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I constantly see it being used in the forums and general media referring to American blacks. Yet there is nothing "African" about American black people and furthermore most American blacks have no intention of visiting or living in Africa, so why do people continue to insist on using this term? Are whites called "European American"? No. In fact, American blacks are even more Americanized than white Americans. Many black families have been here for 200-300 years. They have no connections to Africa at all.
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I'm black and I despise the term African-American. If you research the history of the term African-American came about, you'll see that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were the forces behind African-American becoming a part of American vernacular.
I constantly see it being used in the forums and general media referring to American blacks. Yet there is nothing "African" about American black people and furthermore most American blacks have no intention of visiting or living in Africa, so why do people continue to insist on using this term? Are whites called "European American"? No. In fact, American blacks are even more Americanized than white Americans. Many black families have been here for 200-300 years. They have no connections to Africa at all.
Discuss.
I agree with you. Maybe they will one day come up with a better identy. How about just American. Why do we have to identify people by color anyway. Yet we have Mexican, Latinos, Chicanos, Asians, etc. Maybe most Americans are just too racially mixed to be called anything but Americans. I have four different races in me, so I don't know what I would even come up with for idenification.
The first time I heard African-American a Black girl was saying how dissapointed in this country her being an African-American I told her once she became a citizen maybe she would see things different.She felt as I was insulting her.Hey I was taking it as I seen it.
As a European-American descended from emmigrants to the American colonies about 10 generations back, I don't much care about what people want to be called. I'll happily oblige.
The term AA is a creation of the leftist pol establishment...
They try to impose it to us,
like the term "gay " for homosexuals,
"fairness " for tax increase etc.
The best reaction is to use our own language & call the blacks blacks...
Yeah, it's your right to tell a group of people how they should refer to themselves..........black and African American are not synonymous.....while all African Americans are black, not all blacks are African American.
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I told her once she became a citizen maybe she would see things different.She felt as I was insulting her.Hey I was taking it as I seen it.