The problem with my attempt to de-"racialize" society is that whilst it is relatively easy to deconstruct "Whiteness" it is extremely difficult to deconstruct "Blackness".
One of the greatest crimes in history was the creation of the "Black Race" by West Europeans. In an unprecedented act of imperial globalisation and terror, literally thousands of different peoples were blended together without trace of their individual histories with their only thing in common, the colour of their skin.
I have often speculated that this dislocation from familial ties is the root cause of all the gang violence we see among "Black" communities in the West.
This history will have to be carefully unpicked, it is enough that some Africans are distancing themselves from the "Black" label, but unity in the face of racist imperialism is still a pressing issue.
We can but try.