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Afrodescendants: A New People

By: The Righteous Teachers

Afrodescendants: (A New people) We Are Human Beings Too!

Our people are unsure what it means to have a political identity of their own, different than the names that the Anglo-American have tagged us with over the years – minorities, colored, nigga, negro, black, African American, people of color, etc.

Why Afrodescendants?

First, it says to America that we no longer want to exist under their forced imposed Anglo-identity. And, that we are a people different from them and should be rightly recognized as such.

That, although once ripped apart from our customs, cultural, and linguistics ties. We have emerged and want, as much as possible – a reintroduction, reconciliation, and restoration with our human family of the Earth.

The term Afrodescendants?

In 2002, through a self-determined act, leaders from 19 countries, representing over 250 million people, defined, and created it. So that the World, recognizes and know, those affected by the slavery diaspora in the Americas, and that we are human beings, and that the United Nations, and other World nations, recognizes us as a ‘people’.

What does this do?

Politically it unites 250 million people, recognized as a people, who are no longer willing participants to any further oppression. That, as a people we have human rights in company with others to our unique customs, cultural, and linguistic ties. However, due to forced assimilation, forced rape, breeding, and slavery. We have begun to literally recast, remake, repair, and reinvent ourselves anew – hence starting with the political identity, Afrodescendants.

What does this mean?

It means that self-determination was acted upon and is our right. It means the freedom to pursue all the best that the World, has to offer us, as it does to any other people, or nation. That we are entitled to, as a people, to chart our own destiny, to pursue our own dreams, goals, and endeavors as we see fit. To teach our children as is customary to be the best in the World, in company with others. That we have the human right to life, liberty, peace, and the pursuits of happiness in all walks of life, as is offered in the World.

Succinctly, what we need is a governmentally recognized political mechanism that we authorize to articulate our legitimate needs and general will of all Afrodescendant people.

It is our right. We are human beings too!