I Ain’t African-American, I’m Black
Una interessantíssima reflexió per part d’en Nicholas Payton, més ben dit, d’autoestima per el fet de ser Negre, de reivindicació identitària, i de distanciament dels subterfugis encara imperants. L’argumentari és per a sucar-hi pa i és el nou llegat del que en un anterior post vaig considerar com la primera generació de negres nord-americans realment lliures.
“I am not an African-American, I am a Black-American. Black, like White, is not a skin color, it’s a term of cultural identification. It has to do with how you are perceived in this world and where you fit in. Being African-American is a label, being Black has to do with acceptance. Acceptance that we dark-skinned New World descendants of Africans are beautiful in all of our shades of hue.
We did not possess a natural disdain for our skin color in Africa, we were trained to be ashamed of our Black skin right here in America. There was a time where being called Black was more of an insult than that of being called a Nigger or Colored.”