I don't understand why some of you all can't accept that we can focus on Black empowerment as a whole while recognizing that there are different issues within our own community that need to be tackled.
Men and women do face different issues. There is a cultural difference between rich Blacks and poor Blacks. Sometimes, immigrant Blacks can get treated better with a golden spoon from Cac America than Black Americans themselves.
Recognizing these differences of problems and actively working towards them to help make our community as a whole doesn't take away from Black empowerment. In my opinion, it adds to it.
Regardless, I really don't ever see pan-africanism working. Cultural can run deeper than race and lets be honest, Black Americans still have a history and experience vastly different from native born Africans. I know of some Africans who never really get it until they actually emigrate to America themselves.
I mean shyt, even non-American Asians are notorious for not wanting to claim their American Asian brethren and Latinos aren't 100% percent on solidarity among themselves either (they do clarify a difference among their own nationalities). However, since the USA loves to put everybody in a neat box, it's something hard for us to comprehend.
All this might sound very unpopular on this site but I'm just speaking from observations and experience.