Ok so I haven't been coming on here like I used to. I am taken aback by Somalis mostly females who pander this Somalis are "African American" or "Black" nonsense.... We are "SOMALI" before anything else our color is a given & not something we identify our self with as a people. Usually people who are without a nation or tribe resort to those kind of general "Identifications" as a last resort!!! I understand there are "Some" Somali's both men & women who are in relationships with African Americans...I have a hunch some of them have a vested interest to push this regressive idea on us....Since any offspring's they have with African Americans will lose their Somali Identity. So is the wider Somali community supposed to give up our Somali identity because a few want mold us to their "Agendas" maybe many of you should've thought about that before marrying out???? I am Somali that has black skin <--adjective. I am not merely a Color. Africans have also called them self's by their ethnicity & tribes & even nationalities but we have never downgraded our human essences to a mere color!!! So can those who are pandering this garbage please tell us whats the fixation & agenda???
I 've seen "Nigerian Americans, Kenyan Americans, Vietnamese American, Korean American ect... Why should we as Somalis call our self's "African Americans" or simply "Black"????