re: STARK difference between Blacks and Whites - guilt/joy by association

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trying to answer with "tribalism" when 2/3 of my OP showed a LACK of tribalism, is a perplexing response

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Am I black or Am I Black: Africanity, Ethnicity & Tribalism

... its a terribly, stupidly written piece ... but it's this type of thinking that drives what you are looking for:

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Given the foregoing, I submit that such disavowals depend on which side we fall, wittingly or unwittingly: Are we black (with small letter b) or are we Black (with a capital letter B)? The former is a relic and machination of White Supremacy, steeped in and shot-through with the essentialism of racialized commodification and occupation which flattens and narrows Africanness for its colonial purposes by such tribalist thinking, while the latter is inclusive drawing from a history of resistance and self-humanization to which we all find a home within Africanness as united peoples

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