Explanation:  Our people in the United States correctly identify with and describe themselves by many names; "Black," "African," "Indigenous," "New-Afrikan," "Moor," “American Descendant of Slaves," "Foundational Black American," Freedman, etc. 

Lawfully, Afrodescendant is the internationally recognized legal and political identification that allows our people, as a whole, to assert their legal and jurisdictional rights to Reparations and Self Determination. Specifically, the term Afrodescendant refers to our people:

1. Whose ancestors were forcibly dispossessed from their homeland, Africa, and transported to the Americas and throughout the diaspora for the purposes of enslavement;
2. Whose ancestors were subjected to crimes against humanity, including but not limited to: chattel slavery; mixed breeding: systemic discrimination; land theft; Jim Crow: rape; forced loss of their mother tongue and lost ties from their original identity; destruction of our culture, and religion; and suffered ethnocide and specific forms of ethnic cleansing genocide,
3. Who currently, as a people, and continue to suffer as a result of the above crimes: Human rights violations, racial discrimination, economic exploitation, loss of land, systemic racism, poverty and wealth disparity, deprivation of education, police brutality, injustice in U.S. Courts: political prisoners; cultural destruction; and continue to suffer the peril of other innumerable and insufferable abuses.

The legal term, Afrodescendant has been formally recognized by the United Nations and the leading International Courts and Human Rights authorities, including nineteen (19) countries at the United Nations Conference for the Rights of Minorities in La Ceiba, Honduras, in 2002, for the purposes lawfully pursuing our claim under the proper jurisdiction. The representation of the lawful identity AFRODESCENDANT shall not void nor usurp any other cultural, political, racial, organizational, or religious name or label you currently identify by.