[Stone Mountain]

Amazes me why Barak Obama is called African American

It's because "African-American" has become the new PC term for black people - no matter what their country of origin. I have a Jamaican friend who hates being called African-American because of that. I also have a white friend from Zimbabwe (?) who in his more humorous moments, will call himself African-American.... around other friends - not in public. This is the big problem with the term African-American being equated to anyone with black skin.

[RonF]

The great part of the PC use of "African American" is when white people from South Africa come over here and apply the term to themselves.

Hell, I've got a black great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother who are listed in the records of a Bermuda parish as "colored". I'm African-American, and I look so white I'm pink.