AFRO-AMERICANS/AFRICAN AMERICANS

The term Afro American later changed to African American was a term created by African Americans to identify our people.

I believe it was Marcus Garvey and his followers who first identified our people as Afro-Americans.

They reasoned that, since there were Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, German-Americans and Anglo-Americans; then our people should also be identified with our ancestral homeland of Africa and also be identified as Americans.

They rightly believed that this country was as much ours as any other race.

This country called the United States of America,where our ancestors had sacrificed so much blood, sweat and tears to enrich.

The country that we expected, to one day treat us as full American citizens.

The followers of Garvey concluded that the racial names given to us by Caucasians during and after slavery were not adequate.

They felt that names like, Colored and Negroes ; and the degrading nicknames such as n.ggers , coons , blacks , darkies , tar babies , jungle bunnies, monkeys , spear chuckers, nignogs etc. etc. were not respectable terms for our people.

None of those names and demeaning terms were associated with anything respectful and meaningful.

Just names and terms to demean us as Human Beings and label us as being less than other Human Beings.

Those insightful men and women of our race, were trying to end the psychological power, exercised by Caucasians over our people.

Using a racial name given to us by Caucasians; showed that they were still in charge of us.

Using any of these racial names or terms, meant that Caucasians were still our superiors.

Mentally we were still their slaves.

FREEING OUR RACE FROM DEMEANING TERMS

By creating this new term Afro-Americans/African-Americans showed that we would be the deciders of our racial identity not Caucasians.

Unfortunately, one of those names given to us by Caucasians in the past has now been adopted by many of our people.

Now the term ‘ black ‘ has been widely accepted by many people of African descent world-wide.

Many people are not even aware that it was the Nation Of Islam under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad during the 1960s and 1970s who was responsible for this change from Negro to black.

I challenge anyone to do the research and see if they can find any reference to the widespread use of the term black instead of Negro before the mid 1960s in any publications or the media.

Negro was the accepted racial name for people of African descent.

The members of the Nation Of Islam denigrated the racial name Negro.

They likened it to been an ‘ uncle tom .’

An uncle tom was a person of African descent who was doing everything he could to get Caucasians to like the Negro people.

They wanted to show Caucasian that Negro were just like them; both in physical appearance and in their thinking.

Self-hatred is still going on today.

The darker members of our race was pushed to the back in favour of the ones who looked more like Caucasians.

They believed that Caucasians preferred to associate with those Negroes who looked more like them. The ones who were lighter in complexion.

Elijah Muhammad who was very light complexioned, knew that many of our people hated being dark complexion.

Calling them black reminded them of their dark skin.

Over 100 years ago, many of our people preferred to be called “Colored” rather than Negro.

To be colored meant that you had some mixture of another race.

That you didn’t look like the typical dark skinned Negro.

Elijah Muhammad knew that many of our people, were using some type of bleaching cream to make themselves lighter in complexion.

He wanted to break our people from that self-hating habit by embracing the term black.

A term that many of our people hated to be called.

To call someone black in those days was meant as an insult.

It was a reminder that we didn’t look like the ‘white’ people.

Whenever we called each other black it was meant to denigrate each other.

It was not a term of endearment.

A fight would usually result from calling someone black.

So how did this term black as a racial name for our people originate?

DARKIES/BLACKS

The term black was the first name given to our race by Europeans.

The people from Spain called Africans negra , which means black.

The British as usual with their mispronunciation of Spanish words, start calling Africans, negro.

Later other non English speaking Europeans from France, Holland, etc. just called Africans n.ggers.

The Germans called our people schwarz which means black.

WHAT THE TERM, BLACK PEOPLE MEANT TO EUROPEANS

We must understand that the message of the European version of Christianity; was that the term white, meant angelic and pure.

‘White people’ had been deceived into believing that they had the ‘spark of divinity’ within them.

They saw themselves as being family members of their ‘white’ god.

Black people were associated with evil and the devil.

Typical paintings and drawings that I saw as a child. Evil was always painted ‘black’ and good was ‘white’. That may be the reason why many Caucasian Christians have a deep-seated fear in their DNA of”black people”.

So by calling our ancestors black they were not just saying that our skin complexion was darker than their.

They believed that Africans were ignorant; that they were spawns of the devil; and that blacks were associated with everything that was bad.

Black for them is synonymous with ignorance and evil.

So if we believe we are doing something radical and revolutionary by proclaiming to the world, that we are black people; then we are sadly mistaken.

They had called our ancestors black people to show that they were the complete opposite of white’ people.

What many people fail to understand is that Caucasians for centuries have been mentally condition to fear ‘black people.’

They were programmed to see black people as being a danger to them.

They were deceived to see their ‘white race as being pure and angelic; and to see ‘black people’ as evil and devilish.

(Hint: Angel Fruit Cake is white whereas Devil’s Fruit Cake is black).

