Greetings Bantu-Kelani,

You do make interesting points but your points get lost in random contriction. Mostly because of HOW you are presenting them and the fact that you insist on ramming your points of view down Ones throat with little regard to how Ones feel having something rammed down their throats. When Ones feel violated in that way they rebel and as a result you become defense and on it goes. You then get more frustrated and it shows in your posts. Cause and effect.

You acknowledged in your last response that the terms negroid, mongoloid, caucasoid were terms used to identify the three major races of people. What you consistantly fail to acknowledge is the fact that those names were created by U-RO-PEONS to describe races of people. When was the last time you heard a Chinese or Filopino call themselves mongoloid? Or for that matter a white person call themselves caucasoid? What would be the NECESSITY for us as Africans to use the term irregardless to the fact that many of us find the fact that an African Woman wants to refer to us this way? Why is it even necessary? Once more in case you did not OVERSTAND it when it has been said time and time again...WI HAVE NOW IN THIS TIME AND SPACE RE-DEFINED OUR SELVES. Wi no longer have to wait for massa to give us a name...wi have shed those shackles. Now let wi leave them off.

Bantu-Kelani says - I could UNDERSTAND why black people as Africans and black people in general could be offended by my use of the anthropological term “Negroid” as it is linked to (but NOT!) the cruel and callous word “Nigger” that has been use to vilify us the world over.
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You say "I "could" understand why black people as Africans and black people in general could be offended by my use of the anthropological term....."
I say that my finding the word offensive has nothing to do with why you use the word. The terms offend me and have probably offended me before you were born. It has nothing to do with whatever you have created for yourself. Just know that Africans no longer refer to themselves as negro/negroid and do not need any U-RO-PEON terms to define us.
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Bantu-Kelani says - "However, I still think this offence ILLOGICAL as no matter the term we use Black, Negro, Negroid, African, Afro, Dalits, Untouchables, Aboriginal, Ethiopoid or Congoid we will still face the reality of race/color exploitation and oppression that does 'Justice' to the politics of white men or white women in this world. The truth of the matter is we are just a bunch of "Niggers" in their eyes ANYWAY!"

What I think is illogical is the fact that someOne as intelligent as you are still insisting on ramming a self created awareness of the term negroid which wi as African people no longer refer ourselves as and no longer allow others to refer to us as.
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Bantu Kelani says - I THINK IT’S MORE IMPORTANT WE FIND OUT ABOUT WHO WE REALLY ARE REGARDLESS OF ANY RACE OR ETHNIC TERMINOLOGY THEY/WE USE TO DESCRIBE US.

This I agree with which ironically makes your embracement of the word negroid contridictory. Wi already know wi are African and not negroes/negroid....at least most of us do.
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Bantu Kelani says - I DON’T THINK YOU LOOSE YOUR AFRICAN ANCESTRY AND IDENTITY BY CHOOSING TO REFER YOURSELF AS A “NEGROID” PERSON. A REAL BLACK AFRICAN IS ONE WHO REMEMBERS HIS/HER HERITAGE AND WHAT THAT REPRESENTS AS AFRICAN!

Exactly. That is why Africans already know that they were African way before the U-RO-PEON came along and labeled us any name for his purposes and not ours. We reclaimed our name...AFRICAN
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Bantu Kelani says - IT IS ONE WHO KEEPS IT’S INDIGENOUS IDENTITY AND DEFEND IT NO MATTER WHAT. IDENTITY AND ANCESTRY IS ONLY LOST WHEN YOU DON’T REMEMBER YOUR HISTORY AND CULTURE! WHICH IS NOT MY CASE. THEREFORE I’M NO SLAVE. I KNOW WHO I AM!

With respects I am glad that you are holding on to your history. Please do so in the way of the Sankofa...retrieve the 60's in the U.S. As Africans wi preserve Ourstory...all of it and in the way of the Sankofa wi look back so that wi do not repeat the mistakes of the past. The term negro/negroid is a regression. Mek wi farward then Ones will REALLY know who they are.
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Bantu Kelani says - Our Independence and true sense of IDENTITY don’t even depend on whichever ETHNIC NAMETAG we choose for ourselves!

Tell that to those Africans who died for Africa and not negro/negroidland.
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Our PRIDE and AUTONOMY is knowing who we are and being PROUD of it that guide us to Truth, forces us to CONVICTIONS and inspire us to ACTION!! I know I am proud of my Indigenous language LINGALA and ancestral culture. I know I am proud of my real name MAFUTA-KELANI, which are traditional names of the BADUNDU people in CONGO. I Know I am very proud of my kinky hair, dark-skinned and broad features when society is influencing me to be dissatisfied with them…

Give thanks Bantu-Kelani for sharing yourstory now allow the rest of us to be proud to no longer be referred to as negro or negroid. When the I can do that the I is showing humility which is also a great assest of African people when used...
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IT'S LOGICAL TO REFER YOURSELF WITH ANY TERM OF YOUR CHOOSING AS LONG AS YOU THINK, SPEAK, WRITE AND ACT WITH PRIDE, KNOW AND RESPECT YOUR NATIVE TRADITIONS! IF YOU ARE PROUD OF YOUR BLACK RACE YOU NEVER ACT LIKE A SLAVE, YOU ALWAYS BEAUTIFULLY! We are more than Black, African, Aboriginal, Congoid or Ethiopoid or whatever you want to categorize us. We are more than terminology, which is that's what I’ve been trying to make people understand. Being proud of our African ROOTS is the NOLEST conduct. Our Culture lies BEYOND terminologies.

Yeah my sister but when you call me call me African!!! And when Ones ask raspectfully that you not use the term for whatever reason please stop take a deep breath before you react instead RASPOND. Humbleness will take you farther than you think you are going.

HOW does that make me less of an African????? HOW does that make a slave and IGNORANT???

Can't answer that for you....however I can suggest that it is not always what you say it may be how you say it. Look for lessons even when you are teaching..

Blessed