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Old 08-04-2015, 11:02 AM
 
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Thank you but the point of my post was that black Americans generally do not find the label "black" to be derrogatory.

I'm sure you can find an outlier for this assertion but on the whole black people don't care if we are called "black" or African American.

Also, African American began to be used so that blacks who wanted to could highlight their African ancestry. They are synonyms in regards to black Americans.

Hardly any of us care. Only random PC people who want to complain about black people want to make a big deal out of it.

I know a few black Americans who feel slightly annoyed by the term "African-American". Mainly because their heritage stems from places other than Africa. But African-American has become such a generic term that people apply it to all black people.
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Old 08-04-2015, 11:02 AM
 
Location: 20 years from now
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What if you are white, born in South Africa and came to the US?

are you not african-american?
technically South African-American
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Old 08-04-2015, 11:03 AM
 
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I mostly use "black" because most blacks (including my friends) never seem to mind it and even prefer it, and blacks with Caribbean ancestry hate it when you refer to them as "African-American", and how can I know who is what until I get to know them.
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Old 08-04-2015, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Kūkiʻo, HI & Manhattan Beach, CA
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A person's use of "Black" versus "African American" might carry certain "connotations" about the person using a particular term and the group that it is meant to describe...
The Financial Consequences of Saying 'Black,' vs. 'African American' - The Atlantic
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:07 PM
 
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I agree. A black person is a black person. Not all black people are of African decent. I'm not aware of black people taking offense to being call black. After all, the NAACP calls them colored and that's not exactly a popular term to refer to black people.

I was once in the Bahamas and some stupid Midwestern American woman there on a cruise was talking about all the 'African Americans' in the Bahamas. I just shook my head because A) they're not American, they're Bahamian and 2) there are plenty of white Bahamians (as well as white Africans).
Which begs the question why is the term colored people bad but "people of color" good?
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:09 PM
 
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All people have brown skin of various different shades, ranging from very light to very dark, leftist racist orthodoxy on this topic notwithstanding.
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:36 PM
 
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What if you are white, born in South Africa and came to the US?

are you not african-american?
Nope.
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And this is not just an American thing. If the current theory of evolution is correct that holds that all humans originated in Africa, then here are some other notable people with African heritage around the globe:

Xi Jinping - African-Chinese


Vladimir Putin - African-Russian


Angela Merkel - African-German


Rachel Dolezal - African-American


A person's skin color does not give anyone an exclusive right to affirm their African heritage, which if the current theory of evolution is correct, we all possess and share together.
No. Nein. Nyet. Uh uh.
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Inland Northwest
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Nope.
Actually yes, you are. I served in the Marine Corps with a white African-American. Family immigrated here when he was young, they became naturalized (and by default so did he) and he was always listed by the Federal Government as African-American.
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:44 PM
 
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I was once in the Bahamas and some stupid Midwestern American woman there on a cruise was talking about all the 'African Americans' in the Bahamas. I just shook my head because A) they're not American, they're Bahamian and 2) there are plenty of white Bahamians (as well as white Africans).
But they are North Americans. So maybe African North Americans? lol
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Old 08-04-2015, 12:45 PM
 
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Actually yes, you are. I served in the Marine Corps with a white African-American. Family immigrated here when he was young, they became naturalized (and by default so did he) and he was always listed by the Federal Government as African-American.
They can list him as Stokely Carmichael if they want to. Doesn't matter.

If he's white, he ain't no African American. Not now,not then, not ever. He's white.
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