[Sacajaweau]

African American is an ethnic group and refers to blacks. Neither of his parents are black or African. And Africa is a continent not a country.

We invented African American.

[DariusBane]

Thus the invention may be mocked.

[libertylover]

African American is an ethnic group and refers to blacks. Neither of his parents are black or African

Yes, and that highlights the misuse and inaccurate use of the language by the left that becomes accepted. Like "sexual orientation" instead of the accurate "sexual preference", and "undocumented immigrant" instead of the accurate "illegal alien".

[NorthMountain]

We invented African American.

Leftist race-baiters invented "African-American". You spoke in the first person ... are you a leftist race-baiter?

Leftist race-baiters deserve to be mocked.

[Four of Six]

Uh, no. “We” did not invent it. Jesse Jackson and his ilk invented it in the 1980s.

Also, Elon was born and raised in South Africa which makes him an “African American” the same way an immigrant from Germany is a German American, or an Italian is an “Italian American”.

[buwaya]

The Boers are African.

Though descended from Euro immigrants to Africa, they became their own thing, very much like Americans, or Australians, or Canadians, ceased to be British.

And they are only partly of Dutch stock. An important element were French Huguenots (refugee Protestants), plus other random Euros of all kinds. Charlize Theron is one of those Huguenot descendants.