You do not create unity by stripping away individuality. There are celebrations of independence all over the world. Acknowledgment is a key development tool, often used to highlight an agenda to negatively impact others.  We are cousins, not siblings. Black(not in the Crayola context) has been expanded to encompass everyone with native African DNA. The issue is not simply the expansion of who is included as black. The issue is the intentional erasure of its original intended demographic(Trans-Atlantic Slave Descendants). To be clear there is no call to stop addressing all African descendants as Black. There is a call to…