Video is corny but as quiet as it's kept, the concept of blackness hasn't done us any favors. Apart from certain trivial cultural elements like our music, blackness is generally seen as a negative, the opposite end of a spectrum that puts whiteness on the positive end. A spectrum created by white supremacists.
Putting Jamaicans, Haitians, Nigerians, Kenyans, Aframs, etc all under this same umbrella term even though the term itself is rooted in troublesome notions of racial hierarchy (with black at the bottom) doesn't seem to be working for us. Great civilizations have crumbled once whites forced said societies to internalize the idea of their 'blackness' - Ethiopia for instance, one of the greatest civilizations in human history now essentially reduced to a wasteland.
I think 'blacks' would be much better off if we were defined by our cultures (Sudanese culture, Ghanaian culture, etc) instead of being defined by this all encompassing idea of blackness rooted in phenotype.
Thats why when people mention 'countries', they mention Africa, even though it's a continent. They say China, Russia, India, Italy and then say 'Africa'. Once you can define 1 billion people under a single term, you better hope the term isn't rooted in anything negative, or all 1 billion people are in some way, fukked.
So we basically gotta do one of two things; do away with the word black all together and pick a better word, 'Melanoid' or something else so we can rebrand...or we can simply use the power of resources and media to convince the world it's whiteness that is on the negative end. Either way, action has to be taken.
I appreciate that you are trying to think of a solution, but....
I'm not sure who this would be best directed to.
All of this doesn't really help African Americans who have spent many generations in America.
And you don't need to teach Africans the differences between them and other Africans. They are very aware of it, trust me.
I think what you are missing is that if black people at large (especially black americans) refuse to call themselves black, it does nothing to solve any of the issues at hand. If it did, that would mean that Systematic oppression and discrimination was an issue that was completely in controlled by black people.
I can assure you it is not.
Rebranding actually isn't a
terrible idea (just pointless)... but dropping "all labels" entirely is an
extremely terrible idea... because it doesn't make sense logically.
I'll use a visual to explain it.
Its like this pie graph.
You have A, B, C, D.
This is not a venn diagram, there is no overlapping here.
So if A (black people) say to B,C,D "Hey, stop calling us
A, we don't want to controlled by that label anymore
"
BCD will say "... Okay, but you're still not part of B, C, or D. So... i guess we'll call you
AA now?
"
AA: "That's better, that should solve everything
"
C1 (cacs): "I just interviewed someone for the position, he's good but he's an
A 
"
C2: "Hey don't call them that, they wan't to be called AA now"
C1: "Oh.... okay well he's good but he's an AA. That better?"
C2: "
There you have it brehs I present you with the end of racism 
Yes it is true because race still was not a concept during the Spanish inquisition and my point is that even though race was not a concept, there still was a case of "othering" in which CACs deemed those not of CAC skin to be a savage. It is widely accepted among scholars that official conception of race was in 1684, that is an undisputed fact.
