The other guy brought up pan Africanism.

The point is that Africa is not a culture unless you are using something else to put all of the diverse cultures in Africa into one category. Since this is America, that category is the Black race.

It’s lazy and dumb. That’s my point.

I take your point.

But most Black people that are descendents of the slave trade are from West Africa. Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, etc. We know that. Their ethnic group status is impossible to know though, correct.

Are recent Somali immigrants Black? Most Somalis would say no, but our government lumps them in as Black. Somalia is no where near the Atlantic coast and the slave trade.

You mean China is a singular cultural hub right? There are ethnic minorities in China of course but most Chinese people are Han Chinese and the country is very homogeneous. Where as Africa is diverse as hell.

To me, this is just another example of how race in America is so screwed up and really doesn’t make any sense.