If African Americans have to claim Africa as their Mother-land, why not claim Europe as their Father-land?

Question

From Frederick Douglass to Colin Powell there's Caucasian and ******* somewhere in ancestry.
Yet we confine them as "Black" or African American

Who is Black?

Is blackness a color, a race, or as I suspect ideologically, a political socio-economic construct and technique of "othering" and thereby denying a community their rightful claim and seat at the master's dining table!!

"I too, sing America!"- Langston Hughes

...add more classyjaz....funds not enuff. . . . indeed! ... eh? America is a land of "Distant cousins" Ishmael Reed. Get Albert Murray's " The Omni-Americans."

Answer 1

Because for one, there is no such term as "fatherland", it has always been considered Mama's baby Papa's maybe.
Motherland refers to our origin, or where we originally came from.
It was not America. Even for the Native Americans, it was not called America. And they were here first!
So, if everyone has a claim on this land that wasn't even named America to begin with, why NOT the Black Man? Since he certainly did a majority of the grunt work in shaping this land.
The Black man HAS a rightful claim. But the powers that be won't give it to him. It's just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had said.
The Black man wants to cash the check given to him by the bill of rights that says that all men are created equal. But the check keeps coming back marked insufficient funds!

Answer 2

Because France is the Motherland and Germany the Fatherland.

Answer 3

How about we all just say that are ancestors were cavemen...makes things simple.