Dear Anonymous:

Africans have been in contact with other cultures for atleast 3000 years and never identified other peoples in terms of "race." This kind of idea comes from a european worldview and european consciousness. Africans were aware of differences in phenotype but that is an obvious reaction.

Please let me know if you truly understand what I was saying and what Anuk was giving his support. Sometimes in my writing I don't make myself as clear as I intended. To reinterate, the use of race demeans thinking in terms of CULTURE. I think culture is most important and is what can help unify ALL Africans (and perhaps people of color) by the acknowledgement of our CULTURAL similarities instead of obvious surface, rather shallow, "racial" differences like hair texture, skin shade, eye formations,etc.

Hotep