VICTIMS OF THE COLOR SCHEME PLOT

Calling ourselves black played perfectly into the scheme of those who had been controlling and manipulation , the Caucasian people for centuries.

These secret rulers had deceived the Christians of Europe into calling their race ‘white’ during the 17th century.

[ Christian supremacy became ‘white’ supremacy Read about it at: https://chiniquy.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/christian-slavery-and-caucasian-supremacy/ ]

Psychologically calling their race white, meant that they were pure , angelic , divine .

Just like their son of god was white and divine; so were they.

They truly believed that they are related to their god.

That is why Caucasian Christian feels no remorse or shame in discriminating against or brutalising or killing, Christians of African descent.

The secret deceivers of the Caucasian race; had constantly fed their egos, a racially superiority diet.

They were ‘white’ and pure; whereas non-whites were dark, ignorant brutes who needed to be civilised by ‘whites.’

And then we foolishly began to demand that they call us black.

We played right into these deceivers evil scheme.

In the late 1960s, these secret rulers of the Caucasian people, quickly adopted the term black as a racial identification; in their publications and the media.

If calling our race, ‘black’ was a good thing for us; those who control the society, thru the media; would not have been so quick to start using it; and discard the term Negro.

Negro disappeared almost overnight as a racial term.

This black and white racial identification; clearly showed the division between the races; and it was a constant reminder to Caucasians that they are a superior race.

Every time we called Caucasians white, we are mentally acknowledging that they are a superior race.

And every time we call ourselves black we are saying that we are an inferior race.

A race that is constantly begging ‘whites’ to accept us as their equal.

Now some of us are begging them to acknowledge that our, ‘ black lives matter’ .

But, why should they?

They have been conditioned by their secret manipulators , over the centuries in Europe and the Americas; to believe that only, their ‘ white lives matter .’

We can end this foolish racial division by stop calling our races white and black.

Black is a color.

It is not a proper identification for a people with a great historical heritage.

That heritage goes back to the beginning of Mankind.

The greatness of the people of African descent was just not on the continent of Africa but also for what our people did in the Americas.

The majority of us knows nothing about their great achievement because we don’t research our history.

Some of us are only concerned about Egypt and some of the great empires of Africa.

We know nothing about our peoples history in South America, the West Indies, Mexico or even in the United States of America, before Fredrick Douglass emerged as a leader in the mid 1800s.

During slavery and after, African Americans were taught to hate their ancestral homeland of Africa.

They were told by their Caucasian slave masters that Africa was a place of savage , cannibalistic pagans .

That hatred for Africa that was taught to our ancestors by their Caucasian slave masters is still in many of us today.

Even now many people still believe those lies that said Africans were cannibals.

There is NO evidence that the people in Africa were ever cannibals.

With all the famine and deaths that the media (and charity pimp groups) have been reporting for the past 40 years or so in Africa; why have we NEVER heard about the people turning to cannibalism in order to survive.

The reason is, the traditional daily diet of the people of Africa is not primarily based on meat.

People whose diet is mostly meat (like many Europeans); after a few days without food they will become cannibalistic.

And there have been many incidents over the past 500 years which has proven that as fact.

During the early history of British settlers in America, many turned to cannibalism in order to survive.

It has been reported that not only did they eat the bodies of Native Americans; but they also ate the members of their own race.

But the people of Africa have been the ones historically labelled as cannibals.

Today, we are the only people in the world who hate the land of our forefathers. The majority of us don’t know or even care to know anything about Africa.

Many of us know more about Europe than we do about Africa.

That is why so many would prefer to be called ‘black’ or as some say, “just call me American.”

But definitely not African American.

We prefer to be call a color that has no historical significance.

Where is the country or continent called blackland?

What are the historical achievements of the people whose ancestors came from blackland?

We demean and diminish the outstanding achievements of our ancestors all over the Earth by calling ourselves black.

As I said before, many Caucasians love to be called white.

Because its meaning is closely akin to light , pure, purity, angelic, divine etc.

They have steadfastly held on to the term white as their racial identity for almost 200 years.

It is a powerful psychological crutch for them.

It fills them with racial pride whenever they are called white.

Whereas all the meaning for black is negative i.e. dirty , dingy , evil , etc.

We are feeding their egos whenever we call them white.

We are affirming that they are a superior race whenever we call them ‘white.’

And we are affirming that we are inferior by calling ourselves ‘black.’

We have been calling ourselves black for over 50 years and we have become more divided, hateful and unkind towards each other; than any other time of our history in the Americas.

We are promoting division among humanity by using colors to identify Human Beings.

Maybe if the majority of people stop calling Caucasians white; they will in time revert to become normal Human Beings.

They will stop seeing themselves as being superior to all other races.

So if you chose to keep on using one of the names given to us by Caucasians, during the days of slavery (n.ggers, black), instead of African-American; then please continue to do so.

I would rather use a name that was created by my own people that recognize that we came from the glorious continent called Africa and that we are equal (or should be) citizens of the United States of America.

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