The Term African-American
Name or Title? What does it mean to me?
                                                                                                      

Knowledge is power.Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. -  Kofi Aman

 

First Things First.
The term African-American has very little to do with my ethnicity (social group) and more to do with my DNA addresses, past and my present location. Based on my DNA, I originated out of the continent of Africa. My DNA suggest central Africa, a country call Cameroon today. As to which tribe (ethnicity) of people, still TBD. I currently resided as a natural born citizen in the northern continent of the Americas, The United States of America. I ended up here, by way of my ancestors surviving the African Slave Trade, The Transatlantic Slave Trade, The Middle Passage, The Slave Bible, Chattel Slavery, Slave Codes and Laws, Three-Fifths Compromise, The Missouri Compromise, The Fugitive Slave Act, The Dred Scott Decision, a Civil War. F The Reconstruction Period,  KKK, Jim Crow, Voting Rights fight , The Civil Rights  Movement, Cointelpro, Red-Lining, U.S. Highways, War on Drugs, School to Prison Pipeline... Black Lives Matter Movement and, some of the most horrific things imagined that one human can do to another, Still, we arrived. 

I identify as African-American.  My global racial (ethnicity) I identify as Black (Negro). I still have work to do to identify my actual African tribe (ethnicity of origin). Africans, those born and raised in Africa, know their tribal origin, but (most) do not see "Black People" as one global people. African-Americans (Black- Americans), born in the U.S. of American, with  origin out of Africa, (most)  do not know their tribal origin, but see "Black People" as one global people. What we do with this knowledge is key to all our future.

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The Race Question: Black, Brown or White ?

We can not talk about the term African-American until we talk about this thing called race. Race is a man made construct. On the average humans share 99.9 % of similar DNA. The level of melanin found in the human body accounts for the 0.1% unique traits between people. The only difference between Black & Brown/Negroid, Asian/Mongoloid and White/ Caucasian is that 0.1% DNA: People with more melanin have darker skin, eyes and hair. This is where our global society get it wrong and focus the world on the 0.1% to blind us on the 99.9% we have in common.I can see God head shaking and saying, " What kind of fools have I created?" Race is a man made construct that separate on the 0.1% human difference.
 

We differ more so on cultural lines of ideas, customs, norms and social behavior, more so than the melanin count in our bodies. This is where we falsely cross- contaminate the degree of melanin with culture. When the different melanin count is mostly due to a person's geography and location on the planet and not culture,customs, norms and social behavior. But, over the years groups have almost forced this false narrative into reality under racial systems like apartheid, slavery, jim crow laws and today's anti-DEI initiative.. Over-time, DNA will adjust this forced environmental change. Only in a true culture blind society (not color) will we evolve as a species. Until then we we are only plotting and planning the end of humankind, by race (melanin content). In my opinion.

 

Last, but not least

 The core reason there are forces trying to remove or not teaching African-American & African History. African-American & African History is an extension of Biblical History. Once you trace African-American History into African History, you will run straight into Biblical History. Fact, not an opinion.

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A Few Misc. Facts:
Not all Black (Negro) people are African- Americans and not all African-Americans are Black (Negro) people). Those hyphenated words will vary in many different combination, depending on your specific journey to where you are a citizen today.. Some may be African-American, African-American-African, African- Europeans,Asians, Australian/Oceania, or just African if they have not journeyed out to live on other continent.  Because Africa is the origin of all humankind, Africa will always be the common denominator. In my opinion.

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The data estimate ; 48 million melanated (black or brown skin) people living in the U.S. of America, an estimate of 152 million melanated (black or brown skin) people living in the rest of the Americas, an estimate of 980 million melanated (black or brown skin) people living on the African continent. An estimate of 1.2B melanated (black or brown skin) people on the planet. There are approximately 745M non - melanated people on the planet. We are not in the global minority, Black-Folk are the majority. Just take a look at the make up of the United Nations.

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