excusemypassion:

Anything you call us will be wrong. None of us know what ethnicity we are; Africa is fucking huge. “African” is not an ethnicity. To simply call us “black” or “African american” is to generalize all of africa…but Ethiopian people are ethnically different from Egyptian people who are different from Somali who look nothing like Algerians. Don’t call me black; I probably will never know exactly what ethnicity I am. Sad.

There is no politically correct term for people of color who’s great-grandparents were slaves. We don’t know where they came from.

Upon entering this country, everyone with dark skin was called “nigger.” Period.

 I don’t necessarily agree with not using the term “black” but this post has a valid point and is something I think more people need to understand in the long run.