I'm not gonna call myself a shade because white people coined that term for us, it's like calling myself a or jiggaboo. Hell no! I'm sorry, I love being African but no way in hell am I calling myself black. Do Asians call themselves yellow? Or Indians red? No, it's because they remember their roots and so do we.
It's not because inferiority, cause trust me I love being Subsaharan African.
The moment you call yourself black, is the moment you let caadan people define your outlook of the world. Never forget your roots, the term black really dissociates you from where you're originally from