If a white South African moved to the United States, would that white person be an African-American and get the same benefits that other African-Americans enjoy, such as affirmative action preferences?
Funny you should ask that.
My kid had a middle school friend whose parents had traveled widely in government service. He spent his early years in various African countries, mostly Kenya, IIRC. The kids used to joke that he was a White American African-American.
Hmmmm....if this is the majority mentality in Africa, I can see some employment opportunities on the horizon for mercenaries willing to “take out the garbage”.
They would be African-American, even if they don't qualify for benefits. Try explaining that to a liberal, who says it's not about skin color, when that's always what it's about.
Absolutely. They don't even have to make the move. It's amazing how often idiot liberal (I know, that's redundant) talk about the African-American community in [insert foreign city/country].
No, I don’t think so and yet the Afrikaners and their American progeny are far MORE “African-American”, than any Amedrican blacks are.
I have twin friends, Timba and Tamba, that emigrated here when they were kids from Zimbabwe, they have dual citizenship, both are whiter than me and that is saying something.
When they applied for college they listed African American as their nationality, legally it was true and they didn’t lie.
Needless to say, they were accepted everywhere they applied while their friends who did way better in HS were overlooked. They used it all the time, so long as they never had to deal with people in person that is, Timba told me one time he about got assaulted when some group found out he was white and listed as AA, they felt that only should refer to a persons melanin level he guessed.