You're approaching this as if we all have a unified homogenous agreed upon identity, we don't.
We can't even agree on what to call ourselves due mostly to a lack of knowledge.
We're even tribal in our own ways.
Regional beefs
State beefs
City beefs
Neighborhood beefs
We'll OTHER somebody quick if dey not from the side we're from.
Black is used as a social placeholder that compensates for lacking a specific ethnic identity.
Yet it's also interchangeable with Africa/Africans since that's where our ancestors came from.
& because of this the entire continent gets stuck with the same identifiers - even tho continentals can articulate where they're from.
People know their are differences among us - they just don't gaf.
That perception ain't goin nowhere.
It is what it is.