Peter Pan-African

A Black American who believes in a delusional form of Pan-Africanism characterized by the belief in the fairytale of a unified, utopian pre-colonial Africa. They have low self-esteem and deny that Black Americans are a distinct ethnicity. Driven by an insatiable need for validation from modern day Africans, they revere them as if they are their ‘ancestors’.

They are ashamed of being American, despite pioneering the ideology. Historically, the vast majority of Black-American icons are proud Americans as millions have fought and played a key role in the foundation of America. They often are accompanied by 'off-Black Americans' who not only attempt to pass themselves off as the ‘non-existent’ Black-American ethnic group, but also maintain their own sense of ethnic pride from their homeland while simultaneously pledging allegiance to the very state they call imperialist, exploitative, and genocidal. This is seldom addressed by Peter Pan-Africans, temporarily displaced possession of a continent they’ve had no connection to for nearly half a millenia.

Peter Pan-Africans suffer separation anxiety, and were traumatized when momma Africa sent them out on a trip for ‘cigarettes’ and never came back for them. Their identity is rooted in perpetual infantilization--Black-American cultural accomplishments are reduced to merely being derivative from the continent. These lost people are acrimonious to Black-Americans who have grown beyond their fantastical ethnic dysphoria.