You want to keep the current racial classification system because "if Black people did it right it would put us at an advantage"... I don't really know what that means.
The current racial classification system was used to put us at a distinct disadvantage. How can something that is used to put us at a disadvantage put us at an advantage given that we control no levers of power?
Also, humans in antiquity noted the differences in ethnicity, not necessarily the modern conception of "race".
What I’m saying is, if black people actually started looking out for our own best interest as a group it would put us at an advantage over others.
Like Claude Anderson has said, racism is a team sport and black people don’t know how to play it.
The racial classification system in and of itself is not what’s holding us back. The racial system I’m referring to, btw, is the actual scientific one (negroid, caucazoid, mongoloid, etc.) because I assumed that’s what you’re talking about.
What’s holding us back is the fact that, collectively, we’re not as naturally cutthroat as other groups of people are (especially CACs).
Explain what you mean by ethnicity, in this context and what it would have meant at that time?
Overall though, what I’m saying is
There’s a difference between white people saying “hey you guys are black” and us agreeing because we actually know that we are, indeed, black.
As opposed to letting white people tell us that a biracial person is the same as us, and us accepting it because white people said so, even though it’s clearly bullshyt.