What are you???

People often ask me this question. It's pretty confusing to answer though. I usually say I'm African American, but few people are satisfied with that answer. The follow up question is usually "Well what else?" And of course there are other things there. I mean this is America, our country is as diverse as our bloodlines. And because of this I'm not really sure what to call myself anymore. I read an article on the Black Girl with Long Hair blog titled "Black, brown or yellow?" (http://bglhonline.com/2010/09/black-brown-or-yellow/). The article is about how the writer is unsatisfied with the term "black" because Americans of African descent aren't black, they range from dark brown to very light or yellow as we say. She says that "perhaps the whole “naming system” when it comes to black people needs to be overhauled." Well my opinion of the matter is that people of African descent in this country are the bastard children of the Americas and we can't be named. We lost so much of our African culture. Africa is a continent, we can't even name a country that our ancestors came from. Also some of us are so mixed in our ancestry that we don't know if we are even "black" anymore. And because of racism and hypodescence (one drop rule) it becomes hard to become apart of or seen as apart of different cultures. We really don't belong any where.