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Some time in the future maybe 1,000 years from now, my cheap pine box casket will have deteriorated. Catastrophic events and shifts of land masses will leave my remains to be found by archaeologists. I will be nothing but a few turfs of hair and bone fragments. Along with that evidence that they will extract enough DNA to reveal that they have found the remains of an African American....The Marvin Gaye CD's found near by will be a dead give away.
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Either one is fine because both terms carry a degree of positive significance. For instance, the term "African-American" allows us to have a sense of ancestry and in a small way unites us with our continent. The term "Black" is cool too because "Black" speaks of us as an international unit as members as the African diaspora, as we are "Black" in the US, as well as in Canada, Latin America, and any other place we exist.
African American sounds much more respectable, black sounds pretty improper in my opinion, I don't like being called "black" nor "brother".
I prefer African American by a mile.
What term do you use to refer to whites?
European-American fails for the exact same reasons as African-American.
I personally find both terms to be racially divisive as is the intent of those who promote their use. I'm an American who happens to be white. I have no connection to Europe.
African-Americans(all ancestrial cultures descending from all of Africa)
Anglo-Americans(All ancestrial cultures descending from all parts of Europe
Asian-Americans(Asia)
Hispanic-Americans(Native-American, Spanish, and Africa
Native-Americans (Reservations)
Indian-Americans (India)(You descended from Africa)
All of the above within America and International helps worldwide economy, cultural relationships, ancestry, history, and education, religion, the avoidance or resistance of being ignorant of coming to know oneself, and a better future for generations to come.
If you think, we all come together has one, at some point.
European-American fails for the exact same reasons as African-American.
I personally find both terms to be racially divisive as is the intent of those who promote their use. I'm an American who happens to be white. I have no connection to Europe.
It is your ancestry baby not you; Your ancestry has the connection. Get back to your roots in where you come from. And you may want to go get a passport!
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And you may want to go get a passport!
