Ive posted this in previous threads about how the invention of race affected ADOS...
The 3rd greatest crime against humanity that cacs committed in the New World besides genocide and human bondage was the stripping of identity of a group of people, something thats almost unique in human history as far as I can tell. As fucked over as native groups were in their lands (native americans, aborigines, ainu (japan) central and south american peoples, filipinos (south east asians) etc) they still had some connection to their original identities, culture, language, religion even if they had to mask it in cac shit. In fact its been noted that the slave rebellions in the Caribbean were successful because those enslaved people had a stronger connection to their identity more so than the mainland american slaves. Even as they used European religion and culture as a cover (santeria for example).
Africans Americans lost our heritage, language religion etc its why you see us searching for ANYTHING to connect to and feel positive about ourselves whether thats asiatic, moorish, egypt or redefining a skin color designation whose original purpose was for oppression and subjugation. Something else I said before...
When all your taught in a racist system is that you come from nothing and produce nothing...you start looking for yourself in everything. Hence Hebrew Israelites and Moors and Egypt and pretty much anything that exhibits thick lips and dark color.
Thats what we've been seeing play out over the last 100 years... a group of people looking for an identity. That's the fascination with Hebrews.
The creation of race as a concept combined with the Atlantic slave trade really kinda created a whole new group of people. The specific origin of race as a concept is pinpointable to time and region and country. Unfortunately what makes "race" real today is ADOS...Black Americans.. what I mean is the skin color designation we were given solidified the concept the second the generation after those enslaved Africans forgot, were never told and/or rejected any knowledge of who they were and where they came from.
You can say that Black Americans other than the colonists is the oldest group to live in the country BUT Black americans are the only group that can't specifically trace back our lineage to the old countries so Blacks are truly the only REAL Americans. Because as I stated earlier by the 3rd gen of enslaved people there was already the loss of any connection to those African countries and peoples we derived from. You couple that with a strong influence from other cultures and peoples you have a new type of group...its not surprising hip hop came from us because we ARE what hip hop is...this amalgam of all kinds of influences that coalesced into a new type of thing.
Is it really surprising that all the staple American music are all Black American created whether its Jazz, Blues or Rock and Roll or Hip Hop etc And those genres are TRUE American inventions...created by TRUE Americans within a little over 100 years or so.
And only the people who are the descendants of the American slave trade IMO should be the only group to be called Black. If Blacks Americans have a culture...its AMERICAN culture. A culture that our influence made globally popular.