This would be infact very easy to realize if one would just observe the way our brothas and sistahs on other lands defines their existence

I recall my mother being very insulted if some one called her black.
In lands foreign to America there is no color or race concept… there is only a name that is determined by origin lineage or birthplace

But see… the problem lies in trying to convince those African people who were born in America this. Because of history and circumstance being called an American is most times not acceptable so the easiest way out is to be “Black” no past… no origin just “Blackness”
I also have a problem with the whole African American thing… that may seem like the way… but that is also a very divisive and shallow way to define yourself.

Because there is then the issue of people not considering those of us who were not born in Africa or America… African or “Black”


as i paint to the wind's breath
freestyle to my footsteps
and create till the heartbeat's got no rhythm left...
-archangel_500years

So my path switches
Now devoted to uncovering all the glitches
That they left when they tried to hide my past
Under vast lies and advertisement pitches
So I dig deeper than subterranean level ditches
Deeper than the seeds of hate planted over those of vitality
Deeper than the hole I dug my self in when I was slaving for a salary
Deeper than the sin soil that his roots were cowardly planted in
Deep enough to find my soul again
And bring an end to confusion and fallacy
I must go deeper
-Amina NiaRa (deeper existence)