My fist and my pride!

Black
Negro
African American
Afro American
Nigger

Why is it that our race/ethnicity has been described and translated into so many different forms? The ignorance of our society to classify and stigmatize the differences of people demonstrates the weakness of our nation. I believe that today more than any other time before that the freedoms we have been entitled to for centuries is now beginning, marginally at least, to show face. We have a "black" president. I use the term black lightly in the case of dear old President Obama because he in fact is not black at all. He is mixed, mulatto, interracial. However, our people, blacks are so accepting we classify and let in just about anyone we deem to be someone to move our people ahead. The same euphoria we have shown people like Clinton, Lincoln, Kennedy, Eminem...you get my drift. African Americans love to accept in people who shed a slight similarity, interest, or advocacy. Fair enough, but what other race/ethnicity is accepting us? Even our modern day uncle tom's wouldn't necessarily be accepted by the white race. I always found it funny that the weakness of our own people has been our lack of discernment and discretion. It is ok for black people to be exclusive. It is ok for us to own our own cultural identity, uniqueness and pride that we do not lend into the hands of others to be exploited. Prime example the hair industry, today it is one of the largest money making industries in the U.S., demanding and taking the money of black people. However, it is almost an exclusively asian owned business. And as everyone knows Asian's do not accept or share there business among any other race outside their own. They own the market in hair, nails, beauty, and food (black and asian type of food: you can get a chicken box and a half n half, or general tso's and green tea all from the same korean cook). Not a racially charged argument but where has the black pride gone? Where are the days of sit-ins, picketing, protests, marches and riots for our rights? Have we lost our spirit of civil liberation? Yes, yes we have. Our first aim at unity would be to identify under one title, one that we give ourselves. Not an identification given to us. I rather call myself black, that way every person of African descent whether in the diaspora or not can fall under the same term. I do not associate myself as American, because America has yet to accept me. Not until the day a black female of the same educational and professional background can make the same wage as a white male or female in the same job position/title....than I am not an American. I will remain to be black because America has remained to withhold all of my civil liberties entitled to me from their white man-made Constitution.

This in no way is a racist blog or post against any one else, however a mere strongly felt and opinionated post about my black realism. You can deny the truth if you want, but it's still felt in my black owned beating heart. I live with my fist held high.

Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!