It doesn't appear that everyone on this thread, including myself, was aware that the issue was supposedly resolved. Maybe we need our memories refreshed every now and then. Dr. Williams, who is just as qualified or more as anybody in this sites archives, doesn't seem to feel this issue is totally resolved, and worthless of discussion. Otherwise he wouldn't have been on the Carl Nelson Show only a couple of weeks ago. I don't think our job is no where near done. There's still many who don't quite understand the necessity in identifying as African, on or off this site. I didn't totally understand how important that was myself until I combined the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, Dr. Amos Wilson, and Dr. Walter Williams.
However, like Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Kwabena Ashanti and other highly qualified researchers, I don't think it's beneficial to identify as Black, as I stated in my original post. I know that's going to cause friction, and it may have caused some with you. Anyway, as soon as I thought it was gone, and not too long after I started this very thread, the lightskin /darkskin thing seemed to resurface in the media again, including on the Carl Nelson Show last Wednesday. He had a guess named Dr. Hall, who said some messed up stuff. If you heard that interview, you'd understand why I feel we as a race need to get a way from identifying as Black or by color. I never heard such ignorant remarks coming from a doctor, and the callers. A week before that, Oprah aired, "Light Girls". It looks like the dividers are at it again, giving me more reason to feel we we need to get away from getting too hung up on identifying by color. Again, we need to reclaim are name African. And it's doesn't in my opinion take any doctor or heavy researcher to tell me that. My common sense tells me.