The leftists in the news media have been practicing political correctness for so long that most of them know of no other term by which to refer to a black person EXCEPT “African American”.
A couple of summer olympics ago I sat and laughed as some poor TV “sports” guy referred to a black gymnast from France as “African-American” no fewer than three times during her performance. Apart from racism, I cannot think a good reason why he needed to refer to her by her skin color instead of her nationality, but it WAS funny (to me).
There may be a significant impact from this.
The Dems have been actively exploiting, demagoguing race issues to drive up Black turnout in the coming elections. Blacks, historically, don’t vote in midterm elections anywhere near how the vote in Ptesidential years (particularly 2008 and 2012).
The Dems NEED to drive up that turnout. Whether they are successful will determine control of the Senate.
If Blacks can be convinced that Ebola is a 60-70% fatal example of how they are being racially oppressed, they’ll turn out in higher numbers. As they will if Ofr Wilson in Fergusson is acquitted or they’re convinced that the voter id laws are going to disenfranchse them (see that JournOlist twit Gregg Sargent’s latest in the WaPo)