to the US media "Afican-American" is a color not a race. It reminds me of two stories about tortured political correctness:
One was an ESPN reporter asked a black player who scored a game winning goal what it felt like to be the "first African-American to score a game winning goal" in the NCAA tournament. He looked at her and said "I'm Canadian." She then said, "Okay, but how does it feel to be the first African-American to do so."
Second was when Jay Leno's wife was describing her trip to Africa to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and she described the black kids as "African-American...who live in Africa".
Hilarious...
Now that is funny!