How Africans Changed From Being Called Negros To Blacks

As we’ve once pointed out here, the African race’s struggle unlike others is peculiar. Africa’s struggle is distinct, as such, to break out of the Berlin shackles, and imperialistic agenda, Africans across the globe must organize to see themselves as one to put an end to suppression and economically develop Africa collectively. The African Bourgeoises who have been known to be the most corrupt in the world must also understand that the end is near, now more than ever, they must choose Africa First before their pockets, they must organize alongside both the working class, middle class and Tail class of the African masses.

Africans are the only race in the world whose racial description has changed, and described more than thrice. Originally referred to as Ethiopians, then People of Color, Negros, Blacks (Black-American, Black-British, etc).

Once upon a time the Black race were referred to as people of Color. During the concept of defining and dividing mankind, I.e. Mongoloid, Australoid, Caucasoid and Ethiopian (later changed to Negroid). Negroid, coined from the word Negro, a word which later became a racial slur, was originally from Spanish and Portuguese, used to describe the masculine word for black color.

It was in the early 1960s the word Negro lost it popularity after Blacks in America, the likes of the Civil Right Movement, Black Panther, fought against the use of the word to describe Black people. The Black Power movement in the 1960s, staged a movement against the use of the word, hence the term fell out of favor and is now considered derogatory and offensive because of its associations with slavery, racism, and oppression against Black people.

 In the real sense, there is no such thing as “Black” or “White” except in the mind of the psychologically oppressed. Ethiopian was the  racial word used before it was changed to Negroid. During slave trade, only Africans were called by their race Negros, coined to form the word Negroid. This in later years, changed to Blacks, today All over the world, only Africans are still referred to by their skin color, “BLACKS”. The day all Blacks will refer themselves as Africans will be the day the mental chain broke.

No matter where you are in this world, as a Black man, better still as an African man, Only Africa can protect YOU, only Africa can be the power & voice for Africans. No African is FREE until Africa is FREE.

BY: OMOTADE ISAAC ADEKUNLE