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Nearly everyone in the USA acknowledges their ancestral heritage. Why would black folks be any different?
For starters, not every black person is African. Liberals might be aghast to know they are insulting some blacks by lumping all of them together by calling them African. Try calling a Jamaican an African, and see how they react.
In reality the notion of a hyphenated-American is actually an insult, as it implies less of an American than one who is native.
One of our great presidents about 100 years ago to this day made this famous speech about hyphenated-Americans;
Teddy Roosevelt: "No Room in This Country for Hyphenated Americans"
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
Theodore Roosevelt Address to the Knights of Columbus New York City- October 12th, 1915
If you call someone from Jamaica an African-American, watch out, as they consider it an insult, as do some other blacks. But I guess the politically correct speech police only care about sensitivity if it fits into their leftist ideology to divide people based on differences.
For starters, not every black person is African. Liberals might be aghast to know they are insulting some blacks by lumping all of them together by calling them African. Try calling a Jamaican an African, and see how they react.
In reality the notion of a hyphenated-American is actually an insult, as it implies less of an American than one who is native.
One of our great presidents about 100 years ago to this day made this famous speech about hyphenated-Americans;
Teddy Roosevelt: "No Room in This Country for Hyphenated Americans"
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native†before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.â€
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.â€
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.â€
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.â€
Theodore Roosevelt Address to the Knights of Columbus New York City- October 12th, 1915
If you call someone from Jamaica an African-American, watch out, as they consider it an insult, as do some other blacks. But I guess the politically correct speech police only care about sensitivity if it fits into their leftist ideology to divide people based on differences.
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You’re way off. Seriously though. You have no idea about what you’re speaking.
How would you possibly know what this or that group of blacks think about being referred to as an African? Answer: you wouldn’t.
For starters, not every black person is African. Liberals might be aghast to know they are insulting some blacks by lumping all of them together by calling them African. Try calling a Jamaican an African, and see how they react.
In reality the notion of a hyphenated-American is actually an insult, as it implies less of an American than one who is native.
One of our great presidents about 100 years ago to this day made this famous speech about hyphenated-Americans;
Teddy Roosevelt: "No Room in This Country for Hyphenated Americans"
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native†before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.â€
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.â€
“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.â€
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.â€
Theodore Roosevelt Address to the Knights of Columbus New York City- October 12th, 1915
If you call someone from Jamaica an African-American, watch out, as they consider it an insult, as do some other blacks. But I guess the politically correct speech police only care about sensitivity if it fits into their leftist ideology to divide people based on differences.
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Blacks are not indigenous to Jamaica, Haiti, PR, and other Caribbean & South American locales. They too originally came from Africa. Yes, they have a different history than blacks brought straight to the Colonies/USA, but that is not what we are talking about.
You don't like Hyphenated-Americans? That put's you in the minority. Most people have at least some interest in their lineage.
African-American is a harmless term of convenience. Jamaican-Americans are welcome to chill out and correct me- unless they can spot every single ethnicity I possess in my DNA.
I was of the opinion that there are several ethnic groups which make up African Americans, just as there are several different groups of Europeans and Asians.
Not every black person is predominately African, some originate from different areas of the world.
In the current year, many are mixed race or ethnicity. Because the darker skin pigmentation is a dominent gene....many are actually less black statistically than other nationalities....but their skin still retains the darker pigment. I work with a gal who had a professional genetic test done ( for various reasons other than wanting to know her true heritage) and she actually has a higher percentage of Irish in her than Black--- her black ancestry is French Creole.
This happens all the time....it's genetics. I have a Swedish co-worker with pale blonde hair( naturally)
And blue eyes. Her husband is a darker complexion Italian/ Sicilian. They have four children, and they all have different complexion tones, hair color, and eye color.
I was of the opinion that there are several ethnic groups which make up African Americans, just as there are several different groups of Europeans and Asians.
Not every black person is predominately African, some originate from different areas of the world.
In the current year, many are mixed race or ethnicity. Because the darker skin pigmentation is a dominent gene....many are actually less black statistically than other nationalities....but their skin still retains the darker pigment. I work with a gal who had a professional genetic test done ( for various reasons other than wanting to know her true heritage) and she actually has a higher percentage of Irish in her than Black--- her black ancestry is French Creole.
This happens all the time....it's genetics. I have a Swedish co-worker with pale blonde hair( naturally)
And blue eyes. Her husband is a darker complexion Italian/ Sicilian. They have four children, and they all have different complexion tones, hair color, and eye color.
Which is why the superficial color of anyone's skin is completely meaningless
So you think the person who wrote blacks are "privileged" in other countries outside of America - those of us who are Americans, said author/idea is "brilliant" yet you being white in America and being treated better just because you are a white American both inside of America AND outside of America is not a "brilliant" idea lol.
You are being hypocritical.
How is that? Does America have a law saying you have to hire a certain percentage of whites? Think about it. There is no white privilege in America but there is black and female privilege in America. White males in America are both handicapped and abused in the work force. I feel sorry for them. Why doesn't the NFL have to hire a percentage of players to equal the population? Other sports get bad names for not having diversity. White males have to make a way for themselves.
How is that? Does America have a law saying you have to hire a certain percentage of whites? Think about it. There is no white privilege in America but there is black and female privilege in America. White males in America are both handicapped and abused in the work force. I feel sorry for them. Why doesn't the NFL have to hire a percentage of players to equal the population? Other sports get bad names for not having diversity. White males have to make a way for themselves.
My quote that you quoted has nothing to do with jobs. It is about the fact that I admit I have privilege overseas yet you and the OP cannot admit that you do at home and overseas so you are being hypocritical.
Quote me and tell me how you are not being hypocritical as if you don't have a "white privilege" in America and abroad over non-white people; then how can black people have an "African American privilege" over other black people in poor countries....
But it isn't accurate. They're not African in any way - they weren't citizens from an African nation, they never lived there, they don't speak an African language, literally the only connection they have is that's where their ancestors lived.
People that call themselves Asian American are doing the same stupid thing - setting themselves apart from American society for some unfathomable reason.
Wait a minute..of course its not unfathomable...its for the benefits offered on the Identity Politics party platter.
Note, black people in America have been calling themselves African since the 1700s. White people didn't have a problem with it until about 30 years ago when negro and colored fell out of favor.
African is actually historically accurate since we are African ancestored. The earliest black American institutions, created in the 1700s/early 1800s have "African" in their names - the Free African Society and the African Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches
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