Who are the people who started identifying and separating the races here in this country? It certainly wasn't Black people. When this country was ruled entirely by White people, race was used on census forms. Jim Crow Laws and Black codes certainly identified Black people. When a perp is running away and if he's Black, he certainly is identified as such. What are you talking about?
Don't blame that on "the Blacks"..................
It doesn't matter who came up with what the fact is it all still exist
although it wasn't a white man that coined the term "African American".
I'm not talking about giving a description of a suspect of course race would certainly be attributed in cases like that.
MLK's dream was a "society where people would be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin". We are far from that.
No, they had other colorful terms they used to described America's Black population.
We are a lot closer to that than we were before. Take football for example; Black Quarterbacks are more common place now than ever before in my opinion. I don't think that there's too much mention about them being Black anymore, unless limpbaugh tries to bring it in the mix when referring the McNab............
In my opinion, his dream was to stop discrimination regarding that fact (skin color). He was coming from a situation that there were laws (JimCrow) that took away from Black people the normal everyday liberties that other White Americans enjoyed and took for granted. He was in favor of reparations and affirmative action. He didn't get the reparations part , but the affirmative action part occurred. I see a lot of folks here (possibly you) rail against "the Blacks" for not working, their alleged high unemployment rates, welfare rates, etc. , yet they cry about AA and "the Blacks taking their jobs". If "they" aren't working, how in the hell are they taking your job?