If Black people would study our own REAL history, then we could be proud of who we are and what we have accomplished, and not need to INVENT a false history of so-called royalty which has nothing to do with the average Black person. And for the record, many East Indians and Arabs and Australians are darker than we are (in the US), and I wouldn’t call them “Black”.
It's sort of like the folks who came from honest Scottish farmers (as I did, mostly) having to invent themselves some made-up tartan pattern and kinship with Bonnie Prince Charlie (who was actually half Polish, one quarter Italian, and the rest mostly French and Danish). It's usually harmless, but in the case of some of these activists I think it's crossed the line.
Any person with dark (black) skin in America would be called “African American”. Although the look of confusion on American faces when a thick British ascent comes out of an “African Americans” mouth is priceless.
Thats the danger of trying to assign Nationality on the basis of skin color. Personally, I think calling someone a (fill in the blanc based on apparent ethnicity) Americans is deplorable. In my humble opinion there should only be one kind of American, and that is an American.
It’s beating a dead horse, and just about a pointless point to make. Black’s in America are “African American” even if they are Australian, or Persian, or East Indian and just here on vacation.
Just as a personal point, as a boy I lived for a number of years in Africa, England, and Jamaica, and as a naturalized citizen, I am just a little bewildered with the PC habit of labeling people with black skin as “African American”.
Good point.
Most don’t want to recognize anything that is positive in america though. It really is a shame.