To: Fighting Irish
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.
To: Stone Mountain
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.
48 posted on
11/02/2006 3:57:14 PM PST by
RonF
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