It is dehumanising to identify people in terms of colour.Stereotyping and discrimination come with racial identification.Black identity has been expressed in different forms over the centuries.For a long period black identity was a constructed identity Ball - Elastic Goods - Sliding Short assigned to black people through a white-dominated matrix.After the end of slavery, efforts were made to reconstruct black identity.
This developed into two divergent lines: one resulting in an illusionary identity as identified by Frantz Fanon and a second line of thought of a continued search for a true authentic black identity as explicated by the Cameroon-born philosopher Achilles Mbembe.This process of creating a new authentic black identity is still Eye Balm ongoing and viewed by some as a pessimistic futile attempt.An example of the ongoing attempt for establishing an authentic black identity is illustrated by the movie Black Panther, which attempts to portray a different side of being black.