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They aren't "celebrating" anything. They are hiding behind a title like "African-American"
My SE Asian immigrant neighbors don't refer to themselves as anything but Americans. But they work 12-16 hours a day so they don't have a lot of time for nonsense.
How do you know that?
Why are they hiding behind a title and what benefits are they granted by doing so?
What is a person without the things that make them that individual?
Anything you can say about a person would be a label.
I don't label people ever. If I have to DESCRIBE a person for a reason I might say a hispanic, a white, a black person and their age and sex. Those aren't labels. Those are points of reference.
It appears that many American citizens from Mexican heritage are still obsessed with Mexico also by calling themselves Mexican-Americans and proudly flying the Mexican flag. I don't see them being obsessed with Spain even though half their ancestors came from there. Hmm.
Many Italian and Irish Americans proudly display their country of origin's flag, often alongside Old Glory herself.
I don't label people ever. If I have to DESCRIBE a person for a reason I might say a hispanic, a white, a black person and their age and sex. Those aren't labels. Those are points of reference.
Agreed tho using "Hispanic" to describe a person has gotten me several times. Like as in that "Chicano" looking person was either light skin Black, Asian, American Indian or even a darker skin anglo white.
I don't label people ever. If I have to DESCRIBE a person for a reason I might say a hispanic, a white, a black person and their age and sex. Those aren't labels. Those are points of reference.
LMAO
Arguing semantics much?
Labels, points of reference, whatever you want to call them they are ways to describe a person.
She doesn't want to be labeled anything. She just wants to be a person and respected for that.
I loved the way she made Oprah look so bad and really exposed her BS to people willing to see it.
When she kisses her partner in public everyone will say ," look at that American lover of humans" She is a wealthy child actress who lives in a vacuum and is used to everything that comes out of her mouth being cute. Her statement is no more idiotic than Shia Lebouf having a tooth removed and cutting his face to appear realistic in movie. She just attached African American and lesbian to her identity permanently.
She will one day realize that she is a black lesbian woman and the power in that is when people get to know her and they can't see the black or the lesbian person only then she will be some thing other than what people see. Shia will also find out in the real world he has a tooth missing and a permanent scar on his face.
I know several Asian Americans that call themselves exactly that, and very few of them have set foot in Asia.
If they can, we can. No...screw that...
In fact, we can call ourselves African Americans regardless of whether other groups use hyphens or not...And we're not taking suggestions from outsiders on the matter.
That answer your question?
Please don't say "we"
You can't speak for a group of people, you can only speak for yourself.
and i respect that you want to call yourself African American.
I prefer not to be labeled by my skin color because i don't find it important and it reminds me of the 1930s.
She will one day realize that she is a black lesbian woman and the power in that is when people get to know her and they can't see the black or the lesbian person only then she will be some thing other than what people see. Shia will also find out in the real world he has a tooth missing and a permanent scar on his face.
When did she deny she is black and lesbian? she just doesn't like to be labeled as a person because of her skin color and sexual orientation.
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