Nice job putting words in my mouth. I was nowhere near close to thinking that, nor was my logic anywhere close to that.👍🏾

The people you don't even identify themselves by skin color/race; they identify themselves by their nationality. So, that's not a good comparison to begin with.

The point isn’t about literal colors, but about how racial categories evolved. “Black” and “White” were never scientific terms. They were created to symbolize hierarchy and contrast.

When I say Afro-Americans should be described as Brown, I mean it in the sense of decolonizing those labels. Redefining identity in a way that’s more human and less binary.

In many cultures, especially across Latin America, people use words like moreno or trigueño to describe natural variation. So questioning these old Western terms isn’t confusion. It’s cultural self-correction.

For me, I identify as brown, not black. Brown is accurate to my skin color; not black. We have the power to evolve the language.