African Americans, Jamaicans, Brazilians, Dominicans, Trinidadians ETC. You Are All Africans

I have this habit whereby i always identify someone and acknowledge them as Africans. This is how it goes, if someone i have just met, who is Afircan, who asks or states to me "You Are African" always of course because they identify me by my accent. If they are of African descent for instance a Jamaican or African American, i always say " You are African Too" It's quite shocking that every time i say that no matter who it is, they always either look a little disturbed, shocked, bewildered, just plainly happy or even irate with denial.

I vividly recall saying it to an African American lady who went totally berserk, she went into this tirade of emphasising that she was African American not African and that she only recognizes Africa and Africans in a symbolic way. Well i must say that i was taken back and felt a little sorry for her not recognizing the fact that i was only trying to complement the fact that we are the same people, separated by distance. Her total assimilation into the European think of separation and division of the African people was well pronounced and her denial of identity as a wholesome African was just sad.

The Italians, Irish, English, French, Germans etc. even though separated by distance and language always recognize the fact that they are Europeans. The Arab tribes always recognize themselves as Arabs in as a group. So my Afrcans, Why not do the same....