"Black", "African American" I'm comfortable with either. Now "Colored" or "Negro", I'm uncomfortable with. PE was sampling vocals that said"Too Black, too Strong" James Brown made "I'm Black and I'm Proud" As far as Moors, I' don't understand the significance why it's so important to identify with them. To be honest with you I tried researching the topic a few years ago and I was presented with conflicting stories as if the Moors were of Black or Middle Eastern descent.
I innerstand that you're comfortable with calling yourself "black" or "African american". That is your opinion and there's nothing I can do about that, but here's some food for taught concerning those labels (not nationalities).
If you look up the etymology of the word " black", you'll see that it stems from the old english word "blaec" which means void of color. It can also be used interchangeably with the words bleach, bleek or blank which pretty much have the same meaning. In French, the word "white" is translated as " blanc". You see where I'm getting at? Let's go a little bit deeper. The word "black" has always had (most of the time) a negative connotation;
Black plague: when people suffered from this disease, they turned really pale because they were dying, hence black (as in bleach or pale) death.
Black Market: a type of commerce that is done illegally aka "underground" like a coffin that you put underground.
Funerals: ppl are always dressed in black because it symbolize death.
Black magic: magic that is used with negative intentions.
I could keep going with this, but you see where I'm getting @. Troughout history, the word "black" has been used with a negative connotation. Ask any so called "black" child what is the color of his skin and he will say brown. If you call him black, he will look at his black hair and say "No, my hair is black, my skin is brown." Now how come a child can see how stupid it is to call himself black, but we can't?
As for calling yourself "African american", that's just absurd. You can't be from 2 continents. You're either African or you're American. On top of that, have you ever heard an African say "I'm African"? No, he will give you his nationality i.e. Ethiopian, Nigerian, Sudanese, etc.
As for the Moors;
Why it is that when we talk about so called " black" history, we jump from slavery all the way to kemet (ancient Egypt) (*some don't even acknowledge that we were the ancient Egyptians which is a whole other topic that I won't get into now.) We always skip the rich history of the Moors who brought civilization back to Europe after the fall of the roman empire. The Moors ruled Spain for about 800 years ( from 711 ad to 1492 ad) and they are the fathers of the European renaissance. "But what does that have to do with me?" you ask, well the Moors were ALL OVER the earth since the human race was created. (Look up the Australian aboriginals, the Olmec heads from mexico and south america, the melanated Buddha statues in Asia, etc.) The Americas was OUR land. We were the ancestors of the so called "Native American" tribes we see today (look up the Washitaw Moors for some info about one of our ancient tribes). The Seminoles, Iroquois, Algonquins, etc are all our descendants. When the Moors fell in 1492, that's when Christopher Columbus sailed to the "new world" (which wasn't new, and he knew exactly where he was going) to finish the job and colonize the Moorish tribes that were living on the continent.
You see, this is why it is important to reclaim your nationality and to comeback into the family of nations of the world. They are conducting business on foreign land that doesn't belong to them, but since no one is asking for the land back, well they can do as they please and kill us in the streets because we call ourselves "black". We do not belong to the nations of the earth and have no voice and no rights. The name of the game is NATIONALITY. We lost ours and they doing everything they can so we don't get it back.
Its time to wake up ppl and take what is rightfully ours.
I hope this made sense to you, there's definitely some holes in my explanation, but this is why you have to research the information yourself so it becomes true to you. Right now it's just me writing this, don't take my word for it, go look it up!
P.S. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this. If I did, well that wasn't my intention but I won't apologize because everything I said is facts. If you can't handle the truth, go crawl back in your world of lies where you're so comfortable lol.
