jujuman13
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The word originally used to describe slaves from what is now a Country & nation called Nigeria is now deemed deeply offensive by those that categorize themselves as being Black African.
IMO Black Africans can and do take offense at any name that a white person uses to differentiate them from White/Yellow/Other colored people.
Life would be so much simpler if those who are born in or take Citizenship in any country, simply identify themselves as being citizens of that country.
Instead what we have are people calling themselves, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Americans instead of Americans.
Having these variations of ones ancestry simply encourages the differences between people.
How can any unity be achieved so long as people in a nation think themselves different than other citizens of the same nation?
The word originally used to describe slaves from what is now a Country & nation called Nigeria is now deemed deeply offensive by those that categorize themselves as being Black African.
IMO Black Africans can and do take offense at any name that a white person uses to differentiate them from White/Yellow/Other colored people.
Life would be so much simpler if those who are born in or take Citizenship in any country, simply identify themselves as being citizens of that country.
Instead what we have are people calling themselves, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Americans instead of Americans.
Having these variations of ones ancestry simply encourages the differences between people.
How can any unity be achieved so long as people in a nation think themselves different than other citizens of the same nation?