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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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many Ethiopians might agree, it was Emperor Haile Selassie I who first demanded that Ethiopians acknowledge themselves as "black" because of their common African experience, where as before, traditional Ethiopian identity makes a distinction between the highland "Habasha" and the more southernly "shanqelle" (blacks)...
in the US for the kids in the diaspora it has been quite the identity crisis, the one drop rule makes them black men, women and youth, where as their clear cultural distinctions from the typical black american experience make it hard to relate with black folks..