People you call 'Black Americans' are the children of the Akan people, the Wolof, the Ga, the Dogon peoples, the Hause, the Yoruba, the Ewe, the Baramba, the Mende, the Mandingo, the Songhay and so many others I cannot even begin to name. These people who you have been miseducated and socialized to call 'Black Americans' and 'African Americans' are children of prisoners of a lost war, the war of 1571, when the Songhay empire disintegrating upon itself at the end of a natural cycle was set upon by European and Arab interests. We are the result of that lost war. Black people are a sovereign people no matter where they are in this planet because the planet belongs to them. It was given to them by God and taken from them by others who were much less fortunate. You don't have to like any of the these historical realities, but they are nonetheless real and true