Why Do Some Black Americans Use “Black” As Their Ethnicity?

[00:00:00]Hi everybody.

[00:00:02]I really appreciate this topic.

[00:00:04]Um I'm American. I just want to ask one question.

[00:00:10]>> I'm American.

[00:00:11]>> But what's your ethnicity?

[00:00:13]>> I'm a full-blooded primitive American.

[00:00:16]I'm a first nation indigenous.

[00:00:18]>> Okay, go ahead.

[00:00:19]>> Muscogee Creek. So >> All right, go ahead.

[00:00:22]>> Yeah, I know. I know. I I want to ask why do we keep saying letting these people keep call us black Americans? Cuz we are the actual Americans. We got to stop calling ourselves black.

[00:00:32]>> Okay, listen. I don't ever think this is my answer to that. I don't think all black Americans are indigenous or or freedmen or negro or whatever else they call they self African-American. I don't think they all going to come together and and and and commit to one term. It's always going to be people from different decades, from different times, and just and just have a a preference, you know, to be called whatever they want. So you can keep trying.

[00:01:06]>> [laughter] >> Reason I say that because if you know about law BLK stands for dead I unalive in the eyes of the law. So that's why these entities, these statutory creatures who we call policy people, they are able to do the things that they can do because we're using an adjective which is a status which is the BLK and use our actual I'm I'm telling you this >> That's not true. Do you want to know why they're doing it?

[00:01:39]Because they have the military.

[00:01:41]Because [clears throat] they have a military and we don't. Hold on. Hold on.

[00:01:45]>> Hold on. Hold on.

[00:01:46]You cut me off though. I wasn't even done.

[00:01:48]>> what? You're right. You're right.

[00:01:50]>> I ain't disrespect you.

[00:01:51]>> You're right. I'm going to let you finish.

[00:01:54]>> So this this what I'm saying.

[00:01:57]>> [music] >> Why are we calling ourselves an adjective with our actual noun, which is American? Cuz American is a copper colored being. And I'm talking about the people that's actually indigenous, Muscogee [music] Creek, Cherokee, Blackfoot. I'm talking about us, not everybody else cuz not everybody of us.

[00:02:14]Why are we are the only people that needs to keep calling ourselves an adjective with our noun, but everybody else could be just Haitian or just Jamaican. You don't hear them calling themselves black Jamaican or black Haitian.

[00:02:24]>> They call themselves black American now.

[00:02:27]>> Yeah, that's what I said we should take we should step away from being saying black American. We just American cuz that's the true Americans are us.

[00:02:36]That's why I'm that's why I'm asking.

[00:02:39]>> Well, uh you probably going to have to go to all 48 to 50-something million of us that I prefer black American. I just do.

[00:02:48]That's what um I grew up as.

[00:02:51]I mean, you know, until I go back and and find, you know, I guess and see if I have um indigenous whatever going on, but I don't know too much about that, okay? All I know is I'm a black American. Some of y'all know y'all indigenous. I haven't did that that deep of a dive, so I'm not going to go around calling myself indigenous when I don't know nothing about that part of my um lineage, okay?

[00:03:17]That's just how I am viewing it. I wouldn't feel right just saying, "Oh, I'm indigenous now." and can't explain why I'm saying it.

[00:03:29]>> Anybody else?

[00:03:30]>> Well, we I mean, do you have a native I mean, a card? You know, like the Native Americans get those little cards? Do you have one of those?

[00:03:38]>> Well, why I need it when my great-grandmother told me who I am? And my great-grandfather.

[00:03:43]>> Well, you don't >> Right. I was about to say you don't necessarily need that as long as you are able to trace your ancestry and that and if they're they were enrolled in some kind of in the Dawes Rolls then then it is what it is. My sound went out.

[00:04:03]>> Cuz he tells the truth.

[00:04:06]>> Right. Well, my family, you know, my family is indeed um you know, from different tribes on both sides, but you know, I still say um I still identify myself as a black American. And of course when I go out and people ask me like, "Well, you don't look regular black." I just tell them like, "You know, well, my family come from this and that." You know, you don't necessarily out Well, I don't know.

[00:04:33]That's just me, my own personal thing, but you can >> Can I address Beast for a quick? The what I disagree with Beast with I I disagree when people say the reason why we're not getting things done because we're miscategorizing, we're using wrong words. We are not doing that cuz we are not the ones writing that. What we have been doing is fighting that for over 700 years. So, to imply it's not being done because we're not using the right verbage is insulting to our struggle, insulting to what we fought for, and insulting to what we're still fighting for. Please don't say that.

[00:05:09]>> May I respond to that?

[00:05:11]Cuz this a perfect dialogue.

[00:05:12]>> Just make it real quick cuz we got to move on.

[00:05:15]>> Okay.

[00:05:16]Uh Odell, Florida. Okay, what is black?

[00:05:21]What's the ancient definition of black?

[00:05:23]>> Okay, make this 10 sec a 5 second answer.

[00:05:25]>> No, I have no time.

[00:05:27]>> No, because we got to move on.

[00:05:30]with the show. It don't matter. You can open up your own panel and and educate them. If you you more knowledgeable than I am, so when I got a show to run, so this not educate people on what the definition of blacky is, they can Google that.

[00:05:44]>> Okay. Is black is an adjective or is it noun? Is black an adjective or >> response for him, so I agree with you, sis. We can move on.

[00:05:51]>> All right, thank you.

[00:05:52]>> I'm I'm Hold on. That's That's a real question. I'm asking. Is black an adjective or a noun? That's two words.

[00:05:58]>> In the black law dictionary, which dictionary you Where you getting it from?

[00:06:01]>> That's diction- law black law No Webster. Is it an adjective or >> you tell us real quick so we can move on?

[00:06:08]>> It's an adjective.

[00:06:09]>> Okay, well, thank you. It's an adjective, y'all.

[00:06:12]>> So why So why use black American >> [laughter] >> we got people coming up.

[00:06:17]Child.

[00:06:18]Damn.