I am happy for this post.banana.gif I feel a little sad because Rashidi is wrong. I think the argument presented to him is far stronger. His reply is more African American and old at that. We like the dirty toilet because we bleached it so now lets drink from it.:X

I never gave it much though but thinking about it, Yes I am black. But really I am African. When did i become black. In my home country we NEVER EVER use this word Black people. We say we r African. Contact with America i use the word more "i am black" 2 fit into their world. And nobody in Kemet called themselves black, i dont know where that comes from. Kmt like Dmt has no vowels, and it def doesnt mean black people it means black land. In Sudan the soil is BLACK around the river bed. just like Nubia it doesnt mean Golden people, it means land of gold. As an academic he should know that from basic grammar

The thing i dont understand is, werrunning to be black and the whiteman is running to claim the name African. So now you hear ohh he is a black African or a white African. nobody else allows this. It is rooted to Niger (latin), Negro, y clean up something that has such a bad history.

I mean i still use the word but i have to think and mayb i should just say i am African, like Kenyan-African, Ethiopian-African African American, I actually get angry when u buy into something and then u say "oh my God, y do i use this word?"

Now thinking about it, Runkuko would have too much to lose (politically) if he accepted that explaination because his entire work rotates around a "black" identity. So keep pushing the little mistake 4 the greater good i guess.