it's tricky but you should def see Africans, African Americans, and other black and brown folk as separate people. Socially, I can see why we'd want to lump us all together, but culturally no. To me, accepting "Black" when you know otherwise is just subscribing to the White notion that we're all just niggers, you're all just Black. especially when this is coupled with "in their eyes..." Youre submitting to massa's viewpoint. You're doing yourself a disservice by accepting that and not representing/valuing/acknowledging your background. Why can a White person sport Irish, German, etc and be Irish or German..... but we can't be Dominican or whatever without one of US going "ch you're Black have a seat." It's very slave-like actually, that mentality. We're automatically jealous or threatened by one of us trying trying to embrace something "other." Don't get me wrong it's equally slave-like to embrace things when they don't really apply to you, to try to give special, exotic, whatever.
