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To: Between the Lines
Black, African-American, or Negro

Three designations for one race???

The problem is that Blacks keep changing the term they use to refer to themselves. The latest designation, as I heard on NPR, is Afrikaan or Afrikaans. Yes, to refer to Black Americans. They've now appropriated a term already in use in Africa, to refer to themselves here in the US. The people on the program who used this term are in academe.

37 posted on 01/11/2010 8:43:20 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Blacks in this country are calling themselves Africaaners? LOL

Reminds me of a woman who called into talk radio. She was mad at the local talk show host because he was a Republican. She said, “You folks always say democracy is good in other countries but then you refuse to vote for a Democrat here when he’s black.”

She somehow thought democracy and democrats were interchangeable words. The talk show host was speechless.


59 posted on 01/11/2010 10:45:09 AM PST by ladyjane
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