TLDR:
If I asked for a coke, would you give me a Pepsi, a Root Beer, or a Coca Cola?
If I asked for a piece of fruit any type, would you give me a carrot ?
What people are doing is instead of correcting it, they are instead changing carrots to be fruits instead.
They say “it’s all Soda” or “plants are plants” or in our case “We all Black”
Language is powerful as they guide and communicate us to ideas
POST:
The concept that Black Americans are African is submerged in racism and historical reconstructions.
It’s is category error.
African is not a racial identifier. It is racist to conflate it or use it as one.
Africa/African is a geographical identifier. Regional delineations can be made due to zones (North, West, Central, East, South) but all ethnic groups there aren’t locked or fixed historically or presently to a region.
Sub-Saharan African Descent is a racist geopolitical term that divides Africa into two political categories of North Africa and everything else below the Sahara desert. SSAD is colloquial understood to mean “African or black African” an oxymoron because they use Black in this context to mean “Negro/Negroid” and this delineation is only the result of Colonialism. We see the same arbitrary geopolitics playing out with the term “Middle East”
African and Black are not synonymous either as not all “black” people are of “African or SSA” descent
Political correctness changed a lot of the words to reflect the current/present day reality and usage of them. It in effect functions as a method of classification.
Changing Negro to Black and Black to African (SSA) in order to shift context when needed,
Geographical identifiers like European, North-Central-South American, West Indian (and increasingly Caribbean), Arabian, African, Asian, Australian, Antarctican,, Indian etc all function the same as people identify as them in some contexts to communicate an idea
The problem is these concepts are locked filtered and fixed into and through racist taxonomic systems that were based on allegorical concepts of European imagination.
Ethnic groups get flatten into broad categories and identifiers. In the USA they get flatten further into race. PC culture further distorted our usage of language rather than correct it
Again people are fluid and mix and move all the time. Culture is the memory of groups of people
Ethnicity
Culture
Race
Continents
Are not interchangeable identifiers
A Han-Chinese man from China doesn’t go to America and start saying they are Korean just because both groups share similarities in phenotype. They wouldn’t dress in Korean clothes talk Korean language etc unless it was their intention to be Korean
The labeling system doesn’t do this but we see racist people still commit the error by calling people who have racialized ideas of how and what an Asian looks like call all Asian people they meet Chinese.
This is what I’ve termed “phenotypical conflation”
Logic
People mix and move al the time. Culture, people, etc are fluid and the migration happens all the time as conditions on the planet changes for social or environmental reasons.
Black Americans are an ethnic group formed in North America and most Black Americans are born in North America
No matter which logic applied, the labeling system should correctly identify this YET we are treated as “Africans”
Some of our progenitors were African indeed thing is most of us trace our ancestry to North America (distant and recent)
Racism is a language game
The bridge they are using to connect unrelated categories is the word Black
African is used as a racial category until they need it to mean something else (Like North African or South African or ethnicities that are not originally from Africa being born there)
Where you are from does not change who you are.
Where you are now does not change who you were beforehand
Somebody who’s lived their entire life in the rain will adapt to living in that environment and condition. They will put on a rain jacket daily and have shoes etc adapted to these conditions. They will create traditions and cultures. Now take that same person and place them in a new environment in the desert. They will still have that same cultural memory of living there unless they abandon it. They can adapt to the new conditions but cultures don’t change overnight they fuse and become a new culture
Indians are categorically Asian but would you conflate Asians with Indians? Are Japanese and Chinese interchangeable despite both being Asian populations ? Yoruba and Igbo are both categorically West African ethnic groups but are all of them only found in Nigeria?
Race theory has been debunked scientifically but people still use this as the holy grail socially. Applications of Race theory is racism and it is racist to do so.
Historically White was said to be Caucasian, Black was said to be Negroid and Asian was said to be Mongoloid.
Asia never typed well onto these models because it was home to each category in their racist minds.
The big switcharoo was politically correcting Negro-Negroid to mean mean Black and Black to mean African
It wasn’t necessary wrong to divide humanity into different categories based on phenotype what went wrong was when the racist been to organize them along the lines of superiority based on who at that time was deemed “civilized” vs “savage”
When people are saying these words they come with predisposed meanings and understandings that click whirr and communicates ideas to you
The political correctness of Negro to mean Black comes from Black Americans who used Black as a sociopolitical, Sociocultural, Ethnonational, and Ethnocultural identifier. It was not a phenotypical nor racial descriptor.
This concept spread via adoption or imposition.
These social developments happened in America but were exported abroad.
Black is the political correction of Negro. Words can mean the same thing but have a different social context depending on the society. Noir doesn’t equal Black when describing people but it doesn’t equal each other when describing colors.
People who adopt Black American culture from language, identification, music etc etc adopted the way we used our languages to refer to their own cultural items
When I say Black Culture you know what I am saying but now they are playing a language game
Nigerian culture(s) is/are being labeled as “a” Black Culture(s) in a way that stretches what “Black means” in this context
Now if I said Yoruba Culture you understand but if I say Black Culture it’s taken as a universal metric despite everyone knowing exactly as you do
So everyone can participate Black culture as a result if they are what is considered “black” but we cannot enjoy their cultural tokens because they retreat into specifications.
People have co-opted our culture, history, and identity. Use our words and descriptors to validate a non-existent universal category that RACIST PEOPLE INVENTED and then stretch that concept to include their redefinitions from their co-option while denying us access into their specifics culture. They overlay theirs with ours and then say ours belong to everyone.
This is called a low barrier to entry culture
Ideologues are stretching a racial category into an ethnic category while one is specified and the other is universalized. Hence why our culture is constantly universalized or generalized but then they shift into regional or ethnic identifiers
If I say K-Pop is Black music remixed! Would you think they are remixing reggae or afrobeat? People understand what this means. They are appropriating Black American music. But they place themselves into that category because of “Black”
They don’t do this to the Coloureds of South Africa nor to the Caribbean groups NOR to African immigrants in the UK NOR to South Americans NOR
Black Americans culture gets universalized because they co-opted it an everyone feels like they have unrestricted access to it. Fish in water. They disrespect it sometimes just like when they co-opt “Nigga”
I had an argument with somebody who said they were Caribbean because they were from Jamaica. When I said I was North American and not African they got irritated and starting making racial arguments about DNA and Biology misunderstanding they were doing exactly as I wanted them too.
North American is a continental identifier just like African.
I would say we are watching them absorb Black fully into the African Context but it’s really the opposite
It’s propagation of race theory when they call Black Americans Africans.
Calling all Asian people Chinese is wrong. Calling all Asians Indians is wrong. Calling all West Africans Nigerians is wrong. Everyone understands these are wrong
But
The rule is suspended only for Black Americans. If Africans can identify as and call themselves Africans using loaded and broad identifier for whatever reason then Black Americans can too by saying we are North Americans.
We were told we weren’t African plenty of times anyway but people now enforcing it
Dodge all hijacks 2026
