I FOUND THIS EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND PROFOUND🤔
I was having a conversation about ethnicity and geography which led to terminology and I was asked did I prefer Black or African American?
And I had to really think before I answered and I said Black because it encompasses our spectrum or Blackamoor.
I was then asked what was wrong with African American?
And I said nothing... Other than no treaties have ever been written for African Americans.
But there have been treaties written for those classified as Moors as well as Native American (including Navajo, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nations and a few others)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_treaties
Keep in mind... For most of America's early history, the government only recognized two racial classifications, "White" or "Colored".
Due to immigration laws of the time, those deemed "Colored" were often stripped of their American citizenship or denied the ability to become citizens.
For these reasons, various South Asians in America took the government to court to try and be considered "White" instead of "Colored", using various rationales.
And when you look up the definition of Black People we find:
Black people is a skin group-based classification used for specific people with a mid to dark brown complexion.
Not all black people have dark skin; however, in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western World, the term black is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations.
It is mostly used for the people of Sub-Saharan African descent and the indigenous peoples of Oceania, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified "black", and these social constructs have changed over time.
In a number of countries, societal variables affect classification as much as skin color, and the social criteria for "blackness" vary.
In the United Kingdom, "black" was historically equivalent with "person of color", a general term for non-European peoples.
In other regions such as Australasia, settlers applied the term "black" or it was used by local populations with different histories and ancestral backgrounds.
For many other individuals, communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result is neither used nor defined in African cultures that have dealt with little-to-no colonial history.
Some have pointed out that labeling people groups "black" is erroneous as the people described as "black" have a brown skin color which is indeed fact 😂
Black people are listed as being all over most of the world 🌍
Although not always discussed when Africans migrated and populated the planet, them and their descendants became indigenous, aboriginal and native to the lands they settled in!
Areas of concentration:
1 Africa
1.1 Northern Africa
1.2 Sahara
1.3 Horn of Africa
1.4 Southern Africa
1.5 West Africa
1.6 East Africa
2 Asia
2.1 Western Asia
2.1.1 Arab World
2.1.2 Iran
2.1.3 Israel
2.1.4 Turkey
2.2 Southern Asia
2.3 Southeastern Asia
3 Europe
3.1 Western Europe
3.1.1 France
3.1.2 Germany
3.1.3 Netherlands
3.1.4 Spain
3.1.5 United Kingdom
3.2 Eastern Europe
3.2.1 Balkans
4 Oceania
4.1 Indigenous Australians
4.2 Other
5 North America
5.1 Canada
5.2 United States
5.2.1 One-drop rule
5.2.2 Blackness
5.2.3 Race mixing in the United States
5.3 Mexico
5.4 Caribbean
5.4.1 Dominican Republic
5.4.2 Puerto Rico
When you research the history of the places above or research archaeologists... You find the deeper they dig and the older they go back, the blacker the planet gets 🤨
MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE TERM MINORITY 🤔
I was having a conversation about ethnicity and geography which led to terminology and I was asked did I prefer Black or African American?
And I had to really think before I answered and I said Black because it encompasses our spectrum or Blackamoor.
I was then asked what was wrong with African American?
And I said nothing... Other than no treaties have ever been written for African Americans.
But there have been treaties written for those classified as Moors as well as Native American (including Navajo, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nations and a few others)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_treaties
Keep in mind... For most of America's early history, the government only recognized two racial classifications, "White" or "Colored".
Due to immigration laws of the time, those deemed "Colored" were often stripped of their American citizenship or denied the ability to become citizens.
For these reasons, various South Asians in America took the government to court to try and be considered "White" instead of "Colored", using various rationales.
And when you look up the definition of Black People we find:
Black people is a skin group-based classification used for specific people with a mid to dark brown complexion.
Not all black people have dark skin; however, in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western World, the term black is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations.
It is mostly used for the people of Sub-Saharan African descent and the indigenous peoples of Oceania, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified "black", and these social constructs have changed over time.
In a number of countries, societal variables affect classification as much as skin color, and the social criteria for "blackness" vary.
In the United Kingdom, "black" was historically equivalent with "person of color", a general term for non-European peoples.
In other regions such as Australasia, settlers applied the term "black" or it was used by local populations with different histories and ancestral backgrounds.
For many other individuals, communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result is neither used nor defined in African cultures that have dealt with little-to-no colonial history.
Some have pointed out that labeling people groups "black" is erroneous as the people described as "black" have a brown skin color which is indeed fact 😂
Black people are listed as being all over most of the world 🌍
Although not always discussed when Africans migrated and populated the planet, them and their descendants became indigenous, aboriginal and native to the lands they settled in!
Areas of concentration:
1 Africa
1.1 Northern Africa
1.2 Sahara
1.3 Horn of Africa
1.4 Southern Africa
1.5 West Africa
1.6 East Africa
2 Asia
2.1 Western Asia
2.1.1 Arab World
2.1.2 Iran
2.1.3 Israel
2.1.4 Turkey
2.2 Southern Asia
2.3 Southeastern Asia
3 Europe
3.1 Western Europe
3.1.1 France
3.1.2 Germany
3.1.3 Netherlands
3.1.4 Spain
3.1.5 United Kingdom
3.2 Eastern Europe
3.2.1 Balkans
4 Oceania
4.1 Indigenous Australians
4.2 Other
5 North America
5.1 Canada
5.2 United States
5.2.1 One-drop rule
5.2.2 Blackness
5.2.3 Race mixing in the United States
5.3 Mexico
5.4 Caribbean
5.4.1 Dominican Republic
5.4.2 Puerto Rico
When you research the history of the places above or research archaeologists... You find the deeper they dig and the older they go back, the blacker the planet gets 🤨
MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT THE TERM MINORITY 🤔
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