Yep. Underneath all the rhetoric and racialist self-identification, American blacks are just Americans. All of the focus on linkage with Africa is a manufactured otherness which only seeks to individuate its adherents from their countrymen. Black sheeples fall for this, in the belief that it's somehow noble, when in fact, it's a diabolical plot to turn them into political slaves.
As for tracing their lineage back "two or three hundred years right here on USA soil", most of us can't trace our black roots back more than about 150 years, if that. Like most American blacks, I have no clue where my African ancestors actually came from, or what their tribes were.
The cultural, linguistic, and familial links to Africa were broken centuries ago, and lost to all time. All that remains is our American identity, which is all that really matters in the context of the present life.
Let's get real here. How much bearing does anyone's ancient family roots really have on their life? The answer, of course, is NONE. Therefore, the insistence on identifying oneself with a hyphenated appellation is an insistence on individuation only. That is destructive, and not the least bit noble.
Imagine, my friend, If American Blacks became all they could be as individuals instead of “wasting” their time adoring false leaders and carping about how hard they have it. Funny as a White dude I see Blacks all around me that work hard, take care of their families, practice the American dream, participate in it with all their energy and gusto, die on our battlefields, love their country, etc., etc. I see and read about the Black folk who fought in the Civil War giving their wounded/dying, flowing blood to the Republic and the Union with dreams of Freedom burning & alive in their hearts and souls. I see the P51 Mustang, Tuskeegee Airman aloft over Europe protecting our B17 bombers with stunning success!!! And then I see Barack Obama, Alcee Hastings, John Conyers, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, William Jefferson, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan & on & on, users and usurpers of their people. And...my heart breaks that so many Blacks follow these false leaders and power hungry lunatics, all to remain at the bottom of the economic totem pole as economic slaves of the Democrat Party and POTUS Barack Hussein Obama. What a shame and waste of productive humanity, IMHO! Go figure!!!