Race and identity are tied up with culture - it's not an abstract idea. It's a reality of peoples lives, particularly if they are not white or not part of the 'master' race where race and identity is confirmed through the cultural practices with which we are all surrounded. To deny race, colour of skin, history, background, is not only to make a person invisible, it becomes part of the process of colonisation - if we are invisible in our own reality but visible when someone else tells us who we are that is part of a process of colonisation that has been going on for centuries. As Azzizi says, a sista is a sista as also, a bro' is a bro' and there's lots of ways to tell who we are - skin, race, cultural practices, but mainly, not white is the biggest signifier, and accepting that we know who we are. No-one else is gonna tell us and if they do - once again I note the 'magnifier' and the 'ant' anomoly above, well, we know where they're coming from. Listening to what and how people say they exist is a good start rather than imposing the white stereotypes that become an awful tool of domination. If you empty the body of itself, then of course, you can fill it with your own blood, and your own shit.