As a broad racial categorization ‘African’ is as good as ‘European’ (or White). Europe is a continent but it is meaningful to talk of Europeans apart from the individual nations they might belong to; so it is with Africa.
In this case, ‘African’ would be what was once called (the term falling into disuse/disrepute) Negroid or Congoid.
The term ‘Black’ could have done but I prefer to avoid that as it makes it seem that race is just skin color when it is much more than that.
For descendants of slaves held in the United States it would be mostly West-African.
Well sir, when I attended Boot Camp our DS never called us by some origin but as Americans, and as a Federal Contractor I worked around a good deal of Marines, and either they were called Marines or Americans again never by some ethnic identity.
I am American of mixed blood, I was born Virginia and it is where I will die and my time comes, my family has been here for many generations, and have served in my military since WWII with my dad serving on nuke subs and carriers making Chief before he retired and is very educated making a 6 figure income, and nobody in my family calls themselves European, or African, cause that is not who we are, and we like to work hard and live the American Dream.
- Just my own two cents.