This will be a long post but it comes down to one thing: POWER!
If you know who you are, everybody has to change the way they deal with you and even speak to you. It hurts outsiders just hearing you say, "I'm black and proud." Want to kick things up a few notches? Say this: "I'm African and proud." When you are proud of your skin, the pride of melanin goes against the color-struck world that thinks being "white" is the ideal, the standard for all humanity. But if you go beyond that and say you are an African (even if you weren't born in Africa), you set off a world war in the minds of many people. I remember talking to this white girl (classmate, not anybody I ever dated or kicked it with) and every time I mentioned the word "Africa," it was like a priest uttering the name of the most high to drive out a demon. It was as if I wasn't supposed to say the "a word." People joke about the "n word." Well, bust out the "a word."
I remember going into the Kru/Kpelle and Madagascar trail of my roots. The more I did that, the more "African" I became and some white folks and BINO (black-in-name-only) folks became uncomfortable. But I never said I was better than anybody, never treated anybody poorly and always treated others with respect. But by having my people, my tribes on my mind, I'm not a victim anymore. I'm not somebody with a mind-state that is only a couple of hundred of years old. I'm going back thousands of years and bringing it to the present for a modern outlook. Just think of what people think of black history: chained blacks transported around the world and those remaining in the motherland living in huts. But if you know history, you check people on this. You can feel the spirit of your ancestors when you represent the truth. You know it lives inside of you. That's why people get you in mind traps of "Oh, I'm not this" or "Oh, I'm not that." Don't argue over the labels of what you call yourself. There is a bigger picture here: You are power. You are the first race of man on the planet, the first men. All the other people came AFTER you. So don't act like you don't belong. You are the world - literally.
So once you have knowledge of self, you won't tap dance. You won't be a stereotype. You'll rewrite history, alter the consciousness on planet earth by living the new paradigm - not just talking about the new paradigm. The world seeks to control people. If you are not being controlled, you are a "dangerous element." You will be viewed as a militant or extremist. But you know better. You just haven't become domesticated. You haven't let crappy education ruin your mind. You are pure power of the undiluted form. You are an African.