They say Trevor made a mockery of MLK Day say guilt-ridden liberals and white apologists

.....the practice of recognizing only black student achievement with the award.

"I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." .....Martin Luther King, Jr.

Would someone tell these G**D**N Politically Correct IDIOTS that the Africa in African refers to a CONTINENT not a RACIAL GROUPING????

These numbskulls have so debased languge with their Orwellian doubleplusungood gobbledygook that soon there will not be a common understanding of languge. Or maybe that is the point.

A PO'd black man in Chicago.

Would someone tell these G**D**N Politically Correct IDIOTS that the Africa in African refers to a CONTINENT not a RACIAL GROUPING????

These numbskulls have so debased languge with their Orwellian doubleplusungood gobbledygook that soon there will not be a common understanding of languge.

A PO'd black man in Chicago.

"There is the rub. Trevor was BORN in AFRICA.
This makes him an African. He moved to the US with his parents and is now a US Citizen. That makes him an African-American.

He just isn't BLACK. They don't want us thinking about RACE. Just the image of an oppressed people. Even if they haven't been oppressed by anyone or any institution still opperable in the US. It isn't about equalizing the scales anymore, it is about turning the tables and making their racism work for them.

Affirmative Action? Call it by what it really is. Affirmative Racism."

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"African American" has plenty of problems as a term and those are showing up on this thread. It's clear to me that the term refers to the descendents of black Africans who were almost invariably kidnapped from the continent of Africa and brought to the Americas. In the few cases where free Africans came crossed the Atlantic (before the 20th century) and stayed, their descendents were absorbed by the larger African American group, both voluntarily and as a result of segregation laws. African Americans are genetically linked to black Africa, but have centuries-old roots in America and American culture.

"African" can mean anyone from the continent, including non-black Africans such as Berbers, Afrikaners, Malagasies and Khoi/San.

"Black" refers to skin color and is usualy further confined to the people of tropical Africa (although in other contexts it is used in Southern Asia and Papua New Guinea [hence the name])

An African immigrant (black or white) is African. African-American describes a different culture and different historical experience.

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