“Identity politics dilutes Black American Indigenous power by flattening our lineage into generic diversity, hijacking our struggle for self-determination and reparative justice to serve broader coalitions that rarely center our specific historical claim.”
3 Examples:
Dilution — It reduces the specificity of Black American lineage into interchangeable categories like “people of color,” erasing our unique historical experience.
Hijacking — It redirects energy and visibility from our justice demands (like reparations, land, and institutional control) toward symbolic inclusion or representation.
Decentering — It prioritizes coalition-building over lineage-based empowerment, often leaving Black Americans as the moral backbone but not the beneficiaries.
