... totally slips my mind).
The book entitled, "Black Women in White America"
Dr. Martin Luther King's "Why we can't wait".
Kwame Ture of the Black Panthers has written several books on this subject.
Nkrumah, 1st president of an Afrikan nation that won their freedom from europee-on colonization, he has written a book. I think he was from Nigeria, but I could be wrong. And I apologize if I have offended any Ghanians if he's truly from there... However he is from the "sub-continent" of Afrika...
Many of you HAVE to do your research, asap. Ask yourselves how you got to be called---anything. Really, you could be called slave... Really, we are all lucky for folks to call us anything... What does the word "Afrika" mean? What language is word "Afrika" in? Once you will find those definitions, you will determine how you feel your need to identify yourselves... We can barely answer the question "Who am I"!!!
I'm in the field to examine the science of race... And genetically, there is no such thing. We are all gradiations of each other with a polymorphic genetic code. It's like we're all roses and we all have thorns, but we come in different colors and we smell. Some of us are small roses, some of us are big ones. Nevertheless, we are all roses...
To read about the science of "race" or rather the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens , read in the journal called "Science" under the mitochondial "Eve" from 1987-1990. There have been several scientific articles devoted to this subject and all the biologists cannot find any major differences, such as extra limbs or no hooves, in all humans on the planet... The written science of "Race" is just a bunch of BS made up by some assholic 18th century Sociologists after Darwin proposed his ideas of evolution...
Also, if you choose seek an Afrikan centered perspective, many of your epistemologies (meaning why you think the way you do--there are "forces" that have predicted and already expect your thought processes), then an absolute MUST READ is Dr. Marimba Ani's book entitled "Yurugu". That book... That book will blow your mind... 20 years of her life has been devoted to the science as to why we negroes (and most of us (the "n" word)/negroes/black/Black/afro-americans/African Americans or whatever) are the way we are. She has created definitions to explain why we think certain way and how we got into this BS about race from jump... As my college kids say, it's like "whoa"...
As for what I call myself... I am human. I choose my ethnic heritage to be of Afrikan descent which ties me to a physical land. It's soil that oneday I may walk on and experience the MAAFA that so long ago decimated the existence my anscestors. I choose my ethnicity to be "in American" (spelled amerikkklan) because I deserve it and my anscestors worked this land just like everybody else. I refuse to be defined by others. In fact I want to be indescribable (sp.). Because once I reach that point, I have transcended to my inherited ancestorial "spirit" genes that makes me reach my divinity...
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