[gundog]

Some say the wealthy "African American" has snubbed blacks in her homeland, because she has done next to nothing with her vast Heinz Foods fortune to improve living conditions there.

To be fair, she married that money rather than earn it. Just like her present spouse did.

[george wythe]

According to the US Census classification, Tuh-RAY-zuh is wrong about her silly hyphenation.

An African American is a black person:

Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black, African Am., or Negro," or provide written entries such as African American, Afro American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.

A white person remains white, whether she was born in Africa or not:

White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "White" or report entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.

Notice that North Africans are not African Americans but white.

Furthermore, "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe" includes migrants and colonists who settled in Africa, but whose ancestors were the original peoples of Europe.


"Race" according to the federal government