Calling Yourself Black

Even though i am all for the name change of AFRICA to another more AFRICAN name, one not given or "bestowed" upon us by the european exlorer, i rather find it better to use than the word BLACK as an identifier of the african human.

Have a look at this definitions of both BLACK & WHITE per the english language.

WHITE
  • a member of the Caucasoid race
  • being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
  • of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
  • United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
  • free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
  • Australian writer (1912-1990)
  • marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
  • United States political journalist (1915-1986)
  • restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
  • United States architect (1853-1906)
  • glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
  • United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
  • benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"

BLACK

  • being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
  • of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
  • marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
  • offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
  • stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent ...
  • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is ...
  • (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
  • extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
  • total darkness: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
  • harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
  • British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  • (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
  • popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
  • bootleg: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"


  • Now if you don't see what i am leading to here, then don't ask me to explain it to you,  just remain assimilated it just may be what your doctor ordered.