To answer the above, it is imperative that you begin by discarding every ethnic slur which captors assigned to enslaved Africans. You are not, nor have you ever been a nigger, or its variants, nigra/nigga/niggah/nigguh; negro, colored, African American, black, coon, baboon, ape, jungle bunny, Sambo, spade, spook, tar baby, pickaninny, mammy, buck or boogie. Those descriptors, and the litany of unnamed others, were based solely on physical attributes and plantation duties. The primary goal of imperialists in assigning those slurs was not to simply denigrate the slaves, but to dehumanize them. Classifying enslaved Africans as non-human soothed the soul, anesthetized the conscience, and defied insomnia in imperialists who needed a means of justifying their own inhumanity.

The arbitrary lynching, mutilating and raping of humans by humans revealed the documented, innate, cold-blooded nature of the oppressors.  The racially motivated slurs that are yet alive do not portray the true character, value and nature of the oppressed. Therefore, all direct descendants of enslaved Africans must immediately join fellow descendants by defining themselves.  You must identify yourself by who you are, not how you look. ddAea embodies a long journey that disconnected us from our homeland and each other but now constrains us to remember what others wish us to forget. Let us identify to unify.