[picard]

That “African American” crap is a hoot.

I knew a black guy third or forth generation from London. As soon as he got to America he was suddenly “African”. The same goes for the Jamaicans. They also get Afrikaners as soon as they come to America.

Then you have the problem of people who are actually from Africa (both White and Black) who don't know what to call themselves. I know a white doctor from Africa who has become an America citizen. Whenever he fills out a form and they ask 'are you an African American' of course he says yes. But of course he is not an African American under their definition because what they are really asking is "Are you Black?". But in their tortured minds they have convinced themselves that asking "Are you Black? is somehow a bad thing.

PC thugs are constantly seeking to correct a problem that only exists in their own minds. And they have no respect for logic, reason, or even the people they purport to “help”.

Like I said, it’s a hoot. lol

[Verginius Rufus]

Back in the civil rights era Negro was the normal term (listen to any of Martin Luther King's speeches), but the Nation of Islam decided that Negro was a bad word so it had to go. Then "black" or "Afro-American" was favored until Jesse Jackson announced that everyone should use the term African American.

Back in the early 1990s Sister Souljah, during her 15 minutes of fame, was using the term "African" to mean American ghetto kids whose only connection to Africa was having distant ancestors who were from there.

George Allen's mother is or was from Tunisia, so he should be classified as African American too...or maybe as African.