Black traditionally refers to people of Africa and their descendants
It’s not actually tradition, if anything in a modern context it’s colloquial. I explained how race science was created in the 1700s.
The thing is - the same people, the same white men, who were involved in the Trans Atlantic Slave trade ALSO went to Australia.
There they found black people, to them they were no different than black people in Africa. They called them Negroes, treated them as such. So when you look at things traditionally they are just as ‘black’ as the African diaspora despite being a non-African ethnic group.
Remember race is a social construct and when it was constructed those people were considered black and treated as such since the advent of chattel slavery.
Race is NOT genetic and has NO biological basis. Even in Africa there is no one shared ethnic background and genetic diversity is highest within Africa relative to anywhere else in the world. That means two Africans 100 miles away from each other could be MORE genetically dissimilar to each other then either of them is to an Asian or European, for example.
That is key here. And no I’m not saying that race isn’t a SOCIAL reality. All of my evidence has shown how and why it is.
It’s a definitely a paradigm shift to understand this. Race is by its creators - white men in the 1700s. People don’t get to choose their race, the white power structure does so involuntarily.