10/06/2026
🌞 So you think that Black means having any amount of African ancestry? Like the 1 drop rule? There are at least 3 active social-definitions of what black means. Meanwhile, from the indigenous perspective, that doesn’t have a true meaning ( it is new to American Indians) & even Africans are being taught what being Black (in America) means. People like to forget that even North Africans are actually legally white so the actual definitions and how it’s being implemented needs to be addressed.
When we talk about Native American/Indian issues. The issue is everyone agrees/recognizes that black means skin-color until it starts messing with legal contracts or related to some very specific experience that serves prejudice and loss of money. In Australia, for example, they call Aborigines “Blak “ and if they said they are ”Blak” in Australia, they would know it’s a very polarized issue that describes their experience with erasure as England tried to change the skin color of the aboriginals. It is a very live and heated issue that is different than being Black in the USA - marked by being transported from west Africa to North America and surviving past slavery. Black is a new term that needs more protective definition and is about culture. American Indians who have “black” skin - mixed with African or those who are not - get to define themselves by their tribe and self-definition. Someone saying “ I am Choctaw” should never be defined by skincolor but the Jim Crow establishment spilled in and created an indigenous version of a caste system. That’s 130 acres vs 40 acres based on new rules (1902) that wanted to define you by how you look instead of who you are. This is why the American Indians who got shafted by all of that are angry and why calling them/us Africans is an Indicator that the okie-done was fallen for. They were getting the dissonance basically from all external directions at once except for one ( their cousin/grandma/mother/father) Thank God for these genealogy warriors out here because people deserve to be reconnected to themselves.🌞
